Brothers Gonna Work It Out Lyrics

[Intro]
“The rhythm, the rebel”
“Don’t believe the hype!”
“Yes!”
“How low can you go?”
“Show ‘em that we can do this!”
“Here we go again”

[Verse 1]
Uh, your bad self
Help us break this down from off the shelf
Here's a music servin' you so use it
Papa got a brand new funk
Get down (Party for your right!)
Huh, let's get it on like we said before
They say the brothers causing trouble
Hate to bust their bubble
'Cause we rumble from our lower level

To condition your condition, we're gonna do a song
That you never heard before
Make you all jump along to the education
Brothers gonna work it out
And stop chasing
Brothers, brothers gonna work it out


[Hook]
You got it...what it takes
Go get it...where you want it?
Go get it...get involved
'Cause the brothers in the street are willing to work it out
Come on, y'all, let's go to work

[Verse 2]
So many of us in limbo
How to get it on, it's quite simple
Three stones from the sun
We need a piece of this rock
Our goal indestructible soul
Answers to this quizzing
To the Brothers in the street
Schools and the prisons
History shouldn't be a mystery
Our stories' real history
Not his story

We gonna work it one day
Till we all get paid
The right way in full, no bull
Talking, no walking, driving, arriving and stylin'

Tell 'em -- soon you'll see what I'm talking 'bout
'Cause one day
The brothers gonna work it out
Brothers, brothers gonna work it out


[Hook]
You got it...what it takes
Go get it...where you want it?
Go get it...get involved
'Cause the brothers in the street are willing to work it out

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PE’s tribute to/update of Willie Hutch’s almost-identically-titled 1973 song “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out”, this 1990 banger samples more than a dozen different tunes (including three different songs by the group themselves) to plead for black unity and imagine a future (the then-distant year of 1995!) where one and all will jam to this tune.

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Recorded At
Greene St. Recording (New York City)
Release Date
April 10, 1990
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