The "GRASSROOTS!" Campaign by Truth Universal--Directed by Larry Legaux for OnPoint Media

♪ YEAH (echo...) ♪
♪ BRICKS! on the beat...make no mistake...adlib: yeah yeah ♪
♪ this is a grassroots campaign... ♪
♪ I'm a...East New Orleans *****(turntable kill) ♪
♪ by attitude and residence. ♪
♪ A Trini and a African by ancestral evidence. ♪
♪ Content and skill, don't just entertain. ♪
♪ Recipe for that, be Black in pain. ♪
♪ Study Rakim Allah, G-Rap, and Kane, ♪
♪ and never forget from that which you came... ♪
♪ Have a thirst for liberation that can't be contained, ♪
♪ and know your people struggle ain't ♪
♪ no *****(turntable kill) game. ♪
♪ It's still, getaway themes for robbin' a bank. ♪
♪ Well known in N.O. like hot sausage from Hank's. ♪
♪ I study history but don't dwell in the past, ♪
♪ to help u shake the oppression as well as your ***. ♪
♪ Of a veteran class, excell and outlast, ♪
♪ these polaroid rappers that develop too fast. ♪
♪ Eloqeunt as, Gibran's pen when the mic get blessed ♪
♪ 17 year overnight success. ♪
♪ C'mon, read to this, bleed to this, ♪
♪ or conceive some freedom fighter seeds to this ♪
♪ C'mon, read to this bleed to this, ♪
♪ or conceive revolutionary seeds to this ♪
start: "Grassroots Grassroots" (repeating in background)
♪ It go: oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Rock with me, rock with me, c'cmon crowd: ♪
♪ OH, OH, OH OH ♪
Reporter: James Mantan here, broadcasting live
for G-O-D 7 News.
We seem to have caught up with Truth Universal.
Let's see if we can find out more about this "GRASSROOTS!"
Campaign that he's been talking about...
Mr. Universal?...
♪ You may not know the words to the tracks, ♪
♪ but i'm dope it's a fact, ♪
♪ leaving feature performers lookin like the opening act. ♪
♪ Dave Bricks bussin' speakers, oh it ain't my fault. ♪
♪ We came to raise the bar like olympic pole vaults. ♪
♪ Only real cats who i'm rhymin' with. ♪
♪ So save ya contracts i ain't signin ****(turntable kill). ♪
♪ Development deal? ♪
♪ You can't be serious! ♪
♪ I learned to rock mics using hands on experience. ♪
♪ I made one mistake dealing with this rhyme, ♪
♪ let a label waste my money ♪
♪ and two years of my time [GUERRILLA FLUNK!]. ♪
♪ Now i'm back on track and got the name buzzin'. ♪
♪ You could tell everybody like you Michael Vick cousin! ♪
♪ Ain't no fakin with thes records I'm makin, yaheardme? ♪
♪ Dawg I'm 34 like a Walter Payton jersey. ♪
♪ With plans to stack grands, land to land, ♪
♪ internet, chain store, and hand to hand. ♪
♪ Read to this bleed to this ♪
♪ or conceive revolutionary seeds to this ♪
♪ Read to this, bleed to this ♪
♪ or conceive some freedom fighter seeds to this ♪
start: "Grassroots Grassroots" (repeating in background)
♪ it go: oh oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ rock with me, rock with me c'cmon ♪
♪ crowd: OH, OH, OH, OH ♪
♪ coming from the, comin from the 'N' OH OH OH ♪
♪ rock with me ya'll c'cmon on ♪
♪ crowd: OH, OH, OH, OH ♪
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♪ I ain't the type of cat to be lyin on beats. ♪
♪ I understand the process that got us dyin in streets ♪
♪ In this game we just pawns, when the weapons get drawn, ♪
♪ economics decide what side of the gun you be on. ♪
♪ And it seem like black-on-black, ♪
♪ but it's the blue collar ♪
♪ versus white boys who got billions of dollars, ♪
♪ who launder drug money through the markets of stock ♪
♪ go to war with Iraq, and put crack on your block. ♪
♪ Put our people on lock and make sure they be slaves, ♪
♪ shutdown 3rd world economies then call it free trade. ♪
♪ And they've paid for segments on the night news. ♪
♪ It'd be unrest, so they supress the right views ♪
♪ Palestine gettin' bombed by Zionists not Jews, ♪
♪ while we be content with rims and nice shoes. ♪
♪ Turntables and mic tools, whatever I might choose, ♪
♪ it's to help you know the time so we don't look like fools! ♪
♪ Read to this, bleed to this, ♪
♪ or conceive revolutionary seeds to this! ♪
♪ C'mon...You could read to this, bleed to this, ♪
♪ or conceive some freedom fighter seeds to this! ♪
start: "Grassroots Grassroots" (repeating in background)
♪ It go: oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪
♪ coming from the, comin from the 'N' OH OH OH ♪
♪ It go: oh... ♪
end: "Grassroots Grassroots" (repeating in background)