You know we dealing with, a very critical and crucial time
Most crucial and critical time that I've ever witnessed,
being as young as I am, you know
We all don't want to say nothing else so we say as young as we are
Now I want to talk about ah, the pronunciation and the realization
Now the educators they call it esp, positive thinking right?Some of the people on across the other side of the pond call it vibes, vibrations, astrology ,
and all those different things you understand.,
But I call what it is is what it is
What it is is what it is, look a here.
Now you see a brother you take in the ghetto you find a whole lot of crime, I can understand
Hey I know what it means be nine years old before I got my first pair of underwear out of a store
You know putting on a half, a half pressed suit from the pawn shop with tennis shoes, trying to be hip
See I know where its coming from like the fella sang having catfish head soup, its just like the catfish went in there with his head and come out very quick and didn't leave nothing else
Now there's one thing that the educators and the politicians and the establishment got to remember, now brothers need jobs
If You don't work, You can't eat
If You don't work, You can't eat
Get hip to yourself good God my brother and get it from the street
If You don't work, You can't eat
Sister
If You don't work, Lord You can't eat
So you got to have mind power to deal with starvation
And that's what we dealing with. You see we can't go back to the biblical stories 2 loaves of bread or 2 little fishes, 5 loaves of bread, 2 little fishes, yeah, 5 loaves of bread Now look hear there's too many brothers going by that now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from set your mind right here
Dig the JBE experience I dug this from a young man outta New York he said the GBE, the GBE now we want to take it to the JBE the JB experience now Fred brother, brother, lay it on me lay it
Mind Power
Uh
Lay it on me
Hey Good God Uh ain't it funky huh
mind power mind
Mind power
What it is what it is, what it is what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
That's what it is
It is what it is
That's what it is
Ah gimme some flute
Gimme some flute
You know dealing with Harlem, South side of Chicago, The Bay area, Watts, 5 point buttermilk bottom in Atlanta giant street in Augusta west Broad in Savannah Youth street in Washington huh going on over to Baltimore, south street in Philly, Boston, I know' somebody needs to help us give us, just give us a chance somebody ;brothers across the nation you got to get yourself together unified we need information' brothers across the nation pass on that right on information. Brothers across the nation, yea yea yea alright
Huh, alright huh alright. huh ain't it funky now.there's love power funky robot that mind power the JBE experience, the JBE, now back, now meanwhile back at the ranch lets talk about what we deal with each and everyday. now horn, now horn. Lets tell everybody
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it is (chorus)
What it is is what it isYou cant change it
Don't try to change it
deal with it
Don't fool yourself
look in the mirror
you find
you cant fool yourself
you got to deal with it (repeat chorus in background)
What it is
What it is is what it is
Tell me deal with itWhat it
Wait a minute look a hear I believe we should go back to the top
I want to go back to the beginning
Cause I like to hear ole Morgan play those funky sticks over there
Now we'll build it up a lil bit and we tell em
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it isGimme some horn
What it is is what it is
What it is is what it isCome on, what it is
Gimme a taste Jimmy gimme a taste
hit me
I wanna go way back there,
to the top way back there
right now