Brainwash (feat. yU, Grap Luva & Finale)

We were born in warm water
 Started when pops filled up slot with four quarters
 Push forward, you're born in
 Long live the ones who never fall in the trends
 We're revolving again, spin cycle
 Seen so many others just like you and I
 That got bleached but my roots run deeper than that
 We interact minglin' dark and light colors
 Brothers and sisters gotta rinse the system
 Cause our soul is a heavy load
 They make it seem like you got a fold
 Neatly, but I was told, years ago
 That if you don't ask you never know
 It's kinda like the wet clothes left out, begin to mold
 Ghetto's gettin' bleached now that's serious
 Movin' us out like we some kind of blackteria
 And most areas our peoples are lost
 We write songs just to even the odds
 Who are we? Where are we? And are we all where we ought to be? We have to ask those critical questions. Are you following me? So it's putting those things under the microscope. We have to understand, the basic, fundamental definition or we're bout to lose.
 [Verse Two] [Grap Luva]:
 Are now being watched like Black Panthers
 So many dead artists and so little answers
 They not watchin' the elephants, they watchin' the ants
 When you tell 'em to solve the murder of 'Pac they say they can't
 Deep lies, deception in the bowels of fame
 Sex, lies and murder is all a part of the game
 Especially when big papers involved
 Money movements will always get the problem solved
 Expunge the gun charges, leave jail, live large then repeat the crime
 Till somebody drops dime
 When they bag you, they did what you like, you street trash
 But if you got cash then of course your name gets splashed to the media
 For the blood, the vamps get greedier
 We recognize you've just be victimized by the brainwash
 Should've known the game's watched with deception
 But don't let it change your perception
 There was a brother that came off and said that all the negro spirituals that they used to sing in church, were constructed and put together with the black keys on the piano only. Fela Kuti says "Music is a weapon." How are we gon' use this thing to do that? As a weapon? When our open enemy already knows that and he's using the music to work against us.
 [Verse Three] [Finale]:
 They watchin' your pocket watch rock back and forth
 A group of suit and tie guys go behind closed doors
 Go to war when they devise new ways they can divide you
 Disguise truth and distract the poor
 Eyes and ears follow propaganda, fantasy fake
 A synthetic world we waste in it's early stages
 They figure we ain't got it so we gon' want it
 And when we get it we gon' flaunt it
 Oh it just do what it do
 In order to get through it and do it again
 I refuse to lose into an illusion reduced by those who infused
 The delusion of grandeur in this for they amusement
 Confusion from a brand an image a fan can mimic
 Hard to find any sense in it
 Twistin' it, the kids have a hard time gettin' it
 ? tell the younger ones under
 Yeah, the fence ain't as high as it used to be
 Malevolent, swingin' one another like a Bruce Lee movie
 Can't move me from the front line, ain't say "trust"
 I'm the cold water tossed on your face, wake up
 So if hip hop is something that you are and rap is something that you do, then that needs to be defined. So, if you go to any church, any Sunday, sit quiet and listen to the rhythm of the hand claps and the sisters tappin' they feet. You can go to any village in Africa and hear the same patterns and the same rhythms. Am I right or am I wrong? (Right)