[Intro Boots Riley] Now, motherfuckers done made a name for theyself But a name dont mean wealth, let me up you on this shit If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit [Verse 1 Boots Riley] I spit game on a regular basis now everybody Looking at my hand like Im holding all the aces Cool that they know our faces, from different places But you cant catch up if you dont know what the pace is Everywhere we go you know especially in the O we hear Coup, Coup, you know we got love fo sho But even mo when they see us on BEandT and MTandV but me and E cant pay the PGandE Power come from the barrel of a bucker I use the mic so that we aim at the same motherfucker Cause your shit could go gold, and the only cash you got Is the silver kind that dont fold Im gettin dope when they ask about the road that I passed My peoples really be thinking they gon come up fast And then come rap and shake they ass You aint the first motherfucker who done scheme to scam Then plan to scram up out the ghetto let me break this down From kids to Grams, fuck the videos with the Benzes And the cellular phones, spending hundreds like quarters The Benz is they partners, the moneys on loan, and umm... The cellular number you have reached is out of order. [Boots] Now, motherfuckers done made a name for theyself [ERoc] But a name dont mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this shit [E] If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit Now, motherfuckers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name dont mean wealth [E] Well let me up you on this shit! [B] If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit [Verse 2 ERoc] I mocked Rock Box wearin socks in my basement, told my pops Im fittn to have as much mail as they got not I still plot to keep my cash clot flowin My mind is bent on the rent, Im barely makin it microphonin Its true, its a few getting fund expansions It aint like Acorn Projects gon move into mansions Straight authenticized shit, over synthesized hits With this misty eyed mental make your teeth grit And Im not tryin to diss like its a bandwagon trend They selling sixpacks of them wavies out the ghetto again In the 20s it was rocks, in the 50s doowop Its nineteenninetyfo and everybodys store hopn And aint nobody really trying to hear me speak it They too busy watchin luke, gettin interviewed by Robin Leach So if youre modest and dont hire economics Just kick it with The Coup, smoke this dub sack of funk! [B] Now, motherfuckers done made a name for theyself [E] But a name dont mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this shit [E] If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit Now, motherfuckers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name dont mean wealth [E] But let me up you on the shit! [B] If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit [Bridge Boots] Im gon die before I lie to my peoples on the block Its like frontin you gon shoot when you aint got no Glock You bet not thats a punk trick this is how we run shit Im fittn to pitch a fit cause Im tired of hearing dumb shit Why do motherfuckers get up out and go for single When the real high rollers draft a army to protect they Pringles? [Verse 3 ERoc] Confusion, just a system based on prostitution They done ganked you, dont be no stank fool with they solution Unless you got about a million semiautomatics You gon think you strivin doin them hostyle acrobatics [Boots] No I dont have it like that, Planned Parenthood aint got it I keep my whole life savings stuffed in my back pocket, flock it Im scraping fronts off like plaque, no slack I come realistic like Radio Shack Intact and fat motherfuckers finally get they shit right Aint no fight, they scared shitless, all they do is grab the mic Aint no organizing real shit on the street, its a fleet Of revolutionaries in the studio making beats So fuck the fame, fuck the game, fuck the riches foo I aint got shit unless all my folks gon have theirs too [B] Now, motherfuckers done made a name for theyself [E] But a name dont mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this shit [E] If we was up in this, just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit Now, motherfuckers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name dont mean wealth [E] Well let me up you on this shit! [B] If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit [Outro] [B] The Coup is up in the house, and we run this shit like diarrhea [E] Cheerio! [B] You know? [E] Check it out! [B] Cause we up out
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