ooh baby let s ride baby fyi okay uh yeah now what if there wasn t no niggas just master teachers and what if there wasn t no rappers only preachers would you eat what they feed you and would you let them beset you would you let them box you up and put that price on ya back nineteen forty nine that s including the state sales tax for the money sell ya soul to the confederate flag now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer and i can smell it in the air like them dark bodies swinging from the poplar tree and i can feel it in my bones as i become everything they told me not to be now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer throw that fluoride in your drink to censor everything you think fuck up a third time and then they sentence you to life this ain t no game baby but you keep playin baby the same rope they throw you is the one you hang from baby now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer cause it ain t nothing quite like this country of mine where a nigga gets shot by a cop at the drop of a dimebag it s sad cause that s really where we at that s really where we at  now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer where s this consciousness where s this consciousness where s this consciousness where s this consciousness but you keep rappin bout the trap cause you trapped and that s exactly where they want you at liberate yourself don t let them steal your mental health cause it s the white ones with the wealth who benefit off what you sell throw you in jail taking your right away to freedom shackle you in chains as if that s really proper treatment i m not a preacher but i had to let it out in the name of those before me like nina simone and james brown i m black and proud yeah yeah i m black and proud i m black and loud yeah yeah i m black and loud and if you got a problem you can sit the fuck down now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer where s this consciousness where s this consciousness i don t know if the board of education hates black people but i know the textbooks i give my children to read and the schools we have to go to now this is the evidence you want me to make an act of faith risking myself my wife my woman my assistant my children on some idealism which you assure me exists in america which i have never seen now where s this conscious that you speak of told me it s hidden in the reefer