Wu-Tang Clan feat. Isaac Hayes – I Can’t Go To Sleep
Album: The W
Year: 2000
Track: 9
Track Produced By: RZA
Samples: “Walk On By” by Isaac Hayes
Lyrics:
[Ghostface Killah]
Technique is ill son, watch how I spill one
Peace to Biggie Tupac Big L and Big Pun
Havoc on the streets of Staten, snitches
House niggaz children watch as they produce the same pattern
Somebody raped our women, murdered our babies
Hit us with the cracks and guns in the early 80’s
FOR THOSE THAT MURDERED ME SHALL STAND BEFORE GOD
TO FALL AT THE HANDS OF FATE, THEN OUT COMES THE ROD
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back,
bring it back, bring it back.. [record run backwards]
What the fuck is goin on? I can’t go to sleep
Feds jumpin out they jeeps, I can’t go to sleep
Babies with flies on the cheeks, it’s hard to go to sleep
Ish bowled two sixes twice, I couldn’t go to sleep
Aiyyo we deep in the stairs, we carry (?) guns
(?) got, hit up with the big shit, bam-bam
Stop at the cheeba spot, then pass the leak spot
So past y’all niggaz again, you took a cheap shot
Not knowin FUCKIN WITH ME, you get your meat chopped
YOU THOUGHT WE FELL ON OUR FACE? YOU NEED TO BE STOPPED
CALL ON THE CHARIOTS, CALL ON AN AMBULANCE
YOU BETTER SMILE MY NIGGA, YOU ON CANDID CAM
Gangsta broad, these be the laws, walk with big balls
Nigga motherfuckin eunuch, I even take which was yours
I’m the nigga that made you man
When your rap wasn’t doin well, I’m the nigga that gave you a hand!
[Isaac Hayes]
Don’t kill your brother, let’s love each other
Don’t get mad.. cause it ain’t that bad
Just be who you are.. you’ve come so far
It’s in your hands, just be a man
Get the jelly out your spine!
Cobwebs, out of your mind
[RZA]
I can’t go to sleep, I can’t shut my eyes
They shot the father of his moms, killed him seven times
They shot Malcolm in the chest front of his little seeds
Jesse watched, as they shot King on the balcony
They spat at Marcus, Garvey cause he tried to spark us
with the knowledge of ourselves, and our forefathers
Ohh Jacqueline you heard the rifle shots cracklin
Her husband head in her hair, you tried to put it back in
AMERICA’S WATCHIN, BLOOD STAINED INK BLOTCHES
MEDGAR TOOK ONE TO THE SKULL FOR INTERGRATING COLLEGE
WHAT’S THE SCIENCE? SOMEBODY? THIS IS TRICK KNOWLEDGE
THEY TRY TO KEEP US ENSLAVED AND STILL SCRAPE FOR DOLLARS
Walkin through Park Hill, drunk as a (FUCK)
Lookin around like, these (DEVILS), I’m ready to break this world down
They got me trapped up in a metal gate, just stressed out with hate
And just, give me no time to relax, and use my mind to meditate
What should I do? Grab a blunt or a brew?
Grab a two-two and run out there AND PUT THIS FUCKIN VIOLENCE IN YOU?
I can’t go to sleep, I can’t shut ’em son.. I..
[Isaac Hayes – overlapping RZA at the end]
Don’t like the game, nigga use your head
You should be callin the shots instead
The power is in your hands..
Stop all this cryin, and be a man
Ghostface killah is truly one of the greatest MC's ever. The verse and the flow has no equal, not even close! Truly, I love Wu forever for what they've given the world.
i just scim thru this and realized this song got sampled by Beyonce 6inch feat.The Weeknd….and i'm like………WOW but yea this original is the shit and i don't know anything about Wu-Tang Clan growing up but that 1 song gravil Pit..
yes, the Ghostface Verse is dope and the cry-rapping is legendary, but I have always loved RZA's Verse too. and of course, 0:55 – 1:16 is undeniably epic. such a powerful feeling as this in ANY type of music is not as common as one might imagine. it still manages to give me goosebumps, the same as it did when this album dropped, back when I was in middle school.
RZA IS one of the most slept on emcees ever ans he produced all this shit and movie soundtracks for quentin tarantina and Martin Scorcesi and others…..writes and produced his his own movies…has a flow different then anyone's..and he don't give a shit no political correctness. like in "domestic violence" guys a walking hip-hop machine
Ghostface killah is truly one of the greatest MC's ever. The verse and the flow has no equal, not even close!
Truly, I love Wu forever for what they've given the world.
unique song. no other one like this.
i just scim thru this and realized this song got sampled by Beyonce 6inch feat.The Weeknd….and i'm like………WOW but yea this original is the shit and i don't know anything about Wu-Tang Clan growing up but that 1 song gravil Pit..
Nice to hear the chef out of south park is still getting high
Pure hiphop
Chef on a Wu-Tang song who would've thought
Isaac Hayes and that guitar at the end
I'm that nigga who gave you head????
yes, the Ghostface Verse is dope and the cry-rapping is legendary, but I have always loved RZA's Verse too.
and of course, 0:55 – 1:16 is undeniably epic. such a powerful feeling as this in ANY type of music is not as common as one might imagine. it still manages to give me goosebumps, the same as it did when this album dropped, back when I was in middle school.
I just want to find someone to talk about how amazing this verse is
Ghost… what a fuckin delivery
Technique is ill son/ Watch how I spill one
Peace to Biggie, 2Pac, Big L, and Big Pun!… that boy good!
Legendary
Lil Wayne copied this smooth ass style. Word up to hip hop.
The WTC took it back to Stax records!
" Hit us with the crack and guns in the early 80's, for those that murdered me shall stand before God. "
I love this collaboration
This hit so hard
This shit makes me levitate
Ghostface: TBE
Ghost feat. Chef the chef
This song is amazing. The emotion in it really hits and I get chills every time I hear the “America’s watching” line.
RZA IS one of the most slept on emcees ever ans he produced all this shit and movie soundtracks for quentin tarantina and Martin Scorcesi and others…..writes and produced his his own movies…has a flow different then anyone's..and he don't give a shit no political correctness. like in "domestic violence" guys a walking hip-hop machine
Before Griselda.
Dont get mad, coz it ain't that bad.
Wu tang is family i don't know any of you but we family stay real and protect the neck
Love this song
Much Appreciation.
Wu lives matter
Sleep when you're dead. Wu tang forever!!!!
What RZA said hurts so bad. "Medger to one to the skull for integrating college"
Ghost killed this shit…
That whole fucking album is a motherfucking masterpiece!
The insomniac anthem
this is what I call rap music when rap was telling stories about life I used to rap this song all the time because it's my favorite song
2020 Ghostface and RZA can’t still go to sleep
Crying and rapping! Ghost is a Beast..
BLACK LIVES MATTER ANTHEM
When I got this album this song stuck with me its haunting I get chills from it
I can't go to sleep, I can't shut my eyes, this coronavirus hoax is nothing but lies
Wu Tang 2020 baby.