Welcome to the Terrordome

Album: Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
Charted: 18
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  • (Hey)
    (This is a journey)
    (Journey into sound)
    (Would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)
    (Riddim and full a culture it-)

    I got so much trouble on my mind, fefuse to lose
    Here's your ticket, hear the drummer get wicked
    The crew to you to push the back to Black attack
    So I sack and jack and slapped the Mac
    Now I'm ready to mic it (you know I like it), huh
    Hear my favoritism roll, oh, never be a brother like me go solo
    Laser, anesthesia, maze ya, ways to blaze your brain and train ya
    The way I'm living, forgiven, what I'm giving up
    X on the flex, hit me now, I don't know about later
    As for now, I know how to avoid the paranoid
    Man, I've had it up to here
    Gear, I wear got 'em going in fear
    Rhetoric said and read just a bit ago
    Not quitting, though, signed the hard rhymer
    Work to keep from getting jerked, checking some ways (ways)
    To way back in the better days
    Raw metaphysically bold, never followed a code
    Still dropped a load
    Never question what I am God knows
    Huh, 'cause it's coming from the heart
    What I got better get some, get on up, hustler of culture
    Snake bitten, been spit in the face, huh
    But the rhymes keep fitting
    Respects been giving, how's ya living?
    Now I can't protect a paid-off defect
    Check the record and reckon an intentional wreck
    Played off as some intellect
    Made the call, took the fall, broke the laws
    Not my fault that they're falling off
    Known as fair square throughout my years
    So I growl at the living foul
    Black to the bone, my home is your home
    But welcome to the Terrordome

    Come on down (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it
    Come on down (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it
    Come on down (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it
    Come on down, get down
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)

    So long now, have a good trip
    Yo, yo, who put this thing together, huh? Me
    Me, that's who (get down)
    Who I trust? Who I trust? (Come on, you can get it, get it, get it)
    Me, that's who! (Get down, come on, you can get it, get it, get it))
    Yo, who you trust, man? (Would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)

    Subordinate terror, kicking off an era
    Cold delivering pain
    My '98 was 87' on a record, yo, so now I go Bronco
    (Oh Chuck, they out to get us, man)
    Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Chuck, they out to get us, man)
    (Yo, we gotta go dust these boys off)
    Crucifixion ain't no fiction, so-called chosen frozen
    Apology made to whoever pleases
    Still they got me like Jesus
    I rather sing, bring, think, reminisce
    'Bout a brother while I'm in sync
    Every brother ain't a brother 'cause a color
    Just as well could be undercover
    Backstabbed, grabbed a flag
    From the back of the lab
    Told a Rab get off the rag
    Sad to say I got sold down the river
    Still some quiver when I deliver
    Never to say I never know or had a clue
    Word was Herb, plus hard on the boulevard
    Lies, scandalizin', basing
    Traits of hatin', celebrating with Satan?
    I rope-a-dope the evil with righteous bobbing and weaving
    And let the good get even
    Come on down (come on)
    But welcome to the Terrordome

    Come on down (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (ahh, huh)
    Come on down (get down) (yo, P.E.)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (1990 and all that, all that, ah-ha)

    Caught in the race against time, the pit and the pendulum
    Check the rhythm and rhymes while I'm bending 'em
    Snakes blowing up the lines of design (would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)
    Trying to blind the science I'm sending 'em
    How to fight the power, cannot run and hide
    But it shouldn't be suicide
    In a game a fool without the rules
    Got a hell of a nerve to just criticize
    Every brother ain't a brother 'cause a Black hand
    Squeezed on Malcolm X the man
    The shooting of Huey Newton
    From a hand of a nigga, pulled the trigger

    Come on down
    Come on down (get down) (would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it

    It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
    When you destroy yourself
    First nothing's worse than a mother's pain of a son slain in Bensonhurst
    Can't wait for the state to decide the fate, so this jam I dedicate
    Places with the racist faces, example of one of many cases
    Greek weekend, speech I speak from a lesson learned in Virginia
    I don't smile in the line of fire, I go wildin'
    But it's on bass and drums and even violins
    What ya do? Get ya head ready, instead of getting physically sweaty
    When I get mad, I put it down on a pad, huh
    Give ya something that ya never had
    Controlling, fear of high rolling
    God bless your soul and keep living
    Never allowed, kicking it loud
    Dropping a bomb, brain game, intellectual Vietnam
    Move as a team, never move alone
    But welcome to the Terrordome

    Come on down (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (yo, look at you, look at you now)
    (Ou ain't wanna listen to me) (get down)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (now look at you)
    (Didly-doot-doot, brrup, boo-boo-boo-boo, bing)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (wow)
    Come on, you can get it, get it, get it (boing) Writer/s: Carlton Ridenhour, Keith M. Boxley
    Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Slap The Mac from MarylandGreat song and interesting post
  • Andy from Taunton, MaThis song is genius. One of their best
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