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Stay Woke

by Willie Bangg

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The revolution won't be televised.
No Internet site.

Warfare on your brain.
What you eat, sleep and write.

#staywoke

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Stay Woke

Chorus 2X
Stay woke, my nigga
Don’t go broke, my nigga
They try to play you for a joke, my nigga
Try to sell you bullshit and hope, my nigga
But you gotta do what you gotta do to cope, my nigga

Verse 1
Black people unite /
Niggas argue and fight /
Black people work for change /
Niggas complain about the about the plight /
The revolution won’t be televised /
No Internet site /
Warfare on your brain /
What you eat sleep and write /
Full nelson, choke hold /
Politics so cold /
Get educated sisters and brothers, go code /
Guaranteed they watch your every move, paranoid, like a go-pro /
Racism got us in a race, moving slo-mo /
That’s why I choose to Go-Go like the music from my region /





Teach the babies /
So, they don’t go crazy from believing /
The enemy within /
Every kinfolk ain’t your kin /
We walk around with apples in our hand /
Committing sin /
Knowledge is power so salute me /
But Lord Acton said /
Absolute power corrupts absolutely /
Stay careful with the words I quote, words I wrote /
Between the world and me like Ta-neshi Coats

Chorus 2X
Stay woke, my nigga
Don’t go broke, my nigga
They try to play you for a joke, my nigga
Try to sell you bullshit and hope, my nigga
But you gotta do what you gotta do to cope, my nigga











Verse 2
Niggas hating niggas is useless /
Black people need to love Black people /
Is what the truth is /
Never ran from the Klu Klux Klan /
But what’s worse /
Odds are /
Another nigga might put me in a hearse /
Paid attention to Chuck and Flav /
Came to Fight the Power /
Refuse to be a fucking slave /
Smart man with a bad brain /
Banned in D.C. /
Read more books, my people less T.V. /
Your biggest hater might be meta data
Stop being critical, my nigga /
Get more analytical /
Being Black ain’t a monolith /
Stop fighting each other /
To death like Mr. and Mrs. Smith /
While billionaires getting greedier /
We in the house /
On the new plantation, social media /
Change can’t come too soon /
Hopefully, the sleeper will awaken like Dune




Chorus 2X
Stay woke, my nigga
Don’t go broke, my nigga
They try to play you for a joke, my nigga
Try to sell you bullshit and hope, my nigga
But you gotta do what you gotta do to cope, my nigga

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released April 1, 2024
music composition by Willie Bangg
produced by Willie Bangg
lyrics by Willie Bangg

For WBMusic 301 Publishing

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Willie Bangg Maryland

If they ask you will he bang (Willie Bangg) say YESS!!

Willie Bangg was born in the District of Columbia, raised in PG County Maryland and hustles for a living in Virginia.

His Hip Hop production has been featured on Sadat X's (of Brand Nubian fame) 2012 album - "Love, Hell or Right" on a track called "Follow Da Money".

He is a Maryland resident never hesitant . . . .to make a beat! ... more

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