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The Low End Theory
by Tribe Called Quest
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The Low End Theory Lyrics
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- [vocal interludes sampled from "Time is Running Out" by The Last Poets]
- [Q-Tip]
- Back in the days when I was a teenager
- Before I had status and before I had a pager
- You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
- My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
- I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles
- The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael
- Its all expected, things are for the lookin
- If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin
- Come on everybody, let's get with the fly modes
- Still got room on the truck, load the back boom
- Listen to the rhyme, to get a mental picture
- of this black man, through black woman victim
- Why do I say that, cuz I gotta speak the truth man
- Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
- Planted on the ground, the act is so together
- Bonafied strong, you need leverage to sever
- The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz is
- deliberatley cheered LP filled with streeet goods
- You can find it on the rack in your record store (store)
- If you get the record, then your thoughts are adored
- and appreciated, cause we're ever so glad we made it
- We work hard, so we gotta thank God
- Dishin out the plastic, do the dance till you spastic
- If you dis... it gets drastic
- Listen to the rhymes, cuz its time to make gravy
- If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby
- All the way to Africa a.k.a. The Motherland (uh)
- Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
- That's the right hand, Black Man (man)
- Only if you was noted as my man (man)
- If I get the credit, then I'll think I deserve it
- If you fake moves, don't fix your mouth to word it
- Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity
- Cuz we gotta strive for longevity
- If you botch up, what's in that (ass) (what?)
- A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half (come on, come on)
- [Chorus:]
- We gotta make moves
- Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)[4X]
- Drifting toward an average of nothingness
- Until it can be retarded for it's own destiny
- TIME is an inanimate object
- Praying and praying and praying for ??
- Time is DANCING, moving lingering all memories of past.."
- The Last Poets
- You gotta be a winner all the time
- Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
- With the dope raps and dope tracks for you for blocks
- From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
- Musically the Quest, is on the rise
- We on these Excursions so you must realize
- that continually, I pop my Zulu
- If you don't like it, get off the Zulu tip
- So what could you do in the times which exist
- You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis
- But if your sis is a (bitch), brother is a jerk
- Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
- Whatever it may be in today's society
- Everything is fair, at least that how it seems to me
- You must be honest and true to the next
- Don't be phony and expect one not to flex
- Especially if you rhyme, you have to live by the pen
- Your man is your man, then treat him like your friend
- All it is, is the code of the streets
- So listen to the knowledge bein dropped over beats
- Beats that are hard, beats that are funky
- It could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
- What you gotta do to is know that the Tribe is in the sphere
- The Abstract Poet, prominent like Shakespeare
- [Chorus]
- Edgar Allan Poe, it don't stop (uh!)
- and whites blacks and reporters at night
- Everytime you see them ?? with their tongues hangin out
- Time is running and past and passing and running
- Running and past and passing and running (excursions)"
- [Phife Dawg]
- Yo, microphone check one two what is this
- The five foot assassin with the ruffneck business
- I float like gravity, never had a cavity
- Got more rhymes than the Winans got family
- No need to sweat Arsenio to gain some type of fame
- No shame in my game cause I'll always be the same
- Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have
- You wanna diss the Phifer but you still don't know the half
- I sport New Balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path
- Messin round with this you catch ?the sizin of em?
- I never half step cause I'm not a half stepper
- Drink a lot of soda so they call me Dr. Pepper
- Refuse to com-pete with BS competition
- Your name ain't Special Ed so won't you Seckle With the Mission
- I never walk the streets, think it's all about me
- Even though deep in my heart, it really could be
- I just try my best to like go all out
- Some might even say yo shorty black you're buggin' out
- [Q-Tip]
- Uhhh, uhhh, uhhh, uh!
- Zulu Nation, brothers that's creation
- Minds get flooded, ejaculation
- right on the two inch tape
- The Abstract poet incognito, runsss the cape
- Not the best not the worst and occasionally I curse to get my
- point across, so bust, the floss
- As I go in betweeen, the grit and the dirt
- Listen to the mission listen Miss as I do work, umm
- as I crack the, monotone
- Children of the jazz so, get your own
- Smokin R&B cause they try to do me
- or the best of the pack but they can't do rap
- For it's Abstract, orig-inal
- You can't get your own and that's, pitiful
- I know I'd be the man if I cold yanked the plug
- on R&B, but I can't and that's bugged
- Buggin out, buggin out, buggin out you're buggin out[x8]
- [Phife Dawg]
- Yo when you bug out, you usually have a reason for the action
- Sometimes you don't it's just for mere satisfaction
- People be houndin, always surroundin
- Pulsin, just like a migraine poundin
- You don't really fret, you stay in your sense
- ?Comafied? your feeling, of absolute tense
- You soar off to another world, deep in your mind
- But people seem to take that, as being unkind
- A man of the fame not a man of the people
- Believe that if you wanna but I tell you this much
- Riding on the train with no dough, sucks
- Once again a case of your feet in my Nike's
- If a crowd is in my realm I'm saying -- mic please
- Hip-hop is living, can't yank the plug
- if you do the result, will end up kind of bugged
- [Q-Tip]
- Yo, I am not an invalid although I used to smoke the weed out
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad used to say I had to be out
- Schemin on the cookies with the crazy boomin back buns
- Pushin on the real ?hardest? so we can have the big fun
- When I left for Rosie I was Boulevard status
- Battling a MC was when Tip was at his baddest
- It was one MC after one MC
- What the world could they be wanting see from little old me
- Do I have the formula to save the world?
