Lyrics:

I get down to what it is
And if it ain't funky (see ya)
People askin' me what's goin' on
With my mind
(Huh) wait a minute

Just a matter of race
Cause a black male's in their face
Step back for the new jack (swing!)
On the platter scatter huh
We got our own thing
Just jam to let the rhythm run
Day to day, America eats it's young
And defeats our women
There is a gap so wide we all can swim in
Drown in (uh! get down) an get it
Got it goin' on wit it
Sister (hey!) soul sister
We goin' be all right
It takes a man to take a stand
Understand it takes a
Woman to make a stronger man
As we both get strong
They'll call me a crazy Asiatic
While I'm singin' a song
Oh my god, oh my lord
I can't hold back
So I get exact on a track
It's an eye for eye, tooth for tooth
Forget about me
Just set my sister free
R-e-s-p-e-c-t, my sisters not my enemy
Cause we'll be stronger together
And make 'em all say
(Damn!) this generation

They don't know what we got goin' is (sound)
To turn it all around
To my sisters I communicate
With the bass and tone
Through speakers and a microphone
Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
For example like they dissed Tawana
And they try to say she's a liar
My people don't believe it
But even now they're getting higher
Of the feeling inspiration
We must know that in this nation
Every single generation
They teach us how to dis our sisters
Stange as you say, I say revolution
Need for change brings on revolution
The great book look see solution
God chooses what and who for the bruisin'
There's been no justice for none of my sisters
Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
Now we got to protect
And get together and (damn) this generation

I said so to what it is
Where it is
She needs a little respect
There it is
I would say she needs a lotta
Brother from a mother like me has gotta
Give it up
Give it now
And pass it all around
To my soul sister!

They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
America took her, reshaped her, raped her
No it never made the paper
Beat us, mated us
Made us attack our woman in black
So I said sophisticated B (don't be one!)
Not to heed the warning crack of dawn
Or is it the dawn of crack? (uh oh!)
Stop the talk they say, but
We talk and say whats right or wrong
Some say we wasting time singing a song
But why is it there were many different shades?
Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
You cannot count my mama's tears
It's not the past, the future's what she fears
Strong we be strong
The next generation
It's not what/who we're facin'
The finger's pointed to us in our direction
The blind state of mind needs correction
Word to the mother we tighten connection
To be a man you need no election
This generation generates a new attitude
Sister to you we should not be rude
So we come together
And make 'em all say
(Damn!) this generation