Lowdown

[Intro: Darrein Safron] Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh [Verse 1: Darrein Safron] Yeah, we gon' run far outside in time Oh, never do lie, never do lie I never do lie I put this on my soul to see your face light up Get them people out our way And in time they'll feel our pain, break out them chains [Pre-Chorus: Darrein Safron] Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh [Chorus: Darrein Safron] Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah [Verse 2: Tech N9ne] Mama would have killed me (Christ) Stepdaddy would have killed me (Islam) If they both knew I chose a side That would put me off up in a ride With bloodthirsty killers inside For my nigga Scoob, riding with the whoopty whop To try to shoot the block then when the Uzi flocks And this nigga named Crazy one day robbed my homie with his babies For a lot of gravy God saved we Found nobody to put on the news Flame scatter brain splatter look like Jamba Juice And we all intelligent but this shit is irrelevant When they rob a real one for the hell of it Yeah we gonna shoot Cause we coming from the ghetto Where you can die over jealousy or dinero Women not having had extended like a sombrero KC we never hesitating to let the metal go And they bring us down to they level (demons) And they taking fifty rounds from a rebel That's the sound of the Devil's (semen) Spreading round making little ones And mamma's on the ground cause they killed her son, grieving Yeah I chose a side but I flow now It don't matter Nina, it can still be a showdown Anywhere you go now So you better stand yo ground Cause they don't wanna see you climbing They wanna keep you low down [Pre-Chorus: Darrein Safron] Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh [Chorus: Darrein Safron] Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah [Verse 3: UBI] They wanna see me falling like the rain drops It's not that I won't, that I can't stop Keep my brain locked on the game Put the pad away when the paint stop Cause they don't care if you slang rocks All on the same block Even if you're in Adelaide or in Bangkok Bussin, spreading your city name like Chiddy Bang But really they were sleeping and unaware of what it became What will it take I'm building my way into real estate While you Philly steak children get really baked I'm here to facilitate a setting to celebrate over Dilla J Silver gorilla, mister vanilla face kill the brake A beat drop and you feel the bass, exhilarating Sleep on me, I'll slip in your pillowcase They want to mitigate the buzz that we generate And give us as little pay as possible any given day They want us low down, dirty and shitty shame Cause if anybody profound go head and give me fame [Pre-Chorus: Darrein Safron] Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh Oh [Chorus: Darrein Safron] Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down Yeah they wanna keep us low down yeah