The Last Poets - Die n***a!!! lyrics

"Walkin' down on 42nd Street Heard some white folks talkin' Had a riot yesterday Ten n**ras died DIE ni**a Say what? Ten n**ras died? Yeah DIE ni**a Went down to Whitehall Street Heard the sergeant reporting Lotsa n**ras dying in Viet Nam DIE ni**a DIE ni**a ni**a DIE Had to get away from n***as dying All the time Went back up to Harlem Heard a school teacher say n******gs sure are dumb Almost like they're dead DIE ni**a Everywhere you go n***as dying n***as been dying for 400 years n***as dying with conked heads n***as dying in Ivy League suits n***as know how to die n***as been dying for 400 years Been practicing how to die n***as dying in prisons n***as dying on farms n***as dying in dirty rooms Even learned how to die In mansions now Big office building Fancy dying n***as love dying Build big funeral homes so Dead n***a undertaker get rich Burying dying n***as DIE ni**aS n***as always tryin' to die n***as get lynched DIE ni**a n***as get hung DIE ni**a ni**aS get shot DIE ni**a n***as get tarred and feathered n***as get boiled in oil n***as get carried out of their own homes n***as watch their own wives get raped Watch their babies get stomped THEN n***as watch some red necked honky stand over them laugh Laughing!!!..... Talkin' 'bout DIE NIGGRA ACTUALLY LAUGHING!!!!! Wine bottle in his hand Cigar in his mouth Laughing!!!!!..... Talkin' 'bout DIE NIGGRA Well.... Go on and die n***a Been dying for 400 years. n***as know how to die n***as don't know nothing else but dying n***as dream 'bout dying n***as plan beautiful lives For when they're dead DIE ni**a n***a preachers tell n***as 'bout heaven Got to die first DIE ni**a n***as love dying n***as watch dying on T.V. They love it n***as watch other n***as die They love it DIE ni**a ni**aS WATCH EMMETT TILL DIE ni**aS WATCHED MACK PARKER DIE ni**aS WATCHED MEDGAR EVERS DIE ni**aS WATCHED JAMES CHANEY DIE ni**aS WATCHED BOBBY HUTTON DIE ni**aS WATCH ni**aS DIE ni**aS WATCH ni**aS DIE ni**aS DIE ni**aS.... DIE DIE..... ni**aS DIE ni**aS... DIE ni**aS! DIE ni**aS!! DIE ni**aS!!! DIE ni**aS!!!! DIE ni**aS!!!!! DIE ni**aS!!!!!! DIE ni**aS!!!!!!! DIE ni**aS!!!!!!!! So BLACK FOLKS can take over"