- Or was it just because I used to swipe the women and all the girls
- I'm the type of brother with the crazy extended hand kid
- Dissed by all my brothers I was all up what my man did
- Supposed to be my man but now I wonder cause you're feeble
- I go out with the strongest and I seperate the evils
- it's your brain against my mind, for those about to boot out
- All you nasty critters even though you see I bug out
- Buggin out, buggin out, buggin out you're buggin out[x8]
- [Q-Tip]
- It's a fly love song
- To the effect of nothing, effective fronting
- is what I don't allow so let me tell you something
- I am a bon-a-fide
- Not too modest and not a lot of pride
- Soon to have a ride and a home to reside
- if my momma is sick I'm by her beside
- Used to watch the show on channel 4 called Riptide
- Wash my wears in-Tide cause it's too damn cold
- out-Tide, that's how the runnings go
- If there ain't no dough then there ain't no show
- So take your roly poly fat promoter (ass)
- to the Chemical Bank, and get my cash
- If you wanna see the people scream and laugh
- You best Quest you ask the Quest you ask real fast
- Cause I don't wanna see em, start buckin
- Throwin chairs in the air while you be duckin
- what what? Don't step to me with that
- If you promotin the show make sure it ain't wack
- [sings]
- Or else I'm leaving ("let me tell you")
- I'm leaving ([cut and scratched]
- I'm leaving ([cut and scratched]
- Your wack show
- [Q-Tip]Yo man whassup with that?
- [Phife]Yo don't sweat me...
- ... c'mon, five hundred, that was the deal
- [Q-Tip]C'mon man, don't try to play me out
- [Phife]We don't need you, sorry!!!
- [Q-Tip]You know you need me
- [drum roll]
- [Q-Tip]
- And the Abstract rapper says
- I want chicken, and orange juice, ?dat sauce on my rider?
- And my occasional potato by Oreida
- Don't forget my pastry make sure they're tasty
- I'm not the type to be pushy or hasty
- See I'm the type of bro that's reared in the ghetto
- Took a few shorts before
- Now the only ones I take are the ones that I wear
- Ain't takin no shorts no more, now
- please act proper 'fore I call the CrimeStoppers
- Don't dip on the dough, cause that's a no-no
- Make sure you count your money real slow
- Be alert, look alive, and act like ya know
- It's, the 90's, time to make moves
- Not, the 80's, do away withcha womb
- So what? You got a crew
- I got one too, they're called the Brooklyn Zoo
- Don't break fool, let's be reserved and cool
- We don't have to act like we in grade school
- Just make sure that we're taken care of
- And we'll do a fly show for ya bub, check it out
- Diggi-dang-diggi-dang, di-dang-ga-dang-a-diddy
- Diggi-dang-diggi-dang, di-dang-ga-dang-a-diddy
- Diggi-dang-diggi-dang, di-dang-ga-dang-a-diddy
- Diggi-dang-diggi-dang, di-dang-ga-dang-diggy-diggy
- [Verse One: Phife Dawg]
- 1988 Senior Year, Garvey High
- Where all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly
- Loungin with the Tipster, Coolin with Sha
- Scopin out the honeys - they know who they are
- I was the b-ball playin fly rhyme sayin
- Fly girl gettin but never was I sweatin
- Cause when it came to honeys I would go on a stroll
- Until I met my match - her name was Flo
- Yeah - I messed around with the one called Flo
- All the troopers round the way used to call her a ho
- But deep down in my heart I knew that Flo was good to go
- Cause I thought it was me - like Bell Biv Devoe
- But little did I know that she was playin' with my mind
- The only thing I learned is, good girls are hard to find
- I feel like Heavy D I need somebody for me
- Not someone who's mind is blank and tryin' to juice me for my bank
- Swingin' with my main man Lucky behind my back
- What type of crap is that - yo, hows about a smack?
