The Coup (USA) - The Name Game lyrics

[Intro: Boots Riley] Now, motherf**ers done made a name for theyself But a name don't mean wealth, let me up you on this sh** If we was up in this just to get up out the ghetto Let me tell you right now, we damn near done quit [Verse 1: Boots Riley] I spit game on a regular basis; now everybody Looking at my hand like I'm holding all the aces Cool that they know our faces, from different places But you can't catch up if you don't know what the 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 motherf**er Cause your sh** 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 pa**ed My peoples really be thinking they gon' come up fast And then come rap and shake they a** You ain't the first motherf**er who done scheme to scam Then plan to scram up out the ghetto let me break this down From kids to Grams, f** the videos with the Benzes And the cellular phones, spending 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." [Boots] Now, motherf**ers done made a name for theyself [E-Roc] But a name don't mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this sh** [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, motherf**ers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name don't mean wealth [E] Well let me up you on this sh**! [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 [Verse 2: E-Roc] I mocked Rock Box wearin socks in my basement, told my pops I'm fitt'n to have as much mail as they got -- not I still plot to keep my cash clot flowin' My mind is bent on the rent, I'm barely makin it microphonin' It's true, it's a few getting fund expansions It ain't like Acorn Projects gon' move into mansions Straight authenticized sh**, over synthesized hits With this misty eyed 'mental make your teeth grit And I'm not tryin to diss like it's a bandwagon trend They selling six-packs of them wavies 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 hop'n And ain't nobody really trying to hear me speak it They too busy watchin luke, gettin interviewed by Robin Leach So if you're modest and don't hire economics Just kick it with The Coup, smoke this dub sack of funk! [B] Now, motherf**ers done made a name for theyself [E] But a name don't mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this sh** [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, motherf**ers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name don't mean wealth [E] But let me up you on the sh**! [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 [Bridge: Boots] I'm gon' die before I lie to my peoples on the block It's like frontin' you gon' shoot when you ain't got no Glock You bet' not (that's a punk trick) this is how we run sh** I'm fitt'n to pitch a fit cause I'm tired of hearing dumb sh** Why do motherf**ers get up out and go for single When the real high rollers draft a army to protect they Pringles? [Verse 3: 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 ho-style acrobatics [Boots] No I don't have it like that, Planned Parenthood ain't got it I keep my whole life savings stuffed in my back pocket, flock it I'm scraping fronts off like plaque, no slack I come realistic like Radio Shack Intact and fat motherf**ers finally get they sh** right Ain't no fight, they scared sh**less, all they do is grab the mic Ain't no organizing real sh** on the street, it's a fleet Of revolutionaries in the studio making beats So f** the fame, f** the game, f** the riches foo' I ain't got sh** unless all my folks gon' have theirs too [B] Now, motherf**ers done made a name for theyself [E] But a name don't mean wealth [B] Let me up you on this sh** [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, motherf**ers done made a name for themselves [B] But a name don't mean wealth [E] Well let me up you on this sh**! [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 [Outro] [B] The Coup is up in the house, and we run this sh** like diarrhea [E] Cheerio! [B] You know? [E] Check it out! [B] Cause we up out