Shut Em Down (Pete Rock) Remix-Public Enemy

[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