- Word life, I can't front - thought I was all that
- But now it seems, I met my match
- Was a stone cold lover, you couldn't tell me jack
- Settlin' down with one girl, wasn't tryin' to hear that
- I had Tonya, Tamika, Sharon, Karen
- Tina, Stacy, Julie, Tracy
- Used ta love 'em, leave 'em, skeeze 'em, tease 'em
- Find 'em, lose 'em - also abuse 'em
- My whole attitude was new day, next hon
- And believe it or not, they all got done
- Well here comes Flo, with the crazy whip appeal
- And I'm all true man, like Alexander O'Neal
- Is this really love, then again, how would I know
- After all this time tryin' to be a superhoe
- She finally played me, but yo, I'd find another
- Cause I got the crazy game and yo, I'm smooth like butter
- [Chorus: Q-Tip]
- Butter, like butter baby . . .[x2]
- Not no Parkay, not no margarine,
- Strickly butter baby, strictly butter
- [Verse Two: Phife Dawg]
- I remember when,
- Girls were goodie two shoes, but now they turned to freaks
- Allofasudden "We love you Phife" - ease of ho, my name's Malik
- Phife this, Phife that, where you goin', where you at
- These girls don't know me from jack, yet I feel like the Mack
- You didn't want me then, so hon, don't want me now
- Here, Here - take the towel, wipe off your brow
- And take the Ccontact out your eye, you're far from lookin' fly
- You get an E for effort, and T for nice try
- Now tell me what's the reason, for dyin' your hair
- Slum village gold still danglin in your ear
- You barely have a neck but still sportin' a rope
- Four-finger ring just so Phifer can scope
- You looked in the mirror, didn't know what to do
- Yesterday your eyes were brown but today they are blue
- Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true
- And if you really loved yourself then you would try and be you
- If your hair and eyes were real, I wouldn't have dissed ya
- But since it was bought, I had to dismiss ya
- If you can't achieve it, then why not try and weave it
- If you can't extend it then you might as well suspend it
- If you can't braid it, best thing to do is fade it
- I asked who did your hair and you tell me "Diane made it"
- If you were you and just you, talk to you, maybe
- But I can't stand, no bionic lady
- Tryin' hard to look fly, but yo, you're lookin' dumber
- If I wanted someone like you I woulda swung with Jamie Summers
- You wanna be treated right, see Father MC
- Or check Ralph Tresvant, for sens-a-tiv-i-ty
- See I am not the one, I got more game than Parker Brothers
- Phife Dog is on the mic and I'm smooth like Butter . . .
- [Q-Tip:]
- I had a dream about my man last night
- And my man came by the studio
- And his name is...
- Busta Rhymes in effect, Shaheed is in effect
- Phife Did-awg is in effect
- Check it out and give me my 'spect
- I'm movin, yes I'm groovin cuz my mouth is on the motor
- Use the Coast in the mornin to avoid the funky odor
- Can't help bein funky, I'm the funky Abstract brotha
- Funky in a sense, but I play the undacova
- Once had a fettish, fettish for some booty
- Now I'm gettin funky and my rappin, that's my duty
- Brothas tend to jock on the style in particular
- If you got the ego like some brothas, then I'll get with ya
- But if I don't pursue, then I just don't give a (fuck)
- My motto in the 90's is be happy makin bucks
- Girls love the jim, cuz it causes crazy friction
- When it goes up in and fluctuates the diction
- I still understand the (uh!) cuz that's what I met her for
- I'm hooked on the swings, so just call me the music whore
- Women love the voice, brothas dig the lyrics
- Quest the people's choice, we thrive it for the spirit
- If you can't hear it, then get the wax utensils
- Write my rhymes straight up, don't get with no fancy stensils
- The rhymes we get is sweet, we stay away from tart
- Our perfection is at work, perkin up the art
- If you want to battle, I suggest you check your clock
- Your demise is comin up and I want your man to watch
- Be the prime example, I deep instilled the sample
- Insignificance, here I'll place you on the mantle
- Born up in Harlem, reside down in Jamaica
- The girl I used to rock, her moms was a claker
- Now what does that make her? The evil money taker?
- The crazy move faker, I used that to break her
- [Vinia Mojica singing in the background]
- Phife is in the house, Uncle Mike is in the house
- Bob Power is in the house, Tim Latham is in the house
- Wise Men is in the house, Brand Nubs is in the house
- The J Beez, they in the house and De La, they in the house
- I must regroup my thoughts and kick the next ones for my people
- Please don't be deceived by ugly slice of evil
- The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket
- Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it
- Don't move to rebuttal, wave your hand for action
- The ladies of the '90's want more than satisfaction
- They want keys and Gs, and all those illy things
- If you want to, I'll show you, just what the Ab can bring
- I keep a tight net with my brothas Ken and Kenny
- If the question is of rhymes, then I'll tell ya, I got plenty
- The thing that men and women need to do is stick together
- Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever
- I hooked this funky beat with the loop and the feature
- With the funky singin by Miss Vinia Mojica
- So listen because the Quest is led through the underground
- My people been up on Quest to long, no more will we be down
- People tend to riff cuz they don't know the mental
- People tend to bug cuz their beats are hard but gentle
- Afro kinda lurks through the body of this youngun'
- Play like Bobby Byrd on your back and your comin to
- The house of the jazz, of the funk, of the rhythm
- All the goods are welcome, but if you're a villain
- I'll just wait and debate, contemplate your arrival
- If flexin is your motive, then you don't like survival
- The Abstract is speakin, the hard beats is reachin
- The Black and Puerto Ricans
- Cuz their butt naked, streakin through the ever murky streets
- Of the urbanized areas
- Blastin out the speakers is the hip hop hysteria
- Craig is in the house, Pete Rock is in the house
- CL is in the house, Ultra Mag is in the house
- Nice and Smooth is in the house, Big Daddy Kane is in the house
- Beatnuts is in the house, Special Ed is in the house
- Yeah[7X]
- This one goes out to my man
- Thanks alot Ron Carter on the bass
- Yes my man Ron Carter is on the bass
- Now check it out
- Born into the 91 decade
- You gotta say the Quest is on
- And goddamn it, yes the Quest is on
- And we out!
