Hatchet Job

[Chorus: E L U C I D] Cut 'em off, they the type to come back Cut 'em off, they the type to come back Choppers chopping [Verse 1: billy woods] These the beats they play for ghost detainees Weeks with no sleep I’m living the dream Crabs, hit em with the Old Bay Chesapeake Steam At high heat repeat red, gold and green Marcus Garvey crumbled fronta Jamaican Rizla Spanishtown back to basics, the Spanish prisoner Kicking kitchen spanish looking like Sizzla London Blitz airhorns, he spit that Stalin vs. Hitler [Verse 2: E L U C I D] So goth I was born black Son trapped within a crux that endorsed crack Dirt nap before 21 be the forecast Flown flag half mast Crass paths ventured Lucky if you just got stabbed Limp ginger, flesh wounds still tender Picking scabs Block too hot, triage care intensive Post grad, head of my class expensive Sessions extended Reality bites but jake pinching Old co defendant, new solo mission Head spinning Short glimpses All city [Verse 3: billy woods] Staged shooting, praise God they missed me Unsolved mysteries started from the upper middle Closed the gap quickly Sold soul to the devil replete with hidden fees You fucking with a gypsy White man handshake twinkle in eye You caught a bad break Two half-truths but not one lie The new guy got my spidey sense in overdrive Dog, in the grand scheme I was just a cog Lawyer said forget about getting off It’s about damage control So hot he stop drop & roll Yet the pack was sold before he copped King of All Blacks, the new Pac [Chorus: billy woods & E L U C I D] Had to cut ‘em off, I ain't have no option They the type to come back with the choppers choppin’ Had to cut ‘em off, I ain't have no option They the type to come back with the choppers choppin’ Had to cut ‘em off, I ain't have no option They the type to come back with the choppers choppin’ [Verse 4: E L U C I D] From apprentice to kingpin Basehead pipe dreams fenced in Pinched timbs, ends scampi, barely noon reek of cheap brandy Baggy suit church food pantry Assembly line, hand to hand Worst fears, out here a grown man selling candy Teddy graham, rubber band re-up Aspirational scale flipper Make that fetti fan Fifty fluttered fitters Fuck a fair one Full frontal flared Banned from tv scanned discreetly Unseemly means, justified extremes [Verse 5: billy woods] Nosy neighbors rear window Rodney Little played by Delroy Lindo Memories fade like Memento When someone threatening your kinfolk Played out Super Nintendo Shylock how he weighed out the super endo Keep it 100 like loosies Fishscale raw Bolivian sushi Bargains driven harder than hoopties Pillar of the community, Kente cloth on the kufi Liberal white friend played by Donald Sutherland in the movie Hit Cannes with tanned groupie Palme d’Or! Exuberant applause But I still came back for my money like Mookie