Power in Numbers
Album - 4 ottobre 2002 - Debaser id 38220

CHALI
Seldom traveled by the multitude
The devil's gavel has a couple fooled
My culture's screwed
Cuz this word is misconstrued
Small countries exempt from food
Cuz leaders have different views
You choose

AKIL
What mean the world to me is being free
Live and let live and just let it be
(Let it be)
Love peace and harmony
One universal family
One god, one aim, & one destiny

MARC 7
O yea?
Imagine life without a choice at all
Given a vote without a voice at all
These be the problems that we face
I'm talkin� poverty and race
But no matter what the case we gotta

CHORUS
Hold on to this feeling
FREEDOM
FREEDOM
Hold on to this feeling
FREEDOM
FREEDOM

SOUP
I'm the first candidate to hate
Had to beat on the drum to communicate
For what was to come to those who were hung
They would decapitate the tongue
If you would mention the word
FREEDOM

CHALI
Got people screamin free Mumia Jamal
But 2 out of 3 of y'all will probably be at the mall
I'm heated with y'all
The defeated will fall
Incomplete & Unsolved
When the word freedom�s involved

AKIL
My forefathers hung in trees to be free
Got rid of slavery but still kept the penitentiary
And new freedom got a shotgun
And shells with your name
Release the hot ones
And let freedom reign

SOUP
I'm a former boat prisoner
Hollywood visitor
Dance for cats segregated on wax
My color got me handy
Cap Amos and Andy
For the freedom
They just won't hand me

CHORUS

MARC 7
Cuz there's not a lot of time
Your heart, body, soul and your mind
It's so true it ain't been heard in so long
That's the reason why we name this song

CHORUS

MARC 7
Cuz there's not a lot of time
Your heart, body, soul and your mind
It's so true it ain't been heard in so long
That's the reason why we name this song

If You Only Knew

Never, think just for shits and giggles
Do we spit syllable riddles for bits and kibbles
So chicks can wiggle and shake
Cuz this image is fake

AKIL
I'm trying hard to relate in a place filled with so much hate

SOUP
Some brothers debate some love and some hate
Whatever the case its all about the choices you make
That's the reason you balloon or deflate

CHALI
But do relate we trying to rap back to its primitive state
Wait

MARC 7
No overnight success or running the bets
Just pure unadulterated work progress
I'm willing to bet the farm you'll give you right arm
For a piece of the pie ask yourself why

CHORUS
If you only knew, the trials and tribulations we've been through
But if you only knew, we real people homey just like you
We humble but don't mistake us for some corny ass crew
What we do is try to give you whatcha ain't used to
SOUL MUSIC SOMETHING WE CAN ALL RELATE TO

AKIL
I ams what I am and that's all I can be,
No more no less what you seeing is me
Akil the MC W-I-S-E
Wise intelligent God did bless me

SOUP
Yes we rock up off all the SP freshly especially
Dangerous rough and deadly

ALL
The pen positioner
Tip the Richter scale

CHALI
Alone we sink together we sail and prevail
The rum brazen, coming through Guns blazin�
Some of you duns running through ones with none savin�
Complainin�, me and my clan are unscathin�
From the soul comes something amazing
CHORUS

AKIL
How many times I gotta hear some fanatic in my ear
Tellin me to keep it real when they ain't payin my bills
Or feeding my kids, judging me on how I live
If my crib in the hood or if its up in the hills

MARC 7
Have you forgotten who you are?
O you think you're a star
Why you frontin� (you ain't nothing)
You went from nothing to something
But something means nothing
If your people still wanting

CHALI
And you got money ain't givin� them nothing

ALL
Flossin and frontin

SOUP
Your game of charades
The way you behave
The image you save
Your brother thats one big parade
I'm sick of your ways
I'm sitting here spitting the praise
The next time they smile and they wave
Will probably be with a gauge

CHORUS

AKIL
If you had much class
& Style like I had
You would be so glad
I see why you so mad
I'm born with it
Like Marvin and Lauren with it

CHALI
Deform with it
The way we perform with it
You gonna get it
Your rebuttals are long winded
The song ended
If you satisfy

