I to kick it with a brother named, Moe Moe to kick it with a brother named, Joe Joe used to it with his girlfriend Lateisha whose Elmo, looked like me used to elbow lots of brothers in the nose Kick em when they down and he'd steal they shoes and would develop lots of beef as a tweaker and all of them was mostly lookin for me Imagine that, fat motherfuckers bats tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm cause I'm trapped like brother Thomas in his fat momma's lap, what's happenin a rap Saturday twelve o'clock, told E-Roc, the block and not, about, how men are spottin he said "This little homey gets like flossin You Steve Austin, Elmo got paws in Boots you should move to Boston" But you get lost when you play a punk on the Right Guard I got SERIOUS funk
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to my head..." --> Melle Mel (repeat 2X)
"I plan to you what it is later"
(DJ Pam and scratches)
Bet George and Bootsy, had funk like this catch twenty-two, no fist can dismiss this rip that go through, maybe I can flow through this ordeal and not pull out the black steel and my friends suggestions... I should squeal to the cops but that's out of the question If I die by the trigger of a misled 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 to roll with no paddle up a creek called shit, light is lit on the Cause me and him is gonna decrease the Now we wonder why our revolution never motherfuckers just for steppin on our toe If we had as funk for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the blood would never flow And then, the uzis that were used to kill each other be used, to serve and protect 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 lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 2X)
"That's Elmo, get that fool" "Yeah get fool" "Ay, I'm Boots, I ain't Elmo -- I'm from The Coup!!"
Four years til I'm twenty-five, now I got a caliber take no jive, just pull to fix want 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 with a caption, "Have you Boots, he's missing in action" This shit is Off the Wall than Michael Jackson Cause brothers who be doin brothers who be doin screwin brothers but The Coup be doin more than on the corner, talkin revolution from to Florida It's why it don't make that they want me a goner on a, run cause some brothers in a ratpack I'm poppin junk they don't see for centuries the genocidal funk so I'm a punk if I don't blast ass But I gots more for the rulin class it ever end, will we ever win, drinkin juice and gin Five-oh gets again, gets off a grin National Guard sent in for when we got You wanna pop the trunk we got serious
"I'm trying, not to lose..." "I'm trying, not to lose my head..." --> Mel (repeat 4X)
*** spellings of the names of people in outro may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say whassup to the brothers and sisters 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 times and at all Same goes for D-Force and Sneaker, Point and Stone of the Outcasts Osajih Po from the Tenth Chuck Da got my back Evo got my back, got my back Niko and the Mau Mau Rhythm Collective got my back cause I got The is on, and African Identity is there The funk is on and 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 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 y'all got my back, Neckbone got my with the sax Problem got my back with the piano Aiy y'all fade out, but before we fade I say rest in peace to Plan B, we out