No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Album: Licensed to Ill (1986)
Charted: 14
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  • No sleep 'til
    Brooklyn

    Foot on the pedal
    Never ever false metal
    Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
    My job ain't a job
    It's a damn good time
    City to city, I've been running my rhymes
    On location
    Touring 'round the nation
    Beastie Boys always on vacation
    Itchy trigger finger
    But a stable turntable
    I do what I do best
    Because I'm willing and able
    Ain't no faking
    Your money I'm taking
    Going coast to coast to watch all the girlies shaking
    While you're at the job working nine to five
    The Beastie Boys at the Garden
    Cold kickin' it live

    No sleep 'til

    Another plane
    Another train
    Another bottle in the brain
    Another girl
    Another fight
    Another drive all night
    Our manager's crazy
    He always smokes dust
    He's got his own room at the back of the bus
    Tour around the world
    You rock around the clock
    Plane to hotel
    Girls on the jock
    We're trashing hotels like it's going out of style
    Getting paid along the way
    'Cause it's worth your while
    Four on the floor Ad-Rock's out the door
    MCA's in the back 'cause he's skeezin' with a whore
    We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack
    With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back
    (White boys got more rhymes)

    No sleep 'til
    No sleep 'til Brooklyn, no sleep 'til Brooklyn

    Ain't seen the light since we started this band
    M.C.A. get on the mic, my man
    Born and bred Brooklyn
    The U.S.A.
    They call me Adam Yauch
    But I'm MCA
    Like a lemon to a lime
    A lime to a lemon
    I sip the def ale with all the fly women
    Limos, arenas and TV-shows
    Autograph pictures and classy hoes
    Step off Holmes
    Get out of my way
    Taxing little girlies from here to L.A.
    Waking up
    Before I get to sleep
    'Cause I'll be rockin' this party eight days a week

    No sleep 'till
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn (yeah)

    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn

    No sleep 'till Brooklyn
    No sleep 'till Brooklyn Writer/s: Adam Keefe Horovitz, Adam Nathaniel Yauch, Michael Louis Diamond, Rick Rubin
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Brooklyn Ex Pat from MinnesotaBrooklyn is God's Country
  • Dave from Greer, Sc"Kerry King "intentionally" played out of tune... and he's been doing it ever since."

    Lol, it's funny because it's true
  • Luke from Manchester, UkKerry King "intentionally" played out of tune... and he's been doing it ever since.
  • Camille from Toronto, OhA fabulous anthem for the 1980's.
  • Jerry from Brooklyn, NyThis song is awsome, and if u like it enough u can play it on Guitar Hero World tour!
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