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The Hook Up

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The Hook Up was released on January 1, 2005 by Comedy Central Records, under exclusive license to 800 Pound Gorilla Records as a part of the album Notes from the G.E.D. Section

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AlbumNotes from the G.E.D. Section

Release DateJanuary 1, 2005

LabelComedy Central Records, under exclusive license to 800 Pound Gorilla Records

LanguageEnglish

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PERFORMING ARTISTS

D.L. Hughley

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

D.L. Hughley

Songwriter

Lyrics

Lot of shit I see I don't understand, man. Now, Martha Stewart is on

Trial for 58,000 dollars. That's the sum total of what she did. 58

000. Now, Warcom and Enron, them motherfuckers stole billions of

Dollars and none of them are on trial. That's the fuck I don't

Understand. She is on trial for what's called "insider trading". Now

I got a GED, so I'm gonna explain to you the best way I know how

That means some corporate officer knew some information and told her

She was able to make a profit off it. That--y'all call that "insider

Trading". Black folk call that "the hook-up". And, uh... And, to me

If you know something that can make me some money, you supposed to

Tell me. If you love me, goddammit. We have different definitions

Like, white folk, y'all call it, uh, "copyright infringement". Black

People call it "a remix". You understand what I'm saying? We just do

Different shit. Like, some of the shit y'all think is exciting just

Ain't. Like, one motherfucker went camping in the mountains of Utah

Remember this? And a rock fell on his goddamn arm, and this

Motherfucker wait five days and cut his own fucking arm off. Look

Here, it ain't even a whole lot of days went by before the option was

To cut off my fucking arm. I'd have waited 30, 40 days. Tried to lose

Some weight and slip off of my... Oh, shit. Oof. I almost had to cut

My goddamn arm off. Shit. I don't understand what's so exciting about

Camping, anyway. That's just sleeping outside. If Black people

Camping--if we sleeping outside, somebody done got evicted. That's

All the fuck that'd happen. "Daddy, we sleeping outside. Are we

Camping?" "No, son. The marshals say we can't go back in the house

So..." You know why you can camp? 'Cause you good at the shit that it

Requires. Like, you--"I-I-I have a Snicker bar and a bottle of water

And I'll cut the Snicker bar in small pieces, and I'll drink a capful

Of water, and I'll--I can survive for 40 days." Black people, we

Ain't--look here. "I'm gonna eat all this shit right now, and, uh

Pray for the best. If they don't find me in 40 minutes, I'm dead

Anyway, so fuck this shit, I..." Lot of shit is different now, man

A lot of stuff. Like, we're different kind of parents than our

Parents were, man. 'Cause now we can give our children more things

Man. That's the deal. Now we have arguments that seem silly to me

Like, "Should we put V-chips in televisions, uh, just to monitor what

Our children was watching?" When we were growing up, nobody had to

Monitor what the fuck you was watching, 'cause you had one fucking

TV. And you watched what your mama was watching. That's why everybody

In here know something about Luke and Laura. I ain't--I ain't saying

You proud of it. I'm just saying you know. Kids got shit we never

Had. Got they own fucking room. I'm 39 years old. I still ain't got

My own goddamn room. My wife in my fucking room all the goddamn time

You ever notice when a woman love you, she want to go everywhere you

Go? "I'm going to the store." "Ooh, I wanna go!" "Fuck it, I'm

Staying home. Shit. Shit." Kids get clothes the right size now. It's

Clothes that they can actually grow out of. When we was growing up

You didn't grow out of shit. 'Cause they bought you clothes that was

Too fucking big to grow out of. You three years old with them goddamn

Grown man jeans on. They don't fit, so they gotta cuff 'em up 74

Times. You grow a little bit, they uncuff 'em. Then you got them

Fucking white lines down your leg. Now everybody can tell how old

Your ass is. "You 15, huh? Ain't you 15?" Got one pair of pajamas

Supposed to last your whole life. You was little. They had the feet

In 'em. You got the feet. Your mama just cut the fucking feet off

The more you grow, the more she cut, huh? You 12 years old with

Pajama biker shorts on. By the time you 18, got shit on but a G-

String and a tube top. This, this is bullshit! I remember when we

Were growing up, children was supposed to be seen and not heard

Remember that? They'd tell you quick. You couldn't walk into the

Room when grown people was talking. They're, "Shut your ass up!

It's grown folk in here talking! I just wanted to let you grown

Folk know, the house on fire. Hope y'all talking about how to drop

And roll. This motherfucker going down. I'm gonna be in the front

Yard not saying a goddamn thing to the fire department. What

Happened, little boy? Oh, can't talk to you. You grown, ain't you?

" Now, you couldn't walk into the room when they was talking, but

They'll wake your ass up at three o'clock in the morning. They done

Had one of they card parties or fish fries. "Come on in the kitchen

Show Mama how y'all kids do the robot. Hahaha. I gotta go to

School tomorrow. You ain't gotta go 'til 10 today, is that right?

Written by: D.L. Hughley

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