- (feat. Diamond D, Lord Jamar And Sadat X)
- [Verse 1]
- [Q-Tip]
- Let me tell you 'bout the snakes, the fakes, the lies
- The highs at all of these industry shing-dings
- Where you see the pretty girls
- In the high animated world
- Checkin' for a rapper with all the dough
- If you take a shit they want to know
- And if you're gonna fall, they won't be around, y'all
- So you still wanna do the show business?
- And you think that you got what it takes?
- I mean you really gotta rap and be all that
- And prepare yourself for the breaks
- Check it out!
- Do you wanna be in the business? (The Business)
- The ups and downs with the hoes (The Business)
- Always gettin' fronted on at shows (The Business)
- People gotta stick their nose (In the Business)
- [Verse 2]
- [Q-Tip]
- Yo, I gotta speak on the cesspool
- It's the rap industry and it ain't that cool
- Only if you're on stage or if you're speakin' to your people
- Ain't no-one your equal
- Especially on the industry side
- Don't let the games just glide
- Right through your fingers, you gotta know the deal
- So Lord Jamar speak, because you're real...
- [Lord Jamar]
- They're givin' you the business and puttin' on a show
- You're a million dollar man that ain't got no dough
- But you got a ho tickets backstage to a show
- Sedated and at that fact they elated
- Time pass and your ass say "Where's my loot?"
- The reply is a kick in the ass from a leg and a boot
- All you wanna do is taste the fruit
- But in the back they're makin' fruit juice
- You ask for slack and wanna get cut loose from the label
- Not able cos you signed at the table
- For a pretty cash advance, now they got a song and dance
- That you didn't recoup, more soup wit' ya meal?
- Cos this is the real when you get a record deal
- And I say...
- [Phife]
- Aw....shucks, look what the cat hauled in
- It's Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest, let me begin
- Like Chuck D, I got so much trouble on my mind
- 'bout these no-talent artists gettin' signed, they can't rhyme
- And if that ain't bad, you got bootleggers
- Goin' out like suckers, motherfuckers
- Feel it's time that I let loose the lion
- And if not that then I'll commence to head flyin'
- Seems in '91 everybody want a rhyme
- And then you go and sell my tape for only $5.99?
- Please nigga, I've worked too hard for this
- No more will I take the booty end of the stick
- Bogus brothers makin' albums when they know they can't hack it
- Cos they lyrics is played like 8-Ball jackets
- Now tell me I can't tear it up
- Go get yourself some toilet paper cos your lyrics is butt
- Do you wanna be in the business? (The Business)
- People can't walk a straight line in (The Business)
- Some of these brothers can't rhyme in (The Business)
- A-yo, I'm tryna get mine (The Business)
- [Verse 3]
- [Sadat X]
- The party scene is cool, but then again it's all the same
- You see the same faces, but at different places
- When you're up and ridin' high everything is palsy-palsy
- Get a million pounds and all the skins give you hugs
- Well that's cool, I can dig it, it really ain't my bag
- Prefer to max on the side and let my pants sag
- But I wasn't that cute when I didn't have no loot
- Although I hit a pound of herbs I'm still nice with the verbs
- So fuck what you heard
- The born cipher, cipher master makes me think much faster
- But critics still continue to plaster
- My name and discredit my fame
- All that shit is game
- And I don't really give a damn
- Eat from the tree of life and throw away the verbal ham
- [Diamond D]
- Well, excuse me, I gotta add my two cents in
- Don't be alarmed, the rhyme was condensed in
- A matter of minutes so it must be told
- All that glitters' not gold
- Everybody wants a deal, help me make a demo
- See my name in bright lights, ride around in a limo
- My moms keeps beefin' ("Boy, get a job")
- But I wanna make jams, damn, I know I'll slam
- Huh, well it's not that easy
- You gotta get a label that's willin' and able
- To market and promote, and you better hope
- (For what?) That the product is dope
- Take it from Diamond, it's like mountain climbin'
- When it comes to rhymin' you gotta put your time in
- Get a good lawyer so problems won't pile
- You don't wanna make a pitch that's wild.
