I used to it with a brother named, Moe Moe to kick it with a brother named, Joe Joe used to it with his girlfriend Lateisha whose brother Elmo, like me Elmo used to lots of brothers in the nose Kick em when they down and he'd steal they shoes and Elmo develop lots of beef as a tweaker and all of them was come lookin for me that, fat motherfuckers with bats tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm strapped I'm trapped like brother Thomas in his fat lap, what's happenin here's a rap Saturday twelve o'clock, told E-Roc, the block and not, about, how men are spottin he said "This little homey gets bread like You ain't Austin, Elmo got paws in Boots Maybe you move to Boston" But you get lost you play like a punk Pile on the Guard 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 funk this catch twenty-two, twist no fist can dismiss rip that go through, maybe I can flow through this whole ordeal and not pull out the steel 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 brother could he be judged by the system is scared of me and others? I no, so I don't go, with the flow though I'm bout to roll with no paddle up a creek called shit, light is lit on the Cause me and him is gonna the population Now we wonder why our never grow Killin just for steppin on our toe If we had as much for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the blood would flow again And then, the uzis that were once used to kill other Could be used, to serve and the brothers And the sisters and the cousins or whatever But the funk keeps like a fungus...
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to my head..." --> Melle Mel (repeat 2X)
"That's Elmo, get that fool" "Yeah get fool" "Ay, I'm Boots, I ain't Elmo -- I'm Boots The Coup!!"
Four til I'm twenty-five, now I got a forty-five caliber take no jive, just pull to fix Don't to be eighty-sixed, three six and six ain't in my mix Don't flap your lips about me takin no, You won't be no sips from a milk carton seein my with a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, missing in action" This shit is more Off the Wall than Jackson Cause brothers who be doin brothers who be doin screwin brothers but The Coup be doin more shoo-be-doin on the corner, revolution from Victoria to Florida It's why it don't make sense they want me a goner on a, run cause 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 blast ass But I gots more funk for the rulin Will it ever end, will we ever win, drinkin and gin Five-oh gets again, gets off with a National Guard in for when we got beef 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 say whassup to the brothers and sisters that really got my back when the be on Of course it goes without saying, that E-Roc and DJO from The got my back at all and at all costs Same for D-Force and Sneaker, Point Blank J-Post and of the Outcasts Po from the Tenth Planets Chuck Da got my back Evo got my back, got my back and the whole Mau Mau Rhythm Collective got my back cause I got The funk is on, and African Identity is The is on and Midnight Voices is there The funk is on and T-More and Twin from of Change are there And I'm there for Cindy, I'm there for 3rd I'm for Aztlan Nation I got your back Sim I got back Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy cause you got mine All y'all got my back, Neckbone got my back the sax Problem got my back with the piano Aiy let's fade out, but before we fade I wanna say rest in peace to B, we out