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This is a track from the "REVOLUTIONS" c.d By TONY B. CONSCIOUS

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FREE THE JENA SIX
If you don’t learn from the past, then you must repeat it
And it seems like some of us have become so conceited
We’ve got alot of money, so we feel unity’s not needed
But psychologically, we have been defeated

If you say “we’re free”, I’ll say “watch your mouth”
Cause we’re still getting lynched in the north and south
Not like the old days, we ain’t swinging from a tree
Its in the courtrooms and boardrooms ya see

Now down south in a city, Jena, Louisiana
It’s like in the fifties in Birmingham, Alabama
So like P.E., we’ve got to... BRING THE NOISE
About these brothas getting treated like the Scotsborough Boys

All because they sat under a quote unquote white tree
And stood up and fought back with dignity
The white students at the school and the administrators
The police and D.A. were all a bunch of haters

A fist fight ensued and one white boy pulled a gun
Yet 6 brothas got arrested, but not even one
Of the caucasians, were put in that situation
Cause as you and me know, it’s modern day Jim Crow
So they’re stuck in jail, with no chance for bail
And one has been convicted and it’s a living hell
While all of his peers and parents are in tears
And he’s about to be sentenced to 22 years...

SO IF YOU ROLLIN IN YOUR CAR AND GOT THIS IN YOUR MIX, SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN THE AIR WITH A BALLED UP FIST, AND SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THIS IS ABOUT ALOT MORE THAN JUST POLITICS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THESE DEVILS ARE STILL UP TO THIER SAME OLD TRICKS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!

Sistahs and brothas, fathers and mothers
Intelligent people of all colors
We shouldn’t even have to discuss this
No matter what the race, is is injustice

If it can happen to us, it can happen to you
I’m talking to the mexican, asian and the jew
And you won’t hear about it on the news
If you ain’t got no money, so don’t be confused


We rollin’ deep and ain’t no stoppin’
Damn... I wish we still had Johnny Cochran
They cut the white tree down, now how that sound ?
When they found, that real brothas are coming to town

For Micheal Bell and the other five...
To show that the movement has been revived
Divided we fall, but together we stand
And ain’t nobody scared of the KLU KLUX KLAN...

SO IF YOU ROLLIN IN YOUR CAR AND GOT THIS IN YOUR MIX, SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN THE AIR WITH A BALLED UP FIST, AND SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THIS IS ABOUT ALOT MORE THAN JUST POLITICS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THESE DEVILS ARE STILL UP TO THIER SAME OLD TRICKS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!

This is a special shout out to all of the brothas and sistahs in Jena, Louisiana...
Micheal Bells mom and dad and the families of the other five young brothas
The Micheal Basden Show, George Wilborn, Ilyana Vanzant, Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey
And everyone elsewho’s willing to march and chant...
Cause we’ve got to show em who we are, all of them “Hicks”, living in the stix
They straight up sick, and need to be handled quick....so FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN !!!
LET’S SING IT ONE MORE ‘GIN...

SO IF YOU ROLLIN IN YOUR CAR AND GOT THIS IN YOUR MIX, SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN THE AIR WITH A BALLED UP FIST, AND SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THIS IS ABOUT ALOT MORE THAN JUST POLITICS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!
CAUSE THESE DEVILS ARE STILL UP TO THIER SAME OLD TRICKS, SO SAY:
FREE THE JENA SIX !!!

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from GREATEST SPITS volume 2 (THE BLACK BOOK), released January 1, 2015

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TONY B. CONSCIOUS Los Angeles, California

A renaissance man (Harlem Renaissance that is), TONY B. CONSCIOUS
is the personification of AFRICAN- AMERICAN culture.

He is (amongst other things) A B-BOY, BEATBOX,EMCEE, GRAFFITI/VISUAL ARTIST (known as “THE GHETTO VAN-GO”), Poet/ Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, VEGAN VEGETARIAN and PHILOSOPHER.

ALSO a member of THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION and THE TEMPLE OF HIP HOP. ... more

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