- [Q-Tip:]
- Let me flaunt the style (style), I think that the time's near
- That we drop studs (studs), there will be no duds here
- Rappers play the dumb (dumb), kinda on the space tip
- But when they hear the jams (jams), they be on the dilsnick
- Now I'm not for the rock (rock), I know the territory
- Go ahead and try (try), that's a different story
- Similar to Grimm (Grimm), I could write a better one
- All about a kid (kid), who couldn't rap and didn't run
- Stand (stand) aside (aside), when the rap is gettin dumb
- Resort to baggin Billy (Billy), askin can he have some
- No, never ever (ever) come back and try again man
- If you come back (back), I'll be the first to shake your hand
- Competitions good (good), it brings out the vital parts
- The Abstract Poetic ('etic), majors in recital arts
- Do it for the kids (kids), the elders and the rap peers
- When the job is done (done), then we hear a lot of cheers
- Gotta feel the vibes (vibes), come from my creation
- If the hands clap (clap) are filled with elation
- Here I am ghetto, full with a lot of steam
- Think I gotta, I think I gotta, I think I gotta scream (scream)
- Cuz that's how good it feels child
- Let your hair down (down), so we can get buckwild
- Do your ill dance (dance), don't think about the next man
- We must have unity and think of the bigger plan
- The vision, we fall (fall) we must stick together, see
- I'd like to take this time (time) to say what's up to Kool G
- The name is Q-Tip (Tip), The Midnight Marauder
- Give enough respect ('spect) to Afrika Bambaataa
- As a man in the world (world), I must do my job
- Take care of Mama Duke (Duke), I won't resort to rob
- Bob you'll get your dough (dough), Mase is my witness
- Obsessed with the rap (rap), for its the mental fitness
- Like shootin cee-lo (lo), and always gettin headcracks
- The industry is luck (luck), winning with the fake raps
- Peace to the crews (crews), who pump the real hip hop
- Not sellin out (out) from hardrock to disc jock...
- (From disc jock to hardrock, from hardrock to disc jock)
- [Phife:]
- I don't know what to say, but here I go freak it
- If the papes come, then you know I'll seek it
- I'm just a short brotha, dark skin face
- Weigh a buck-fifty, 36 waist
- My hair is crazy curly
- Front like Mr. Furley
- To this day, I still believe that no MC can serve me
- Brothas try to front, but everybody know (know)
- I get more props than the Arsenio Hall Show
- Party animal I was, but now I chill at home
- All I do is write rhymes, eat, drink, shit and bone
- Found my thrill in Amityville, I'm always in the Island
- Fudge and Monkey know the time, they know who keeps 'em smilin
- Go out on my own, somethin that I gotta do
- Do what the hell I want and have no one to listen to
- I'm prompt with my business and I do things on the double
- Yo, I'm out like Buster Douglass, I say peace to MC Trouble
- Rest in Peace
- [Q-Tip:]
- Word Up, rest in Peace, and you know what else?
- We got, we got, we got the vibe (vibe)
- All the people in Long Island, we got the vibe (vibe)
- Brooklyn and Queens, we got the vibe (vibe)
- Uptown and New York, we got the vibe (vibe)
- People upstate, we got the vibe (vibe)
- If you're in DC, you got the vibe (vibe)
- Maryland, Virginia, Carolina vibe (vibe)
- Out West, we got the vibe (vibe)
- In the Bahamas, we got the vibe (vibe)
- Over in Europe, you know what? We got the vibe
- And we gotta keep it alive, it goes on...
- Of rap I'm a fan, I've seen a whole lot of subs
- Goods with the girls, I got a whole lot of 'em
- From fat to skinny, Freeda to Winnie (Winnie)
- Emma to Cindy, Constance to Wendy (Wendy)
- Cuz I be more friendly (friendly), never on the snotty side
- I don't brag to brothas about the little papes I got (got)
- My vocal styles can vary, the sight is never scary (scary)
- It's only legendary ('dary), my father well prepared me ('pared me)
- My job ain't temporary, I'm here for the long shot
- Better yet, the long term, I don't have a perm (perm)
- In a way I do, call 'em the perma-naps
- I'm crazy slap-happy and I'm scrappy when I'm nappy
- When I get the mic in my hand and the crowd in stands (stands)
- It's as good as grand like that (that)
- I wanna say peace and dedicate this joint to MC Trouble and to
- um...Trouble T-Roy
- And to um...Scott La Rock and to um...Cowboy, you know what I'm sayin?
- This is for the slain rappers and the fallen rappers
- you know what I'm sayin (sayin)?
- This is a special, special, special, special, special dedication
- And also to my pops and also to Vinny, his moms (moms)
- you know what I'm sayin?
- You just gotta keep it happy and keep the vibes going
- and this is Vibes and Stuff
- And we out..
- Classic, classic...
