Black And Yellow T-Shirts

(album: Indie Rocket Science - 2011)

[MC Frontalot:]
Hey Lars, how do you make any money if you give away your mixtape for free?

[Beat Drops]

[MC Lars:]
I'm really glad you asked Ollie. We've got T-shirts they're...

Black and Yellow [x4]
Uh Huh you know what they are
Black and yellow [x4]

[Part 1]

[MC Lars:]
My boy Front is always managing his vocal tapes
Playing up his nerd persona
Everyday he integrates
You wanna hear a rap about a game from '82?
Good News!
MC Frontalot's got songs for you
Full of rhymes that he drops
Pretty hot, Make em rock
With the style he concocts
Nerdcore hip-hop
Flashlight on his head
Cause home boy went and started it
Grabbing your allowances
He knows how to market it

[MC Frontalot:]
My Man Lars
Has got good talent and flaunts it
And he drops fat hits every one-hundredth concept
The onset of his rapping is blunt
It beats you up in the manner
That he calls "post punk"
You know the fans can't get enough
Always Holler for more
Think they're even louder than were before
The previous encore
Just hope they let him off stage soon
My whole business in the back
Where the hoodies are strewn
Come on

[Chorus]

Yea Bro
We got T-shirts, and they're
Black and Yellow [x4]
Yeah Dude, Different colors
Such as
Green and Purple [x4]
This is indie Rocket science
And it's
Horris Records [x4]
Good luck, chasing royalties
Mr.
Wiz Khalifa [x4]

[Part 2]

[MC Frontalot:]
You try to sell music
They look at you funny
It's not a transaction that necessitates money
Not with the true cunning of the kids in the know
But you look at them cheering
Notice what?
They don't sew
Don't go to the print shop
And silkscreen their own
Yet they're always needing something
To cover the torso
That's why MC Lars and I
Provide a product
Set a top high fashion inventory

[MC Lars:]
You got it
Costume glasses, Mouse Pads
Robot USBs
Captains are we
(Of what?)
Industry
Roccafella, Adam Smith
Rocket seller, just like this
Rock a crowd of rowdy kids
So Frontalot tell me this
Is it all about the Washingtons
Or all about the art?
Indie rap, we're into that
Following our hearts
But part of the job
I mean the other part from caring
Is taking T-shirt money like we're
Modern robber barons

[Chorus:]
Yea Bro
We got T-shirts, and they're
Black and Yellow [x4]
Yeah Dude, Different colors
Such as
White and orange [x4]
This is indie Rocket science
And it's
Horris Records [x4]
Good luck, chasing royalties
Mr.
Wiz Khalifa [x4]

[Part 3]

[MC Frontalot:]
We know every fabric weight
Every drop ship price
Every line screen density
Designs are precise

[MC Lars:]
Cotton woven so nice
Blind eyes to child labor
You as the consumer are the lucky money savor

[MC Frontalot:]
And we savor all your savvy
As it leads you to our wears
Up in the gilded age of geekery
We so sneakily prepared
This fool-proof method
Making just the shirts you want
With my top hat and my monocle
And your money I abscond

[MC Lars:]
You see Horris Records harvesting the
Forest near your home for
The paper in the liner notes
Of every disc you own
You should've known that our sweatshirts
Were pure baby seal
Go ahead and treat yourself
You love the way it feels

[MC Frontalot:]
The appeals of the audience

[MC Lars:]
Get back on stage
Where you at?

[MC Frontalot:]
By the Merch booth
Trying to get paid
Got a hundred people covered

[MC Lars:]
Though their arms stay bare

[Lars & Frontalot:]
The only way we get to do it
Check the logos they wear!
Because

[Chorus]

Guess what?
At the merch booth...
We got
Shirts and Hoodies [x4]
Please stop come and buy stuff
We need
Health insurance [x4]
This is indie rocket science
And it's
Horris Records [x4]
Apologies, for ruining your track
Mr.
Wiz Khalifa [x4]

[Frontalot & Lars:]
My man Lars is in the
T-shirt business

My boy Front is in the
T-shirt business

Look at us we're in the
T-shirt business

I thought we were musicians
What is this?

MC Lars is in the
T-shirt business

Frontalot is in the
T-shirt business

Both of us are in the
T-shirt business

I thought that we were rappers
What is this?