Public Enemy - Is Your God a Dog (From "He Got Game") Lyrics

Lyrics Is Your God a Dog (From "He Got Game") - Public Enemy



Crosstown traffic black to black you shoulda seen her
Long and winding road to the arena
Crystal ball I prophesized what was on the horizon
And forewarned y′all is it any wonder
What kind of ground you goin' under?
A September ender to March madness, remember?
You never heard a murder take it for example
Unsolved mystery life lost in a funk sample
Enter the bandwagons braggin′ hangin' banners
Clearin' the way for younger MCs and new Hammers
What was criticized six years back is now back
With New York on the Jersey Front and back
Feel like Tiger Woods got mad goods
Way up from the cheap seats comin′ outta the hood
Race to the black seats amongst the wack seats
Be the hardcore alongside the deadbeats
The world lookin′ on like spectators at crucified gladiators
And playing hate like alligators
Feels like a jungle inside where fish swim and birds fly
Man got a tendency to die, man falls to the hands of man
But damn if I'll ever try to survive at courtside
Four tickets to fly rap or play ball do the game
Or duck the drive by
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?
Same league that defends be the same ones that do us in
Spys, C.I.A, F.B.I and them suites up in that corporate sky
Eye for an eye the target is the bad guy
Heard the war is on from the announcin′
Bound to get the crowd bouncin'
Yes and it counts and in this corner representin′ the
Best in the west, died from four bullets two in the chest
Worshipped on the other side off TV sets
Had mad fans comin' outta both sex
Sold, multi platinum eight times gold
But died of homicide twenty five years old
Heard he died in debt too I ain′t seen a winner yet, you?
The confused crowd booed the whole crew
In that corner number one in the east
The peace cursed for life by the mark of the beast
Raised by peeps rode jeeps deep in Brooklyn beats
Praised as a hero who came up off the streets
The crowd looks on claimin' sides they don't own
A house built up on their skulls and them bones
Knew it be a matter of time the play by play
Two main rappers slain so let us pray
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?
With all the gunnin′ crowd goin′ crazy
Gettin' bigger proud to be called a bunch of bitches and niggas
The ghetto, stage fulla field nigga goals
Hip hop shootouts verses those house negros
Five bodies got on the shot clock runnin′ down in the count
Made the scoreboard rock the referees the L.A.P.D
The L.V.P.D said they couldn't catch what they could not see
Question, was it bigger than the names?
Not only in the game?
But the game behind the game
Down to the remaining seconds of this record
Anatomy of a murder, intensity of a mystery
Dead and gone as the heads looked on helpless
As the atmosphere was preyed on investigating
And the winners be Interscope, UNI, Arista, BMG
Lost in overtime the tombstone trophies for the people that cried
And the rhymes that died, the beats that deceased
May the best rest in peace
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?
Idols in the sky, look at how they die
Right before your eyes, realise
Is your Lord a God?
Or is your God a dog?



Writer(s): Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, Abnes Dubose, Corey Brewer


Public Enemy - 25th Anniversary Collection
Album 25th Anniversary Collection
date of release
01-01-2013

1 You're Gonna Get Yours
2 Sophisticated Bitch
3 Miuzi Weighs a Ton
4 Timebomb
5 Too Much Posse
6 Rightstarter (Message to a Black Man)
7 Public Enemy No. 1
8 M.P.E.
9 Yo! Bum Rush The Show
10 Raise The Roof
11 Megablast
12 Terminator X Speaks With His Hands
13 Countdown To Armageddon
14 Bring the Noise
15 Don't Believe the Hype
16 Cold Lampin' With Flavor
17 Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
18 Mind Terrorist
19 Louder Than a Bomb
20 Caught, Can We Get A Witness?
21 Show 'Em Whatcha Got
22 She Watch Channel Zero?!
23 Night of the Living Baseheads
24 Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
25 Security Of The First World
26 Rebel Without A Pause
27 Prophets Of Rage
28 Party for Your Right to Fight
29 Contract On The World Love Jam - Instrumental
30 Brothers Gonna Work It Out
31 911 Is a Joke
32 Incident At 66.6 FM (Instrumental)
33 Welcome To The Terrordome
34 Meet The G That Killed Me
35 Pollywanacraka
36 Anti-Nigger Machine
37 Burn Hollywood Burn
38 Power To the People
39 Who Stole The Soul?
40 Fear Of A Black Planet
41 Revolutionary Generation
42 Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya, Man!
43 Reggie Jax
44 Leave This Off Your Fu*Kin Charts - Instrumental
45 B Side Wins Again
46 War At 33 1/3
47 Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned - Instrumental
48 Fight The Power
49 Lost At Birth
50 Rebirth
51 Nighttrain
52 Can't Truss It
53 I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga
54 How To Kill A Radio Consultant
55 By The Time I Get To Arizona
56 Move!
57 1 Million Bottlebags
58 More News At 11
59 Shut Em Down
60 A Letter To The New York Post
61 Get The F... Outta Dodge
62 Bring Tha Noize
63 Whole Lotta Love Goin On In The Middle Of Hell
64 Theatrical Parts
65 Give It Up
66 What Side You On?
67 Bedlam 13:13
68 Stop In The Name...
69 What Kind of Power We Got?
70 So Whatcha Gone Do Now?
71 White Heaven / Black Hell
72 Race Against Time
73 They Used To Call It Dope
74 Aintnuttin Buttersong
75 Live and Undrugged, Pt. 1 & 2
76 Thin Line Between Law & Rape
77 I Ain't Mad At All
78 Death Of A Carjacka
79 I Stand Accused
80 Godd Complexx
81 Hitler Day
82 Harry Allen's Interactive Super Highway Phone Call To Chuck D
83 Living In a Zoo
84 Unstoppable (From "He Got Game")
85 Shake Your Booty (From "He Got Game")
86 Is Your God a Dog (From "He Got Game")
87 House of the Rising Son (From "He Got Game")
88 Revelation 33 1/3 Revolutions (From "He Got Game")
89 Game Face (From "He Got Game")
90 Politics of the Sneaker Pimps (From "He Got Game")
91 What You Need Is Jesus (From "He Got Game")
92 Super Agent (From "He Got Game")
93 Go Cat Go (From "He Got Game")
94 Sudden Death (Interlude) (From "He Got Game")




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