Michael Franti & Spearhead

Madness In The Hood

Michael Franti & Spearhead


Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride free ride 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride free ride 

Madness in tha hood keeps trying to kill the vibes 
even gam's preacher packs a 45 
run get the chalice and posse up the tribe 
and with the love of Rastafari we shall never die 

Wake up in the morn unlock the store pops 
hookers on Leavenworth closin' up shops 
cops, lookin' like a blind Cyclops 'cause 
they clockin' ten percent 
of the CREAM off the top 
got mad money comin' down the pipe 
from the three piece suit who gotta piece last night 
the butcher the backer phony credit card maker 
plus the operation being sponsored by Jamaica 
and then there's the dimea dozen hoodie hitmen 
who be killin' for sport, they go kids to support 
Slingin' dice come cross the snake eyes 
come and take a chance on a free ride 

(Chorus) 
Badi ah-dee adi ah 
come and take a chance on a free ride 
Badi ah-dee adi ah 
come and take a chance on a free ride 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
(Madness in tha hood keeps tryin' a kill the vibes) 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
(And with the love of Rastafari we shall never die) 

Like Gregory Hines I return to the dance, (dancin'?) 
broadcast vast audio radiance, enhance 
wave hands, shake pants as I commence 
DJ wheel up drop bass then advance 
I get reactions just like Johnny Cochran 
when he compared Mark Fuhrman to that old German 
listen Herman Munster was a gangsta 
S.F.P.D. shield on his clothes gave up the answer 
to the crack freak just released from the jail 
twenty in his pocket waitin' to inhale 
takes deep breath from the piss stinkin' air 
past the drag queen wearin' other people's hair 
she snaps, "What you think you lookin' at here you look 
like Jimmy Walker wearin' Biggy Small's gear 
Get the fuck away before I make you disappear 
I don't play that freaky shit do I make myself clear." 

(Chorus) 
Badi ah-dee adi ah 
come and take a chance on a free ride 
Badi ah-dee adi ah 
come and take a chance on a free ride 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
(Madness in tha hood keeps tryin' a kill the vibes) 
Ooh Ohh take a chance on a free ride 
(And with the love of Rastafari we shall never die)