MC Paul Barman
July 2007
Doe
What do you know?
Grow to be poefreshional, no fresh to be poe.
Scrilla
What you dont know can kill ya
let’s spilla beans all over the counter
Ignore or confront? Whats moe of a downer?
beancounter— I’m not throwin grounders
Money
Root of all evil?
Believe that, cant become one of beautiful people.
So
Tolerate ambiguity
2 truths can contradict ruthlessly
Natch
Lets take a look at your cash
Tens, ones jumbled, direction don’t match
Yo wallet aint trash!
Respect yourself first.
See the reward reflect in your purse.
Save
Put down the caffeine you crave
Just think if you put away $5 a day
Make your own coffee. Dont be a slave to
Credit
What I need a card fer?
Just makes it harder to barter
besides I need the freedom to live in an arboretum
Tax
Ax, how they pull stacks out our ass?
in 1913, 16th amendment was passed
Federal Reserve’s as federal as Federal Express,
Not a federal branch — full of execs — from private
banks
They yank our pockets
for rockets and tanks.
War
What is it for?
Weapon storage is full, make room for more
Doe
Every pimp is a hoe
Why else he got to put on a show?
Real power is rich and anonymous
unknown by commoners
like dude on sidewalk in a raincoat
with power to make president a scapegoat
Take note
Have ya hot lava java to the brim of the cup
Fame’s 15 minutes are up
like the gold standard in the old manner
Moll Flanders bought people and sold slammers
Roll camera!
Papes
get you out of tight scrapes
Physical weapons are doled out to apes
If you’re born poor
you’re more likely to fight a for’n war
but with global government, nowhere’s foreign
out of site out of mind when we flush urine
How to write, how to rime, rockin and tourin
We touch jew, buddhist, christian, mormon
Debt
is makin a bet
Sell all your shit, work late shifts till ur set
Grants
worth more than advance
Can’t claim recoupment, no hands in your pants
Abu
Graib be less taboo
than askin, ‘how much do you make?’
How does that grab you,
habibi?
Easy on the tv
(‘I’m not sleepy!’)
E
I K F M N
I just rocked the eye chart
so if you can’t see it now you know it by heart
Value
Altruism is good’n but you gotta pay pals
or u drive prices down and it’s bad for morale too
then again the system is built upon intern
you can be one if you exploit later in turn
or drop out the system, both ways make ur skin burn
Poe
You want a better challenge, Edgar Allan
Veggie oil is free, convert from unleaded gallons
Go to the sto to drain all your oil
I’ll explain how install the foil coil
to heat it up but don’t let it boil
We were off the grid
and my doula lost her kid
she coulda kept her girl
if she’d got a epidural
Volunteerz all in tears
reppin the world
