Shut Em Down

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)



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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 5 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 'em down



(Shut 'em down shut 'em, 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)