I to kick it with a brother named, Moe Moe used to kick it with a named, Joe Joe used to kick it with his Lateisha whose Elmo, looked like me Elmo to elbow lots of brothers in the nose Kick em when they down and steal they shoes and clothes Elmo would develop of beef as a tweaker and all of them was mostly lookin for me Imagine that, fat motherfuckers with tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm strapped cause I'm trapped brother Thomas in his fat momma's lap, what's happenin a rap Saturday twelve o'clock, E-Roc, the whole block and what not, about, how men are spottin he "This homey gets bread like flossin You ain't Steve Austin, Elmo got in Boots Maybe you move to Boston" But you get when you play like 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 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 I'ma go through, maybe I can flow this whole ordeal and not pull out the steel 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 misled could he be judged by the system is scared of me and others? I believe no, so I don't go, the flow even though I'm bout to roll with no up a creek called shit, is lit on the situation Cause me and him is gonna the population Now we wonder why our never grow Killin motherfuckers just for 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 once 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 Elmo -- I'm Boots The Coup!!"
Four years til I'm twenty-five, now I got a caliber don't take no jive, pull to fix want to be eighty-sixed, three six and six ain't in my mix Don't your lips about me takin no, trips You won't be takin no from a milk carton my face with a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, missing in action" This shit is more Off the Wall than Michael Cause who be doin brothers who be doin others screwin brothers but The Coup be doin than shoo-be-doin on the corner, talkin revolution from Victoria to It's why it make sense that they want me a goner on a, run cause some in a ratpack think I'm poppin junk cause don't see for centuries the genocidal funk so I'm a punk if I blast they ass But I gots more funk for the class Will it end, will we ever win, drinkin juice and gin gets again, gets off with a grin National Guard sent in for 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 wanna say whassup to the and sisters that really got my back the funk be on Of course it goes without saying, that E-Roc and DJO The Coup got my at all times and at all costs Same goes for D-Force and Sneaker, Point and Stone of the Outcasts Osajih Po from the Tenth Da Pharoah got my back Evo got my back, got my back Niko and the whole Mau Mau Rhythm got my back I got theirs 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 for Cindy, I'm there for 3rd Rail I'm for Aztlan Nation I got back Leftside Sim I got your back Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy cause you got 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 rest in to Plan B, we out