MARC 7
Its all splendid
Like Kevin Lockerbie
Rockin some beige Wallabees
Blinded by the mockery

SOUP
Time is never stopping me
Drop the clue
Connected with Cut and Nu
On the 1 2s�

ALL
There's only one capable
Breaks the unbreakable
Melodics unmakeable patterns
Unescapeable whatever we aim at
We line 'em up
The party is weak from the same rap
Time�s up
We payin� homage as well as returning favors
Candy for your ears hear us now
Or hear us later

CHALI
We fully capable
Make no mistake if we
BREAK a few rules
Make a few moves
And drop a few jewels
On top of your views
Unstoppable dudes
Using third optical tools
To Rakaa few crews
You gotta confuse
Melodically
Use rap to sonically bruise cats
Harmonies move over
Chemically glued tracks the ripper

MARC 7
Formulated fax center
Orchestrated back bender
Sign, Post, Date and send ya
And take you out like placenta
When I'm in your eye end ya
Blend with the beat like shadows and black ninjas

AKIL
Me the epicenter
When I'm rocking the mike
I'm from the earthquake state
Shakin up your life no aftershock
We blow the spot from the top
We have to rock
Ain't that much time on the clock
Kick rocks
Keep it movin now pick up the pace
We drop and hit the ground running
Winning the race

With limited space and limited papes
At any rate we take your mind
To the realest of states
Cuz

CHORUS
The flow gon� shine
We blow yo mind
With vocal rhymes
And music from my DJ in the back
Gon shine
We'll blow your mind
With vocal rhymes
My DJ in the back is gonna
BREAK
We payin� homage as well as returning favors
Candy for your ears hear us now

SOUP
I put the Bob in the Bob Diddy
Spit it for y'all city
Use what Allah give me
Flip it if y'all with me
Kinda black kinda bold
Ghetto soul beautiful
Still in it for you to hold
Cover girl centerfold
My spot, hot like lava rocks
I get busy from Panorama City to Lompoc
You prefer hood medic procedure
Poetical breather with fever
Cuz the

CHORUS

ALL
There's only one capable
Breaks the unbreakable
Melodics unmakeable patterns
Unescapeable whatever we aim at
We line em up
The party is weak from the same rap
Time�s up
We payin� homage as well as returning favors
Candy for your ears hear us now
Or hear us later

Here's what we do
We will set up
This is tunnel vision
From planet to planet
Solar system to solar system
From galaxy to galaxy
REACT
It's what you do first
Come in please
Uncensored
Power
Come in sky watch clear
REACT
Another public service message from way out
We care about your world
Stay tuned

SOUP
It's me Daakir
And I was sitting at the television feelin� disturbed
Yo I just got the word of Denker and 83rd
Some cat that got clapped

AKIL (Gangsta rapper?)

SOUP
Perhaps
But I was looking at the face of one particular cat
Now I done seen him before

AKIL (Can you remember where at?)

SOUP
Well it was either at the liquor store or laundromat
Or at a party n� shit
A drive thru of the Quick 'n' Split but
The fellas he ran with they no longer exist
AKIL
O dude peep this
I know dude
I've been knowin him all my life
Ever since I was young
I used to see them shooting dice
On occasions I would see him once or twice
With all types, many different walks of life
He tried to keep in touch
But I knew what was up
Every time he came around and showed his face
I duck
In the mid-eighties the nigga went crazy
He had a lot of ladies selling their babies
The nigga was shady
But he had a lot of friends that he would visit on the weekends
Thrill seekin�
Influenced by His teachings
My daddy knew him, yo
He met him at a hotel
My homeboy Johnny kicked it with him in a jail cell
A lot of people met him with a female
Doing real well, connected with the drug sale
The rich and the poor
For better for worse
The last and the first
Walk the earth but can't avoid his turf
And it hurts my brain
It's driving me insane
It's a shame I can't remember his name
I think Tuna know dude
Soup I ain't tryin to be rude
But my wife just cooked
I'm bout to grub on some food

SOUP
Aight peace, Tun and Sev probably running the street
I'm bout to give these young brothers a beep

CHALI (Yo, Salaam Alaikum)

SOUP Yo, wa alaykum Salaam

CHALI Yo what's up on 83rd
Man a feudin� is on
The reason that I called
That was the cat from my building
You seen him?

