Shut ’Em Down

By Cypress Hill

On Rise Up

Released on April 20, 2010

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[Interludes:]


[Male News Archors #1:]

Breaking news story! Just bringing you up to date...


[Female News Archors #1:]

... across the US, as the country's economy continues to plunge


[Male News Archors #2:]

Now some are so outraged, they are doing something about it!


[Female News Archors #1:]

The Congress is proposing new taxes...


[Male News Archors #2:]

Symbols remind you of the toll the ongoing wars are taking on our country!


[Female News Archors #1:]

CEO's


[Hook 1: B-Real (Sen Dog)]

We shut 'em down, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, yeah, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, yeah, we shut 'em down


[Sen Dog:]

Somethin' getting down from the motherfuckin' get go

Hands around your neck and I'm refusing to let go

I'm like a down south, crooked-ass police

Get me some of everything, down to your show biz

See? They got me straight going off, G

Going buck wild, swinging on a paparazzi

We not done, this shit ain't over

'Cause we're back with a nation of soldiers

And we ain't havin' it, we takin' over, kid

Coming through with the cannabis potent shit

I'm thinkin', "Oh, no! We rock the good show"

Hand over the mic like Billy Boddy in a fist show


[Hook:]

(Bailouts) Shut 'em down

(Wall Street) Shut 'em down

(???) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down

(Cold wars) Shut 'em down

(Politicians) Shut 'em down

(Quiet Tax) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down


[B-Real:]

Going down the crossroads, feeling kinda lost no

Way to make it forsaken and taken for a lost soul

I don't want your sympathy, I don't need your hand out

Never had it planned out, system cut your man out

Wars on the newscast! - Caught it on a news flash

Heard about a new tax What if I refuse that?

I don't want your promises, I don't need your bullshit

I don't need you telling me the answers at the pulpit

Setup for the meltdown, hunted by the hellhounds

Spiders got you spellbound, get up if you fell down

I don't hate your slick talk, I don't seek your point of view

I'm the fucking thorn your side that keeps annoying you


[Hook:]

(Crooked cops) Shut 'em down

(Drug lords) Shut 'em down

(Higher tax) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down

(False media) Shut 'em down

(A common enemy) Shut 'em down

(Hypocrites) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down


[Hook:]

(Politicians) Shut 'em down

(War criminals) Shut 'em down

(This is a fixed show) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down

(Corruption) Shut 'em down

(No surrender) Shut 'em down

(By any means) Shut 'em down

Yeah, we shut 'em down


[Hook 1]

We shut 'em down, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, yeah, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, we shut 'em down (shut 'em down)

We shut 'em down, yeah, we shut 'em down