Shut 'Em Down (Live)
I testified my mama cried
Black people died when the other man lied
See the TV, listen to me double trouble
I overhaul and I'm comin' from the lower level
I'm takin' tabs sho'nuff stuff to grab
Like shirts it hurts wit a neck to wreck
Took a poll 'cause our soul
Took a toll
From the education of a TV station
But look around
Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
Boom and pound when I shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine what I use in the battle for the mind?
I hit it hard like it supposed
Pullin' no blows to the nose
Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
Then what it is only five percent of the biz
I'm addin' woes that's how the way it goes
Then you think I rank never drank, point blank
I own loans suckers got me runnin' from the bank
Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
I never saw a way to pay a sap to read the law
Then become a victim of a lawyer
Don't know ya, never saw ya
Tape cued gettin' me sued
Playin' games wit' my head
What the judge said put me in the red
Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
No no my education mind say
Suckers gonna pay anyway
There gonna be a day
'Cause the troop they roll in
To posse up whole from the ground
Ready to go throw another round
Sick of the ride it's suicide
For the other side of town
When I find a way to shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut the sucker way down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down)
Who count the money in the neighborhood
But we spendin' money to no end lookin' for a friend
In a war to the core rippin' up the poor in the stores
'Till they get a brother kickin' down doors
Then I figure I kick it bigger look 'em dead in the eye
And they wince defense is pressurized
They don't want it to be another racial attack
In disguise so give some money back
I like Nike but wait a minute
The neighborhood supports so put some money in it
Corporations owe they gotta give up the dough
To the town or else we gotta shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, down down down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
Black people died when the other man lied
See the TV, listen to me double trouble
I overhaul and I'm comin' from the lower level
I'm takin' tabs sho'nuff stuff to grab
Like shirts it hurts wit a neck to wreck
Took a poll 'cause our soul
Took a toll
From the education of a TV station
But look around
Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
Boom and pound when I shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine what I use in the battle for the mind?
I hit it hard like it supposed
Pullin' no blows to the nose
Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
Then what it is only five percent of the biz
I'm addin' woes that's how the way it goes
Then you think I rank never drank, point blank
I own loans suckers got me runnin' from the bank
Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
I never saw a way to pay a sap to read the law
Then become a victim of a lawyer
Don't know ya, never saw ya
Tape cued gettin' me sued
Playin' games wit' my head
What the judge said put me in the red
Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
No no my education mind say
Suckers gonna pay anyway
There gonna be a day
'Cause the troop they roll in
To posse up whole from the ground
Ready to go throw another round
Sick of the ride it's suicide
For the other side of town
When I find a way to shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut the sucker way down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down)
Who count the money in the neighborhood
But we spendin' money to no end lookin' for a friend
In a war to the core rippin' up the poor in the stores
'Till they get a brother kickin' down doors
Then I figure I kick it bigger look 'em dead in the eye
And they wince defense is pressurized
They don't want it to be another racial attack
In disguise so give some money back
I like Nike but wait a minute
The neighborhood supports so put some money in it
Corporations owe they gotta give up the dough
To the town or else we gotta shut 'em down
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, down down down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
(Shut 'em down shut 'em, shut 'em down)
Credits
Writer(s): Carlton Ridenhour, Gary J. Rinaldo, James Henry Boxley Iii
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Nandini
- What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
- Fight The Power
- Fight the Power: Remix 2020 (feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG & Questlove) - Single
- State Of The Union (STFU) [Main]
- Bring The Noise (Agami Remix)
- Prophets Of Rage (Brian Green Remix)
- Man Plans God Laughs Instrumentals
- Live From Metropolis Studios
- Man Plans God Laughs
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.