Top Songs By The Coup
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Boots Riley
Vocals
David James
Guitar
Mike Tiger
Keyboard Bass
Pam the Funkstress
Turntables
T-Kash
Rap
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Raymond Riley
Songwriter
Tomie Lenear
Songwriter
Boots Riley
Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Boots Riley
Producer
Matt Kelley
Mixing Engineer
Tony Dawsey
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Yeah, it's all good, mane
We off in the Oakland hills
Dodgin' 'em one time
Check it out
[Verse 2]
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free (Check it out)
[Verse 3]
Don't trust the police, no justice, no peace
They got me face down in the middle of the street
Pistol whip me with the heat, chicken shit's sizzling
Tryna serve me with the all you can eat murder beef
I'm a young, black, heterosexual male
Don't drink drank, don't smoke, don't sell
That's the real reason why they want me up in jail
They want me to fail, I resist and rebel
See, I give a fuck about the C-O-P's, P-I-G's
I wanna lock and shake 'em like a P-I-T
'Cause they wanna see me D-I-E
Tomie Kash, UnderMobb, I'm a pre-OG
Dark Soviet socialist, vicious, venomous vocalist
Chrome 4-4 totin', holdin' it down for Oakland
Folks who gon' be smokin' this shit we doin', we hopin'
Some just don't notice they get demoted
This the throw a molotov music
[Verse 4]
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free
[Verse 5]
This is for them ladies with them empty plates
For that raised rent rate you didn't calculate
If you ever in your life been a ward of the state
On the corner with cake
If they send a undercover, and you took the bait, huh
Next time I see 'em, with no hesitation
I'm peelin' off like stolen registration
And leave a gutter smoke, see, I'm that sort of folk
That they've been huntin' since my mama fucking water broke
'Cause they the henchmen, nah, they the lynchpin
Between the rich and poor, so we don't entrench them
'Cause they dispense with the dollars and cents
So where you stand gon' be candles, flowers, and incense
[Verse 6]
Behind steel gates, wit' a fifty-cent-a-hour bill rates
Up in Quentin makin' microchips for Bill Gates
Pelican Bay t-shirts for the workout
Police station where the slavecatchers lurk out
Let's entertain the L's no more, take another route
We'll synchronize and then give 'em shit to wonder 'bout
The DA is filthy, yell, "Not guilty"
We need control of the cash and the realty
And get rid of all them motherfuckin' parasites
More than weed burn at 420 Fahrenheit
Shakin' in they boots when we start to bust
They ain't scared of rap music, they scared of us
[Verse 7]
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free
If you got beef with C-O-P's
Throw a Molotov at the P-I-G's
'Cause they be harassin' you and me
You gotta understand that we still not free
Written by: R. Riley, T. Lenear