Propaganda - Dead Prez

«The economy right now, is extremely supportive of the president and his

policies.»

«FBI scientists have found chemical traces, consistent with a bomb or a missile,

on a piece of wreckage.»

«police using clubs and tear gas against demonstrators.»

«they called me a mother -(bleeped out)-ing so-and-so… and a white

Fascist… like they said, 'you're getting some of your own medicine'…»

Telling lies, to our vision

Telling lies, to our children

Telling lies, to our babies

Only truth, can take us away

From here

You can’t fool all the people all of the time

But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind

Tell me who’s got control of your mind?

your world view?

Is it the news or the movie you’re taking your girl to?

Know what I’m saying cause Uncle Sam got a plan

If you examine what they telling us then you will understand

What they planting in the seeds of the next generation

Feeding our children miseducation

No one knows if there’s UFOs or any life on Mars

Or what they do when they up in the stars

Because I don’t believe a word of what the president said

He filling our head with lies got us hypnotized

When he be speaking in code words about crime and poverty

Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery

It really means us, there’s no excuse for the slander

But what’s good for the goose, is still good for the gander

See…

I don’t believe Bob Marley died from cancer

31 years ago I would’ve been a Panther

They killed Huey cause they knew he had the answer

The views that you see in the news is propaganda

I don’t want no computer chip in my arm

I don’t wanna die by a nuclear bomb

I say we all rush the pentagon

Pull out guns and grab the intercom

My first words will be I believe

Man made god, outta ignorance and fear

If God made man, then why the hell would he put us here?

I thought he’s supposed to be the all loving

The same God who let Hitler put the Jews in the oven

We don’t fall for the regular shit, they try to feed us

All this half-ass leadership, flipping position

They turn politician and shut the hell up and follow tradition

For your TV screen, is telling lies to your vision

Every channel got some brainwashed cop shit to watch

Running up in niggas cribs claiming that they heard shots

It’s a plot, but busta can you tell me who’s greedier?

Big corporations, the pigs or the media?

Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise

Commercial airplanes, falling out the sky like flies

Make me wonder what secrets went down with Ron Brown

Who burnt churches to the ground with no evidence found?

It’s not coincidence, it’s been too many steady incidents

It could’ve been the Klan who put that bomb at the Olympics

But it probably was the FBI, deep at the core

Cause if they make us all panic then they can start martial law

The police is telling lies fooling millions

What are they teaching our kids in these school buildings?

Televised, enterprise making a killing

Controlling our lives, this ain’t living

No this ain’t living

FBI, CIA

ATF, KKK

IRS, TNT

CBS, NBC

«Uh, we view each other with a great love and a great understanding.

And that we try to expand this to the general Black population, and also,

people-- oppressed people all over the world.

And, I think that we differ from

some other groups simply because we understand the system better than most

groups understand the system.

And with this realization, we attempt to form a

strong political base based in the community with the only strength that we

have and that’s the strength of a potentially destructive force if we don’t get

freedom.»