Coup - Dig It! Lyrics
Presto, read the communist manifestoGuerillas in the mist, a guevara named ernesto, so(e-roc: what a brother with a afro know? )Yo, go and flow for the mack and be the hoeSo grow cause the lynchin brothers might get hungBetter rip through em from the tip of my mouth/mao, say/tse-tung/tongueDeficit (money spent) catch the glint(e-roc: of my nine as they cut welfare twenty-five percent)And I dissent, as I clench and raise my fist(we did away with, that) so you could get with thisHeres a twist cause well overthrow like kwame nkrumahSpread around the wealth as if it were a, vicious rumorPam, cuts a record like a surgeon cuts a tumor from a brain(e-roc: were all cooped up so feel the pain)From four hundred years of exploitationAnesthesia provided by your local tv stationPatience is not a virtue (I aint waitin)Turn this shit over like bush did a boatload of haitians*dj pam cuts and scratches dig it!*How now brown cow Im down with the mau mauClown downtown tried to put us in the dog poundLike h. rap brown with the situation(wont get no callouses) cause Im spittin dialectical analysisSo how is this, we never had no funkUntil you found out that I turned to revolutionary hunk(chump!) bump you over like dominoes, rat(e-roc: so free geronimo gi jaga pratt!)Lyrics hear it fear it cant get near itGot a sample didnt clear itPoint blank says, ***** five-oh! thats the spiritCheer it, spat out, the fat that I consumedKnew that I was doomed since my date of birthTo be the wretched of the earth, never had a dream that was american(the golden ? leg to chair again? ) despair again(but that aint nuthin new) told the streets were paved with goldWhoever paved that shit got minimum wage too!*dj pam cuts and scratches dig it!*Do you understand, the metaphoric phrase? (repeat 3x)Do you understand, do you understand...(e-roc: gunned us, stunned us) exploited and they hung usId like to take a moment to say, ***** columbus!(millions off my back) the black on black crisis is a mythThe crack that did this to us (was the one from the whip)The record skip, the record skip, the record ship *scratch*The record skips, cause my voice is kinda scratchyFrom yelling, oh shit! when five-oh comes to harass meThey never pass me, no one to go and tail bro(e-roc: trying to kill the movement with the new cointelpro)Leaders they killed, if I said it, it would threaten emThey only see my back because Im three steps ahead of emWere not fallin in the slot you slated(e-roc: we realize that our powers nickel-plated)Masses move as well as asses do, class is throughOur time is over, past its due(and you still wanna know) the origin of the flowOakland california nine-four-six-one-oh*dj pam cuts dig it!(yeah, the coup, comin at you in ninety-three!)Yeah, and we out yall...Do you understand, the metaphoric phrase? (repeat 3x)Do you understand, do you understand...
