Skills To Pay The Bills - Beastie Boys

I’ve got the skills to pay the bills, yo

I got the got the got the skills to pay the bills

I’ve got the skills to pay the bills

Ah what you got, I got the skills to pay the bills

I’m Mike D and I’m bustin' out trap kits (Haha)

The time has come so I’m going to rap this (yeah)

You Rip Van Winkle, (c'mon, c’mon) now you’re gonna wake up

MC’s, pick up a hobby that you’re gonna' take up

Well, on the stage I’m known to break fool, huh

But when I’m at the table it’s the Futterman’s rule (wohoo)

Workin' on my game cause it’s time to tax

I’m on a crazy mission to wax Bob Mack, shit

Up to the top, 'till the very last drop (yeah)

I’ll make you tapes of the rhymes I say

I’m selling sex rhymes by the pound

You horny MC’s, I watch you getting around my… agh shit

The skills to pay the bills

I got the got the got the skills to pay the bills

I got the got the got the skills to pay the bills

I got the skills to pay the bills, ya’ll

So it better pull through when it comes to me

Let it go down like it’s supposed to be

Words together like birds in a flock

Ah yes rhymes on time like the hands on a clock

Well I’m an epileptic, a skept-a-cleptic, check it

I’m cutting up the beats from the bear, I clept it

I fucked around and then I lost my tooth ahaa

I’m telling everybody it’s the goddamn truth

Like Dennis Coffey, I’m a Scorpio (scorpio)

Like my man Schneider, I’m a super ho (super ho)

Making mountains out of molehills and rockin' some mo' skills

Butt naked beats with butt naked fills

I got the skills — what skills

To pay the bills

I got the skills — what skills

To pay the bills

I got the skills — what skills

To pay the bills

I got the skills to pay the bills ya’ll

Hu-hu-hu-haa

A-wella', wella', wella', wella', welcome back

I don’t sell bullets and I don’t sell crack

Rub a little oil on my neck and back, shit

Now listen baby doll, we outta hit the sack

The original, Young Aboriginal (oohoo)

Continued evolution of an individual, well I’ll tell ya

Got so many rhymes ya know my throat is sore

It’s 1992 and still no one to vote for

Well, like my words is what I’m seeing through my own eyes

A little vision of the truth in a world of lies

When it comes to coming off I like to get my fill

Well I got the skills

I got the skills to pay the bills, y’all

I got the got the got the skills to pay the bills

Uhh what you got Mike — my skills to pay the bills

Agh yea, I got the skills to pay the bills, y’all

Wooo, getta got gotta got gotta got some

We got the mad skills in '92, boy

Yeah, you know what I’m saying

Skills… to pay the bills

Skills y’all I got skills to pay the bills

Skills y’all Skills to pay the bills

What skills skills skills to pay the bills

Yeah yeah skills to pay the bills

What skills money money

What skills makin' ah money money

What skills makin' makin' makin' money

What skills makin' makin' money

What skills ya’ll gotta' pay the bills

I got skills y’all to pay the bills

I got skills ya’ll

I got I got a I got a I got a got the skills y’all.

My skills to pay the bills.

Mario C, ya he’s paid the bills

Mike D, y’all, you know I pay the bills

And AdRock, yeah, let’s pay the bills