Shut 'Em Down - Public Enemy

[00:01.62]Hold it now oh
[00:07.41]Come on come on
[00:18.23]Alright y'all
[00:23.62]I testified my mama cried
[00:26.18]Black people died when the other man lied
[00:28.91]See the TV listen to me double trouble
[00:31.39]I overhaul and I'm comin' from the lower level
[00:34.01]I'm takin' tabs 'sho 'nuff stuff to grab
[00:36.87]Like shirts it hurts 'wit a neck to wreck
[00:39.44]Took a poll 'cause our soul took a toll
[00:42.10]From the education of a TV station
[00:44.67]But look around hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
[00:47.66]Boom and pound when I shut 'em down
[00:50.20]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[00:52.94]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[00:55.47]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[00:58.11]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[01:00.77]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[01:03.33]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[01:05.97]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[01:08.66]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[01:17.04]Come on alright
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[01:25.12]What I use in the battle for the mind hit it hard
[01:27.63]Like it supposed pullin' no blows to the nose
[01:30.04]Like Uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
[01:32.70]Then what it is only five percent of the biz
[01:35.28]I'm addin' woes that's how da way it goes
[01:37.97]Then you think I rank never drank point blank
[01:40.58]I own loans suckers got me runnin' from the bank
[01:43.32]Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
[01:45.86]I never saw a way to pay a sap to read the law
[01:48.54]Then become a victim of a lawyer
[01:50.62]Don't know ya never saw ya tape cued
[01:52.69]Gettin' me sued playin' games wit' my head
[01:55.32]What the judge said put me in the red
[01:57.39]Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
[01:59.27]No no my education mind say suckers gonna pay anyway
[02:02.59]There gonna be a day 'cause the troop they roll in
[02:05.94]To posse up whole from the ground ready to go
[02:08.96]Throw another round sick of the ride it's suicide
[02:11.29]For the other side of town when I find a way to shut 'em down
[02:15.36]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:17.67]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:20.49]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:23.12]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:25.82]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:28.51]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:31.10]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:33.79]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[02:36.60]Hold it come on
[02:39.14]Alright y'all alright y'all
[02:46.62]Come on now
[02:58.41]Who count the money in da neighborhood
[03:00.36]But we spendin' money to no end
[03:01.85]Lookin' for a friend in a war to the core
[03:04.40]Rippin' up the poor in da stores
[03:06.31]Till they get a brother kickin' down doors
[03:08.28]Then I figure I kick it bigger
[03:10.07]Look 'em dead in the eye
[03:11.96]And they wince defense is pressurized
[03:13.86]They don't want it to be another racial attack
[03:16.34]In disguise so give some money back
[03:19.09]I like Nike but wait a minute
[03:21.62]The neighborhood supports so put some money in it
[03:24.26]Corporations owe dye gotta give up the dough
[03:26.89]To da town or else we gotta shut 'em down
[03:29.75]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:32.33]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:34.86]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:37.53]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:40.16]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:42.86]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:45.49]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:48.21]I shut 'em down (Shut 'em down shut 'em shut)
[03:52.69]Alright y'all one more time here we go again
[03:55.91]Alright come on take it down hold it come on
[03:58.47]Wait a minute now hey hey hey
[04:06.85]Yeah yeah we got to take it slow
[04:15.44]Pump the beat pump the beat pump the beat y'all
[04:18.85]Oh bring it low bring it low bring it low y'all