[ti:Hell Yeah (Pimp The System)] [ar:Dead Prez] [al:R&B Anthems 2005] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.17]Hell Yeah (Pimp The System) - Dead Prez [00:00.40]Lyrics by:Clayton Gavin/Lavonne Alford [00:00.60]Composed by:Clayton Gavin/Lavonne Alford [00:01.02]Holton street [00:02.92]Dean street click clack [00:04.89]President uh huh [00:06.82]Nostril out dp's [00:08.83]Orange al rpg's [00:10.92]Tee town who want to ride [00:12.93]Brooklyn [00:13.58]Come on come on [00:15.05]Sittin' in the living room on the floor [00:16.51]All the pain got me on some migraine s**t [00:18.01]But I'm gonna maintain [00:18.87]N***a got 2 or 3 dollars to my name [00:20.57]And my homies in [00:21.12]The same boat going through the same thing [00:22.75]Ready for a cake [00:23.61]Better plot for the paper [00:24.94]We been living in the dark since April [00:26.55]On the candle [00:27.35]Gotta get a handle [00:28.35]My homie got a 25 automatic added to the camper [00:30.79]N***a get the phone book look up in the yellow page [00:32.65]Lemme tell you how we fend to get paid [00:34.39]We gonna order pizza and when we see the driver [00:36.28]We gonna stick the 25 up in his face [00:38.17]Let's ride stepping outside like warriors [00:40.00]Head to the notorious southside [00:41.66]One weapon to the four of us [00:43.21]Hiding in the corridor until we see [00:44.51]The dominos car headlights [00:45.76]White boy in the wrong place at the right time [00:47.82]Soon as the car door open up he mine [00:49.75]We roll up quick and put the pistol to his nose [00:51.64]By the look on his face he probably shitted in his clothes [00:53.60]You know what this is [00:54.59]It's a stick up [00:55.25]Gimme the do' from your pickups [00:56.48]You ran into the wrong niggaz [00:57.86]We running down the block hot with these pizza boxes [00:59.89]So we split up and met back at the apartment [01:01.60]Hell yeah yo ain't you hungry my n***a [01:05.29]Hell yeah you want to get paid my n***a [01:09.19]Hell yeah ain't you tired of starving my n***a [01:12.98]Hell yeah well let's ride then [01:14.70]Hell yeah hell yeah [01:17.71]I know a way we can get paid [01:18.85]You can get down but you can't be afraid [01:20.61]Let's go to the dmv [01:22.10]And get a id [01:23.14]The name says you but the fates is me [01:24.99]Now it's your turn take my paper work [01:26.97]Like 1 2 3 let's make it work [01:29.01]Then fill out the credit card application [01:30.75]And it's gonna be 'bout 3 weeks a waiting [01:32.89]For American express [01:33.69]It's 'cause we card [01:34.83]Platinum visa master card [01:36.73]'Cause when we was spooked as s**t like we's was targets [01:38.88]Now we just walk right up and say charge it [01:40.89]To the game we rocking brand names [01:42.73]Well known at the park store chains [01:44.55]We even got the boys in the crew a few things [01:46.59]Po po never know who to true blame [01:48.53]Sto' after sto' you know we kept rolling [01:50.42]Wait two weeks report the car stolen [01:52.35]Repeat this like a like a laundry mat [01:54.03]Like a glitch in the system it's hard to catch [01:56.05]Coming out the mall with the shopping bags [01:57.92]We can take it right back then get the cash [01:59.91]Yea get a friend and then do it again [02:01.69]D**n right that's how we paid the rent [02:03.54]Hell yeah [02:04.03]Time to get this paper [02:07.33]I'm down for the caper [02:09.70]Please steady on the grind [02:11.92]It's a deadly struggle [02:15.14]We all gotta hustle [02:17.41]This is the way we survive [02:19.46]Time to get this paper [02:22.77]I'm down for the caper [02:25.19]Please steady on the grind [02:27.15]It's a deadly struggle [02:30.62]We all gotta hustle [02:32.91]This is the way we survive [02:34.97]I know a caper [02:35.84]We can get some government paper [02:37.09]You know food stamps can we really do that [02:38.78]Hell yea right there for the taking [02:40.51]F**k welfare we say reparations [02:42.51]And uh you know the grind [02:43.46]Get up early get in the line and just wait [02:45.40]Everybody on break that's part of the game [02:47.20]And when they call your name [02:48.18]Miss case worker let my state my claim [02:50.15]I'm homeless jobless times is hard I'm 'bout hopeless [02:52.78]But I gotta eat regardless [02:54.04]No family to run to I'm 22 [02:55.97]Now tell me what the f**k am I supposed to do [02:57.91]My sad story made her feel close to me [02:59.74]I made her feel like it was an emergency [03:01.70]When I came to the crib niggaz couldn't believe [03:03.63]I came back with a big bag of groceries [03:05.60]Every job I ever had [03:06.73]I had to get on the first day [03:08.15]I find out how to pimp the system [03:09.60]Two steps ahead of the manager [03:10.97]Getting over on the regular tax free money [03:12.91]Out of the register [03:13.70]And when I'm working late nights stockin' boxes [03:15.72]I'm creepin' their merchandise [03:17.20]And don't put me on dishes I'm dropping them b***hes [03:19.21]And taking all day long to mop the kitchen s**t [03:21.41]We ain't getting paid commission minimum wage [03:23.34]Modern day slave conditions [03:24.49]Got me flippin' burgers with no power [03:26.26]Can't even buy one off what I make in an hour [03:28.56]I'm not the one to kiss a*s for the top position [03:30.82]I take mine off the top like a politician [03:32.62]Where I'm from doing dirt is a part of living [03:34.60]I got mouths to feed I gots to get it [03:36.58]Hell yeah you down to roll my n***a [03:40.16]Hell yeah you ready to get [03:42.64]Your hands dirty my n***a [03:43.90]Hell yeah your woman need money [03:46.84]And things my n***a [03:48.12]Hell yeah well let's ride then [03:50.20]Hell yeah [03:51.61]C'mon c'mon [03:52.37]If you claiming gangsta [03:55.73]Then bring on the system [03:58.05]And show that you ready to ride [04:00.45]Till we get our freedom [04:03.47]We got to get over [04:05.80]Please steady on the grind