Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype(1988)

[00:01.12] Don't, don't
[00:03.65] Don't, don't
[00:06.13] Don't, don't
[00:07.72] (Now here's what I want you all to do for me)
[00:09.64] Back, caught you lookin' for the same thing
[00:12.00] It's a new thing, check out this I bring
[00:14.70] Uh, oh, the roll below the level, 'cause I'm livin' low
[00:17.01] Next to the bass, (c'mon), turn up the radio
[00:19.42] They claimin' I'm a criminal
[00:21.83] But now I wonder how, some people never know
[00:24.59] The enemy could be their friend, guardian
[00:27.18] I'm not a hooligan, I rock the party and clear all the madness
[00:30.47] I'm not a racist, preach to teach to all
[00:32.85] ('Cause some they never had this)
[00:34.30] Number one, not born to run, about the gun
[00:37.43] I wasn't licensed to have one
[00:39.15] The minute they see me, fear me
[00:41.66] I'm the epitome, a "Public Enemy"
[00:44.19] Used, abused, without clues
[00:45.38] I refused to blow a fuse
[00:47.20] They even had it on the news
[00:48.79] Don't believe the hype
[00:49.96] Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:53.64] Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:58.39] Yes, was the start of my last jam, so here it is again
[01:02.19] Another def jam, but since I gave you all a little something
[01:05.63] That I knew you lacked, they still consider me a new jack
[01:08.20] All the critics you can hang 'em, I'll hold the rope
[01:10.86] But they hope to the Pope, and pray it ain't dope
[01:13.19] The follower of Farrakhan, don't tell me that you understand
[01:16.97] Until you hear the man, the book of the new school rap game
[01:20.69] Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
[01:23.04] Yes to them, but to me I'm a different kind
[01:25.50] We're brothers of the same mind, unblind
[01:28.01] Caught in the middle and not surrenderin'
[01:30.39] I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin', some claim that I'm a smuggler
[01:34.61] Some say I never heard of ya, a rap burglar, false media
[01:38.82] We don't need it, do we? (it's fake that's what it be to ya, dig me?
[01:42.40] Yo, Terminator X, step up on the stand
[01:45.03] And show these people what time it is, boy)
[01:47.55] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:52.20] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:57.02] Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[02:01.82] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[02:06.75] Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel
[02:09.12] As an equal, can I get this through to you
[02:11.86] My 98 boomin' with a trunk of funk
[02:14.20] All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk
[02:16.59] Comin' from the school of hard knocks
[02:19.05] Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox
[02:21.28] Attack the Black, because I know they lack exact
[02:23.89] The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox
[02:26.55] The leader of the new school, uncool
[02:28.94] Never played the fool, just made the rules
[02:31.34] Remember there's a need to get alarmed
[02:33.14] Again I said I was a timebomb
[02:36.04] In the daytime, radio's scared of me
[02:38.58] 'Cause I'm mad, plus I'm the enemy
[02:40.84] They can't c'mon and play me in prime time
[02:43.41] 'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine
[02:45.97] I get on the mix late in the night
[02:48.32] They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mic, sike
[02:50.82] Before I let it go, don't rush my show
[02:53.24] You try to reach and grab and get elbowed
[02:55.66] Word to Herb, yo if you can't swing this
[02:58.07] Learn the words, you might sing this
[03:00.59] Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you
[03:03.08] As you get up and dance at the LQ
[03:05.32] When some deny it, defy it, I swing bolos
[03:07.62] And then they clear the lane, I go solo
[03:10.18] The meaning of all of that, some media is the wack
[03:12.68] As you believe it's true
[03:13.90] It blows me through the roof
[03:15.40] Suckers, liars, get me a shovel
[03:17.56] Some writers I know are damn devils
[03:19.73] For them I say, don't believe the hype
[03:22.06] (Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?)
[03:24.52] Their pens and pads I'll snatch, 'cause I've had it
[03:27.15] I'm not a addict, fiendin' for static
[03:29.55] I'll see their tape recorder and I grab it
[03:32.18] (No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit)
[03:34.87] I'm going' to my media assassin, Harry Allen, I gotta ask him
[03:39.36] (Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?)
[03:41.77] Don't believe the hype
[03:51.46] Now here's what I want you all to do for me
[03:53.92] Don't believe
[03:55.41] Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[03:58.95] Don't believe
[04:00.14] Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[04:03.38] I got Flavor and all those things you know
[04:06.35] (Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show)
[04:08.89] Yo Griff, get the green, black, red, and
[04:11.22] Gold down, countdown to Armageddon
[04:13.88] 88 you wait the S1's will
[04:16.24] Put the left in effect and I still will
[04:18.48] Rock the hard jams, treat it like a seminar
[04:20.95] Reach the bourgeois and rock the boulevard
[04:23.33] Some say I'm negative, but they're not positive
[04:25.67] But what I got to give (the media says this?)
[04:28.28] Red black and green (yo, don't believe the hype)
[04:30.05] (They got to be beaming that pipe you know what I'm sayin'?) You know what I mean
[04:32.76] Yo, them Megas got 'em goin' up to see Captain Kirk
[04:35.36] Like a jerk and they outta work, let me tell you a lil' somethin' man
[04:38.15] A lot of people on daytime radio scared of 'em
[04:40.66] Because they're too ignorant to understand the lyrics of the truth
[04:43.33] That we pumpin' into them clogged up brain cells
[04:46.09] That just spun their little wooden skulls they call caps
[04:48.63] You know what I'm sayin'? But the S1's are straightenin' it out
[04:50.96] Quick fast in a hurry, don't worry, Flavor vision ain't blurry
[04:54.64] You know what I'm sayin'? Yo, Terminator X
[04:59.88] Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:04.83] Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:09.62] Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[05:14.54] Don't, don't believe the, don't believe the hype
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