I used to it with a brother named, Moe Moe used to it with a brother named, Joe Joe used to kick it with his Lateisha brother Elmo, looked like me Elmo used to elbow lots of brothers in the Kick em when down and he'd steal they shoes and clothes Elmo develop lots of beef as a tweaker and all of them was come lookin for me Imagine that, fat with bats tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm strapped I'm trapped 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 spottin he "This little homey bread like flossin You ain't Steve Austin, Elmo got in Boots Maybe you should to Boston" But you get when you play like a punk Pile on the Right Guard I got 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 and Bootsy, never had funk like this twenty-two, twist no fist can dismiss this rip I'ma go through, maybe I can flow through this whole ordeal and not pull out the black 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 brother could he be judged by the system that is scared of me and I believe no, so I don't go, with the even though I'm bout to roll with no up a creek called shit, light is lit on the me and him is gonna decrease the population Now we why our revolution never grow motherfuckers just for steppin on our toe If we had as funk for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the blood never flow again And then, the uzis that were once used to kill each Could be used, to serve and protect the And the sisters and the cousins or others But the keeps growing like a fungus...
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 2X)
"That's Elmo, get that fool" "Yeah get fool" "Ay, I'm Boots, I ain't -- I'm Boots from The Coup!!"
Four years til I'm twenty-five, now I got a caliber don't no jive, just pull to fix Don't want to be eighty-sixed, three six and six in my mix Don't flap your about me takin no, trips You won't be takin no sips from a milk seein my face a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, missing in action" This shit is more Off the than Michael Jackson Cause brothers who be doin brothers who be doin screwin brothers but The Coup be doin more shoo-be-doin on the corner, talkin revolution Victoria to Florida It's why it don't make that they want 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 ever end, will we ever win, drinkin 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 my head..." --> Melle Mel (repeat 4X)
*** spellings of the names of in this outro may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say to the brothers and sisters that really got my back when the be on Of course it goes without saying, E-Roc and DJO from The Coup got my back at all times and at all Same goes for D-Force and Sneaker, Point J-Post and Stone of the Po from the Tenth Planets Chuck Da got my back Evo got my back, Rose got my and the whole Mau Mau Rhythm Collective got my back I got theirs The is on, and African Identity is there The is on and Midnight Voices is there The funk is on and T-More and from Elements of Change are there And I'm there for Cindy, I'm for 3rd Rail I'm for Aztlan Nation I got your Leftside Sim I got your back Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy cause you got All y'all got my back, got my back with the sax Child got my back with the piano Aiy y'all fade out, but before we fade I wanna say in peace to Plan B, we out