The Name Game lyrics

Artist  : The Coup 
Song : The Name Game



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[Boots]
Now, motherfuckers done made a name
for theyself
But a name don't mean wealth, let
me up you on the shit
If we was up in this,
just to get up out the ghetto
Let me tell you
right now, we damn near done quit
I spit game
on a regular basis; now everybody
lookin at my
hand like I'm holdin all the aces
Cool that
they know our faces, from different places
But
you can't catch-up/ketchup if you don't know what
the pace/Pace is
Everywhere we go you know
especially in the O we hear
"Coup, Coup, you
know we got love fo' sho'"
But even mo' when
they see us on B-E-and-T and
M-T-and-V but me
and E can't pay the P-G-and-E
Power come from
the barrel of a bucker
I use the mic so that
we aim at the same motherfucker
Cause your
shit could go gold, and the only cash you
got
is the silver kind that don't fold
I'm
gettin dope when they ask about the road that I
passed
My peoples really be thinkin they gon'
come up fast
and then come rap and shake they
ass
You ain't the first, motherfucker who done
spent his game
then plan to scram, up out the
ghetto let me break this down
From kids to
gramms, fuck the videos with the Benzes
and
the cellular phones, spendin hundreds like
quarters
The Benz is they partner's, the
money's on loan, and umm..
"the cellular
number you have reached is out of
order"

[B] Now, motherfuckers done made a
name for theyself
[E] But a name don't mean
wealth
[B] Let me up you on the shit
[E] If
we was up in this, just to get up out the
ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we damn near
done quit
Now, motherfuckers done made a name
for theyself
[B] But a name don't mean
wealth
[E] Well let me up you on the
shit!
[B] If we was up in this, just to get up
out the ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we
damn near done quit

[E-Roc]
I mocked
_Rockbox_ wearin socks in my basement, told my
pops
I fin' to have as much mail as they got
-- not
I still got to keep my cash clot
flowin
My mind is bent on the rent I'm barely
makin it micraphone
It's true, it's a few
gettin fund expansions
It ain't like Acorn
Projects gon' move into mansions
Straight
authenticized shit, over synthesized hits
With
this misty eyed mental make your teeth grit
And
I'm not tryin to diss like it's a bandwagon
trim
They sellin six-packs of them waves out
the ghetto again
In the 20's it was rocks, in
the 50's doo-wop
It's nineteen-ninety-fo' and
everybody's store hoppin
And ain't nobody
really tryin to hear me speak
They too busy
watchin loot, gettin interviewed by Robin
Leach
So if you're modest and don't
higher/hire economics
Just kick it with The
Coup, smoke this dub sack of funk!

[B]
Now, motherfuckers done made a name for
theyself
[E] But a name don't mean
wealth
[B] Let me up you on the shit
[E] If
we was up in this, just to get up out the
ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we damn near
done quit
Now, motherfuckers done made a name
for themselves
[B] But a name don't mean
wealth
[E] But let me up you on the
shit!
[B] If we was up in this, just to get up
out the ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we
damn near done quit

* DJ Pam cuts up "turn
up the beat and let me come with some game main"
*

[Boots]
I'm gon' die before I lie to
my peoples on the block
It's like front and
you gon' shoot when you ain't got no glock
You
bet' not (that's a punk trick) this is how we run
shit
I'm fin' to pitch a fit cause I'm tired
of hearin gums hit
Why do motherfuckers get up
out and go for single
when the real high
rollers grab the army to protect they
Pringles?

[E-Roc]
Confusion, just a
system based on prostitution
They done ganked
you, don't be no stank fool with they
solution
Unless you got about a million
semi-automatics
you gon' think you strivin
doin them wholesale
acrobatics

[Boots]
No I don't have it
like that, Planet Planet ain't got it
Keep my
whole life savings stuffed in my back pocket,
flock it
I'm scrapin fronts off like plaque,
no slack
I'm come Realistic like Radio
Shack
Intact and fat motherfuckers finally get
they shit right
Ain't no fight, they scared
shitless, all they do is grab the mic
Ain't no
organizin real shit on the street, it's a
fleet
of revolutionaries - in the studio makin
beats
So fuck the fame, fuck the game, fuck the
riches fool
I ain't got shit unless all my
folks gon' have it too!

[B] Now,
motherfuckers done made a name for
theyself
[E] But a name don't mean
wealth
[B] Let me up you on the shit
[E] If
we was up in this, just to get up out the
ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we damn near
done quit
Now, motherfuckers done made a name
for themselves
[B] But a name don't mean
wealth
[E] Well let me up you on the
shit!
[B] If we was up in this, just to get up
out the ghetto
Let me tell you right now, we
damn near done quit