Proper Propaganda

We're coming to you live from the Scottish Right Temple
 Near the intersection of Crenshaw and Wiltshire
 Where, as you can see in the background
 Military personnel are mobilized and waiting orders
 Despite the quiet and the deceptive calm, tension is still
 thick in the air after last night's concert and rebellion
 The incident was allegedly sparked by police officers trying
 to shut down a reportedly peaceful concert by hip hop artists
 Dilated People's
 We'll keep you updated with any new developments for Triclops
 Media Watch, this is Harry Allen, hip hop activist and media assassin
 And now, Proper Propaganda
 Watch it. Yes. (Indistinct shout-outs)
 Yo, we handle it, these brothers are fabulous
 Dilated's showing you what rhyme travel is,
 Words spitoon from sunlight to moon
 Bustin' on stage like gunfights in saloons
 Bring, my mic back, you like that?
 Journalists? We're journalists too, we could strike back
 Hardcore reporters with orders from headquarters
 Behind enemy lines, sidestepping the borders
 Press passes, we bring it to you as it happens
 The streets love my crew from music to rappin
 Street commander slash beat expander
 Yeah, they fight the slander with the proper propaganda
 What's happenin'? You got a question? Then ask it
 The news is just a TV show, get past it
 And this, from a quiet wartime journalist
 Headlines, wake up, refuse and resist
 Resist, like this, like this
 Like thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-thi-this, y'all
 We kick finance action, and scores of sports
 Politics, new fashion and war reports
 Entertainment, when we come to perform
 Watch, the illest weatherman in the biz with the storm watch
 Triclops Media, record, tape and TV, Net radio, CD or DVD
 Our sights (like rhymes on paper time)
 This is why Baboo is scratching and keeping time
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 Glory, the pen is mighter than the sword
 Cause the pen gives the word sending swords to war
 They twisted it when he pulled Mao Tse-tung
 They said political power comes from the barrel of a gun
 The officer meets his fate, 44 by 38
 It was a dirty deed, but that don't mean a dirty case
 Witnesses against the state are shushed
 Facts overlooked so the judge can throw the book
 Perhaps for politicians with something to prove
 In the city where they blew the roof off and move
 Yo, questions when answered leads to more questions
 Why it takes months to deliver a confession?
 The principles are the same even without the name
 But I still say M-U-M-I-A
 I have to fight, it could easily be me
 But just being the thinker than speaking it freely
 Although I use my brain before using a fist
 Don't push it, wake up, refuse and resist
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 We kick finance action, and scores of sports
 Politics, new fashion and war reports
 Entertainment, when we come to perform
 Watch, the illest weatherman in the biz with the storm watch
 Triclops Media, record, tape and TV, Net radio, CD or DVD
 Our sights (like rhymes on paper time)
 This is why Baboo is scratching and keeping time