C.P.O. feat. MC Ren - Ballad Of A Menace

Album: To Hell and Black
Released: August 7, 1990
Producer: MC Ren, DJ Train
Label: Capitol Records

CPO, Boss Hogg, or Lil Nation was a rapper signed to Ruthless Records as Lil Nation. He was the vocalist in the rap group Capital Punishment Organization or C.P.O. Capital Punishment Organization's only released album was titled To Hell and Black and was released in 1990. It was produced by and featured MC Ren (of N.W.A) and Young D. He appeared on the song "Findum, Fuckum and Flee" with N.W.A, from their 1991 album "Niggaz4Life". He later appeared as C.P.O. Boss Hogg on the soundtracks to "Above the Rim" and "Murder Was the Case", 2Pac's "All Eyez on Me", RBX's "The Shining", and Tha Eastsidaz self-titled album, among others.

"To Hell And Black" was the only album released by hip hop group CPO. Its sales figures were low and the album is not well known, despite the backing production by N.W.A. member MC Ren.

"Ballad Of A Menace" Lyrics:

[MC Ren]
Ahh yeah
We gonna get busy one time
for the motherfuckin bitches out there in Compton
To this slow, slowww, slowwwww ass beat
We got my man Chip in the house
My man Young D, my man Donovan
And I am... the incredible MC Ren
and my man Lil Nation's gonna do it somethin like this so check it out

[Lil' Nation]
This is the ballad of a menace
not to be confused with that of a grimace
I'm in this to be number one, when I step upon
and walk the streets, stalk the meat, like that of a predator
blow the brains out the head of my competitors
I'm a product of your sins, though you say I never heard of ya
A killer, dope dealer, gangsta murderer
merciless maniac, monical manipulation
Primary focus of your local police station
I roll cold in my 'llac
Pumpin sounds that are great, doin a jack move
As I groove, the gangsta melody
Heads are cracked to a nine year old
And I've been told pimpin hoes is a felony
But I'm not a doctor or lawyer I wasn't made to be
Ever Luciferic because I get paid to be
There ain't no rehabilitatin, pull a gat on your grandmother
Then take her social security
The boundary lines of my jurisdiction expands
from day to day, ruler of all I survey
And with that, load up my gat then I pack
So I can buzz on the suckers that you replenish
This is the ballad of a menace

[cut and scratched x6: Ice Cube] 'I'm a menace to society...'

'It looks like you're gonna be in the record business
You think it's a pretty good idea?' 'Oh yeah!'

[MC Ren]
This is a ballad of a menace
Ren will finish and diminish
All the suckers that thought they could flow like me that was in this
Society wishes for my death, or my downfall
But they're playin theyself, as if they playin some roundball
Cause I'm terrorizin, the territory I'm steppin on
Endangerin citizens while I'm keepin my weapon on
my hip like a psycho, cause to me it's hospitable
I just got word, the Ruthless Villain was critical
Let's get it straight, the ones that want some can come with that
Illiterate motherfuckers I make you look dumb with that
Stumble and fumble cause I'ma crush til you crumble
So you can stutter and stutter but keep it down to a mumble
MC Ren, is never taken as the sucker
In other words, I'm a bad motherfucker!
So next time I walk your streets you should know
To lock your doors, and close your windows
And if you was thinkin that protection could stop me
It takes a continent, full of niggaz to drop me
And for me to be vicious yo it's valid
While I'm conductin and producin
a ballad of a motherfuckin menace

[cut and scratched x8: Ice Cube] 'I'm a menace to society...'

[Young D]
I carry my balls just like a gauge
Nobody's safe when I'm enraged
Sacrifice the suckers and weak motherfuckers
that run in fear, I'm the menace to misery
Answer the knock at your door and open the AK delivery
Best known for bein unsympathetic when I pick em
Cause sympathy is for the pathetic and to the victim
kill em and kill another mercy my only incapacity
started by killin my own mother
Maniacal madman, son of Mephisto
Fine to go to Hell, since I was an embryo
A criminal, cold standin in a gangsta pose
Steppin with Ren the Villain slappin up all the hoes
Your mother your sister your daughter your wife
And if you was reincarnated I would snatch your second life
In it for the money, down for me myself and I
you see, and fuck the community
I know in conclusion that death is my destiny
But fuck it, be shootin motherfuckers that's left to me
So write my malevolent epitath, put it in the book of Guiness
And title it, The Ballad of a Menace

[cut and scratched to fade: Ice Cube] 'I'm a menace to society...'