Hell Yeah Songtext

von Dead Prez

Holton Street...
Dean Street... (click clack)
President... (huh huh)
Nostril out... (DP's)
Orange All... (RPG's)
Tee Town... (Who wanna
Ride?)
Brooklyn...
Come on... Come on

Sittin' in the living room on the floor
All the pain
Got me on some migraine shit
But I'm gonna maintain
Nigga got 2 or 3 dollars to my name
And my homies in the
Same boat going through the same thing

Ready for a
Cake
Better plot for the paper
We been living in the
Dark since April
On the candle
Gotta get a handle
My homie got a 25 automatic added to the camper
Nigga get
The phone book look up in the yellow page
Lemme tell you
How we fend to get paid
We gonna order pizza and when we
See the driver
We gonna stick the 25 up in his face
Lets ride, stepping outside like warriors
Head to the
Notorious Southside
One weapon to the four of us
Hiding in the corridor until we see the dominos car
Headlights
White boy in the wrong place at the right
Time
Soon as the car door open up he mine
We roll up
Quick and put the pistol to his nose
By the look on his
Face he probably shitted in his clothes
You know what this
Is
It's a stick up
Gimme the do' from your
Pickups
You ran into the wrong niggaz
We running down
The block hot with these pizza boxes
So we split up and met
Back at the apartment

Hell yeah (yo ain't you
Hungry my nigga?)
Hell yeah (you wanna get paid my
Nigga?)
Hell yeah (ain't you tired of starving my
Nigga?)
Hell yeah (well lets ride then)
Hell yeah,
Hell yeah

I know a way we can get paid you can get
Down but you can't be afraid
Let's go to the
DMV
And get a ID
The name says you but the fates is
Me
Now it's your turn take my paper work
Like 1,
2, 3 lets make it work
Then, fill out the credit card
Application
And its gonna be bout 3 weeks a waiting
For American Express
It's cause we card
Platinum visa, master card
Cause we was spooked as shit
Like we's was targets
Now we just walk right up and
Say charge it
To the game we rocking brand names
Goin
On out the park store chains
We even got the boys in the
Crew a few things
Po Po never know who to true blame
Sto' after Sto' you know we kept rolling
Wait
Two weeks report the car stolen
Repeat this like a like a
Laundry mat
Like a glitch in the system it's hard to
Catch
Coming out the mall with the shopping bags
We
Can take it right back then get the cash
Yeah, get a friend
And then do it again
Damn right that's how we paid the
Rent

Hell yeah
Time to get this paper
I'm down for the caper
Please steady on
It's a deadly struggle
We all gotta hustle
This
Is the way we survive
(repeat)

I know a caper
We can get some government paper
You know food stamps can
We really do that
(Hell yeah!) Right there for the
Taking
Fuck welfare we say reparations
And, uh, you
Know the grind
Get up early get in the line and just
Wait
Everybody on break that's part of the game
And when they call your name
Ms. Case Worker let my state
My claim
I'm homeless, jobless, times is hard,
I'm 'bout hopeless
But I gotta eat regardless
No family to run to I'm 22
Now tell me what the fuck
Am I supposed to do
My sad story made her feel close to
Me
I made her feel like it was an emergency
When I
Came to the crib niggaz couldn't believe
I came back
With a big bag of groceries (hell yeah)

Every job I
Ever had I had to get on the first day
I find out how to
Pimp on the system
Two steps ahead of the manager
Getting over on the regular tax free money out of the
Register
And when I'm working late nights
Stockin' boxes I'm creepin' their merchandise
And don't put me on dishes I'm dropping them
Bitches
And taking all day long to mop the kitchen shit
We ain't getting paid commission, minimum wage, modern
Day slave conditions
Got me flippin' burgers with no
Power
Can't even buy one off what I make in an hour
I'm not the one to kiss ass for the top position
I
Take mine off the top like a politician
Where I'm from
Doing dirt is a part of living
I got mouths to feed I gots
To get it

Hell yeah (you down to roll my nigga?)
Hell yeah (you ready to get your hands dirty my nigga?)
Hell yeah (your woman need money and things my nigga?)
Hell yeah (well lets ride then)
Hell yeah

If
You coming gangsta
Then bring on the system
And show
That you ready to ride
Till we get our freedom
We got
To get over
Please steady on the grind
(repeat)