BDP (Boogie Down Productions), "Illegal Business" lyric video
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"Illegal Business" is a song by BDP (Boogie Down Productions), the duo of emcee KRS-One and producer Scott La Rock, which appears on their album "By All Means Necessary" ([ Ссылка ]) which was released in 1988, one year after Scott La Rock was shot to death outside the Highbridge Homes housing projects in the South Bronx, NY.

cocaine business controls America
ganja business controls America
KRS-One come to start some hysteria
illegal business controls America

one afternoon around eleven o'clock
it was freezing cold
he was standing on the block
selling cheeba
nicks and dimes
saying a rhyme just to pass the time
the cops passed by
but he stayed calm
because the leather trench coat was keeping him warm
but this time they walked by real slowly
he thought to himself
"they look like they know me"
they drove away
but he didn't stay
he jumped in the cab and he paid his tab
but guess who he saw when he hit the block
it was the same cop car
the same two cops
they jumped out quick
they pulled a gun
they said, "don't try to fight and don't try to run”
“cooperate and we will be your friend”
“non-cooperation will be your end"
he jumped in the car, and while they rode
they ran down the list of things he owed
they said, "you owe us some money, you owe us some product”
“because you could be right in the river tied up"
he thought for a second and he said "what is this?
“you want me to pay you to stay in business?"
they said "that's right, or you go to prison”
“because nobody out there is really gonna listen to a hood"
so he said "good!"
"I'll pay you off for the whole neighborhood"

cocaine business controls America
ganja business controls America
KRS-One come to start some hysteria
illegal business controls America

a guy named Jack is selling crack
the community doesn't want him back
he sells at work
he sells in schools
he's not stupid, the cops are the fools
because everyone else seems to go to jail
but when it comes to Jack, the cops just fail
they can't arrest him
they cannot stop him
because even in jail the bail unlocks him
so here is the deal
and here is the facts
if you ever wonder why they can't stop crack
the police department is like a crew
it does whatever it wants to do
in society you have illegal and legal
we need both, to make things equal
so legal is tobacco
illegal is speed
legal is aspirin
illegal is weed
crack is illegal because they cannot stop ya
but cocaine is legal if it's owned by a doctor
everything you do in private is illegal
everything's legal if the government can see you
don't get me wrong
America is great place to live
but listen to the knowledge I give

cocaine business controls America
ganja business controls America
KRS-One come to start some hysteria
illegal business controls America

illegal business controls America
illegal business controls America
illegal business controls America
KRS-One come to start some hysteria

cocaine business controls America
ganja business controls America
KRS-One come to start some hysteria
illegal business controls America

yeah, illegal business controls America
yeah, KRS-One come to start some hysteria
yeah, BDP takin over America
ganja business controls America

cocaine
sensi
aspirin
coffee
morphine
sugar
tobacco
got to go

illegal business controls America
ganja business controls America
cocaine business controls America
illegal business controls America

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