Dead Prez - W-4 Lyrics
[intro sample vocals from "American Pimp"]
So much shit goes on it makes me doubt about a God -- you know, makes me ask
well if there is a God then why am I in the situation that I'm in?
Or why is my family going through certain situations
when I don't think that they deserve it nah mean?
[sample fades out as instrumental comes in]
[lighter sparking]
Yo
Goin out...we light this J up right here...for all the hard working folk
cross this country, cross the world
For everybody on the grind everyday 9 to 5, 8 to 12 -- you know how we do it
Hand to hand, whateva...
[Chorus - singing]
I been working all my life but ain't got nothin' to show
I ain't tellin' you nothing you don't already know
I been working all my life but ain't got nothin' to show
Like this world just don't want us to groooow
I been working all my life but ain't got nothin' to show
I ain't tellin' you nothing you don't already know
I been working all my life but ain't got nothin' to show
Wanna run up in tha white house and kick in tha do' ohhhhh
[Verse 1]
What a nigga gonna eat when the refrigerator empty?
Work all week let the bossman pimp me?
Can't pay no rent till the 15th
Landlord call the police to evict me
Lookin for a job in the want ads
Have you ever been to jail? Know they gone ask
Ever took a piss test that you didn't pass?
In between jobs in the past? How you get cash?
I done worked over hot ass stoves
I done picked up trash off roads
Winter time in the streets and the cold
Many times had to sleep in my clothes on the flo'
What you know bout bein' po' seein' most of yo kinfolk be on dope?
Ain't nobody in the hood got no hope in this fucked up system and that's why we don't vote
Still payin niggaz 4.25 - How the fuck we supposed to survive?
I'm close to the edge, government takin most of my bread
in taxes might as well have this close to my head
Make a nigga wanna wild out
runup in the white house with the gauge out, CLICK CLACK!
GIMME MY SHIT BACK BEEYOTCH!
[Chorus]
Puttin' on my uniform, just a number on a W-4 form..
[Verse 2]
See where I'm from it's a few ways out
either rappin or sports either dope or the casket
You can work to the bone but don't put all yo eggs in one basket
We don't never get a piece of the pie
Work 50 years, retire then die
Stay po', rich folks is the criminal
but you don't wanna hear me tho' so
thank God it's friday, ain't it what we live fo'?
Nigga gotta get up out the plantation
Same job that my pop had before me
Imma pass it down to my seed fucked up situation
Make a nigga wanna wild out
runup in the white house with the gauge out, CLICK CLACK!
GIMME MY SHIT BACK BEEYOTCH!
[Chorus]
My J-O-Beeee
is just like a plantation
they owe meeee
but got me fillin' out this application
My J-O-Beeee
is just like a plantation
they owe meeee
and got me fillin' out this application
[song fades]
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Dead Prez W-4 Comments
It's true. The system and pay scales don't value actual hard work and true dedication. It's just all about scamming each other and the system itself, which eventually makes one realize how hopeless things are. But we got to be thankful I guess because the other countries have it way worse in most cases...it's crazy world. Grateful though.
This classic track is still a reality today... Got damn!! 😔
the intro... my main argument to not practice religion
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I was 14 when i got this album, it was one of my least favs from the album but now im older it's one of my fav dead prez songs period, lyrics relate to so many people across the world.
Easily one of my fav songs of all time😢😢😢
The secret to building a legacy for your family is (writing it all down) facing your past trauma, study how your mind works, understand human psychology, how to communicate and understand others - why they do and think the ways they do based on their up bringing and environment, learn how to run a business, teach business practices to the kids so this new way of thinking is the first impression on what to do with their first few dollars - how to invest, tithe, and save better (forget the church. It's growing on it's own.)
Study, practice, then teach
Straight up 🙌
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Love this track right on time
i used to listen to this as a kid .. and i have to say its way more relatable now
THX for uploading this wonderful TUNE
this song goes
My Song....Hard!!!!...
Real life!! The essence
im 32 yers work much in my life nothing in my count a bank
med karmo Keep your head up
med karmo you never know bro you could become a millionaire at 34 god bless you keep trying brother
This song hits home
ALL THE TIME..
Dam good song
Click clack give me my shit back
Byotch.
@Dash Antony idgi
@jake friedman WAT?
Staci Cannella
Revolution is the only way
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Now isn't this the TRUTH!!!!! I love Ya'll for Reppin the Truth & keeping shit REAL!!!!!
you want real shit..look in my toilet..
im w-4 hard worker live in sao paulo brazil real favela shit and i feel represented for dead prez fuck the system!!! keep real rap music alive dont let it go industrial shit its been made to represent us to shout the world words that we always been up to shout! thanks for represent our voice dead prez!
I love these guys, more hip hop artists should be atheists, science leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to good lyrics.
A Good Prez ,
is a Dead Prez.
You Gotta Be a G to relate
make a nigga wanna wyle out run up in the white house with gauge out, click clak"
maybe cause the lyrics "make a nigga wanna wyle out with the gauge out, click clak, give me shit back bitch"
DP the realist group in hiphop, guys stop makin music and gave obama a chance when a black man made it.
the realist shit i ever heard
i like this song