Bring That Beat Back

By Public Enemy

On New Whirl Odor

Released on October 4, 2005

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[Intro: Flavor Flav]

YEAH ,YEAH ,YEAH

FLavor Flav, back in your face with a hot track, boy

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!

AWWW WWEEE

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!


[Verse One: Chuck D]

See, I played in Cincinatti with my whole head nappy

Made a Rally in the street, with nothing but a beat

Got a grudge against the judge, kicked him out that seat

You are what you eat, yes.. so what you're eating?

Same message to your mind be.. self defeating

Sick and tired of being sick, and tired of being beaten

So I'mma drop it, like it was way too hot

And too fast (COME ON!!) for Hip-Hop, Doo Wop, Rock or Bop

I ain't here to hurt you, I don't hang in them circles

The government ain't got me yet, so y'all don't stop me

See the stampede of fake cats, running from Bill Cosby

What does he got to do with you doing you?, Y'all know what?

DJ Lord give me that cut, bring that beat back (Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo)

Yeah, that's what's up, bring that beat back

COME ON!!, that's what's up

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!


[Break: Flavor Flav]

The beat y'all

YEAH!! (Chuck D)

To the beat y'all

Bring that beat back (N.W.A. Posse)

The beat y'all

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!


[Verse Two: Chuck D]

Feedback from truely freed blacks

Got to think outside this Box of hard knocks

Signed them up at Fort Knox

They die in Iraq, what?.. you don't know I rock?

What?.. you under a rock? What?.. you under a rock? (GET IT!!)

Old cats begging us to bring that beat back

Each generation be thinking that the next one is whack

Jump started in the daze of crack

R&B Reagan, Daddy Bush, 1980s, got to come on back

(HIT THE BEAT BACK!!)

I pray to God, I feel like I've got a church in myself

Good God uhh.. I can't get no help

I say again health care cut back and it's whack

Yeah Ab.. bring that beat back, COME ON!!


[Break: Flavor Flav]

The beat y'all

YEAH!! (Chuck D)

To the beat y'all

Bring that beat back ( N.W.A. Posse)

[Chuck D] To Cristal Blair

The beat y'all

[Chuck D] To Cristal Clinton

DON'T YOU SAY THAT!!

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!


[Verse Three: Chuck D]

They say: the youth don't matter and the old don't mind

It takes a lot of spines.. to build all them young minds

Some of us get ghetto at the wrong damn time

Album what?.. we're just making one at a time

To save another brother whose life on the line

A big.. shot to claim, some rocks, some shines

Signs of a soul, gone solo, robbed blind

A very small part of half the world's crime

Runaway.. child blown by an old land mine

Little ones.. still working in them Diamond mines

So cats can say.. What's hers and what's mines?

Diamonds is a girl's best friend; so why is he crying?

Yo Ab, why the hell is he crying?

Yeah, BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!


[Flavor Flav overlapping the two above lines]

To beat y'all, to the beat y'all

The beat y'all, to the beat y'all, COME ON!!

Listen to this, listen to this..

Listen, listen to this, listen to this..

Listen to this, listen to this..

Listen, listen to this, listen to this..

For all you MCs in a crew

I said for all you MCs in a crew

I said for all you MCs in a crew

This is what we want y'all to do..


[Verse Four: Chuck D]

See, when y'all hear it, get near it

And you recognize the lyrics, you trained to refrain

And you.. start to fear it as escapism

Yeah, like today there ain't no racism

Obviously, y'all ain't seen black folks on TV

Judgement calls made on behalf of you and me

Or you and I, do or die, I say an eye for an eye

Dividing line; got the poor people paying for crime

Corprorations getting paid off our Jail time

Now, y'all can tell Russell, yes, I knock the hustle

(LOOK OUT!!) Cause two million in lockdown, under the federal muscle

Beyond the streets; these kids is always watching

Watching some of these jerks when they go berserk

So I work (AWWW WEEEE) DJ Lord give me that cut

Bring that beat back, yeah.. and that's what's up

DJ Lord bring that beat back

Yo Ab (BEAT THE DRUMS!!) bring that beat back

Bring that beat back, yeah, COME ON NOW!!


[Outro: Flavor Flav overlapping the above line]

The beat y'all

To the beat y'all

YEAH!!(Chuck D)

The beat y'all

COME ON!!(Chuck D)

To the beat y'all

The beat y'all, to the beat y'all

The beat y'all, the beat y'all

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!

BRING THAT BEAT BACK!!

Sort of Wu-Tang

To the beat y'all

Bring that beat back (N.W.A. Posse)

The beat y'all

Bring that beat back (N.W.A. Posse)

To the beat y'all, the beat y'all


[Outro: DJ Lord Finesse played sample of Ice-T's "Make the Loot Loop" choir]

Get down.. get down..