WMFW (we must fight & Win) Fm
it's approximately 6:30 in the am, this is BABA OJE
speaking directly to you,
right down to Earth in a
language one can easily
understand, We gotta list of
hits coming at you this hour...this is WMFW fm.
This hour we got Bob Marley, the sounds of Miram Makeba,
Muta-Buruka, we got the life music group Gumbo coming atcha this hour,
We got Public Enemy's brand new sounds, we got Curtis Mayfield, we also got
somethin' comin' atcha, an old one from Isaac Hayes, a brand new one from
Tracy Chapman, Paris with a brand new album,
Youssor N Dour, Black Uhuru, Living Colour, Vinx, Foley, Chaka Kahn,
Follow 4 Now...Krs One, queen Latifah, Jungle brothers,
Stevie Wonder, Gil Scott Heron, the Last Poets, and last but not least, and
featuring brand new sounds by Arrested Development...
Stay tuned and good morning!
United Minds
United minds of America
make your vocal chords reach the clouds and
touch the crowd of folks that overstand there's no jokes
we must network together as one &
tell the oppressor we'll take no less than
total justice a social setting yo I'm bettin'
we can stop new world order
start servin liberty may I take your order
free political prisoners without no question
let's give props where due
If it was you wouldn't you want to know
that someone cares for what you do so let's show
political prisoners, homeless humans, organizations
various movements
that the people in America have some discipline
to act on their belief therefore stress activism
although you are only one person
if for truth you still thirst well thirst then
make the difference by joining
some organization or some movement
let me explain the powers that be
are families of power with old money
Unfortunately on their souls hangs a sold sign
and in righteous sight they are so blind!
Infatuated with their power and their greed
they don't see that GOD is the answer
Greed has planted a seed within the souls of the 13 families
drug dealers and hustlers
All my brothers and sisters that are hustlers
selling crack cocaine to your followers
to me you're a sell out an uncle Tom
in the tom tom club droppin bombs
Causing confusion shootin and killin'
you're playin the role putting fear in populations
making us allow the system to "protect" us
allowing the chicken snake to protect the chickens
police brutality claiming victims
the powers that be may come with their solutions
but trust me their trees bear No fruits no
I guess that's why I get spiritual
spirituality supports reality no not catholic no not Baptist
no not passive
very active!
United minds of the Americas
minds of Africa and the Caribbean
and the Europeans and the Asians and Australians
it's not just race we're all in this together!
Lets play a game of jeopardy what's the question?
Social Medicines the answer
I try to eat healthy to avoid the cancer
one ounce of prevention beats 100 pounds of cure
pure ways of living is not hippish
it's not white not black it's just conscious
conscious of your health, conscious of your self
instead of being so damn conscious of your wealth
(or lack of so...)
DO you know about the Panthers,
the MOVE organization, Kwame
Nkrumah, the Zulu nation or just Nikes and Pumas
or your fascination with the so-called B-Boy fashion nation.
If you can please recycle
even the people in the hood please recycle
I know it wasn't our fault that they went psycho
they meaning industry exec's who flex for profit!
Traditional societies and islanders
please retain your culture and don't give up!
Don't you understand we must understand this
if we want to live in bliss
Ache'n for Acres
Yes, indeedy sho-nuff needy
I got the feeling to stretch on ot
my children are cryin' my elders are dying
& me I'm relying on a check for rent
If I gotta be broke then ain't no joke
I'm moving to the country and buying some land.
and I'll be alright if I can rest at night
knowing my children got land to stand on.
Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres
money spent in rent ain't earning me cent.
ain't getting no caddy, no Benz, no jeep.
until I got some $ for some land to keep
no more children crying instead they'll be running
running free and wild in the heat of the sun.
cuz once I'm gone I wanna feel strong,
that my children will bo on, family land and all sayin'
I got sme land to sand on no more ache'n 4 acres
no beggin for leftovers got some space of my own
I got grounds to raise on no more ache'n 4 acres
no more giving to takers got some land to leave on1
No more elders passin' without my kids askin'
papa who's tombstones are those in the yard
Family gotta stay close all of us gotta stay close
Ache'n 4 acres 4 buildin' a nation
Ain't about depending on government spendin'
especially when the governments got a lan of their
own
separate from me-separate from U
separate from most-in sync with a few.
