Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Beastie Boys
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michael Diamond
Songwriter
Adam Yauch
Songwriter
Adam Keefe Horovitz
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Beastie Boys
Producer
Mario Caldato Jr.
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I've got the skills to pay the bills
I got the, got the, got the skills to pay the bills
I wanna get the skills to pay the bills
(What you got?) I got the skills to pay the bills
[Verse 2]
I'm Mike D and I'm bustin' out trap kits
The time has come so I'm going to rap this
You're Rip Van Winkle now you're gonna wake up
MC's pick up a hobby that you're gonna take up
[Verse 3]
Well on the stage I'm known to break fool
But when I'm at the table it's the Futterman's rule
Workin' on my game 'cause it's time to tax
I'm on a crazy mission to wax Bob Mack (Shit)
[Verse 4]
Up to the top till the very last drop
I'll make you tapes of the rhymes I say
I'm selling sex rhymes by the pound
The horny MC is what you're getting, around my
[Verse 5]
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 y'all
[Verse 6]
So I 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
And yes, rhymes on time like the hands of a clock
[Verse 7]
Well I'm an epileptic, a skep-a-cleptic
I'm cutting up the beats from the bare detective
I fucked around and then I lost my tooth
I'm telling everybody it's the goddamn truth
[Verse 8]
Like Dennis Coffey, I'm a Scorpio
Like my man Schneider, I'm a super ho
Making mountains out of molehills and rockin' some mo' skills
Butt naked beats with butt naked fills
[Verse 9]
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 y'all
[Verse 10]
Ah wel-a, wel-a, wel-a, wel-a welcome back
I don't sell bullets and I don't sell crack
Rub a little oil on my neck and back
Now listen, baby doll, we oughta hit the sack
[Verse 11]
The original Young Aboriginal
Continued evolution of an individual
Got so many rhymes that you know my throat is sore
It's 1992 and still no one to vote for
[Verse 12]
Well 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
[Verse 13]
I got the skills to pay the bills y'all
I got the, got the, got the skills to pay the bills
(What you got Mike?) My skills to pay the bills
Ah yeah, I got the skills to pay the bills y'all
[Verse 14]
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
[Verse 15]
I got skills to pay the bills
Money money, makin' money
Written by: Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Michael Diamond


