I used to kick it with a named, Moe Moe used to it with a brother named, Joe Joe used to kick it with his Lateisha whose Elmo, looked like me used to elbow lots of brothers in the nose Kick em when they down and he'd they shoes and clothes Elmo would develop lots of beef as a 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 cause I'm like brother Thomas in his fat momma's lap, happenin here's a rap Saturday twelve o'clock, E-Roc, the whole block and what not, about, how men are spottin he "This little homey gets bread flossin You ain't Steve Austin, got paws in Boots Maybe you 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 lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 2X)
"I plan to tell you it is later"
(DJ Pam and scratches)
Bet George and Bootsy, had funk like this catch twenty-two, twist no fist can this rip that I'ma go through, I can flow through this whole ordeal and not pull out the black and my friends suggestions... that I should squeal to the cops but that's out of the 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 go, with the flow even though I'm bout to with no paddle up a creek shit, light is lit on the situation Cause me and him is gonna the population Now we wonder why our revolution grow Killin just for steppin on our toe If we had as much for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the blood would never flow And then, the uzis that once used to kill each other Could be used, to serve and protect the And the sisters and the cousins or whatever 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 -- 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 want to be eighty-sixed, three six and six ain't in my mix Don't flap your about me takin no, trips You won't be takin no sips a milk carton my face with a caption, askin "Have you Boots, he's missing in action" This shit is more Off the Wall than Jackson Cause brothers who be doin who be doin others screwin brothers but The Coup be more than shoo-be-doin on the corner, talkin revolution from to Florida It's why it don't make sense they want me a goner on a, run some brothers in a ratpack think I'm poppin cause they don't see for centuries the genocidal so I'm a punk if I don't blast they ass But I gots more for the rulin 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 trunk we got funk
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 4X)
*** spellings of the of people in this outro may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say whassup to the brothers and that really got my back the funk be on Of course it goes saying, that E-Roc and DJO from The Coup got my at all times and at all costs Same goes for and Sneaker, Point Blank and Stone of the Outcasts Osajih Po the Tenth Planets Chuck Da Pharoah got my Evo got my back, got my back Niko and the whole Mau Mau Collective got my back I got theirs The is on, and African Identity is there The funk is on and Midnight Voices is The funk is on and T-More and Twin from Elements of are there And I'm there for Cindy, I'm for 3rd Rail I'm there for Aztlan I got back Leftside Sim I got your back Disposable of Hiphoprisy cause you got mine All got my back, Neckbone got my back with the sax Problem Child got my back the piano Aiy y'all let's fade out, but we fade I wanna say in peace to Plan B, we out