Ache'n 4 acres plenty of acres
my grandpappa had em all but the lost em & he sold
em.
the cities were a growin
and grandpa's getting older
little did he know that his land was valuable
Got land to stand on then U can stand up!
stand up for your rights as a women, as a man
man O' man my choices expand
Ain't got me no money but I got me some land.
United Front
The great depression everyone is in depression
No one knows exactly what's their role
totally confused, depressed cuz of the news
Watch TV, more bad is what U see
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!
United we stand United we fall
United we plan as a United front.
I walk the streets and try to pass energy
Put the gun down black man give me apound
Save those rounds for a real confrontation
undersstand who U R as a man
Everyone's lost & were looking for a savior
Everyone's blind & were looking for a leader
We've lost our faith so we need someone to guide us
Right now it's so easy to be deceived
I'm climbing my soul to reach to newer levels
Reach the mountain top so I can better see
step back and see the whole mighty picture
Gain control of my destiny
I'm climbing my soul so I can picture a solution
cuz once I picture this it can be
I cannot leave my life within this uncertainty
I call on the red, & the black and green,
& the black and the green!
Push yo hands up push yo soul up!
Africa's Inside Me
Universal as I stroll down the street
Africa's boiling over flowing inside of me
I used to sport a curl mad by Jerry
A Jerry curl
but as time passed it didn't last
after my curl I never combined my doo.
I used t sport a cap but the naps kept sharing through,
Shining!
My sista got a brand new perm
my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm
folks at her job loves new touch up
I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she's all done up,
My sista loves her blackness
but the US says that her perm is her attractiveness.
But Africa keeps coming stronger we found out
it ain't a perm it's a temporary
Don't have cash to go to the music school
no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba
my moms had a record player and the 45's
I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live
scratching it up catching the breaks
spirits within me had me do what it takes
Grammy's I win & once again like my Egyptian kin
it's Africa within makin' something outta nothing!
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free.
What's that land across those waters?
what's that spirit makin' love to my daughter
telling her not to eat her mama's ham hocks
allowing her he choice to twist her hair & make it lock,
o I don't like it, I just don't it.
Papa may say but my soul is boilin
and sooner or later Africa's glory and toil
will teach an old dog new tricks.
Why and the world can't everybody
recognize that Africa's in everybody?
we all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers
but first we gotta accept who is our mother
Rather embracer of the jungle
or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth
and developments Arrested for nothing
Gumbo's within soulful H20 men be droppin'
Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins
within' to exist as afro USA...men
residing in Fulani was once Christian.
Start fishin' like FOS and found origin
Pride
My skin could never be no curse no it can't
I wear it like a prom tuxedo
I wear my hair as if it's the sun and...
Each & every dread is a powerful light ray
I never wanted things to be I reverse cuz...
God makes waves for wise travelers so
My views of this world are ever growing
Thus ever growing is the way one must view me
A soul of conviction unjustly convicted
Happy TV, commercials and Bi-racial shows
The smell of reality still burns my nose
Not content until it smells like a rose
Whether it
S in style to keep the fight
I tread these waters and make my waves yes I do!
And I will fight until my dying day
And even after that my ghost resides with pride!
Forward ever backward never
Day by day throght trials I trod
Always triumphant never fail
We've come too far to turn back now
I won't turn back I move
My blood is thicker than the waters of any flood
Here I am facing the almighty herself
If she approves then I am saved
Clear of trouble is the path I pave
For generations to walk & run
Whether it's in style to keep the fight
I tread the waters and make waves GOD knows
And I will fight until my dying day
And even after that my ghost resides with pride!
Shell
Just a shell until U decide to rebel
Just a shell, just a shell, just a shell until you decide torebel
Whether you're white or black you soul does not dwell
inside your shell until you decide to rebel
worldly worldlypeople people allow your innersides
to intervene and circulate
open you eyes open your ears
wouldn't it be great.
So what am I doing? Am I really rebellin? Or am I jus dwellin
In the sin
In the sin
In the sin?
I made up my mind I've seen the design of individualism
And I don't want to be in it.
The me generations a dis-ease!
Mister Landlord
Mr. Landlord step off my yard
Mr. Landlord I understand.
You have a right to check out yo land cuz it's "yo land".
My family told me you've been peekin in windos
Forcing themto be a little scared keeping curtains closed.
I protect my house but on tour
I try to find a home where my people are secure,
Your racist views are the views of your own
But please don't let it enter my family zone.
