Which Side Are You On? (Remix)

[Intro: Pete Seeger]
Which side are you on, boy?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boy?
Which side are you on?

[Verse 1: G1]
See before I draw the line, I gotta welcome you close
To all the folks who knew Obama sold the people a hoax
Gave the money to suckas while our community's still poor
Withdrew the troops but started another war
Colonized and terrorized and created an oil crisis
So they could make a killin' on food and gas prices
Prisons is fillin', they tryna lock up the future
Militarize borders and control of computers
While the stupid bumping music that ain't healthy for the shawties
Povertize the schools and policeman in the hallways
Can't be dormant, I've awoken, rise up, be ready
Brought the family with us and we hold the machete

[Verse 2: M-1]
Ridin' the fence, ridin' the fence
Too many people be ridin' the fence
Yeah you say you're ready for war but are you convinced?
I'm not convinced
If you're a writer, freedom fighter, crime exciter, then let's do this
We can make one big united middle finger to the U.S
Gimme the bravest and the truest, fuck the hippest and the coolest
We're gonna spark this revolution and cross this off our to-do list
Put your foot down if you look down on this criminal system
Put your book down and get shook down like my niggas in prison
Don't be condemning and condoning they actions in one sentence
Now keep in mind, you decide
Is you a patriot or a menace to society?
So riot or sit by quietly
But don't pull out your flag and try to say you gon' ride with me
You flip-flopping like hip-hop, I don't get locked in that trick box
Get got like Big and Pac, shit's got to stop
"I am the people, not the pig," I repeat after Fred
So please blow my brains out if I ever forget

[Verse 3: stic.man]
I'm with the independent thinkers, I'm down with the movers and the shakers
And the ex-Henny drinkers, the non-smokers
The health advocates, the non-voters
The young bloods in the hood trainin' like soldiers
I'm on the side of the tracks with the hood gardens
With the little child that don't color inside the margins
I don't ride the fence, I cultivate my strength
'Cause if it ain't about power, it don't make sense
I've been down with Boogie Down since BDP and Brown Pride
And black power make RBG a OG
An OG told me choose your battles wisely
In the struggle, don't forget about your children and your wifey
If you don't see me on the podium, preachin' it
Every day, I hope my every action is teaching it
'Cause revolution is a process, it's not a speech or a panel
Don't bite off more than you can handle

[Chorus: Pete Seeger & RodStarz]
Which side are you on, boy?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boy?
Which side are you on?
Chi City, Palastina, Venezuela
Which side are you on, boy?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boy?
To South Bronx baby!
Which side are you on?

[Verse 4: RodStarz]
Ay, I still rock hard like slingshots in Palestina
Con todos los estudiantes por educación gratuita
I'm with workers uprising and the right to unionize
We ain't crossed the border, so you better legalize
I'm with la Penã del Bronx, I'm still with Victor Toro
'Cause gentrification is pollutin' my borough
Sold bro never, South Bronx forever
Decolonize the block, make your neighborhood better
I ain't down with the rich, I'm more Richie Perez
Don't talk to grand juries or cooperate with feds
I'm with students, doctors, janitors, teachers
We need living wages but they don't believe us
Manida, Baretto, Spofford, Hunts Point
My point, my hood
I love, we join, forces
Forming RDAC-BX
Taking over buildings, Rebel Diaz for the children

[Verse 5: Rakaa Iriscience]
Politics the sickness, streets express symptoms
Caught up with a quickness, big business pimps 'em
Scholars play the simpleton, fools play with wisdom
Who will stand and fight back, who will play the victim?
Trials and tribulations, here's your generations
Stolen history and outsourced innovation
Babel tower fell, tribes are at war
The battle story not represented in the score
The game's fixed, most of the faces and names switched
Credit stolen for art, science, religion, language
Technology, philosophy, and the strangest
They paid in Haitian for the knowledge of the ancients
Power in words, actions, guns swords
Ain't Paris, Brown Berets, young lords, pick a side
One sickness, one cure, one love
One blood, one world, one war

[Chorus: Pete Seeger]
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

[Outro: Pete Seeger]
Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good ol' union
Has come in here to dwell