One Million Bottle Bags

Album: Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black (1991)
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  • [spoken]
    Alcohol beverage companies have aimed an inordinate amount of advertising at Blacks. Billboards in inner cities, ads in hip-hop magazines. Ads on television.

    One million bottlebags count 'em
    Think they can bounce the ounce and it get 'em
    Blacks spend 288 million
    Sittin' there waitin' for the fizz
    And don't know what the fuck it is
    Oh lemme tell you 'bout shorty
    He about seventeen lookin' like forty
    Treats his 40 dog better than his G
    When he gets a big B-O-T-T-L-E
    Oh he loves the liquor
    But look watch shorty get sicker year after year
    While he's thinkin' it's beer
    But it's not but he got it in his gut
    So what the fuck (Yo G what's up!)
    Now he's hostile to a brother lookin' out
    But I ain't mad I know what he about
    He's just a slave to the bottle and the can
    Cause that's his man, the malt liquor man

    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)
    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)
    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)
    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)
    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)
    One million bottle bags!
    (What the hell is they drinking?!)

    One million bags count 'em all
    Other man gets happy, watch the killas drink 8 ball
    Don't know a damn thing but his breath stinkin'
    Then I ask a question, yo brother, what the fuck is you drinkin'
    He don't know but it flow out the bottle in a cup
    He call it gettin' fucked up like we ain't fucked up already
    See the man they call Crazy Eddie
    Liquor man with the bottle in his hand
    He give the liquor man ten to begin
    Wit' no change and he run to get his brains rearranged
    Serve it to the home they're able to do without a table
    Beside what's inside ain't on the label
    They drink it thinkin' it's good
    But they don't sell that shit in the white neighborhood
    Exposin' the plan, they get mad at me
    I understand, they're slaves to the liquor man

    Back to my homeboy shorty
    He can drink it down and think nothin' about it
    Pass it around and get the 40 dog buzz
    At the same time Shorty can't remember what day it was
    Say I'm yellin' is fact, genocide kickin' in yo back
    How many times have you seen a black fight a black
    After drinkin' down a bottle or a malt liquor six-pack

    Malt liquor bull
    What it is is bullshit Colt 45 another gun to the brain
    Who's sellin' us pain in the hood another up to no good
    Plan that's designed by the other man
    But who drink it like water
    On and on until the stores reorder it
    Brothers cry broke but they still affordin' it
    Sippin' it lickin' it drink it down, oh nooo!
    Drinkin' poison but they don't know
    It used to be wine, a dollar and a dime
    Same man, drink in another time
    They could be hard as hell and don't give a damn
    But still be a sucker to the liquor man Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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