KOOL MOE DEE - Rise 'n' Shine lyrics

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[ intro: kool moe dee ]<br>And yes y'all<br>The sounds that you hear<br>Is gonna be so rare<br>You have no fear<br>Cause three live brothers are here<br>We got krs-one from boogie down productions<br>Special shout to melodie<br>We got my man chuck d in the house from public enemy<br>And I am kool moe dee<br>So are - you - ready? <br><br>[ verse 1: kool moe dee ]<br>Are you ready, to elevate<br>As I rhyme on time you'll illuminate<br>Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin<br>It's that time and it's all in the timin<br>400 years blood, sweat and tears<br>The rain is over, and the sun is here<br>Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year<br>No fear, cause I'm in there<br>Holdin my mic like the staff of ra<br>Bringin true light after dark<br>Brothers are live, but still unborn<br>It's almost morn and it's time to mourn<br>See the light like a crack of dawn<br>The comatosed and the cracked are re-born<br>Reurgitatin the garbage we're fed<br>Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead<br><br>[ chorus ]<br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br><br>Rise and shine<br><br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br>Ain't that funky? <br>(yeah, that's funky)<br><br>Get up<br><br>[ verse 2: kool moe dee ]<br>I rise and shine like the sun on the one<br>We dance together, we overcome<br>A wake-up call to wake up all<br>Stand up tall, get up and get up, y'all<br>Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation<br>Recreation, procreation of the mind<br>If you seek, we'll find<br>Born two times, but still one of a kind<br>Learn your past, find your path<br>The truth is infinite, like math<br>Countdown to the year 2000<br>The thought alone is arousin<br>When we see our way with the third eye<br>Rise with the sun and think with a bird's eye<br>View, as I watch our exodus<br>When the higher conscious connect it's just<br><br>[ variations of chorus ]<br><br>[ verse 3: kool moe dee ]<br>The microphone is my funky scepter<br>When I speak on beat I'm tryin to connect us<br>To what's left us messed up<br>Egos dressed up, got us effed up<br>You see onto instead of into<br>You see what you want to, instead of what you been through<br>You can take the rhyme I say<br>Read it, hand it, see em three ways<br>Combine the rhyme to anyone of nine<br>For some still the light won't shine<br>You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin<br>You aim with one eye, you just don't listen<br>Cause see, in the dark you need all three<br>Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see<br>The five senses are all correlated<br>The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it<br><br>[ variations of chorus ]<br><br>[ verse 4: krs-one ]<br>Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding<br>This a krs with a different something<br>What, come in a dance and we come down for sing<br>This a krs me say - come!<br>Nuff slaveships come from africa<br>Full of africans, sold in america<br>Now you want me to call myself american<br>Even though america kill di african<br>Check it, white man is european<br>And blackman is african<br>White man never say euro-american<br>So why should the blackman say afro-american? <br>If the blackman is american with a afro<br>Then the white man is american with a long nose<br>It should be long-nose-american for the white man<br>Jump around and move your bottom<br>What<br><br>[ variations of chorus ]<br><br>[ verse 5: chuck d ]<br>Make no mistake, we don't shake or stutter<br>So heed the word of the brothers<br>Who makes a boy into a man<br>It's the job of another man<br>Who knows his role as a father<br>He bothers to give his son his soul<br>And pass it on, to never front<br>Cause papa don't raise no punks<br>Got to make it know and to pass it down<br>Yeah, sounds like a job for the brotherman now<br>Got to help a mother for me<br>Each one teach one, if you can't find one<br>Talk to the little ones<br>And you'll see they'll listen<br>To few while missin<br>Peace, to rise and shine