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Mic Crenshaw - Follow Your Instincts

from NORTHERN AGGRESSION - Project Boneyard Volume II by Various Artists

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from Thinking Out Loud - Focused Noise - FNP005

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Maniac Psycho Lunatic Savages
Ridin on my rivals through the streets of Minneapolis
Organized nationwide interstate travellin
Pacifist activist they'd stay mad at us
My Posse born to ride on nazis
We put a lid on the hype these kids tried to copy
Anti Racist into bands fights and skatin
Bad Brains Cro Mags Dead Kennedys
BDP X Clan and Public Enemy
Agnostic Front Fishbone Suicidal Tendencies
A delicate subject intelligent thug sh#t
Criminal elements enveloped in justice
Solidarity and unity across communities
A grass roots movement executed beautifully
I'm not invincible I walked with sentinels
It was only sensible being principled and physical

You will respect my name you will respect my game
You will respect the struggle from whence I came
What do you want me to do?
Follow your instincts
What do you want me to say?
Follow your instincts

Police brutality state-sanctioned terrorism
This reality informed my lyricism
I was raised facing racism chasing escapism
Evading stints in state prisons, dating women
Who'd fight in gang fights, hide in plain sight
Spray paint my gang's name
On the wall in broad day light
Before you underestimate it's best to investigate
Research, self-educate
You're dealing with a heavy weight
This is more than an anthem on an intense beat
How many homies you got
That fought klansmen in the street?
I'm the grandson of a Chief and history repeats
As I carry on traditions generations deep
Channel my aggression into challenging oppression
Knowledge is a weapon, both powerful and deadly
1985 is when my consciousness arrived
Common sense and pride and confidence and style
It all would coincide amongst those who'd organize
Fight for what was right
And write the stories of our lives
Fight for our beliefs, united in the streets
That's the background that I bring
To this struggle to find some peace

Must more blood be shed before we can let the
Warfare and death no more be a threat
I'll never forget the things I've been through
The chains may seem to change
But the shackles continue
And we gotta get money, they say freedom's not free
But how you gonna buy your way out of slavery?
When you so far in debt you're just workin to eat
And you wont get no sleep til you're restin in peace
Passive resistance against the nastiest system
That we have in existence
You know it has to be different
Than it's been in the past for the progress to last
And what can we do is the question that everyone asks
Fight on all levels and never give in
If we don't slay the devil maybe our children will win
I won't promote violence but I have to defend
My life and others when the scuffle begins
And by all means I'm a keep my swole on
Just in case the beast needs to get stole on

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The Northern Aggression sampler features the hardest selections from Insurgence bands - several of them unreleased - accompanied by tracks from other bands in our orbit. Get stuck in!

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