Can't Truss It

Public Enemy

专辑：Def Jam Music Group Tenth Year Anniversary

LYRICS

Here come the drums (Confusion)

Alright, alright, yeah, yeah

Alright, alright

Here come the drums

Alright, alright, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Alright, alright

Bass in your face, not an eight track

Gettin' it good to the wood

So the people give you some of that reactin' to the facts

That I kick and it stick and it stay around

Pointin' to the joint, put the Buddha down

Goin, goin, deep to the roots

Ain't givin' it up, so turn me loose

But then again I got a story that's harder than the hardcore

Cost of the holocaust, I'm talkin' 'bout the one still goin' on

I know where I'm from, not dum diddie dum

From the base motherland, the place of the drum

Invaded by the wack diddie wack

And fooled the black, and left us faded

King and chief, probably had a big beef

Because of that now I grit my teeth

So here's a song to the strong

'Bout the shake of the snake and the smile went along

With that, can't truss it

Can't truss it (Let them know)

Can't truss it (Yo, let them know)

Can't truss it (Let them know)

Kickin' wicked rhymes like a fortune teller

Cause the wickedness done by Jack

Where everybody at divided and sold

For the liquor and the gold

Smacked in the back for the other man to mack

What?

Wicked man, wicked man

Get back, step back, kick it man

Now the story that I'm kickin' is gory

Little Rock where they be dockin' this boat

No hope, I'm shackled, oh plus, gang tackled

By the other hand swingin' the rope "god damn"

Wearin' red, white and blue, Jack and his crew

The guy's authorized beat down for the brown

Man to the man, each one, so I teach one

Born to terrorize sisters and every brother

One love who said it, I know Whodini sang it

But the hater taught hate that's why we gang bang it

Beware of the hand when it's comin' from the left

I ain't tripping', just watch your step

Can't truss it

Can't truss it (Yo, let them know)

Can't truss it, can't truss it

Can't truss it

And I'll judge everyone, one by the one

Look here comes the judge, watch it here he come now

(Don't sentence me judge, I ain't did nothin' to nobody)

I can only guess what's happenin'

Years ago he woulda been the ship's captain

Gettin' me bruised on a cruise, what I got to lose

Lost all contact, got me layin' on my back

Ugh, rollin' in my own leftover

When I roll over, I roll over in somebody else

90 damn days on a slave ship

Count them fallin' off 1, 2, 3, 4 hundred at a time

Blood in the wood and it's mine

I'm chokin' on, spit, feelin' pain

Like my brain bein' chained

Still gotta give it what I got

But it's hot in the day, it's cold in the night

But I thrive to survive, I pray to god to stay alive

Attitude boils up inside

And that ain't it, you think I ever quit

Still I plan to get my hands around the neck of the man with the whip

3 months passed, they brand a label on my ass

To signify I'm owned, I'm on the microphone

Sayin' 1555, how I'm livin'

We been livin' here, livin' ain't the word, I been givin'

Haven't got, classify us in the have-nots

Fightin' haves cause it's all about money "damn"

When it comes to Armageddon mean I'm getting mine

Here I am turn it over Sam

427 to the year, do you understand

That's why it's hard for the black to love the land

Once again, bass in your face, not an eight track