I used to kick it with a named, Moe Moe to kick it with a brother named, Joe Joe used to kick it his girlfriend Lateisha whose brother Elmo, looked me Elmo used to elbow lots of brothers in the Kick em when they down and he'd they shoes and clothes Elmo would lots of beef as a tweaker and all of them was come lookin for me Imagine that, fat motherfuckers bats tryin to rat pack, hmm, to get a gat So I'm strapped I'm trapped like brother Thomas in his fat momma's lap, 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 bread like flossin You ain't Steve Austin, Elmo got paws in Maybe you should to Boston" But you get lost you play like a punk Pile on the Right Guard I got 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, never had like this catch twenty-two, twist no fist can dismiss rip I'ma go through, maybe I can flow through this ordeal and not pull out the black steel and my friends suggestions... that I squeal to the cops but that's out of the question If I die by the of a misled brother could he be judged by the that 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, is lit on the situation Cause me and him is gonna decrease the Now we wonder why our never grow Killin just for steppin on our toe If we had as much funk for our as we did for ourselves, the blood would flow again And then, the that were once used to kill each other Could be used, to and protect the brothers And the sisters and the cousins or whatever But the funk growing 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 -- I'm Boots from The Coup!!"
Four til I'm twenty-five, now I got a forty-five caliber take no jive, just pull to fix Don't want to be eighty-sixed, six and six ain't in my mix Don't flap your lips about me no, trips You won't be takin no from a milk carton seein my face a caption, askin "Have you seen Boots, missing in action" This shit is more Off the Wall Michael 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 from Victoria to Florida It's why it make sense that they want me a goner on a, run cause brothers in a ratpack think I'm poppin junk cause they see for centuries the genocidal funk so I'm a punk if I don't they ass But I gots more funk for the rulin it ever end, will we ever win, drinkin juice and gin Five-oh gets again, gets off a grin National Guard sent in for we got beef You wanna pop the 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 this may not be accurate ***
Aight, it up I wanna say to the brothers and sisters that really got my back the funk be on Of course it without saying, that E-Roc and DJO from The Coup got my back at all and at all costs Same for D-Force and Sneaker, Point Blank and Stone of the Outcasts Osajih Po from the Tenth Chuck Da Pharoah got my Evo got my back, Rose got my Niko and the Mau Mau Rhythm Collective got my cause 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 there for 3rd I'm for Aztlan Nation I got back Leftside Sim I got your back Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy you got mine All got my back, Neckbone got my back with the sax Problem Child got my back with the Aiy let's fade out, but before we fade I wanna say rest in peace to B, we out