- Classic example of a...a date rape[4X]
- [Q-Tip:]
- Listen to the rhyme, it's a black date fact
- Percentile rate of date rape is fat
- This is all true to the reason of the skeezin
- You got the right pickin but you're in the wrong season
- If you're in the wrong season, that means you gotta break
- Especially if a squad tries to cry out rape
- You be all vexed cuz she got it goin on
- You don't wanna fight cuz you know that you're wrong
- So instead you rest your head on the arm of the couch
- Envision in your head of a great sex bout
- Worthy opponent, all you wanna do is bone it
- You ask can you kick it, she says you can't stick
- This is the case, the situation is sticky
- Should you try to kiss or head for a hickey
- Not even, you can ask Steven
- If the vibe ain't right, huh, ya leavin
- Hit the road Jack and all of that
- But if she offers her abode, to drop ya load
- Right smack dab in the middle
- Get the kitten, I got crazy tender vittles
- [Phife:]
- Uh huh, you know science, you get buckwild
- Runnin mad games as if your name was Scott Skiles
- Or better yet Magic or even Karl Malone
- Regardless who it is, your aim is to bone
- If she tries to front, then you start to dis her
- If she's with the program, that's when you start to kiss her
- Might as well get to the point, no time to waste
- Might as well break the ice, then set the pace
- You start to talk nasty, now she's ready to bone
- Step out of the shower, throw on cologne
- All of a sudden, her sugarwalls tumble down like Jericho
- She's hotter than Meshach, Shadrach and Abendego
- You listen to After 7, break fool after 10
- Do your thing at 12 o'clock and when you go again
- There goes round 1, ding, there goes round two
- Now tell me what the (fuck) are you supposed to do
- What do you know, when the meow is completed
- Girly girl cried rape, yo, I didn't really need it
- [Q-Tip:]
- Sweetheart, we ain't goin out like that[2X]
- Sweetheart, we ain't goin out like that(zulu)
- We ain't goin out like that(zulu)
- We ain't goin out like that
- Now baby bust it, if you wanna groove
- Me and you can do it, it will be the move
- I won't cry over spilled milk
- If you won't let me take you to the Hilt
- I don't wanna bone you that much
- That I would go for the unforbidden touch
- I'm not the type that would go for that
- I'll have to fetch a brand new cat
- Baby, baby, baby I don't wanna be rude
- I know because of your bloody attitude
- I know why you act that way
- It usually happens on the 28th day
- I respect that crazily
- When you're done with the past can you come check me
- This ain't a joint to disrespect you
- Because one head ain't better than two
- Check it out
- It's a classic example of a...a date...
- [Q:]Back in the days on the boulevard of Linden,
- we used to kick routines and presence was fittin'.
- It was I the abstract
- [P:]And me the five footer.
- I kicks the mad style so step off the frankfurter.
- [Q:]Yo, Phife, you remember that routine
- that we used to make spiffy like mister clean?
- [P:]Um um, a tidbit, um, a smidgen.
- I don~t get the message so you gots to run the pigeon.
- [Q:]You on point Phife?
- [P:]All the time, tip.
- [Q:]You on point Phife?
- [P:]All the time, tip.
- [Q:]You on point Phife?
- [P:]All the time, tip.
- [Q:]Well, then grab the microphone and let your words rip.
- [P:]Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am.
- Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.
- I'm like an energizer 'cause, you see, I last long.
- My crew is never ever wack because we stand strong.
- Now if you say my style is wack that's where you're dead wrong.
- I slayed that body in El Segundo then push it along.
- You'd be a fool to reply that Phife is not the man
- 'cause you know and I know that you know who I am.
- A special shot of peace goes out to all my pals, you see.
- And a middle finger goes for all you punk MC's.
- 'Cause I love it when you wack MC's despise me.
- They get vexed, I roll next, can~t none contest me.
- I'm just a fly MC who's five foot three and very brave.
- On job remaining, no I'm chaining cause I misbehave.
- I come correct in full effect have all my hoes in check.
- And before I get the butt the jim must be erect.
- You see, my aura~s positive I don't promote no junk.
- See, I'm far from a bully and I ain't a punk.
- Extremity in rhythm, yeah that's what you heard.
- So just clean out your ears and just check the word.
- [Q:]Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check it out.
- Check it out.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Play tapes y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check the rhyme y'all.
- Check it out.
- Check it out.
- [P:]Back in days on the boulevard of Linden,
- we used to kick routines and the presence was fittin'
- It was I the Phifer,
- [Q:]And me, the abstract.
- The rhymes were so rumpin' that the brothers rode the 'zack.
- [P:]Yo, tip you recall when we used to rock
- Those fly routines on your cousin~s block.
- [Q:]Um, let me see, damn I can't remember.
- I receive the message and you will play the sender.
- [P:]You on point Tip?
- [Q:]All the time Phife.
- [P:]You on point Tip?
- [Q:]Yeah, all the time Phife.
- [P:]You on point Tip?
- [Q:]Yo, all the time Phife.
- [P:]So play the resurrector and give the dead some life.
- [Q:]Okay, if knowledge is the key then just show me the lock.
- Got the scrawny legs but I move just like Lou Brock,
- With speed. I'm agile plus I'm worth your while.
- One hundred percent intelligent black child.
- My optic presentation sizzles the retina.
- How far must I go to gain respect? Um.
- Well, it's kind of simple, just remain your own
- Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
- Industry rule number four thousand and eighty,
- record company people are shady.
- So kids watch your back 'cause I think they smoke crack,
- I don't doubt it. Look at how they act.
- Off to better things like a hip-hop forum.
- Pass me the rock and I'll storm with the crew and ...
- Proper. What you say Hammer? Proper.
- Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop.
- NC, y'all check the rhyme y'all.
- SC, y'all check it out y'all.
- Virginia, check the rhyme y'all.
- Check it out. Out.
- In London, check the rhyme, y'all.
