Here come the drums   Here come the drums      Bass in your face   Not an eight track   Gettin' it good to the wood   So the people give you some a dat   Reactin' to the fax   That I kick and it stick   And it stay around   Pointin' to the joint put the Buddha down      Goin' goin' gettin' 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 talin' '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   Fooled the black, left us faded   King and chief probably had a big beef   Because of dat now I grit my teeth   So here's a song to the strong   'Bout a shake of a snake   And the smile went along wit dat      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it      Kickin' wicked rhymes   Like a fortune teller   'Cause the wickedness done by Jack   Where everybody at   Divided and sold   For liquor and the gold   Smacked in the back   For the other man to mack      Now the story that I'm kickin' is glory   Little rock where they be   Dockin' this boat   No hope I'm shackled   Plus gang tackled   By the other hand swingin' the rope   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 it 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 trippin' just watch ya step      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it      An' I judge everyone, one by the one   Look here come the judge   Watch it here he come now      I can only guess what's happ'nin'   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   Rollin' in my own leftover   When I roll over, I roll over in somebody else's      90 damn days on a slave ship   Count 'em fallin' off   1, 2, 3, 4 hun'ed 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   It's hot in the day, it's cold in the night      But I thrive to survive, I pray to God to stay alive   My attitude boils up inside   And that ain't it, you think I'll every quit   Still I pray to get my hands 'round   The neck of the man wit' the whip   3 months pass, they brand a label on my ass   To signify, 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      When it comes to armageddon   Mean I'm gettin' 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   Gettin' it good to the wood   So the people   Give you some a dat   Reactin' to the fax   That I kick and it stick   And it stay around      Pointin' to the joint, put the Buddha down   Goin', goin', gettin' 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 talin' '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   Fooled the black, left us faded   King and chief probably had a big beef   Because of dat now I grit my teeth   So here's a song to the strong   'Bout a shake of a snake   And the smile went along wit dat      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it      Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   Can't truss it   ...