(Dallas' Dirty Half Dozen Mix)
Performed by Queen Latifah, Yo-Yo, Left Eye, MC Lyte, Nefertiti, Salt-N-Pepa, Patra, and Me'shell N'degncello
Appears on the 1995 Panther soundtrack)
Now this is time for free your mind and your soul
Yo our official story has never been told
Ladies you got to demand what you want
And what we want is respect, right
Yo listen up on the track here
So we could feel a little bit right
Freedom every time
For the sisters
Check us, watch this
Uh, here we go now
Listen if I'm Pompadour
I be the ruler like Slick Rick
Get with this quick witted
Adidas-wearing chick
Poppa got a brand new bag
Momma got a brand new Jag
I go tag, I ain't no old hag
I represent not only in the kitchen
In the bedroom
But also in the board room
So give me more room
Deny my opportunity
You in jeopardy
Yo-Yo set me free
And don't hinder me
Let me be
I'm fighting for freedom
I got the heat in case you need 'em, uh
Straight soldier
Ain't nobody told you
Hold up on them lies
I know your games and your plans
Do whatever you can to oppress demand
But when it's time to drop the bomb
Bring the funk and it's on
You say you never met a sister so strong
You're wrong now
Hhow can we be free
If it takes you and it takes me
To blend together in harmony
And peace and love and all of the above
Sisters coming together representing one love
No disrespect but we gotta get it together
No matter what's the weather
Sisters gotta stick together
If sisters be strong, uh
Don't let 'em steer you wrong
Hold on
Cuz sisters got it goin' on
Yeah
Chorus:
Let's free your mind and your soul
Don't let no guys go and take control
Because you're young and you play the role
And our official story has never been told
Whoever said these are the things that you can do
And the things you ain't supposed to
So am I further when I think I'm getting closer
That's when I tend to think of Rosa how is it
Took a seat to make a stand
But now I'm standin'
We've gotten more demandin'
They never thought in plannin'
That a wish for us to sit would be a dose of
This fuckin' rollercoaster
Whether tradition or religion
Why you question my decision?
Why you spend up all your time tryin' to
Get into my mind
Why everybody and their momma
Gots to add to all the drama, mad drama
Hell, if I'ma keep my dominatin' feministic hell-
creatin' CrazySexyCool black ass
In the palms of your playa hater stance
My only chance of being free is to fly within me
And it's illegal to kill a fuckin' eagle
A bird is never more important than my people
I guess we didn't need him so I took away his freedom
Chorus
My spiritual awareness leads me to believe
That you doubti'n the sisters
That come with the peace we've been together
Since God created all of Thee
African daughters celebration is in order
Pop the cork and give champagne to the stork
That brought the Lyte to my momma in New York
African I come again and again
You kick me down I get back up
I'm coming back in multiples of ten
You know where I come from
Slung from the belly of the beast
Who used to speak African tongue
So I showed her next one bolder
Slung the devil over my shoulder
I'm getting over cuz I'm bolder than the next
I'm enlightened cuz I speak the real truth from the text
Who's next to flex with this S-I-S-T-E-R
The sun the moon the crest and the star
Wanna see how open you are
Chorus
Come and take a walk with me
Closer walk with thee
See what only I can see
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
So it's back to the womb of everlasting life
And truth let the heaven of a
Sister embrace you and praise the mother God
Come in to the light let it shine blackness is fine
The blackness of your skin
The blackness of your mind
I am who I am and that's who I be
And I don't give a damn if your eyes can't see
If you can't see what I can see
That you're blind baby blind
I'm a woman who's black so back up back up
Cuz it's on I'ma tell you strong what's wrong
With the world that we're living on
It ain't who you know it ain't what you drive
It's all about how you feel about yourself
On the inside when your self-esteem is low
And they call you a ho then you thinks you's a ho
But that ain't what the Lord God made you to be
I need you to see you're black and you're free
Chorus