Reverse Pimpology-Immortal Technique

[00:00.94]Intro: Immortal Technique [00:02.92]Hypocrites, hookers, *** offenders [00:07.46]Y'all *************s wanna be pimps and players? [00:10.50]This ain't 1997 ************* [00:11.64]Verse 1: Immortal Technique [00:11.84]I'd rather be rich and unhappy than broke and miserable [00:14.73]Cause the game don't give a ************* if you lyrical [00:17.67]And that's pitiful, so my position is pivotal [00:20.57]You can hate me all you like but you wor*************p the principle [00:23.55]I inspire revolution, the government's not invincible [00:26.63]Vietnam to Venezuela, trick knowledge, they pimpin you [00:29.77]All up in the hood like McDonald's and liquor [00:32.16]Selling AIDS medicine, when we know you got the cure ************* (woo!) [00:35.66]You leery of conspiracy theory but hear me [00:38.29]From a business perspective, it makes more sense clearly [00:41.63]Cause moreover, that's what we go to war over [00:44.42]And numbers don't lie unless we do Bush and Gore over [00:47.35]Free markets make money disingenuously [00:50.30]But I invest in agriculture, biochemistry [00:53.03]Smart ************* from the hood, *************, what type of crime is that? [00:56.00]But exec's are like, "You from Harlem? Where your diamonds at?" [00:58.13]Chours: Mojo and Immortal Technique [00:58.18]Can't dodge the game [00:59.67]Stupid [01:00.28]If you lookin' for the money or the fame (oh-ohh) [01:03.47]The players and the rules ain't changed (oh no) [01:06.06]But see we tryin' to leave a name [01:08.76]So we're turnin' out [01:09.50]Yeah, this is how pimps get pimped and players get played [01:13.33]Rich people get robbed and, broke *************s paid [01:16.23]New York, London, Chicago, Philly and L.A [01:19.12]Miami, D.C., B-more and out in the Bay [01:21.55]We're tearin it out of the frame [01:23.94]See we deserve to stake that claim [01:26.19]If we didn't it's a cryin shame [01:29.18]What we're concerned about is how to turn it out [01:33.62]Verse 2: Immortal Technique [01:33.77]Show me a pretty girl, with the world stuck to her [01:36.75]And I bet you there's a brother that's tired of ****** her [01:39.65]Lots of *************s girls is someone else's one night stand [01:42.50]I probably made some ******* nervous listenin with they man (ha ha) [01:45.42]And if that offends somebody, I'm sorry, ************* you! [01:48.47]What you think, revolutionaries don't like to ************* too? [01:51.70]You just gotta beware of dangerous coochie [01:54.39]Cover ya head like a kufi, some rappers think that they live in a movie [01:57.58]Until they get herpes or clap from a groupie [02:00.11]And I don't need to shout you out, ************* you know who you be [02:03.16]Look, most people are only players cause they got played [02:05.80]And have not, let go of that, *************t since the 7th grade [02:09.28]Yeah you got your heart broke, life sucks, doesn't it? [02:12.13]But you shouldn't ************* up someone else's life because of it [02:15.01]Someone did your mother like that, that's why you fatherless [02:17.91]Before jail or racist cops, that's what the problem is [02:20.90]Chours 2: Mojo and Immortal Technique [02:21.09]See who's the one to place that blame [02:24.73]We getting trapped in cycle of pain [02:27.67]With a generation headed down the drain [02:30.61]That's how we're turning out [02:32.49]This is how pimps get pimped [02:33.94]And players get played [02:35.04]Beautiful women get cheated on [02:36.88]And gangsters strayed [02:37.93]Jersey, Detroit, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta [02:40.86]Texas, Vegas, Seattle and ****** Louisiana [02:43.22]Regardless of the money you're paid [02:46.26]You spend it on a watch and a chain [02:48.80]But can't offer your children a thing [02:51.49]What the hell is goin' on in your brain? [02:55.00]Verse 3: Immortal Technique [02:55.02]Yeah, I'm not a crack rapper, I'm not a backpacker (ha ha ha) [02:58.87]I'm not a wack rapper, moonlighting as a bad actor [03:02.51]I treat labels like the projects, cause I'm a hater (what!) [03:05.35]Go to the Sony building and piss in the elevator [03:08.24]Cater to hustlers, crooks and cheap smugglers [03:10.89]Bootleg my own album, to reach customers (yeah) [03:14.01]Every city, state and country, the hood love me [03:16.70]Even Aborigines, in Australia bump me [03:19.57]They say underground fans are all the color of talcum [03:22.35]But who the ************* you think buy 50 and Jay albums? [03:25.54]Who the ************* you think made Snoop and Dre platinum? [03:28.53]Call up any major record label and ask 'em [03:31.12]But there's some, devils in disguise in hip-hop [03:33.96]That belong at Republican fundraisers with Kid Rock (*************!) [03:37.00]I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot (*************!) [03:39.78]And blames it on Acid, Prozac and Slipknot [03:42.72]You a ************* actin hard like a ************* cop [03:45.46]I'll drop you to the floor like a reverse wristlock [03:48.51]Eat your food and *************t on you, like a highway pit stop [03:51.58]And make, revolutionaries out of kids that used to flip rocks [03:54.73]The government, pimped 9/11 to go to Iraq [03:57.47]And history, repeats itself right on track (how?) [04:00.21]First as a tragedy, and then the comedy begins (why?) [04:03.36]Cause it's funny, mother*******s don't see it come around again [04:06.69]Outro: Mojo and (Immortal Technique) [04:06.94]Where, can we be free? (************* we gon' be free man?) [04:10.87]We only wanna live our lives [04:13.86]Live our lives, with our eyes open [04:17.64]Open your eyes open your eyes [04:20.43]You stupid mother*******s - you stupid mother*******s [04:23.42]Open your eyes, before you die