Just lettin' you know, I'm not a lil ole' colored boy
That steps off the curb when you walk your walk
So please don't mistake my kindness for blindness
I've known yo game since Columbus came
And if I woulda known how your neck was burnin' red.
In your complex I wouldn't of been caught dead,
So here's my message from me to you
My space is off limits until we move!
You understand that!
Mr. Landlord step of my yard
Mr. Landlord I have to question
Do you expect me to chill while ou're bumrushin
You thought we were the passive kind well yo're mistakin'
You outta give nuff respect like I'm Jamaican
The point is I feel you endanger my pride
Your racist comments, yhour racist approach I aint with...
It's bad enough there's kids in there that are strugglin
Finding themselves with out you bringin' racism!
Just to bring peace do I have to get a piece?
And in the break of dawn I guess I'll pray 2 the east
Cuz I'm not the one to get slapped on the cheek
Without my fist curling up to hit you back in yo teeth! Yo
(free yourself-free yourself-freedom)
is what we want not a fight
Waving Confederate flags & gun toting' is your type
You ever heard of Ogune, well soon his spell
Will clear my brain while he clears where I dwell.
I call on the natural forces that be..
To help to free me, to free me!
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
Al-ya bolia bol-I YA
A yaah ea yaah ea
Warm Sentiments
I've feel cheated used, abused, misused..
used, feeling the blues misconstrued.
The bond the trust we once had
is not bad meaning good, but bad meaning bad.
What ever happened to manhood?
I try to be a man but U ACT LIKE I'M A HOOD.
Getting an abortion like I anin't no damn good,
like I can't raise a child the way a Nubian man should.
Cheated, abused, used, musused..
used feelin' the blues misconstrued.
Never would I have thought you do me like this
I know it's your body but it's our baby so why dismiss?
And it drives me crazy the way U played me
As if I was just riding U miss Daisy.
We made love not lust, had love, had trust
the decision should have been made by the both of us,
but U got an abortion.
Now you'rre havin some resentments.
We should have paired together,
and shared together our
warm sentiments
Our warm sentiments
Yes, I could stop dweling o the bad.
Let it drop, I wish U had..
let it drop, I understand U have your choice
but I have to have my voice
Cuz portions of the babies features woulda had my features
we're all human creatures
It wasn't on crack, nothing like that
It wasn't by rape so why the escape? Now..
Sista you've broken my trust,
but before I let our relationship rust I'll bust
another soluiton, but take it for real
Cuz if your vonvicted this time there is no appeal.
Around my way there's a love for black
that's so damn deep, that it's cool to keep...
U and Hold U. After I scold You, I hope I can mold U
to share your truths wit me.
To tell U the turth. U mad a mistake.
I'll give ua break, I'll hold your hand & be Yo man
but understand
it takes 2 to make 1 and also to TAKE ONE.
yeah I know, U got an abortion,
I'm distressed, depressed but I'm here for U
Maybe well get married then we'll be intimate,
& from then on we'll share and bare our
warm sentiments
OOOH relax your mind
release unwind
don't be victim to the grind they put you through
In The Sunshine
People of the world we live in
Don't let no one take our rights
Right to live in peace and righteousness
Science is supposed to work in our favor yaw'l
But when everything naturals destroyed
Put in the place of it is man made decoys
Locking us into a world that ain't no world
Our senses ain't in touch with the universe now
Instead of going so fast into a new age
We ain't even got our present age down pact.
We can't keep our own thang in tact
Yet scientists talking bout a computer thang?
It seems to me while some are Scientifically masturbating,
The reset of us are scraping to save our lives?
THE PLAN IS TO REDUCE US TO SURVIVAL
NO MO LIVIN IN THE SUNSHINE, and I ain't wit that now
In the sunshine
Now ain't nothing wrong with technology
As long as we control where it goes
But as of now it's in the hands of cash flow
and cash aint humble to Gods plans at all.
People whether white, black, red or gold
need to stand up upright and bold
need to first rasps our minds and sould
Gotta learn to walk before you run oh.
I think most people want the same thangs
Just to smile and live without so much strife,
to be in sync with the one God that gave us life
and to have a little time to enjoy thangs
I want all the people to live in the sunshine
the way it was when it was divine
the way it must be in the end cuz...
that's the way it was in the beginning.
