[ intro: kool moe dee ]

And yes y'all

The sounds that you hear

Is gonna be so rare

You have no fear

Cause three live brothers are here

We got krs-one from boogie down productions

Special shout to melodie

We got my man chuck d in the house from public enemy

And i am kool moe dee

So are - you - ready?



[ verse 1: kool moe dee ]

Are you ready, to elevate

As i rhyme on time you'll illuminate

Hard as diamond, knowledge shinin

It's that time and it's all in the timin

400 years blood, sweat and tears

The rain is over, and the sun is here

Yeah, bright and clear, countdown to the year

No fear, cause i'm in there

Holdin my mic like the staff of ra

Bringin true light after dark

Brothers are live, but still unborn

It's almost morn and it's time to mourn

See the light like a crack of dawn

The comatosed and the cracked are re-born

Reurgitatin the garbage we're fed

Cause this time dawn is dawn of the dead



[ chorus ]

Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)

Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)

Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)



Rise and shine



Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)

Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)

Ain't that funky?

(yeah, that's funky)



Get up



[ verse 2: kool moe dee ]

I rise and shine like the sun on the one

We dance together, we overcome

A wake-up call to wake up all

Stand up tall, get up and get up, y'all

Clap your hands in jubilation, meditation

Recreation, procreation of the mind

If you seek, we'll find

Born two times, but still one of a kind

Learn your past, find your path

The truth is infinite, like math

Countdown to the year 2000

The thought alone is arousin

When we see our way with the third eye

Rise with the sun and think with a bird's eye

View, as i watch our exodus

When the higher conscious connect it's just



[ variations of chorus ]



[ verse 3: kool moe dee ]

The microphone is my funky scepter

When i speak on beat i'm tryin to connect us

To what's left us messed up

Egos dressed up, got us effed up

You see onto instead of into

You see what you want to, instead of what you been through

You can take the rhyme i say

Read it, hand it, see em three ways

Combine the rhyme to anyone of nine

For some still the light won't shine

You can take a shot in the dark, but keep missin

You aim with one eye, you just don't listen

Cause see, in the dark you need all three

Your eyes are ears when you hear what you see

The five senses are all correlated

The sixth and seventh is how you elevate it



[ variations of chorus ]



[ verse 4: krs-one ]

Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding

This a krs with a different something

What, come in a dance and we come down for sing

This a krs me say - come!

Nuff slaveships come from africa

Full of africans, sold in america

Now you want me to call myself american

Even though america kill di african

Check it, white man is european

And blackman is african

White man never say euro-american

So why should the blackman say afro-american?

If the blackman is american with a afro

Then the white man is american with a long nose

It should be long-nose-american for the white man

Jump around and move your bottom

What



[ variations of chorus ]



[ verse 5: chuck d ]

Make no mistake, we don't shake or stutter

So heed the word of the brothers

Who makes a boy into a man

It's the job of another man

Who knows his role as a father

He bothers to give his son his soul

And pass it on, to never front

Cause papa don't raise no punks

Got to make it know and to pass it down

Yeah, sounds like a job for the brotherman now

Got to help a mother for me

Each one teach one, if you can't find one

Talk to the little ones

And you'll see they'll listen

To few while missin

Peace, to rise and shine


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