CHALI
Ya we met that brother out in Pasadena
Remember 7?

MARC 7
On Marengo
No my mistake we was right between Fair Oaks and Lake
Tryin to take us a lunch break

MARC 7
And cop us a --sess sack

CHALI
But had to drive right past the place where they rest at

MARC 7
We drove in a hatchback

CHALI
Corolla these cats pack pistolas
The Cadillac they drove

MARC 7
It was brown and black

CHALI
Patrolling the hood
Looking for trouble
Saw us purchasing trees
Lurking with speed
They pulled the strap
And was irking to squeeze

MARC 7
You jerk and you bleed

CHALI
We do it in reverse and we flee

MARC 7
Or should we say fled

CHALI
They wanted to make us more than play dead
Flashing his heat

MARC 7
Two cars were moving fast in the street

CHALI
That's when I meet that dude
Was in his back passenger seat

SOUP (Yo that shit was deep)

CHALI
But still I can't remember his name

After School Special

SOUP
Check it out yo,
It's clear I'm burning out the candles here
No open toed sandals here
I finesse any way I dress
Capital F-R-E-S-H so fresh

CHALI
YO the mass men who suppress pain like aspirin
Jurass men are the best trained assassins
Your class pins get thrown in the trash bins
You leaches and has beens get your teeth smashed in
Hot as you'd keep a furnace
We kept it earnest
Poems puncture your epidermis
And swell up enormous
Smoother than candles or flannel pajamas
We raid the city on camels
And dismantle informers
The omen

AKIL
We blowin� never knowing where we goin�
When we flowin� with the fresh word spoken
Your chokin cuz my mikes smoking
Hoping that you get a chance to get into the open for some fresh air
But you already there
Yo I'm in the clear
West of the hemisphere J5 musketeers
Zorro with the oral editorial
The moral of the story I'm professional

CHORUS
J5 mcs and its on
J5 MCs then its on

MARC 7
I'm never cautious on MCs that make me nauseous
I feel that it's important
So Let's write and go record
No need for applause
If you're kicking the raw shit
We rotate tracks double back, just like swordfish
Word gifts is given when precision is I
Dominator, illustrator of this lyrical pie,
Why you livin� a lie
Just unloosen your tie
So you can check the way we do this
In conclusion we'll fly

SOUP
With the view from the birds eye
With birds eye flown
I symbolize the skull and the cross bones
S to the O U P to the izzay
Sharp like the blade that stabbed the back of the OJs

Chorus
KIDS
Akil, Chali 2na, Marc 7, Cut Chemist, Numark, Zaakir, Jurassic 5
Schoolhouse rock the dock I'm about to block back
To the underground into the next round and to the next town
I NEED A BEAT

[Zaakir]
Well my name, Zaakir
I'm versatile
Plus I never eat the cow if ain't Hilal
While you rap or bit our styles in the third degree
Myself and 7even tight like cornbread Earl and me
Showcase with the voice that's Oh so fresh
And I can still serve a brotha in a minute or less
I can talk all day but I'mma save my breath
And let my nigga Marc 7even just do the rest

[Marc 7]
I'll do the rest
But I won't rest
Get fresh off of any beat you suggest
High tech with the combination we prepare
Rap concierge behind there kickin' the snare
Now check it
Marc's the word
7even marks the spot
Guaranteed to keep it hot
If you like it or not
MC's is ink blots
We verbal potshots
Takin' the top spot
We clutchin' top notch like...

