2045: Radical Man - Prince

These few people make decisions for the bulk of us, without consulting any of us

Sales and distributions of our futures, uh!

If this world were fair and right, they’d give up the car keys this very night

Damn!

Hit it!

Two, three, four, five, six, seven

Flash forward, 2045

What did you stand for in the life of your pride

When faced with the final judgment of today

Who profitted from the game

That you and your niggas play

Radical man

Save the life

Come on take a stand

Give that money back

Let’s make a plan

The brand new currency

Taking care of one another

You and me

Radical man

Flash backwards, 1999

Backwards, 1999

In a world shot full of viruses, see

Tell me

How’d y’all stay alive?

Everyone of y’all

Depending on this so called man

For everything you got comes from his hand

Food, water, the clothes you wear

How many of y’all niggas really care?

To care

To care

Let’s define this word, nigga

Define, define

Someone who stays high

High

Watching their life go by

By, by

Someone content with riding behind

Ride that

Nigga

They come in all colors

White, black, Puerto Rican

Is that the main niggas we’re speakin' about?

Wear suits and buy and sell corporations

With only one thing in mind

Only one thing in mind

Break it up!

That is the destruction of the so-called radical man

By 2045

Let’s get radical

Watch me now!

Schooled in the art of digital games

When the war broke out we called your name

(What's your name?)

Everyone of color put on the front line

Holocaust Avenue, 2009

Get an education, good job who says?

Say

Fool with the gold rush drinkin' Alize

I don’t play nobody that’s makin' no sense today

You got your own mind, so you think it’s ok (It's not ok)

Telling themselves lies, Mos Def say

Where you gonna stay, nigga

Where you gonna stay nigga

Oh my God, it’s the Green Mile!

What’s up y’all?

What y’all wanna do?

Talkin' about a radical man

Ain’t nobody up in their crew no?

I could really run that computer

Make it flow

Flow flow flow flow flow

If you ain’t born with it

Radical man

Talkin' about the two and four, hit me!

Wait up

What George say, all around

Alright

We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo

We planted flags in the funk

You better act like you know

We don’t care what Albert Einstein did

I’d rather know, rather know

What?

How to build a pyramid

Hey!

James Brown, Chuck D., and Jimi

Turn me up louder now

I don’t think y’all hear me

I don’t hear ya

We will stay alive

Yeah, everybody now

The war is on outside

And the whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream

A bad dream

The day you will wake is the day you get the real cream, nigga

Radical man

Radical man

Who got the gift, who got the plan?

Radical man

Radical man

Who got the gift, who got the plan?

This is the funk the industry most fears

Artists getting together

In a locker board of directors

I don’t think so

Nobody’s running this

Let’s talk about DNA, nigga

The radical man

Where will you be in 2045?

30 million people right now, are being wiped off the face of the planet by

disease

They claim they have no cure

In the matter of a blinking eye

All of us right now can testify

Take a stand, radical man