Featuring Gamilah Shabazz




"I Was Born.."




[Big Daddy Kane]



A Black Man From The Motherland



Speakin A Language Today Most People Don't Understand



Where No One Could Bother Me



Cause I Had Freedom, Justice, And Equality



But Then One Day It Was Tooken Away



And I Was Shipped To The U.S.A.



A Young Brother, Made Into A Slave



To Harvest The Midlands And Clean The Chittlins



Given A New Name, New Religion



No Freedom To Vote, Not Even To Make A Decision



I Saw My Peoples, Sold Raped And Took Out



The Rest Of That Stuff That Alex Haley Talks About



They Said I'm Not From Asia I'm From Africa



And All The Blacks There Now Are Just Scavengers



That's The Way My Mind Was Poisoned



To Believe That In America Blacks Are Inferior



A Weak Mind And A Body Of Swine



Only Adds Up To Being - Deaf Dumb And Blind



Illiterate To Who Where What And Why



So I Ask Myself: Who Am I?




"I Was Born.."




[Big Daddy Kane]



A Native New Yorker On The Streets



Known For Rockin Rhymes To Real Rough Beats



That I Found In The Attic, Noisy With Static



A Sound That Made Me, A Hip-hop Fanatic



I Made A Few Songs That Sold OK



Never Top 20 Or Plenty Airplay



I Came Out Hardcore, Flexin Cock Diesel



Saw A Little Cash, And Pop Goes The Weasel



I Had To Make That Change And Rearrange



My Whole Rap Format, No Hardcore Rap



So Now All The Pop Charts I Rule



Over New Kids On The Block And Paula Abdul, Huh



I Thought I Made It, Then My Song Faded



And None Of The Black Stations Ever Have Played It



I Tried To Blame It On MTV



And Say, "Damn, They Cold Played Me For Young MC"



But When You Get Down To It, I