The Bottom Line (unofficial title)
Written by: Michael Turner & Christopher Portugal
[Double K:] Aw, shit…
[Thes One:] Ha ha! Yeah!
[Double K:] About that time…
[Thes One:] Yeah, what time is it, man?
[Double K:] I need some money!
[Thes One:] Oh, for real? Yeah, well, we gonna make this Fun DMC, man. We gonna 'bout, uh, sell about eight units
[Double K:] Man, tell me on this microphone, and rap about what we all like the best.
[Thes One:] Selling LPs.
[Double K:] Yeah, I like money, y'all.
[Thes One:] You like money? Let's get on it. Huh!
[Both & rap sample:]The bottom line…
[Double K:] What is it?
[Both & rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Thes One:] Now, check it out…
[Both:] Said, you get yours, yo, and I'll get mine
You get yours, yeah, and I'll get mine…
[Thes One:] Uh, look out, y'all!
[Rap sample:] The bottom line is the dollar sign!
[Double K:] Step back, America, my money! My mean green dollar!
[Double K:]
Now, to my knowledge and understanding, we the ones in demand, and
Commanding the tracks, manhandle wax when it's dug for
I'm smoking when I'm on tour, the encore you blaze for
I blaze more ([Thes One:] Blaze more!), before I can say more (Ha!)
That's just the way I am, and that's the way that I rock
Whether I'm chilling in London or slapping fives on the block
Got soul like a mother, she rap like Pete's younger brother
Fat boy wonder, putting bustas in a slumber
Keep me on the underground, you know I'm trying to get down
From town to town, give all my peoples a pound
Never complicated, keep it street-related, pro-faded
For the junkies in the back, they be digging the cold rap
And DJs across the land, yo, this one's for you
Put a hole through your Vestax (Harassing your crew!)
The Kings of Loops have arrived, live for the naked eye
Trying to run and duplicate, well, my man why try? 'Cause, yo…
[Both & rap sample:]The bottom line…
[Double K:] It's my money!
[Both & rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Double K:] My mean green dollar!
[Thes One:] Now, check it out… you get yours, yo, and I'll get mine
[Double K:] Yeah, don't touch it!
[Thes One:] You get yours, yeah… Obama!
[Double K:] Yo, look here…
[Rap sample:] The bottom line
[Thes One:] Yo mama!
[Rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Double K:] My dollar! My mean green dollar! You get yours!
[Thes One:] Check it out… b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-…
[Thes One:]
Raider of the lost art, cross-fader sage part
In the lines of the rhyme with page, I make art
Straight line, I write mine, auditory pipeline
Lifeline, I'm living the ([Double K:] What!) in real-time
Now the city sweats blood, if and when the moon shines
The haze of mankind, loving its evil ways
Days are no better, so your door unlock it
I keep a 45 adaptor ride in your back pockets
I walk streets, dig, eat, bump a new beat
Take a time-zone tour, then I rest my feet
The complete house party wrecker, the Black and the Deckers
That Dust Busters, stand like Custer
Last to catch the funk, blast the trust
From the crates, so funkless can stand by the 8s
Where it booms through their bones from here to nice homes
See the P is the last one sitting on the throne
Uh, look out, y'all!
[Rap sample:] The bottom line
[Thes One:] Uh, check it out
[Double K:] Word!
[Double K & rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Thes One:] Uh, uh, yo!
[Both & rap sample:] I said, you get yours, yo, and I'll get mine
You get yours, yo, and I'll get mine
[Both:] Uh, look out, y'all!
[Rap sample:] The bottom line
[Double K:] get off my dollar!
[Rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Double K:] My mean green dollar!
[Thes One:] Check it out… you get yours, yo, and I'll get…
[Both:] Mine
[Thes One:] You get yours, yo!
[Both:] And I'll get mine! Ay-yo!
[Rap sample:] The bottom line
[Double K:] Hey, man, how much money you got?
[Rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Thes One:] Uh, check it out, yo… you get yours, yo, and I'll get…
[Double K:] I'll get mine!
[Thes One:] You get yours, yo, and I'll get mine, uh… look out, y'all!
[Rap sample:] The bottom line
[Double K:] I need a dollar, so I can get me a ciga-
[Rap sample:] Is the dollar sign!
[Thes One:] You spent your hard earned money… you deserve some real shit, you know what I'm sayin'? That's why this is free. Aite?
[Double K:] Fun DMC!
[Thes One:] P, professional rhyme from the streets
U, unified, through the art we speak
[Both:] T, talented hip hop freaks
S, with the shit that's type: unique
[Thes One:] We are the
[Double K:] P
[Both:] P-fessional rhyme from the streets
[Double K:] Y'all…
[Thes One:] The U
[Double K:] U
[Both:] Unified, through the arts speak
[Thes One:] With the T
[Double K:] T
[Both:] Talented hip hop freaks
[Thes One:] With the S, with the shit that's type: unique
[Double K:] Uh huh huh huh huh…
[Thes One:] It goes
[Double K:] One
[Thes One:] One
[Both:] Time for your mind, two times
[Thes One:] For my L.A. crew
[Double K:] Word.
[Thes One:] Three times for the brown-skinned dimes
[Both:] We go seven times for pleasure
[Thes One:] Like
[Both, syncopated:] One time for your mind
[Thes One:] Mind, uh, mind
[Both, syncopated:] Two times for my L.A. crew
Three times for the brown-skinned dimes
It goes seven times for pleasure
[Thes One:] I said F-U-N, D-the-MC
Everyone keep going, check it out, chiiiiiil
*Important Note: These transcriptions are not verified with P.U.T.S., so there may be errors. We are especially unsure of the greyed-out text. We encourage you to offer your suggestions for lyrics corrections on the site's main page.
Trivia:
- None yet.
This track appears on the following releases:
- Funner Than Leather (2008) (Internet mixtape) - PL70 (Promotional download for the forthcoming album Fun DMC).