- [chorus George Clinton from Funkadelic's "Let's Take It to the People":]
- [8X]
- [Q-Tip:]
- Lookin at Miss Lane, it was the fast lane
- Barely knows her name, struck by fame
- She just got a Benz, she rides with her friends
- Gotta keep her beeper in her purse to make ends
- Rollin down the block, checkin out the spots
- She winks at the cops, always give her props
- She knows she's the woman, can't nobody touch her
- Hangs out for the loot, makes her papes from the gutter
- Tried to make my moves on Miss Lane, she called me young boy
- Told her not to dis me I just want to be your love toy
- You young boy, my love toy, I doubt that very highly
- Just because you rhyme don't mean I'll let you try me
- Business oriented, egos never dented
- Always sweet scented, if it's business, she meant it
- Distractions never hurt, always did the work
- Always was alert, she never got jerked
- Queen of the feats, thrive to compete
- Love the funky beats while she drive down the street
- She was justified, couldn't get a job
- Had to feed her family, so she had to play, then rob
- Pullin out the ooh wop, listenin to doo-wop
- You don't have to say a word
- (gunshots)That's all ya heard
- [chorus 4X]
- She's not a big kahuna, wish I met her sooner
- Instead, I met her later, my love is much greater
- Put me on her roster, to rid her of imposters
- And to sell the buddah for the sexy drug ruler
- Love is my motive, now I'm drug promotive
- Plus I needed duckets to fill up my buckets
- Supplied me with the squeezy to make my life easy
- Now I'm missing action for this fatal attraction
- But don't you let me catch you with your joint up in these bitches
- And don't you even dare to plan a plot upon my riches
- Cuz if you play me out, I think I'll let ya be
- I'll be damned if I let a brotha try to gas me
- I played my cards well, try to live swell
- For the G, I would sell, cuz I was deep in hell
- But then I really wasn't, she had a fly cousin
- Who would give me booty on the side of my cutie
- Elaine, she kinda new, that I would do the do
- But she didn't tear, I did my work with care
- That's all that really mattered, he money never splattered
- As long as she was paid, she was in the shade
- You can't really blame her for holdin on a flamer
- Society taught her, but they didn't tame her
- A ten clip salute, hunny heres a troop
- She will never stop until she reach the top
- Top, top...
- [Q-Tip:]
- Do you know the importance of a skypager?
- Those who don't believe, see you're laid behind
- Got our skypagers on all the time
- Hurry up and get yours cuz I got mine
- Especially if you do shows, they come in fine
- If you're with a G and you're sippin wine
- Eatin caccatore with a twist of lime
- Gotta meet your lover at a quarter to 9
- Joint by base, then you get your high
- [Phife:]
- If you get your then high, mine is next
- The 'S' in skypage really stands for sex
- Beeper's goin off like Don Trump gets checks
- Keep my bases loaded like the New York Mets
- At times I miss the pager so you don't get vex
- Havin bad days like a voodu hex
- Conceptually, a pager is so complex
- Cuz I be standin by the phone ready to flex
- (Welcome to the new skypager)
- [phone dialing]
- (Enter telephone number or other numeric message)
- [Q-Tip:]
- Uh, so funky[4X]
- [Phife:]
- The batteries I use are called Du-ra-cell
- They last for three weeks so they do me well
- Don't be goin through no phases my joint stays on
- 24-7, from dusk til dawn
- If you're in Costa Rica on a sunlit beach
- You greed for the Phifer, I can be reached
- A number of importance, I just put it on lock
- You leave code '69", that means you want some (cock)
- [Q-Tip:]
- People tend to think that a pager's foul
- Well it kinda is, cuz it makes me scoul
- But it really hurts when you're on the prowl
- Brothas know it hurts when you're on the prowl
- Grabbin on my joint cuz I'm an eager owl
- Get paged by a G or a business pal
- My shit is overflowin, they won't allow
- Another page, so I'll just end this now
- (Message sent. Thank you for calling skypager)
- [Q-Tip]
- Babies babble on, they lookin for excuses
- Game for the buzzer who kicked it to the losers
- Lame as a brain, could be, golly gee
- If you see a shrink he'll charge you a fee
- If you see me ya see the fee is nothing
- [Fee will be for patience]all that's no fronting
- What is a party if it doesn't really rock?
- What is a poet? All balls, no cock
- What is a war if it doesn't have a general?
- What's channel nine if it doesn't have Arsenio?
- What is life if you don't have fun?
- What is a what if you ain't got a gun?
- What's Ali without Shaheed Muhammad?
- Nothing.[Calpekur]makes you vomit
- What is a Quest if the players ain't willing?
- What is a pence if you don't have a shilling?
- Excuse me if I'm chillin, hey what, say what
- What's a fat man without food in his gut?
- What's a child birth, without the umbilical?
- What's United Parcel, without the deliverer?
- What's momma-san, without poppa-san?
- What's martial arts without Daniel-San?
- What's Rasheed without Tonya, Tamika?
- What's orange juice and Doug E. Doug without Shaniqua?
- Not a not a not a, not a damn thing
- What's Duke Ellington without that swing?
- What's Alex Haley if it doesn't have roots?
- What's a weekend if you ain't knockin boots?
