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1,2,3 and I come with the wicked, White House, lights out boom, boom, boom with the bop gun, looks like I dropped one, I'm top gun. |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture |
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Bill Clinton |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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Yeah, what's up? What's boppin'? This is Dr. Dre call- |
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in' from the chronic control, could I speak to the President? Yeah, just tell him he was smokin' last night at the club, you know what I'm sayin'. What? He don't inhale? Well I know I got the wrong motherufckin' house! Did somebody beep me from there? |
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Colors don't clash, people do |
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Color me happy next to you |
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Oh just like it should, there goes the neighborhood |
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That is what they'd have us believe |
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Chorus: |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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Paint the White house black (repeat) |
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Looking through a view of views, seeing what they |
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want you to, |
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blinded by the flames of friendly fire, |
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and then they sat there like a dope |
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until they choked from all that smoke |
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from behind a smoke screen of patriotic liars |
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Yo, well check this out. If you talk to George Clinton, |
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tell him I'll catch him at the next plateau with the bomb, |
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you know what I'm sayin'. It's not the pretendo but the |
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endo and I'll be droppin' some straight chronic at his |
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front door. |
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Chorus |
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'Cause white ain't right, so get the flashlight |
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Chorus |
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No matter what creed, no matter what color |
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Now check this out |
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Yo, yo Flavor man we could kick it like this yo, yo we |
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could kick it man, yc, word up, yo, check this out man, |
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you know the homeboys in Detroit, Minneapolis, L.A., |
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and New York and down in D.C., man they got the |
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system in the back and boomin' it but they don't know |
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what we're sayin' but the homeboys know what we're |
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sayin', know what I'm sayin'. |
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If love ain't got nothin' to do with it then keep it ain't no |
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big secret we all know the reason people change |
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every day but life stays the same one big game ain't a |
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damn thing changed a woman's got to do what a |
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woman's got to do be a mackstress don't let those mackers mack you so I get caught up in it I'm stressin' and |
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tired the man who runs the joint has got me higher. It can |
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be a White House a black house it can be a crack house |
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an out house if it ain't the right house go get your army |
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gear ladies we got a fight they ain't gonna set aside |
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another night it's so bad that Los Angeles is so scan- |
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dalous give me somebody who can handle us Yo-Yo is on |
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top of things so uh color me mad I'm ready for a change. |
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I came up short one time too many yet a brother got to |
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be comin' out his nickels and countin' up his last pennies |
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buyin' brushes and bum rushin' homey's greenery, many |
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envy but a hill of beans is what it means to me leave it up |
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to me I'm paintin' the White House black, there ain't no |
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future in your frontin' so why the hell you frontin' jack it'll |
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either change or we're gonna change it. |
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Yeah it's gettin' old |
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Usin' up everything from spray cans to charcoal put '^m |
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up. put the crew up on discharge leavin' wet paint signs |
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in the front yard |
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George, these people crazy man, they don't even know what I'm sayin' |
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Airbrushed and colorized change right before our eyes |
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real is visualized in every frame and let the love shine |
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from the right house be it the black, red or white house |
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through our fear the puppeteer can pull our strings. |
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Whoa, well alright, again I say oh say can you see, the |
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puppeteer pull the strings of you and me from the White |
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House, the out house of territorial conquest, the HUD |
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house, the pro-this anti-that. white against black, the right |
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to life versus pro-choice. |
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I pledge allegiance to the flag being all I could never be |
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Kam read his toe tag |
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Yeah this is USA-K all day and you can't interrupt Lay Back |
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What's up |
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Stars and stripes for the Tarzan types got brothers like |
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me behind bars and on pipes damn I'm gettin' took for a |
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trip they got me seein' stars from the club and stripes |
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from the whip why must you all be like that, I ain't into |
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politics so skip them white-collared tricks they never did |
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us no good to hell with the space shuttle put some |
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money in the hood and make jobs let's mob up to the |
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capitol then we ain't got to rap at all power to the people |
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and the only way to get free is the J to the U-S-T-I-C-E. |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture |
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You all can't stop the bum rush, so get the paint brush, |
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it's time for a change |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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Listen to the real Clinton, who Bill Clinton, hell no I'm talkin' 'bout George Clinton |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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All one blood only different color and in a dis ya time you |
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have to help yo neighbor look at the downtown area no |
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food to eat no shelter, them have to live in a house made |
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of paper, and when it rains it falls through like a sift wire |
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hunger deh hunger all over 'bout time all of us come |
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together Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, NWA, Flavor Flav and |
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Chuck D., Public Enemy, Flea and Anthony stirring up I |
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the chili, Yo-Yo, Kam and Breed, Prince and Pupa, |
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that's me |
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1,2,3 and I come with the wicked boom, boom, boom |
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with the bop gun looks like I dropped one you can get |
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with this or you can get with that got to peel this cap. |
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who's the mack, shit, I'll paint the White House black |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, |
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paint a perfect picture (repeat) |
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There goes the neighborhood |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture |
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Clinton in the house |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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No matter what creed, no matter what color with God by |
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my side we're gonna change this power |
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Chorus |
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Red, white or blue, purple or whatever, won't even care if it's Technicolor |
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Chorus |
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No matter what creed or what color |
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Chorus |
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With God by my side we're gonna change this power |
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You understand what I'm sayin' cuz that's the way it be, |
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because his name is George and his last name begins |
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with a "C" |
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Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture |
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Yeah George Clinton nineteen ninety tre dropptn' it on all |
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you punk ass mother ufkers and thats how we do it, you know what I'm sayin', yeah |
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Paint the White House black, brown |
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Those who oppose to be leveled up next to this I ain't the |
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devil this ain't The Exorcist worse than a nightmare you |
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don't have to sleep a wink the pain the mind gets every |
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time you think flashbacks interfere you start to hear P- |
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Funk in your ear |
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Yeah, what's up this is Dr. Dre callin' from chronic control, peace an' hair grease, I'm out! |
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Yo, Dre was panasonic, what's up now |
