I used to it with a brother named, Moe Moe used to kick it with a named, Joe Joe used to kick it with his girlfriend whose Elmo, looked like me Elmo used to lots of brothers in the nose Kick em when they down and steal they shoes and clothes Elmo develop lots of beef as a tweaker and all of was mostly come lookin for me that, fat motherfuckers 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, what's happenin a rap Saturday twelve o'clock, told E-Roc, the block and what not, about, how men are spottin he "This little homey gets bread like You ain't Steve Austin, got paws in Boots Maybe you should 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 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 I'ma go through, maybe I can flow through whole ordeal and not pull out the black steel and my friends suggestions... that I should 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 of me and others? I no, so I don't go, with the flow even though I'm bout to with no paddle up a called shit, light is lit on the situation Cause me and him is decrease the population Now we why our revolution never grow Killin motherfuckers for steppin on our toe If we had as funk for our oppressors as we did for ourselves, the would never flow again And then, the uzis that once used to kill each other Could be used, to serve and the brothers And the sisters and the cousins or others But the funk growing like 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 don't take no jive, just pull to fix Don't want to be eighty-sixed, three six and six in my mix Don't flap your lips about me no, trips You won't be takin no from a milk carton my face with a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, he's in action" This shit is more Off the Wall than Michael Cause brothers who be doin brothers who be doin screwin brothers but The be doin more than shoo-be-doin on the corner, talkin revolution from Victoria to It's why it don't make that they want me a goner on a, run cause brothers in a ratpack think I'm poppin junk cause 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 win, drinkin juice and gin gets again, gets off with a grin National Guard in for when we got beef You pop the trunk 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 outro may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say whassup to the brothers and sisters that got my back when the 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 D-Force and Sneaker, Blank and Stone of the Outcasts Osajih Po from the Planets Chuck Da Pharoah got my Evo got my back, got my back Niko and the whole Mau Mau Rhythm got my back cause I got The funk is on, and African 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 for 3rd Rail I'm there for Aztlan I got back 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 rest in to Plan B, we out