Shut Em Down (Pete Rock) Remix - Public Enemy.mp3

[00:22.970]I testified
[00:24.180]My mama cried
[00:25.640]Black people died
[00:26.980]When the other man lied
[00:28.380]See the TV listen to me double trouble
[00:30.570]I overhaul and I'm comin
[00:32.030]From the lower level
[00:33.290]I'm takin tabs
[00:34.630]Sho nuff stuff to grab
[00:35.970]Like shirts it hurts
[00:37.880]Wit a neck to wreck
[00:39.010]Took a poll cause our soul
[00:40.410]Took a toll
[00:41.420]From the education
[00:42.620]Of a TV station
[00:44.090]But look around
[00:45.250]Hear go the sound of the wreckin ball
[00:46.730]Boom and Pound
[00:48.100]When I
[00:49.460]Shut 'em down
[01:24.250]1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
[01:25.550]What I use in the battle for the mind
[01:27.060]I hit it hard
[01:29.230]Like it supposed
[01:29.740]Pullin no blows to the nose
[01:30.630]Like Uncle L said I'm rippin up shows
[01:32.880]Then what it is
[01:33.940]Only 5 percent of the biz
[01:35.270]I'm addin woes
[01:36.790]That's how da way it goes
[01:38.100]Then you think I rank never drank, point blank
[01:40.870]I own loans
[01:41.850]Suckers got me runnin from the bank
[01:43.720]Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
[01:45.970]I never saw a way to pay a sap
[01:48.510]To read the law
[01:49.280]Then become a victim of a lawyer
[01:50.900]Don't know ya, never saw ya
[01:52.160]Tape cued
[01:53.140]Gettin me sued
[01:54.800]Playin games wit my head
[01:55.810]What the judge said put me in the red
[01:56.730]Got me thinkin bout a trigger to the lead
[01:59.090]No no
[02:00.610]My education mind say
[02:01.910]Suckers gonna pay
[02:02.790]Anyway
[02:04.220]There gonna be a day
[02:05.060]Cause the troop they roll in
[02:06.890]To posse up
[02:07.750]Whole from the ground
[02:08.460]Ready to go
[02:09.380]Throw another round
[02:10.240]Sick of the ride
[02:11.150]It's suicide
[02:12.200]For the other side of town
[02:13.210]When I find a way to shut 'em down
[02:16.960](Pete Rock)
[02:32.190]I wreck for respect
[02:33.470]Check one hit the deck
[02:35.160]Wit the man of the hour
[02:36.530]Commit the soul power
[02:37.710]For once I got to say shut 'em down on the regular
[02:40.420]Causing mass hysteria in your area
[02:42.000]Kicking it for my man Chuck D
[02:44.640]Down Wit PE
[02:46.080]On the remix
[02:47.330]Hung on the flix
[02:48.610]So check it before I step down
[02:49.980]When I'm in your town
[02:51.440]You know I got to shut em down
[02:59.170]Who count the money
[03:00.170]In da neigborhood
[03:01.210]But we spendin money
[03:02.560]To no end lookin for a friend
[03:04.390]In a war to the core
[03:05.780]Rippin up the poor in da stores
[03:07.510]Till they get a brother
[03:08.470]Kickin down doors
[03:09.820]Then I figure I kick it bigger
[03:11.460]Look em dead in the eye
[03:12.310]And they wince
[03:14.660]Defense is pressurized
[03:15.770]They don't want it to be
[03:16.650]Another racial attack
[03:18.320]In disguise so give some money back
[03:20.460]I like Nike but wait a minite
[03:22.810]The neighborhood supports so put some
[03:24.650]Money in it
[03:25.610]Corporations owe
[03:26.780]Dey gotta give up the dough
[03:28.100]To da town
[03:29.410]or else
[03:30.250]We gotta shut 'em down