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"No matter how hard you try/you can't stop me now." --"Message From a Black Man" (1969) by The Temptations

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"Message From a Black Man" (1969) is a musical composition by The Temptations released on their 1969 album Puzzle People, later covered by The Whatnauts, The Heptones and Derrick Harriott.

It is a Black Power song with the militant refrain: "no matter how hard you try/you can't stop me now."

The lyrics to the song echoed the growing black consciousness in American soul music of that time. The Black Power song featured the militant refrain: "no matter how hard you try/you can't stop me now." The song was a popular radio request in 1969, although the Temptations themselves, who thought the record too forward, never performed it live.

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