[Beavis and Butthead sample]
That kicked ass
eh, eh, yeah, that was fly!

20,000 gun salute
Get rowdy like you got a substitute
This slug's for Newt
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit
20,000 gun salute
Get rowdy like you got a substitute
This slug's for Newt
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit

So now we're talkin' sytematic mac mechanics
Decomposing, chosen
Representatives, from the ho's been known to act with
Pimp theatrics, a tactic necessary
In fact they wanna have us buying from the commissary
This commentary's for my folks under involuntary servitude
'Cause bosses don't be servin' you your monetary
Pervin' you like rum and dairy, pulsing through your capillaries
Some inherit green, the rest just get our folks to bury
I'm abolitionary wishin' the judiciary
Say this year for merry merry, free the penitentiary
People's gonna rumble, as long as stomach's grumble
and crack pipes tumble over asphalt that's crumbled
Hundreds come in bundles and hop is mixed with funnels
'Cause baby's with shoes to small gonna stumble
This composition is sedition, opposition to the ruling class
wishin' they could detonate us switched to they ignition
Keep my slacks creased to punch my clock to the beast
As my rent don't cease his pockets get obese
Can't have inner peace without havin' a piece
When the stepped on step-up we let the dragon release

20,000 gun salute
Get rowdy like you got a substitute
This slug's for Newt
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit
20,000 gun salute
Get rowdy like you got a substitute
This slug's for Newt
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit

Disaster
The filthy rich bastards wanna milk yo' ass faster
Ask fo', no salvation comin' from the damn pastor
Old ladies play canasta, under roofs of cracked plaster
Little kids dive in the trash for discarded dutch masters
Dead patnas on the mural walls
Homeless kids takin' baths up in gas station urinals
Shit, the system can't cure it all
If everybody had a job the stock value's sure to fall
Hundred million neck slashes
So these bastards can make sure that they check cashes
Let's get masses to wage struggle as direct classes
Which is how we gonna overthrow they bitch asses
Give whiplashes from the force as we make it tight
And ignite the flames that taken over daily life
Make it a right to have food, threads, and homesteads
And Pac Bell won't ever cut your phone dead
We own it!
But these businesses that love payiin' minimum wage
Ain't gonna let you take they shit unless you showin' a gage
And if you do it by yo'self they gonna put you in a cage
If you in a rage?
Please meet me on the same page
with a...

20,000 gun salute
Get rally like you got a substitute
This slug's for Nute
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit
20,000 gun salute
Get rally like you got a substitute
This slug's for Nute
Shut your mouth, don't, pollute
Arm me a damn motherfucker, shit we trying to recruit


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