Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Runnin' for your life, by the knife
Runnin' from your wife, yikes!
You should've stuck with home
Off your mind to blow your dome
It was you that chose your doom
You built the maze you can't get through

I tried to help you all I can
Now I can't do nuttin' for you man

[Hook]
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You got all these people on your back now

I can't do nuttin' for ya man
Flavor Flav got problems of his own
I can't do nuttin' for you man
Go lean on Shell's Answer Man
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You jumped out of the jelly into a jam

[Verse 2]
Makin' love to wrong instead of right
Not a thief cat burglar through the night
Cop told your girl her name was Shirl
About a rooftop crime to steal her pearls
Uzi down the bullets in the gun
Just microwave themselves a ton

Lord, you tried to help them all they can
But they couldn't do nuttin' for ya man
[Pre-Hook]
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
They couldn't do nuttin' for you man
Yo G, listen

[Verse 3]
Flavor Flav is the sun
Public Enemy number one

Gotcha runnin' from the gun (Pow!)
Of a brain that weighs a ton

Can't face my facts that's on the shelf
Cause you want a handout for your wealth

Eatin' welfare turkey out the can
I can't do nuttin' for ya man

[Hook]
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You want six dollars for what?
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
You better, man, kiss my butt
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
I'm busy tryin' to do for me!
I can't do nuttin' for ya man
That's the way the ball bounces, G

[Outro]
Bass for your face
Yo man
I can’t do nuttin'
Nuttin' for ya
I tried to tell ya
Rock that shit homey
Yo G, listen
I ain’t tryin to hear that
Kick that shit
You on welfare
Your mother got gold nipples
You got a rip in your couch
Wash your butt
(Kick that shit)
(laughing)

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Flavor Flav ignores the plight of a friend in his own inimitable style (and finds time to play the dozens) on this light-hearted number off of Fear of a Black Planet

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