Shut ’em Down (Pe‐Te Rock Mixx) Songtext
von Public Enemy

Open there!
Oh, yeah
Come on, come on
Rock Mix
Check it out
Yeah
Check it out

I testified
My mama cried
Black people died
When the other men lied

See the TV, listen to me, double trouble
I overhaul and I′m comin'
From the lower level
I′m takin' tabs


Sho nuff stuff to grab
Like shirts and it hurts
With a neck to wreck
Took a poll 'cause our soul
Took a toll
From the education
Of a TV station

But look around
Here go the sound of the wreckin′ ball
Boom and Pound
When I shut ′em down

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)

I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)


I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)

One, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine
What I use in the battle for the mind
I hit it hard
Like it supposed
Pullin' no blows to the nose
Like uncle L said I'm rippin′ up shows

Then what it is
Is only five per cent of the biz
I′m addin' woes
That′s the way it goes
Then you think I rank, never drank, point blank
I own loans

Suckers got me runnin' from the bank
Civil liberty I can′t see to pay a fee
I never saw a way to pay a sap
To read the law

Then become a victim of a lawyer
Don't know ya, never saw ya
Tape cued
Gettin′ me sued
Playin' games with my head
What the judge said put me in the red
Got me thinkin' ′bout a trigger to the lead

No no
My educated mind say
"Suckers gonna pay anyway"
There gonna be a day
′Cause the troop they roll in
To posse y'up
Whole from the ground

Ready to go
Throw another round
Sick of the ride, it′s suicide
For the other side of town
When I find a way to shut 'em down

I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)
I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)

I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)
I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down) I shut ′em down

I wreck for respect
Check one, hit the deck
With the man of the hour
Commit to soul power

For once I got to say shut 'em down on the regular
Causing mass hysteria in your area
Kicking it for my man Chuck D
Down with PE
On the remix
Hung on the flix

So check it before I step down
When I'm in your town
You know I got to shut ′em down

Who count the money
In the neighborhood
But we spendin′ money
To no end, lookin' for a friend

In a war to the core
Rippin′ up the poor in the stores
Until they get a brother
Kickin' down doors

Then I figure, I kick it bigger
Look ′em dead in the eye
And they wince
Defense is pressurized
They don't really want it to be
Another racial attack
In disguise, so give some money back (yeah)

I like Nike but wait a minute
The neighborhood supports so put some money in it
Corporations owe
They gotta give up the dough to my town
Or else we gonna shut ′em down

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)
I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)

I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut 'em down)

I shut ′em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)
I shut 'em down
(Shut, shut, shut, shut shut ′em down)

Yeah
Oh yeah, one more time, here we go again
Ah-huh, come on
Hold it, come on
Wait a minute now
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Yeah
Hey, yeah, we got soul
Hold the beat, hold the beat, the whole beat, y'all