Rage Against the Machine

I'm Housin' (EPMD cover)

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I'm Housin' (EPMD cover) Lyrics

Coolin on the scene like a horse in a stable
A brother got ill and tried to snatch a fat cable
I stepped back, like it wasn't no thing
I Punched him in the jaw with the fat gold ring
I had an ace in the hole when it came to that
Yo Z you was packin? You know was strapped
Posse kept rollin it was hard to get with 'em
So I stepped back, and unbuttoned my Lee denim
They kept coming, just like I figured
So I stepped back, and started sprayin niggaz
What a way to go out, out like a sucker
But I'm on track, like a Long Island train
that can head up your mission, suckers who be dissing
Always on my jock like a snake always hissing
Grabbing and tapping me like Luther Vandross
Take me to the bar for the drink and make a toast
Givin best wishes to the best MC
And when the spot is blown and yo you know it's me
Because I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
Because I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
Because I'm housin

Because I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
'Cause I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
'Cause I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
'Cause I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb

Coolin' at a party, no better yet disco
Head feelin' mellow from a bottle of Cisco
Move...
To crush and fry a sucker MC like crisco
Gimme the cue, check one two
Don't try to come off on me, because you doo-doo
You treatin me the Z to the D, like a stepchild
Let me tell you homeboy you're livin foul
MC's, you know who you are
On the bandwagon Why Z? Cuz you a star
This is the year when the joker's are wild
When a fag can't hack it and try to bite your style
I get hip to the scheme, before it happens
If it gets wild, then I start cappin
But for now, since everything's calm
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Because I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
Because I'm housin

C'mon

Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
'Cause I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
'Cause I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb
Because I'm housin
Relate to the matter as I drop the bomb

Because I'm housin

Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('cause I'm housin)
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('cause I'm housin)
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('cause I'm housin)
Relate to the matter, relate to the matter, relate to the matter as I drop the bomb ('cause I'm housin)
'Cause I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin

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idan On Apr 29, 2002

Killing In The Name

Guerrilla Radio

Bulls on Parade

Sleep Now In The Fire

Wake Up

Coolin on the scene like a horse in a stable
A brother got ill and tried to snatch a fat cable
I stepped back, like it wasn't no thing
I Punched him in the jaw with the fat gold ring
I had an ace in the hole when it came to that
Yo Z you was packin? You know was strapped
Posse kept rollin it was hard to get with 'em
So I stepped back, and unbuttoned my Lee denim
They kept coming, just like I figured
So I stepped back, and started sprayin niggaz
What a way to go out, out like a sucker
But I'm on track, like a Long Island train
that can head up your mission, suckers who be dissing
Always on my jock like a snake always hissing
Grabbing and tapping me like Luther Vandross
Take me to the bar for the drink and make a toast
Givin best wishes to the best MC
And when the spot is blown and yo you know it's me
Because I'm housin 
'Cause I'm housin
Because I'm housin
'Cause I'm housin
Because I'm housin

C'mon

Because I'm housin

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2002-04-29 21:20:05

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by Eel

21y ago

E Double is Erick Sermon of EPMD.

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by Cyrus

23y ago

YECK YECK YECK what happened to the real Rage :'(

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by meursaultsrevolver

21y ago

is it just me or, on the live at the grand olympic auditorium album, does the line go - "give the best wishes to the best MC, the E to D to O U V L E"? if so, what the fuck is edouvle? chaz babes

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by Renegrenade

21y ago

On the live album Zach says "Give ya best wishes to the best MC - the E, the D, the O-U-B-L-E". I believe E-double is a rapper that Zach listens/listened to. He mentions him on Wake Up where he says "and like E-Double I'm mad, still knee deep in this system's shit".

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by sokorny 10y ago

@Renegrenade E Double is Erick Sermon from the hip hop group EPMD, which this song is a cover of their track.

by LyingAwake

22y ago

They put out a cover album, that's what. An awesome cover album. Anyway...anybody know who wrote I'm Housin'?

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by sokorny 10y ago

@LyingAwake Erick Sermon and Parish Smith wrote the song. They are better known as the hip hop group EPMD.

by LyingAwake

22y ago

I just found this one. EPMD wrote it.

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by suckmykiss

22y ago

EPMD is ultra cool, Rage does them justice with this cover. When Audioslave came out with "Cochise", I said, "Listen to 'I'm Housin'". It's much better. Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden are both 1000 times better than what they combined to form.

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by Gerbs

19y ago

Also, at 'Live at the Grand Olympic', instead of saying 'relate to the matter...' he repeats 'what a way to go, out like a sucker - 'cause I'm housin' '...