[Intro: Sample]
...that when we talk about war, weāre really talking about peace
[Hook: MF Grimm]
Street general
MF Grimm declares
War
Street general, MF Grimm declares
War. Street general
Street general
[Verse 1: MF Grimm]
If you
Relate with my life, thatās great. If you canāt, thatās
Even better ācause I donāt want you to feel me
Just playing the cards life chose to deal me
Choking while government proceeds to hang me
Burn neck from strangling, laugh while dangling
Live, stand. America delight me when Iām angrying
Bruce Banner, star spangling
Wreck perspective, on angles, mangling
Life in purgatory. To death, weāre tangling
Echo in your ears ringing āem, guns banging while
Youāre bling-bling jingling, Mr. Bojangling
Off-beat, on-beat, concrete-jungle-juggling
Organizing riots, tier-threes, box Iām bugging in
Visits by Jay Black, so Iām hugging him
Box with me to guide me, Iām not leaving him. āTil
I return to the essence, you best believe Iām breathing him
Nozzle fire freeze foes, grovel form engraving āem
Invisible tombstones and bones how Iām slaying āem
Platinum, alloyed iridium, idiotsā idol
Ignoring ironic, igniting ice and idioms
Brain bionic, Johnny Mnemonic when I spit āem, I
Smash his glass mic, and the crowd just pity him
āCause, at one point in life, they were feeling him
Now theyāre mad at me ācause what I did to him, but Iām
A grown-ass man, dawg thought he had a kid with him
[Hook: MF Grimm]
Street general, MF Grimm declares
War
Street general
Street general
MF Grimm declares
War
Street general
[Verse 2: MF Grimm]
Burn
Enemy asses like an acid enema
Emasculating, penetrating enamel who gamble
Annihilating perpetrating soloists in pairs
Anti-Emancipating, Solomonās dares
Optimize demise of lies for materialistic
Wearers of Jacob ice that glares from
The hypnotizing Sun to pupils of the people whoās
Perverted purpose is pull position past others
To possess nonsense novelties
Scratching the itch, allergic to poverty
Chuck D said, āFight powers that be,ā but house
N***as, out of spite, burn fields and fight we
To show those who oppress us the best that Lord
Knows these n***as aināt nothing like weāthey
Refuse to eat the glorious fruit
From the poisonous tree, so
How can they lose, be beat, or at least bruised
If they donāt seek to reap the rewards of the ripe, glorious
Fruit from the poisonous tree? From the fruit, they
Fleeāmassa, they not like the boys and me. Your
Slave, Percy Carey, heās the one in the lead
Show his ass a lesson, whip him ātil he bleeds
Trying to teach the babies? Hang him from a tree
Let them stay illiterate, donāt let them n***as read
Rain or shineās on my mind, so Iām screaming out, āShaheedā
Iām aware Iām a medium of different type of sources
Heartless, vandalized by several different forces
Laughing at my misfortune, forces are remorseless
I ride love and anger like well-conditioned horses
Runaway slave saying, āTry, n***a, tryā
Brainwave stays crying, āWhy, n***a, why?ā
Like theyāre concerned, but these spy n***as spies
What theyāre really saying is, āDie, n***a, dieā
Trying to break me, but they donāt know me
Whip me savage, say my name is Toby
Before I submit to the one who think theyāre master
Iāma take aim and empty out my pistol
Born at war, started out a soldier
Now have four stars tattooed on each shoulder
Street general, MF Grimm declares
War
[Hook: MF Grimm]
Street general, MF Grimm declares
War. Street general
Street general
Street general
MF Grimm declares
War
Street general
[Outro: MF Grimm and George Bush Samples]
[MF Grimm]
This shit is crazy, Marty. I hear Bush. I hear, I hear Bush. Aagghh. Iām either hearing voices or Iām hearing George W
[George Bush Samples]
āI believe that people whose skins arenāt necessarily... or, or a different color than white can sell guns and have a great sense of optimism and possibilityā
āListen, this nation is committed to dealing with poverty. First, let me make it very clear: poor people arenāt necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich, doesnāt mean youāre willing to killā