Welcome to the Terrordome

[Chuck D] I got so much trouble on my mind Refuse 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 Then slapped the Mac Now I'm ready to mic it (You know I like it) huh Hear my favoritism roll "Oh" Never see 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 Changing some 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 Cause it's coming from the heart What I got better get some (Get on up) hustler of culture Snakebitten Been spit in the face 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 Well welcome to the Terrordome [Verse 2] Subordinate terror Kicking off an era Cold delivering pain My 98 was 87 on a record yo So now I go Bronco (Oh-oh Chuck, they out to get us, man! Oh-oh-oh Chuck, they out to get us, man! Yo, we gotta 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 knew or had a clue Word was Herb, plus hard on the boulevard Lies, scandalizin', basing Traits of hate who's celebrating with Satan? I rope-a-dope the evil with righteous Bobbing and weaving and let the good get even C'mon down But welcome to the Terrordome [Verse 3] Caught in the race against time The pit and the pendulum Check the rhythm and rhymes While I'm bending 'um Snakes blowing up the lines of design 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 Nig who pulled the trig 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 plases The Greek weekend speech I speak From a lesson learned in Virginia (Beach) I don't smile in the line of fire I go wildin' But it's on bass and drums and even violins Watcha do gitcha head ready Instead of getting physically sweaty When I get mad I put it down on a pad Give ya something that cha 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