Give It Up

About Give It Up

"Give It Up" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy. It was released in July 1994 as the first single from their album Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age. It was their highest peaking song on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 33.

Year:

2005

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Aight {aight}, aight, aight {aight}, aight {aight}
I'm aight if you aight {I'm aight}
I be better - get some of that bass
{word, give it up} aight, yeah

[Rinkin' twinkin' body shakin'
 Nuff attackin' brain's a rackin'
 Clock tockin' Chuck shockin'
 Flavor Flav ain't never shavin']

(one, two, three four)

It's another record, check it, mad methods
To put my brothers and sisters on a deathbed
You know he cheated, took what he wanted but now you blunted
Suckin up to the devil steppin down a level
It's who they fear is you
Who protects us from us and you from you
Yes and it counts [f*ck the forty ounce]
I sued them bastards, yeah they got bounce
I did em like a demo {threw em out the window}
I took a ninety eight 'cause I never liked a limo
But pump pump pump pu-pump pump it up
A mad rhyme, for mad times, that's what's up
Some ain't gonna change, I got em in a range
I gotta rearrange, so I'm buildin back your brain
Wreckin records with funky stuff
Am I loud enough? {yeah} You got ta give it up

[Chorus: Repeat 4X]
Give it up, give it up, give it up yo    
Give it up, give it up, gotta give it up 

Yeah you gots ta give it up now

Come again with the same old bounce
I'm calling a foul and once again it counts
Mad tense mad tense brothers know
The blunts in the back got the black behind and that's wack
[And once again it's on!]
Hey Jimmy cracked corn cracker singin "I don't care", it's on
I'm comin with a rhyme [what?] I'm lettin go a rhyme [yeah!]
I gotta get a rhyme through the rough and crazy times
Call me a Hannibal lecture, yes I checked her
They don't hear me though, so here I go
I'm sick and tired so Sly'll take ya higher
When I'm takin his sound to bring you down
Rappers rippin a lyrical kickin finger-lickin
But to the rhythm I'm givin but never cotton pickin
Like James Brown I'm sayin it loud
Am I loud enough?  Huh, you got ta give it up

[Some ain't gonna change, some ain't gonna change
 Some ain't gonna never ever change
 Some ain't gonna change, some ain't gonna change
 Some ain't gonna never ever change!]

[Chorus:]

And when I'm coming, some young dumb and fulla cum
Some second guessing my lessons about saving young
Some don't know like Run said so here we go
Where it is inside, whoop there it is
{aaaaaaah} There it is
[There it is, damn right
 My man X is a bad mother {shut your mouth)
 I'm talking about Terminator, he's the man]
There it is, can you hit me off with another one

[Chorus:]

I never did represent doing dumb shit
Some gangsta lying - I'd rather diss Presidents
Dead or alive, bring 'em and I'll swing 'em
I vocalize, I just rap, I don't sing 'em
Flick em, and I fling em, you can go with 'em
Hall of Fame for the game for the points I Dave Bing 'em
Go grandma, close but no cigar
I got mine, for I'm using my rhyme
The flow go wherever I want, and that's clever
Give a piece of my time, to prevent some crime
And who behind puttin the guns to the young ones
The ones that make em is the ones that take em
Rugged for no reason, down in duck season
I don't want my mama, on the street wearing armor
So check yaself before ya wreck yaself
Respect yaself, hah, you got ta give it up

[Chorus:]

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Public Enemy

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and his S1W group, DJ Lord (DJ who replaced Terminator X in 1999), and Music Director Khari Wynn. Formed in Long Island, New York, in 1982, Public Enemy is known for their politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community. more »

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