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[00:22.10]I testified
[00:23.66]My mama cried
[00:24.96]Black people died
[00:26.05]When the other man lied
[00:27.52]See the TV listen to me double trouble
[00:29.47]I overhaul and I'm comin'
[00:31.01]From the lower level
[00:32.33]I'm takin' tabs
[00:33.24]Sho nuff stuff to grab
[00:35.05]Like shirts it hurts
[00:36.31]With a neck to wreck
[00:37.66]Took a poll 'cause our soul
[00:39.29]Took a toll
[00:40.13]From the education
[00:41.47]Of a TV station
[00:42.66]But look around
[00:43.89]Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
[00:45.92]Boom and Pound
[00:46.96]When I
[00:47.17]Shut 'em down
[00:47.95]I shut 'em down
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[00:50.51]I shut 'em down
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[01:19.91]One two three four five
[01:21.66]Six seven eight nine
[01:22.96]What I use in the battle for the mind
[01:25.16]I hit it hard
[01:25.86]Like it supposed
[01:26.58]Pullin' no blows to the nose
[01:28.23]Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
[01:30.52]Then what it is
[01:31.24]Only 5 percent of the biz
[01:33.38]I'm addin' woes
[01:34.34]That's how the way it goes
[01:35.30]Then you think I rank I never drank, point blank
[01:37.93]I own loans
[01:39.23]Suckers got me runnin' from the bank
[01:40.88]Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
[01:43.18]I never saw a way to pay a sap
[01:45.26]To read the law
[01:46.39]Then become a victim of a lawyer
[01:48.24]Don't know yah, never saw yah
[01:49.27]Tape cued
[01:50.46]Gettin' me sued
[01:51.15]Playin' games with my head
[01:52.44]What the judge said put me in the red
[01:54.46]Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
[01:56.85]No no
[01:57.41]My education mind say
[01:58.76]Suckers gonna pay
[01:59.68]Anyway
[02:00.51]There gonna be a day
[02:01.48]'Cause the troop they roll in
[02:03.16]To posse up
[02:04.11]Whole from the ground
[02:04.93]Ready to go
[02:05.82]Throw another round
[02:06.97]Sick of the ride
[02:07.70]It's suicide
[02:08.60]For the other side of town
[02:10.29]When I find a way to shut 'em down
[02:12.12]I shut 'em down
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[02:14.49]I shut 'em down
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[02:28.25]I wreck for respect
[02:29.41]Check one hit the deck
[02:30.88]With the man of the hour
[02:32.17]Commit the soul power
[02:33.39]For once I got to say shut 'em down on the regular
[02:36.34]Causing mass hysteria in your area
[02:38.88]Kicking it for my man Chuck D
[02:40.63]Down with PE
[02:41.85]On the remix
[02:42.56]Hung on the flix
[02:43.72]So check it before I step down
[02:45.86]When I'm in your town
[02:47.06]You know I got to shut 'em down
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[02:54.64]Who count the money
[02:55.48]In the neighborhood
[02:56.45]But we spendin' money
[02:57.59]To no end lookin' for a friend
[02:59.63]In a war to the core
[03:01.15]Rippin' up the poor in the stores
[03:02.59]Till they get a brother
[03:03.85]Kickin' down doors
[03:05.24]Then I figure I kick it bigger
[03:06.53]Look 'em dead in the eye
[03:08.19]And they wince
[03:08.86]Defense is pressurized
[03:10.35]They don't want it to be
[03:11.67]Another racial attack
[03:13.23]In disguise so give some money back
[03:15.61]I like Nike but wait a minute
[03:17.82]The neighborhood supports so put some
[03:19.44]Money in it
[03:20.46]Corporations owe
[03:21.62]They gotta give up the dough
[03:22.62]To da town
[03:23.73]Or else
[03:24.31]We gotta shut 'em down
[03:25.47]I shut 'em down
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