In the sunshine
Kneelin' at My Altar
Another morning kneelin' at my altar
the day is faced with a bunch of grace
on my case in this worldly rat race
to keep the pace I depend on ancestors and God
and by the way my real name is Todd.
That's how my dead ancestors address me
that is those that knew me as that.
My African names hasn't been revealed yet.
My knees don't mind the bendin'
as long as the bending keeps me from bending
or compromising my views and pride
the inside world gets me prepared for the outside
I can't wake up on the wrong side of the bed
as long as my soul has been fine tuned and lubed and
altars are cool for my inner urge to resume
to the universe SMPTE tone or metronome.
Kneelin at my altar
in the morning time I got to kneel at my altar
Simply put one is naïve if they believe
that this system does not deceive its
populous dropping us lies in a sack like a stork
& there's still fumes in a no smoking section of a room
forces are tugging at you from both sides
to be centered I pray and pour libatioin
Oh from there it's digglity diggity done
I've rinsed my senses & armor allied my armor
instead of being grouchy I'm a natural charmer
chillin' with or friends to relatively no end
& oh my Lord I'm feelin' exuberated
cool vibes & disciplined enough to go outside
and don't you know I gotta feel dope
Fountain of Youth
Taking a bath within the sun rays
Letting the aura of life soak me
living in the country chickens, cows, all around me
I'm bored I'll take a drive into the city limits
yo life is just a secret recipe & I'm all up in it.
Being the grand papa that I am one can forget it
today I figure I deserve to swerve
from my normal nerdy status that engulfs my time & that is
just what I need so here it goes I suppose that it's on
shake out my dreads with aloe
Vera it's rare a brother like me will agree
with Taree, Kwesi, and go party with Baba
But yo I gotta b e hip & dip within the Fountain of youth!
the fountain of youth
Once I learned to dip and got drenched I got drenched
without the fear of drowning my ears can hear the sound and...
my eyes are wide open OPEN
and consciously aware of my surroundings.
Wally, I'm getting energy - golly gee
as if I'm solar powered
it seems like every now & then
I skim on the edge of nuttiness
letting the wind push and shove in my dreads as if it's an argument
But really they're just snuggling for affection
hair needs loving too,
speaking of love the western civilization is on another tip
to tell you the truth they need to dip into the fountain of youth!
the fountain of youth
Bopping my head is more than bopping it's a spiritual thing
rhythms and lines space and time
relative? yes I pump my sound loud so my people can hear it
cuz it soothes me
my foundation is strong but I allow some things to move me
and that is energy from the fountain of youth.
Ease My Mind
I need some time to ease my mind
Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mamas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on.
Life is surrounded with so many insecurities
back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty.
I try to make my sanity, with the insane
God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money.
But, then again money can cause even more death,
when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all.
I dare say when price is right U can buy us all,
well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you.
I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move!
Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away from yo thang
All these things you put on me makes this brother sing...
I need some time to ease my mind.
Mind & soul is even more important than body
money can put my body in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & sould remotely dwells
within that fine spot between all messed up & hell.
And so I move on with confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist this wack society
Cuz if yo don't resist, & I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it.
I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus
I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin' it.
Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me.
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace.
Until that day upon which my souls realeased!
Chorus
need some time need some time
when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real!
Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mommas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
Its that bond that will keep the movement movin' on
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.
And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.
Than is why I tell you...
I need some time to eae my mind.
Praisin' U
Living.
I've got to do what I got to do.
I know that time passes by
but keep on livin' for the love of something better.
Prainsin'
I've got to feel the pleasure yeah
Cuz I sure know why I'm in this world right now.
I got to praise him all in the open.
I know that time passes through
but ain't one day I ain't gone be praisin'...
U
I
I keep on praisin' & standing.
I know hat God has my life
within his palms and his arms are wide open.
I
I see that thangs ain't gone be easy yaw'l
so I need that fundamental base right now
I see the sand is running out
Cause I know that U are pure truth.
I want to give my all to...
U
GOT ME PRAISIN U
GOT ME BUGGIN' OFF OF U
GOT ME MOVING MOUNTAINS
MOVIN NEGATIVE VIBES FROM AROUND ME
GOT ME PRAISIN U
GOT ME LOVIN' U
GOT ME CLIMBIN' MOUNTAINS MOVIN' MOUNTAINS
POURING LIBATION
