🎵 The Back Down // by Richard Pryor

6 ContributorsThe Back Down Lyrics Oilwell would fight the police, he's one of them crazy "shoot me" niggas "Well, kill me! Shoot me, muthafucka!" *Pie-yow* "Ah shit! Oh, goddamn! Somebody call me a cab! Damn if I'm gon' bleed to death waitin' on an ambulance!" Ain't no way to get an ambulance in the ghetto, right? Unless you call up, "There's five niggas killing a white woman!" *Err...* "Where's the body?" Policemen fuck with Oilwell and shit "Alright, move along!" "Say, Mr. Officer, do you know who you fuckin' with? I'm Oilwell, 6-foot-5, 422 pounds of mayne! Boy, you hit me with that stick, I'm gon' bite ya dick! Be some bloodshed! Shit, I ain't bullshittin'!" They had some fightin' niggas, though Some niggas would fight and didn't argue—"What?" *smack* Some dudes would talk to you while they kicked your ass, right? "Why you wanna fuck with me, man? Shit, somebody get this nigga off of me! What? I ain't know the nigga was blind! Come on, now. Why don't you get you a dog or somethin', nigga! Steppin' on people's feet and shit!" I used to try to fight and shit I know how to back down I had a lot of practices in Peoria I was in every gang, they had about five, I was in all of 'em Whichever one was winning, "That's my side," 'cause I wasn't fightin' shit Nigga made me unball my fists once, show you how scared I was I had my fists up, ready, he said, "Muthafucka, put your hands down!" Hahaha, no heart for the fightin', believe me, listen 'Cause actin' a muthafucka make you back down so nasty, it's embarrassing Once was enough for me 'Cause I was gonna be going for bad for about four weeks hangin' with my man Matt Matt was bad, knockin' muthafuckas out *ping, ping* "Go on now, alright" He was killer, jack Man, Henry Hanson—Henry Hanson would knock a muthafucka through a brick wall Matt backed off, then I'm standing there all alone "And, uh, what you got to do wit' it, little nigga?" "I, I was just, I come over with Matt, my friend I wasn't doing anything, man I wanna play some basketball...can I go now?" Men and women fight a lot See, white women and white men they seldom ever have fist fights They be going—intellectually hurting each other, so they say White woman say funny shit to her man "Your dick is short and you can't even screw!" Right? And the white dude go, "We'll discuss it tomorrow" You say that shit to a nigga, you gotta fight "Bitch, is you crazy, muthafucka?!" I remember my mother and father was fighting once, I was gonna jump in, jack "Not my mother, muthafucka!" Beat the shit outta me "Nigga, what the fuck? Yeah, muthafucka, unh-huh, yeah, right, nigga" "That's my mama!" "That's my woman, muthafucka!"