Skillz to pay the bills

[Taxi Driver]

I was just listening to this song again cuz it's been awhile and I've got to admit it's one of my favorite. I'm surprised it never made it on Check Your Head or Ill Communication. In addition to some ill beats, it's got some really great lyrics. The only reason I can think maybe it didn't make it on is because Hurricane's scratching with the flute sample used in "Floot Loop". Here's the lyrics cuz this one is little harder to decipher but check it out.


I've got the skills to pay the bills(x4)
I'm mike d and I'm bustin' out trap kits
The time has come so I'm going to rap this
You Rip Van Winkle now you're gonna wake up
mcs pick up a hobby that you're gonna take?
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 there to tax
I'm on a crazy mission to wax bob mack
up to the top, to the very last drop
I'm making bunk from the rhymes I make
I'm selling sex rhymes by the pound
you horny MC's wont you gather round
I've got the skills to pay the bills(x4)
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
Yes rhymes on time like the hands on a clock
Well I'm an epileptic, a skept-a-cleptic
I'm cutting up the beats from?
I fucked around and then I lost my tooth
I'm telling everybody it's the goddamned truth
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 _______
I've got the skills to pay the bills(x4)
Welcome 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 outta hit the sack
the original young aboriginal
continued evolution of an individual
got so many rhymes ya know my throat is sore
it's 1992 and still no one to vote for
Well my words are what I'm seeing through my own eyes
a little vision of the truth in this world of lies
when it comes to coming off I like to get my fill
Well I got the skills
I got the skills to pay the bills(x4)

[laurie_hammy]

I still pump Skillz To The Billz regularly ;)

[jackrock]

i got the got the got the skillz to pay the bills!

i love it

[kleptomaniac]

Making mountains out of molehills and rockin' some mo' skills
butt naked beats with butt naked fills

haha i got the skillz :D (y)

[Buck Buck]

wella wella wella wella welcome back

[Jmoney77]

wella wella wella wella welcome back
Love that part

[Laver1969]

wella wella wella wella welcome back

Especially in the pre-Pageant Amsterdam show when MMM drops in a little PE and throws Horovitz off.

[GoLean]

Have you read the book "Skills to Pay the Bills"? It's a great Beastie bio, funny as hell, told by the people who made it happen. Definite must read.

[laurie_hammy]

Especially in the pre-Pageant Amsterdam show when MMM drops in a little PE and throws Horovitz off.

Yeah and Adrock forgets his lyrics. The when someone says em he's like

OH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH !

[Jmoney77]

Especially in the pre-Pageant Amsterdam show when MMM drops in a little PE and throws Horovitz off.
Poor guy

[midzi]

OH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8iprPBRMU)

[Chicka B]

OH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8iprPBRMU)

Aw that's ok, we still love him. :p

Originally Posted by Taxi Driver
Well I'm an epileptic, a skept-a-cleptic
I'm cutting up the beats from the bear I clept it.

I thought it was funny at the Gen Art show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXZ1iNaauyA&search=skills%20to%20pay%20the%20bills) when Adrock was saying "Rub a little oil on my neck and back, now listen baby doll we oughta hit the WHAT!!" Like he just realized what he was saying. :D I love that song!

[Laver1969]

OH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8iprPBRMU)

Thanks, Midzi!!! This has to be one of my favorite performance moments.

Also...as a sidenote. At the beginning, when Horovitz says something about someone being from Russia. They are talking about our very own Romanpetr. However, a bunch of girls (also from Russia) thinks Horovitz is talking to them and they're the ones who try to go on stage.

[laurie_hammy]

Thanks, Midzi!!! This has to be one of my favorite performance moments.

Also...as a sidenote. At the beginning, when Horovitz says something about someone being from Russia. They are talking about our very own Romanpetr. However, a bunch of girls (also from Russia) thinks Horovitz is talking to them and they're the ones who try to go on stage.

Yeah and he's like

"Nothing against anybody that ya know lives here already.

No we didnt say to come on stage" nice to see ya though, its nice to see ya though really.

I have watched that concert tooooo many times. And the Skills To Pay The Bills performance is one of my fav of all time. Especially when that AWSOME beat comes on and Adrock is bobbing with his arm out in front goin

"WELL IM AN EPILEPTIC".

A the end of the verse he's like

" I Fucked Around, I Lost This Tooth
Tellin Everybody Thats The God Dam TRUTH - (high pitch). HAHA such a professional. I dont care what any of yall say im the biggest Adrock fan in the world hahaha. ;)

Dam soo good, sends shivers down my spine every time.

[laurie_hammy]

Aw that's ok, we still love him. :p



I thought it was funny at the Gen Art show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXZ1iNaauyA&search=skills%20to%20pay%20the%20bills) when Adrock was saying "Rub a little oil on my neck and back, now listen baby doll we oughta hit the WHAT!!" Like he just realized what he was saying. :D I love that song!

Yeah CRAZY !!!

[Laver1969]

OH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8iprPBRMU)

I just got bump this one. This is just plain nice.

[TimDoolan]

this thread hasn't been bumped in a while

[jackrock]

thanks for the bump laver!

[Mr. Smacktackle]

OKAAYYYY!!!!

Hey, what does Mike say there? Joe something style?


This is one of my most favorite performances!!! Great scratching from MMM too!

NO ONE TO VOTE FOR!!!!!