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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Public Enemy
Public Enemy
Performer
Chuck D
Chuck D
Lead Vocals
Flavor Flav
Flavor Flav
Background Vocals
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cheese
DJ
Mario Calire
Mario Calire
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
JP Hesser
JP Hesser
Composer
Carlton Ridenhour
Carlton Ridenhour
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Carl Ryder
Carl Ryder
Producer
JP Hesser
JP Hesser
Producer

Lyrics

[Intro]
Mmm
Come on
Hey
Lawlessness
Badlands
Uncivilized
You's a bad man
But even the baddest
Savages
Eventually get
Humbled by the averages
[Verse 1]
Donkey of the day
You's an ass with no pass
Free at last
Addicted to the screens
Tell 'em what you mean
Screaming for the laughs
What I got to do with you being you?
River deep, mountain high, like the best of your crew
Leader of the pack that don't give a track
About nobody praying, in a whirl, they be playing
I'm saying
Why swole your ego
To think you gonna get away with crime?
Cameras is everywhere, y'all
They don't know
This ain't 1985
Let 'em know, Chuck, let's go
[Chorus]
Y'all got to change your evil ways
No gangsters, it ain't the way I wanna go
Y'all got to change these strangers
A better way is what I want y'all to know
Change your evil ways
[Verse 2]
What goes up comes back down
Gravity got a way to bring down clowns
Stumbling on the face, tumbled down a staircase
Evil is a terrible waste
Let's go
Download this mother for ya
We the role, baby
[Verse 3]
Millennial wild crack rugged grandchild
Bone chillin' killers, movie made matinee thriller
Gun, gun, gun, homie homicide, take a ride
Run, run, run
But you cannot hide
From your folly, hello, Dolly
Unless you get a pardon
Abiding by the law you and I never saw
Let these gangsters out the door
Tell him that he gotta change
[Chorus]
Y'all got to change your evil ways
No gangsters, it ain't the way I wanna go
Y'all got to change these strangers
A better way is what I want y'all to know
Change your evil ways
Let a change be known
JP
[Refrain]
Lawlessness
Badlands
Uncivilized
You's a bad man
But even the baddest
Savages
Eventually get
Humbled by the averages
Ho!
Uh!
[Chorus]
Gots the nerve of a red pickup truckin' mother
Son of a bad-ass MAGA, hunting down in badlands
Woke up, mad in the mirror with a bad attitude
Ugly is under that face, my dude
Everything ain't funny, you's another slave to the money
Hunted down like a dog now
You a slave to the runnin'
Kick it, Chuck
[Chorus]
Y'all got to change your evil ways
No gangsters, it ain't the way I wanna go
One more again, one more again
Y'all got to change these strangers
A better way is what I want y'all to know
Change your evil ways
[Outro]
Change your evil ways
Their evil ways, change it, Chuck
Y'all got to change your evil ways
We the world, baby, got to change
No gangsters, it ain't the way I wanna go
Public Enemy doin' it in '25
Y'all got to change
Strangers
Strangers
You can have all kinds of communication channels, and
Signals or whatever, but sometimes a song can cut through
The mass populace of people
And make them think in a way that they never thought before
Written by: Carlton Ridenhour, JP Hesser
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