(Intro)
Now this is something all you hipsters on the road can kick it to
It's about the drama of going through the renewal of your car tags and your driver's license, all of that paperwork
Those long lines, no matter what time of day you seem to go, at the court, in the DMV, especially in California, it's just ridiculous
Certainly law...certainly...certainly, certainly, certainly...certainly, certainly, certainly...certainly, certainly, certainly law
(People will you please just form one single-file line, I promise we will get to all of you if you would just be patient)
(Verse 1)
Certainly if you think about things before you do 'em it will help you (it will help you)
Maybe, if you make the right move
My name is Abstract Rude
Lately in the community I have had the degrading opportunity
To witness the sickness
Peep:
I was minding my own business
Uh, but I fit this description
Who said?
This white cop said
Of who?
Of some other guy who had dreads
And who was wanted for alive or dead, code red
All of this the white cop said
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin' (yeah), rollin' in my car
I knew them expired tags would expose my ass
But supposed I ask a question, great shield of the law
What do you to do when you gotta go somewhere?
Like to work or get fired, but your license expired
(Sir, that's not the point)
I mean you have to drive, you try to ask for a ride
But don't want to pick me up
Officer you want to stick me up?
(We pulled you over because you're driving a suspicious vehicle with expired tags, you crossed into the other lane of traffic...)
(Chorus)
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
(Verse 2)
I can't hear you
I want you to know I do not fear you
Certainly you work for me -- yeah right
Tell me mon, how can you afford to just pull me over and waste time?
Ain't you supposed to be fightin' crime? (yeah)
The sick-minded society (fool)
Not a brother droppin' rhymes they be likin' me
Check yo' self
If not I'll check you for you
But if I go that far you're gonna cuff me up
Rough me up in the back of the wagon 'cause I was a dread and I fit your description
But nah
I was just rollin' in my car
And with them expired tags I knew I wouldn't get far
But I couldn't fade gettin' them renewed
So Abstract Rude gotta go through drama
(All right, no more talkin', get out of the car, keep your hands where I can see 'em, get up against the car, shut up)
(What am I gettin' out of the car for? Are you arrestin' me for somethin'?)
(Chorus)
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
(Verse 3)
They stop you, they mock you
They tell you you owe them cash, stick it in your dash, that ass
Court date set and your best bet is to hope that the officer forgets
To show up in court when they call your case
But you don't want to deal with it, you think it is all a big waste of time
Miss your date, they hit you with a W
Hit you with a W and then your bail doubles
I smell trouble on the road
And that trouble is highway patrol
Don't get caught 'cause you might get got
Think about where you going' 'cause you subject to get stopped
Two biggest worries: gettin' shot or bein' harassed by the cops
Why you ain't got no tags?
'Cause you didn't have no cash to pay for your renewal
Now you gotta show this cop that you are not a fool
'Cause he is going to think how he thought when he prejudged you
And pulled you over for not having tags
A lawbreaking idiot who went across his path
If you want my opinion
I think it's all a plan
To keep us all over while we rollin' in the big traffic jam
I just do not understand
(Chorus)
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
But I was just, you know, goin' where I'm goin', rollin' in my car
Should one have to pay cash for not havin' cash to get car tags?