[Soup]
And together we, will forever be
High Fidelity
Definitely
Switchin' the melody
Can it be
The Casanova speech therapy
That heavily puts the flavor right where it should be
My words have been connected to the poets of old
The way I utilize the pen I turn ink to gold
Keep it overly creative
Innovator of soul
Now check the flavor from the fader
Which my DJ holds

*Samples*

[Both] (2X)
And together we
Will forever be
High Fidelity
Definitely
Switchin' the melody
Can it be the brothers that you rarely see
That got together for the better
Whether him or me

[Marc 7]
You better remember these
Incredible MC's
Our sounds invade spread plagues just like a lepresy
Our weapons be our vocals
Guaranteed to smoke you
Better think twice about steppin'
We nice
Never focused on ice
And still comin' off tight
It's like the color of night
I mean the beat is so right
Damn!
Soup and 7even
Infiltrate your heart
The beat that's compliment of DJ Nu-Mark

[Soup]
And it's the fifth element
Never repetitive
Highly competitive
Classy and elegant
Super intelligent we're tellin' it to ladies and gents
Never irrelevant now do I have to say it again

[Marc 7]
The fifth element
Never be hesitant
Totally accurate
Present or past tense
We immaculate in fact you get a whole crew
Backin' it
Hit 'chu with my two inch tape
And show you what workin' with

[Both]
And together we
Will forever be
High Fidelity
Definitely
Switchin' the melody
Can it be the way that we demonstrate
Our Wonder-Twin powers we activate

[Soup]
I'll tear a competitor
Pluck 'em like chicken feathers
I'm better than ever
Incredible poetical editor
Dead or be better
I bet'cha regardless the whether
Whenever with clever endeavors
When me and 7even rappin' together

[Marc 7]
Your style is post mortem
No decorum
Style pourin'
We explorin'
You ignorin'
I'm the foreman
Longshoreman
And I'm sure when you tourin'
That you whack and you borin'

Sum of Us

CHALI
Sparkling extreme spinnage
Watching your scene plumit
If lyrics were green vomit
My vocals would clean stomachs
Addicts wean from it
Where dreams and green run it
The faces on money change like the host on Teen Sumit
I'm close to being done with this industries cream driven
supreme livin, seein more demons than Gene Simmons
And mean fibbin� actors be adlibbin
Fakin the funk and some of us naturally had rhythm
Some of us act like they had women
Gats in the abdomen back when the fad hit them cats
they didn't have nothing
For certain I'm sure it's fiction but for some
The purest diction
Insures their jurisdiction
I'm kicking it up a level trying to stay in the red
Some stay in the bed zombie
Like the day of the dead
With decay in the head
Playing instead of staying ahead
Steadily portraying celebs, delaying the inevitable
When some come round
Run down when they touch ground
They clown But their structures unsound
Some of you like the way my words caress tracks
While some of these politicians secretly suppress facts

CHORUS 2X�s
I'm saying through songs I write
My wrongs I right
If you wanna fight the power
Get the power to fight
Cuz some of us judge without knowing the man's inner
And some of us find fault in the sin and not the sinner

AKIL
Influential ideas
Push pressure on my peers
That's why most of these brothers have short term careers
You appear to be what's happening
One year you crackin
One hitter quitter now you missin in action
With no satisfaction from the streets
I only hear foolishness when you speak
I repeat my predecessor�s indeavor with pleasure
Lock and load, explode and come better
Hopin that generation X
Be more wicked with the flex
And not so quick to cash a check
And disrespect, chasing drugs and sex
Guns and death, but end up getting layed to rest
At your request
You're at the end of your line
Out of your mind
Idle women, weed and wine
And shells for your nine
The blind lead the blind
Time after time
When you rhyme for the shine

CHORUS 2X

CHALI
Yo, I'm telling you to rebel
But dude, if you stale
The 2na can tell
Either you're coming to the party or you're truant as hell
Politicians ain't got no problem puttin you in the cell
It's like he rolled up a snowball and threw it in hell
See some of us are looted with mail and suited to swell
But still blind like they're fluent in Braille

AKIL
Yo, I never can tell uh, why some make it or fail
Speak it and spell overcome and still prevail

CHALI
We ripple the water frequently
Blink if we show delinquency, please
Human frequencies
Have been diseased, A breeze ain't what I'm feelin
Healing is essential
Mental aggrivation shows you what we've been through

