Don't Believe the Hype

Song Don't Believe the Hype
Artist Public Enemy
Album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Lyrics

[00:00.52] Don't, don't, don't, don't
[00:04.47] Don't, don't, don't
[00:07.81] Now here's what I want you all to do for me
[00:09.68] Back caught you lookin' for the same thing
[00:12.25] It's a new thing-check out this I bring
[00:14.71] Uhh, oh, the roll below the level, 'cause I'm livin' low
[00:17.22] Next to the bass, c'mon, turn up the radio
[00:19.54] They claimin' I'm a criminal
[00:21.39] By now I wonder how, some people never know
[00:24.45] The enemy could be their friend, guardian
[00:26.85] I'm not a hooligan, I rock the party and clear all the madness
[00:30.65] I'm not a racist, preach to teach to all
[00:33.00] 'Cause some they never had this
[00:34.21] Number one, not born to run about the gun
[00:37.12] I wasn't licensed to have one
[00:39.12] The minute they see me, fear me
[00:41.53] I'm the epitome, of Public Enemy
[00:43.88] Used, abused, without clues
[00:45.55] I refused to blow a fuse
[00:46.85] They even had it on the news
[00:48.84] Don't believe the hype
[00:50.24] Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:52.49] Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:57.98] Yes was the start of my last jam, so here it is again
[01:02.45] Another def jam, but since I gave you all a little something
[01:05.70] That I knew you lacked, they still consider me a new jack
[01:08.18] All the critics you can hang 'em, I'll hold the rope
[01:10.83] But they hope to the Pope, and pray it ain't dope
[01:13.16] The follower of Farrakhan, don't tell me that you understand
[01:16.80] Until you hear the man, the book of the new school rap game
[01:19.93] Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
[01:22.94] Yes to them but to me I'm a different kind
[01:25.23] We're brothers of the same mind, unblind
[01:27.76] Caught in the middle and not surrenderin'
[01:30.12] I don't rhyme for the sake of of riddlin', some claim that I'm a smuggler
[01:33.96] Some say I never heard of ya, a rap burglar, false media
[01:38.52] We don't need it do we? It's fake that's what it be to ya, dig me?
[01:42.02] Yo, Terminator X, step up on the stand
[01:45.05] And show these people what time it is boy
[01:47.09] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:49.94] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:56.55] Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[02:01.54] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[02:06.48] Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel
[02:09.03] As an equal, can I get this through to you
[02:11.80] My ninety-eight's boomin' with a trunk of funk
[02:14.21] All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk
[02:16.63] Comin' from the school of hard knocks
[02:19.08] Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox
[02:21.43] Attack the Black, because I know they lack exact
[02:23.66] The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox
[02:26.29] The leader of the new school, uncool
[02:29.01] Never played the fool, just made the rules
[02:31.28] Remember there's a need to get alarmed
[02:33.68] Again I said I was a time bomb
[02:35.84] In the daytime radio's scared of me
[02:38.60] 'Cause I'm mad, 'cause I'm the enemy
[02:40.90] They can't come on and play me in prime time
[02:43.37] 'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine
[02:45.89] I get on the mix late in the night
[02:48.45] They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mike, psych
[02:52.10] Before I let it go, don't rush my show
[02:53.24] You try to reach and grab and get elbowed
[02:55.62] Word to Herb, yo if you can't swing this
[02:58.10] Learn the words, you might sing this
[03:00.48] Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you
[03:02.90] As you get up and dance at the LQ
[03:05.39] When some deny it, defy it, I swing bolos
[03:07.61] And then they clear the lane, I go solo
[03:10.10] The meaning of all of that, some media is the wack
[03:12.39] As you believe it's true
[03:14.45] It blows me through the roof
[03:15.24] Suckers, liars, get me a shovel
[03:17.41] Some writers I know are damn devils
[03:19.84] For them I say, don't believe the hype
[03:21.93] Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?
[03:24.23] Their pens and pads I'll snatch, 'cause I've had it
[03:27.14] I'm not a addict, fiendin' for static
[03:29.45] I'll see their tape recorder and I grab it
[03:31.94] No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit
[03:34.46] I'm going' to my media assassin', Harry Allen, I gotta ask him
[03:39.49] Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?
[03:41.65] Don't believe the hype
[03:43.53] Now here's what I want you all to do for me
[03:53.87] Don't believe
[03:55.29] Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[03:57.89] Don't believe
[04:00.50] Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[04:03.42] I got Flava and all those things you know
[04:06.23] Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show
[04:08.76] Yo Griff, get the green, black, red, and
[04:11.01] Gold down, countdown to Armageddon
[04:13.50] Eighty-eight to eight the S-One's will
[04:16.07] Put the left in effect and I still will
[04:18.42] Rock the hard jams, treat it like a seminar
[04:20.80] Reach the bourgeois and rock the boulevard
[04:23.24] Some say I'm negative, but they're not positive
[04:25.72] But what I got to give, the media says this
[04:28.11] Red black and green, you know what I mean
[04:30.47] The media says this, yo don't believe the hype
[04:31.28] They got to be beating that pipe you know what I'm sayin'
[04:32.89] Yo the Megas got 'em goin' up to see Captain Kirk
[04:35.59] Like a jerk and they outta work, let me tell you a lil' some'in' man
[04:37.81] A lot of people on radio scared of 'em
[04:40.49] Bcoz they're too ignorant to understand the lyrics of the
[04:43.13] that we pumpin' into them clogs their brain cells
[04:45.46] That just spun their little skulls they call caps
[04:47.94] You know what I'm sayin' but the S-One's are straightenin' it up
[04:51.15] Quick fast in a hurry, don't worry vision ain't blurry
[04:54.80] You know what I'm sayin' yo Terminator X
[04:56.69] Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:03.70] Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:09.21] Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[05:13.41] Don't, don't believe the, don't believe the hype
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