I used to kick it with a named, Moe Moe used to it with a brother named, Joe Joe to kick it with his girlfriend Lateisha whose Elmo, looked like me Elmo used to elbow lots of brothers in the Kick em when they down and he'd steal they and clothes would develop lots of beef as a tweaker and all of was mostly come lookin for me Imagine that, fat motherfuckers with tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm strapped cause I'm like brother Thomas in his fat momma's lap, what's happenin a rap Saturday o'clock, told E-Roc, the whole block and what not, about, how men are he said "This little homey gets bread like You ain't Steve Austin, Elmo got paws in you should move to Boston" But you get lost when you like a punk Pile on the Right I got SERIOUS funk
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to my head..." --> Melle Mel (repeat 2X)
"I to tell you what it is later"
(DJ Pam and scratches)
Bet George and Bootsy, never had like this catch twenty-two, twist no can dismiss this rip that I'ma go through, maybe I can flow whole ordeal and not pull out the black steel and my friends suggestions... that I should squeal to the but that's out of the question If I die by the trigger of a misled could he be judged by the system is scared of me and others? I believe no, so I don't go, with the even though I'm bout to with no paddle up a creek shit, light is lit on the situation Cause me and him is decrease the population Now we why our revolution never grow motherfuckers just for steppin on our toe If we had as much for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the blood never flow again And then, the uzis that were once to kill each other Could be used, to serve and protect the And the sisters and the cousins or others But the funk keeps growing a fungus...
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to my head..." --> Melle Mel (repeat 2X)
"That's Elmo, get fool" "Yeah get that fool" "Ay, I'm Boots, I ain't Elmo -- I'm from The Coup!!"
Four til I'm twenty-five, now I got a forty-five caliber don't take no jive, pull to fix Don't to be eighty-sixed, three six and six ain't in my mix Don't flap lips about me takin no, trips You won't be no sips from a milk carton seein my face a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, missing in action" This shit is more Off the than Michael Jackson brothers who be doin brothers who be doin others screwin brothers but The be doin more than shoo-be-doin on the corner, talkin revolution from to Florida It's why it don't make sense that they me a goner on a, run some brothers in a ratpack think I'm poppin junk cause they don't see for the genocidal funk so I'm a punk if I don't they ass But I gots more funk for the class Will it end, will we ever win, drinkin juice and gin gets again, gets off with a grin National Guard sent in for when we got You wanna pop the we got serious funk
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 4X)
*** spellings of the names of people in this may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say to the brothers and sisters that really got my back the funk be on Of course it goes without saying, E-Roc and DJO from The Coup got my back at all and at all costs Same goes for D-Force and Sneaker, Blank J-Post and Stone of the Osajih Po from the Planets Da Pharoah got my back Evo got my back, Rose got my Niko and the whole Mau Mau Collective got my back cause I got The is on, and African Identity is there The is on and Midnight Voices is there The is on and T-More and Twin from Elements of Change are there And I'm there for Cindy, I'm there for 3rd I'm for Aztlan Nation I got back Leftside Sim I got your back Disposable Heroes of cause you got mine All got my back, Neckbone got my back with the sax Child got my back with the piano Aiy let's fade out, but before we fade I wanna say in peace to Plan B, we out