Paint The White House Black

(album: Hey, Man, Smell My Finger - 1993)

At these uptight times, hardcore funkateers before the bop gun
We unleash you a positive light. The bop gun can do you no harm
It frees yo mind, so yo' behind can follow
Let's Do A Fly-by

[Ice Cube:]
One, two, three and I come with the wicked
White house, lights out
Boom boom boom with the Bop Gun
Looks like I dropped one
I'm top gun, so picture...
(Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture)
Bill Clinton
(Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture)
[Phone beeping]
Here we go y'all

[George Clinton:]
Paint the White House black, brown

[Dr. Dre:]
Ha ha, yeah, what's up?
What's boppin'?
This is Dr. Dre calling from Chronic Control
Could I speak to the president?
Aww, yeah, just tell him he was smoking last night at the club
You know what I'm saying?
What? he don't inhale?
Well I know, I got the wrong motherfucking house
Did somebody beep me from there?

[George Clinton:]
Colors don't clash, people just do
Color me happy next to you
Aww, just like it should, there goes the Neighborhood
That is what they'd have us believe

Paint the White House black, brown
Paint the White House...
[Sample of police sirens]
Paint the White House black, brown
Paint the White House, black...

Uhh, looking through a view of views
Seeing what they want you to
Blinded by the flames of friendly fire
And then they sat there like a dope
Until they choked from all that smoke
From behind a smoke screen of the patriotic liars

[Dr. Dre:]
Aiyyo, well check this out
If you talked to George Clinton
Tell him I'll catch him at the next plateau with the bomb
You know what I'm sayin?
It's not the pretendo but the endo
And I'll be dropping some straight Chronic at his front door

[George Clinton with Ice Cube and Pupa Curley:]
Paint the White House black, brown
Paint the White House...
(Cause white ain't right, so get the flashlight)
Paint the White House black, brown
(No matter what creed, no matter what color)
Paint the White House...

[Flavor Flav:]
Now, check this out

[Chuck D:]
Yo yo Flavor man, we could kick like this
Yo, we could kick it man, yo, word up, man
Yo, check this out man
You know, the homeboys in Detroit, in Minneapolis, in L.A
In New York and down in D.C. man
They got the system in the back and booming it
But they don't know what we're saying
But the homeboys know what we're saying
You know what I'm sayin'?
Yo, check Yo-Yo

[Yo-Yo:]
If love ain't got nothing to do with it then keep it
Ain't no big secret, we all know the reason
People change every day but life stays the same
One big game, ain't a damn thing changed
A woman's got to do what a woman's got to do
Be a mackstress, don't let these mackers mack you
So I get caught up in it, I'm stressing and tired
The man who runs the joint gets me higher
It can be a White House, a black house
It can be a crack house, an outhouse
If it ain't the right house, go get your army gears baby
We got a fight, they ain't gonna set aside another night
[Sample of police sirens]
It's so bad that Los Angeles, is so scandalous
Give me somebody, who can handle us
Yo-Yo is on the top of things
So uhh... color me mad, I'm ready for a change

[MC Breed:]
I done came up short, one time too many
Yet a brother got to be coming out his nickles
And counting up his last pennies
Buying brushes and bum rushing homey's greenery
Many envy but a hill of beans is what it means to me
Leave it up to me, I'm painting the White House black
There ain't no future in your fronting
So why the hell you're fronting jack?
It'll either change or we're gonna change it
"Yeah, it's getting old"
Using everything, from spray cans to charcoal
Put them up, then put the crew up on discharge
Leaving wet paint signs in the front yard

[Flavor Flav:]
Yo George, these people crazy man
They don't even know what I'm saying

[George Clinton:]
Aww, airbrushed and colorized
Just changed right before our eyes, real as visualized
In every frame and let the love shine from the right house
Be in the black, red or white house
Through our fear the puppeteer can pull our strings
Whoah, well alright, again I say oh say can you see
The puppeteer pull the strings of you and me from the White House
The out house of territorial conquest
The HUD House, the pro-this, the anti-that
White against black, the right to life versus pro-choice

[KAM:]
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Being all I could never be... KAM READ HIS TOE TAG
Yeah, this is USA-K all day and you can't interrupt
Lay back, WATT'S UP
Stars and stripes for Tarzan types
Got brothers like me behind bars and on pipes
Damn, I'm getting took for a trip
They got me seeing stars from the club and stripes from the whip
Why must you all be like that?
I ain't into politics, so skip them white-collared tricks
They never did us no good
To hell with the space shuttle, put some money in the hood
And make jobs, let's mob up to the capitol
Then we ain't got to rap at all
Power To The People and the only way to get free
Is the J-to-the-U-S-T-I-C-E

[George Clinton with KAM:]
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Y'all can't stop the bum rush, so get the paint brush
It's time for a change
Paint the White House black, brown

[Dr. Dre:]
Yo, listen to the real Clinton "WHO BILL CLINTON?"
Hell no, I'm talking about George Clinton

[George Clinton:]
Paint the White House black, brown

[Pupa Curley:]
All one blood, only a different color
And in a dis ya time, you have to help your neighbor
Look at the downtown area, no food to eat, no shelter
Them people have to live in a house made of paper
And when it rains it falls through like a sift wire
Hunger deh hunger, all over about time
All of us come together
Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, N.W.A, Flavor Flav, Chuck D
Public Enemy, Flea, Anthony stirring up the Chili
Yo-Yo, KAM and Breed, Prince and Pupa that's me

[Ice Cube:]
One, two, three and I come with the wicked
Boom boom boom with the Bop Gun, looks like I dropped one
You can get with this or you can get with it
Got to peel his cap, who's the mack?
Shit, I'll paint the White House black

[George Clinton & Pupa Curley:]
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Paint the White House black, brown
(No matter what creed or what color)
Paint the White House...
(With God by my side we're gonna change this power)
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Paint the White House black, brown
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Paint the White House...
Paint the White House black, brown
(Red, white, or blue, purple or whatever)
Paint the White House...
(I won't even care if it's Technicolor)
Paint the White House black, brown
(No matter what creed or what color)
Paint the White House...
(With God by my side we're gonna change this power)
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Paint the White House black, brown
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture
Paint the White House...

[Flavor Flav:]
You understand what I'm sayin'?
Cause that's the way it be
Because his name George and his last name begins with a "C"

[George Clinton:]
Picture this, paint a picture, picture perfect, paint a perfect picture

[Ice Cube:]
Yeah, George Clinton, Nineteen ninety Tre
Dropping on your punk ass motherfuckers and that's how we do it
You know what I'm sayin'? yeah

[George Clinton:]
Paint the White House black, brown
Those who oppose to be leveled up next to this
I ain't the devil, this ain't The Exorcist
Worse than a nightmare, you don't have to sleep on wink
The pain the mind gets everytime you think
Flashbacks, interfere, you start to hear
P-Funk in your ear

[Dr. Dre:]
Ha yeah, what's up?
This is Dr. Dre calling from Chronic Control
Peace and hair grease, I'm out!

[Phone hanged up]
Damn!

[Flavor Flav:]
Aiyyo, 'Dre was Panasonic, what's up now?