Verse 1:
(Feel me!) We're livin' in the midst of the madness (it’s crazy).
Time to unify the bougie and the ratchet (yep!).
I was enslaved to the game but then adapted (saw the light).
Opened my eyes to rise from the ashes (woke up).
Will my people follow my lead? I don't know (hmmm!).
I see the future and I'm tellin y'all it's possible (there it is).
Some say that we're too far gone, out of hope (nah!).
Never mind the naysayers, yo! they gotta go (bye bye).
Sign of the times people goin out of their minds.
Revelations 20, 9, there it was prophesized,
Self proclaimed leaders lie to keep us all blind,
I spit LASIK, vision 20/20 eyein’ the nation.
So you can see clearly, the premise is basic.
They want us 2nd class on a permanent basis.
They're petrified, imbalanced homeostasis,
Amerikkka, land of the free and home of the racists.

Hook:
All the things that we've gone through.
And look at what it's come to.
So what the hell we gon' do?
The time has come (Get up!)
Claimin' that we want a change.
But same shit a different day.
Are you woke or in a haze?
The time has come (Get up!)

Verse 2:
Let me show y'all how the game go (show ‘em).
Get ya papaah up, mutha screw that Range Rove (right!).
Waste away our power, it's painful (it hurts).
I'm bout a second away from goin' Django (unchained).
From city to city the hoods are gentrified (push us out).
We think that ice is colder homie that shit's a lie (the cock’s crowin).
Take the land over, brand it SOLA, surprised? (South Central to Watts)
Everything they to look conquer dehumanize (devils).
These coons and herbs, I could ignore 'em.
Co-sign thru silence nah! no more decorum.
Cooperate machines take images and distort 'em.
We're easily appeased by greed too busy flossin,
We should burn the Slauson, while the world is watchin fa sho.
Retaliate for hate, manifested thru votes.
Alternative facts, Trump's a reality show.
I heard he was wack but damn! he was mannin' the codes.

Hook:
All the things that we've gone through.
And look at what it's come to.
So what the hell we gon' do?
The time has come. Get up!
Claimin' that we want a change.
But it's the same shit a different day.
Are you woke or in a haze?
The time has come. Get up!

Verse 3:
The Feds wanna ban the reefer, keep us,
In a sunken place sippin from tea cups.
Eyes wide open but asleep like Eric Floyd (get out!),
They're keepin you, dreamin' or paranoid.
So get ya paper up (get it up!), cuz they ain't savin' us (hell nah!).
Picket or marching, ya dollar is more dangerous (weaponize it)
Lacin' beats with vision, this here’s mission.
Takin’ knowledge to the streets and cleanse ‘em.

Hook:
All the things we've gone through.
And look at what it's come to.
So what the hell we gon' do?
The time has come. Get up!
Claimin' that we want a change.
But same shit a different day.
Are you woke or in a haze?
The time has come. Get up!