I got a letter from the government the other day
I opened and read it…it said they were suckers.
Chuck D., “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos,” from Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 1988
Got something important to say? Then make it stand out by using the jumbo headline option and get your visitor’s attention right away.
I got a letter from the government the other day
I opened and read it…it said they were suckers.
I’m even lethal when I’m unarmed…
‘Cause I’m louder than a bomb.
You ask me, “Did I like Arsenio?”
About as much as the Bicentennial.
I think back to when I was robbin’ my own kind,
The police didn’t pay it no mind…
But when I start robbin the white folks?
Now I’m in the Pen with the soap-on-a-rope.
I said it before and I’ll still taught it:
Every muthafucka with a color is Most Wanted.
Comin’ from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate…they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
Bass! How low can you go?
Death row…what a brother know.
Once again, back is the incredible,
The rhyme animal, the uncannable “D!”
Public Enemy Number One.
Five-O said, “Freeze!” and I got numb.
Can I tell ‘em that I really never had a gun?
But it’s the wax that the Terminator X spun.