AKIL
Yo, sign of the times influence the ways I rhyme man
Pick up yo nine and put down your picket sign, man
Your life is worth way more than just some diamonds
Without bling I still gleam
Glisten and shine, man

Artist: Jurassic 5
Album: Power in Numbers
Song: I Am Somebody
Typed by: poppenfresh@hotmail.com {*with help from the website*}

[All]
Yo, raise the level, bass bottom to treble
Forever keep it ghetto
Funk and heavy metal
F*ck the devil
Unify the rebel
Whistle like a kettle
With a fly acapello
Smooth and mellow
Locked load and settle
Shine through times with rhymes bright like yellow
Taste and swallow, lead and never follow
Break it like a bottle
Inspire like a role model

Chorus:
[Soup]
Say, "I am" (I am) "Somebody" (Somebody)

[Akil]
Yo, my soul, bounce rock and roll
Tumble with the rhythm
Heat the mic when it's cold
I was told "Be Bold"
Whether platinum or gold
Keep it solid
Do the knowledge
Til' I reach my goal
My hunger-pain thunder
Lumberjack the fifth wonder
I never slumber cuz I keep it on the under
My post beat for people in the street
Ghetto M-U-S-I-C (We bring the heat)
That African soul
Clap black power impact
Who said ghetto rap was all about a dope sack?
A pimp slap or a big black gatt
Fuck around and get jacked
For your rhymes where I live at
Uh, I'm not a gangsta but I boogie wit beats
No gang affiliation in my lyrics or speech
But still I keep it straight hood-hop techniques
South Central Fundamentals J5 emcees
And it's on!

Chorus

[Chali 2na]
Who's to say if I choose to make moves today
Whether I win or lose or I end up on the news today
Amuse but never confuse
Still got dues to pay
You abuse elegant rules when you use clich�s

[Marc 7]
They got you sittin' on the edge of your seat

[Chali 2na]
Creatin' beef

[Marc 7]
Mark of the beast
Code on the street
Cease and decease

[Chali 2na]
Never the least

[Marc 7]
Let me repeat
The situation gets sticky like the badge on police

[Chali 2na]
We individually driven in the beginnin'
We winnin'
Six men and a venomous independent decision and clear vision
Pretendin' was never a possibility
I got to kill it
Because I want to be it
The poet to win a Pulitzer Prize
Who wouldn't survive?

[Marc 7]
The fullest of vibes

[Chali 2na]
Deliberate surprise

[Marc 7]
When bullets the size

[Chali 2na]
Of quarters arrive

[Marc 7]
And slaughter your lives

[All]
We trying to counteract that

[Chali 2na]
Unifying these ballers and backpacks
With Knowledge-&-Fact-Tracks

Chorus

[Soup]
Yo, my soul, infiltrate birth control
And control guns Huey P used to hold
I breathe life and through the 60's
Voted most likely to get busy
Inner city flash jiggy burn
Phillies and things
And we boogie to the bang
Sunshine and rain
Why you cats be talkin' that pimp crap in jail
I corresponded with a nigga who can barely spell
I know the situation oh so well (so well)
I done seen it in 3D
It ain't hard to tell
Why you bang for your turf chain girl or your man
I be banging for Islam in a spot in Sudan
Cuz I can't solve or stop or put foot to this
The hottest brother on the block couldn't cook to this
J5 drop the verse beat hook to this
And if you want a fly jam you should look to this
So...

[All]
Raise the level, bass bottom to treble
Forever keep it ghetto
Funk and heavy metal
Fuck the devil
Unify the rebel
Whistle like a kettle
With a fly acapello
Smooth and mellow
Locked load and settle
Shine through times with rhymes bright like yellow
Taste and swallow, lead and never follow
Break it like a bottle
Inspire like a role model

Chorus

Brothers of rhythm, libo
stay tunned for Unity Community
here at Rat Race, in the house
we're gonna give the band a chance to cool out.
If you got a white Cadillac you need to move it
right now you blocking somebody in and they cant get home
and their ready to leave
check it

wake up people and look at life around you
acetate prophets