Verse 1: From slavery, racial segregation, police brutality, and mass imprisonment/ learn the history about this country that we're living in/ the Next Chapter you ready? Cause I'm going off the deep in/ Listen I'm talking deep as Elijah Muhammad teachings/ embrace what this artist speaking they might try and silence me/ they hope we turn on each other and react violently/ poetic floetry paint vivid pictures using imagery/ still give em that real like DMX poem about the industry/ through music they'll remember me show em the ugly truth/ lately I been digging finding my roots/ and what I spit in that booth/ its real so I hope these lyrics catch ya/ see the pain like Nas seeing who enslaved his ancestors/ they gon always try and test ya don't be blind to the facts/ falling for traps while they incarcerate more blacks/ to fill up the prison population no chance of probation/ no escaping from what we facing in this ugly nation.

Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up.

Verse 2: Keep my eyes open watching this country crumble to pieces/ the government controls everything that the media releases/ lies about history that the school teaches to all the children/ speaking truth to all the youth praying that they keep building/ preparing for the scary future approaching I'm advancing/ they hope to catch me sleep like the police who shot Fred Hampton/ I know D'Evils watching me so I just kill em with the rhyming/ I'm bout to blow like the Boston Marathon Bombings/ gotta keep climbing and free my mind Ima stand and be a leader/ some turned on me just like when Koba turned on Caesar/ I see the world for what it is you know the system was devised/ to keep us trapped and blind realize we fighting to survive/ why didn't them cops stop when Eric Garner said he couldn't breathe?/ you see the lies they want you to believe/ don't be afraid to speak up cause now its the time/ to make history when I enter like the Little Rock Nine.

Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up.

Verse 3: Yo they watching our every move through all the satellites and cameras/ views up in the news is propaganda look how they slander/ the people its all part of their operation/ this was my obligation since I made that first observation/ that this will never end like work them slaves got on plantations/ its kind of scary/ when they got police armed with weapons that's from the military/ its very real so I always speak the truth and take a stand/ they wanna murder me like how they did them kids in Pakistan/ who were murdered by the Taliban innocent lives taking/ assassinations plotted I elevate with the knowledge/ I learned life lessons through my adolescents/ its a blessing to be apart of this culture and sticking to the true essence/ this for that real Hip Hop so you know Ima keep rocking/ and give em something special like Doug E Fresh beat boxing/ this beat knocking always aware of the problems that have arisen/ see it clear with this third eye vision.

Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up.