- What's a black nation, without black unity?
- What is a child who doesn't know pubery?
- What is my label when I exit boom status?
- What's menage-a-tois, or, that is
- What is sex when you have three people?
- What are laws if they ain't fair and equal?
- What's Clark Kent without a telephone booth?
- What is a liquor if it ain't 80 proof?
- What are the youth if they ain't rebellin?
- What's Raplh Cramden, if he ain't yellin
- at Ed Norton, what is coke snortin?
- What is position if there is no contortin?
- What is hip-hop if it doesn't have violence?
- Chill for a minute, Doug E. Fresh said silence
- [*four second pause*]
- What is a glock if you don't have a clip?
- What's a lollipop without the Good Ship?
- What's S&M if you don't have chains?
- What's a con artist if he doesn't have brains?
- What's America without greed and glamour?
- What's an MC if he doesn't have stamina?
- What's music fractured without Mr. Walt?
- What's Trugoy without a phrase called torte?
- What's Kris Lighty if he wasn't such a baby?
- What is a woman if she didn't say maybe?
- Baby laid down, I removed the frown
- What would be my penal cord if it wasn't brown?
- What is a paper without a president?
- What is a compound without a element?
- What is a jam if you don't spike the punch?
- Was it Bruce Lee if you don't like brunch?
- Oooh ooh, it's like that you keep goin
- Freak freak y'all cause you know that we showin
- What to go what to go what to go what to go what
- to go what to go what to go what to go WHAT
- [Chorus: Tribe and L.O.N.S.]
- Here we go yo, here we go yo
- So what so what so what's the scenario
- Here we go yo, here we go yo
- So what so what so what's the scenario
- [Verse One: Phife Dawg]
- Aiyyo Bo knows this (what?) and Bo knows that (what?)
- But Bo don't know jack, cause Bo can't rap
- Well whaddya know, the Di-Dawg, is first up to bat
- No batteries included, and no strings attached
- No holds barred, no time for move fakin
- Gots to get the loot so I can bring home the bacon
- Brothers front, they say the Tribe can't flow
- But we've been known to do the impossible like Broadway Joe so
- Sleep if you want, like we'll help you get your Z's troop
- But here's the real scoop
- I'm all that and then some, short dark and handsome
- Bust a nut inside your eye, to show you where I come from
- I'm vexed, fumin, I've had it up to here
- My days of payin dues are over, acknowledge me as in there (YEAH)
- Head for the border, go get a taco
- I'll be wreckin from the jump street, meaning from the get-go
- Sit back relax and let yourself go
- Don't sweat what you heard, but act like you know
- [Verse Two: Charlie Brown]
- Yes yes y'all (yes y'all!)
- who got the vibe it's the Tribe y'all (Tribe y'all!)
- real live y'all (live y'all!)
- Inside outside come around... (who's that??) Browwwwwwwwn
- Some may, I say, call me Charlie
- The word is the herb and I'm deep like Bob Marley
- Layback on the payback,[evolve rotate the gates?]CONTACT!
- Can I get a hit? (HIT!)
- Boom bip with a brother named Tip and we're ready to flip
- East coast stompin, rippin and rompin
- New York, North Cak-a-laka, and Compton
- Checka-checka-check it out!
- The loops for the troops, more bounce to the ounce
- And wow how now wow how now Brown cow
- We're ill till the skill gets down
- For the flex, next, it's the textbook old to the new
- but the rest are doo-doo
- From radio, to the video, to Arsenio
- Tell me! Yo, what's the scenario
- [Verse Three: Dinco D]
- (True blue!) Scooby Doo, whoopie doo
- Scenario's ready yo, rates more than four
- Scores for the snores that's lovin dancefloors
- Now I go for mine,[shades of G sure?]
- Ship-shape plus Grape Apes to play tapes
- Papes make grapes great for the waist
- I'm an L-AH, an E-ADER, simply just a leader
- Bass in his face means peace see ya later
- Later? (LATER!) Later alligator
- Pop blows the weasel and my Earth the inflater
- So yo the D what the O, incorporated I-N-C into a flow
- Funk flipped flat back first this foul fight fight fight
- Laugh yo how's that sound (ohhhhhh!)
- [Verse Four: Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes]
- It's the leader Quest vision and we got the goods here (here!)
- Never on the left cause my right's my good ear (ear!)
- I could give a damn about a ill subliminal
- Stay away from crime cause I ain't no CRIMINAL
- I love my young nation, groovy sensation
- No time for hibernation, only elation
- Don't ever try to test, yo whattup little kid?
- Yo Mr. Busta Rhymes, tell him what I did
- I heard you rushed and rushed, AND ATTACKED
- Then baby puked then you had TO SMACK
- Causin rambunction, throughout the sphere
- Raise the levels of the boom, inside the ear
- You know I did it
- So don't violate or you get violated
- The hip-hop sound is well agitated
- Won't ever waste no time on the played out ego
- So here's Busta Rhymes with the, Scenario
- [Verse Five: Busta Rhymes]
- Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind
- Heel up, reel up, bring it back, come rewind
- Powerful impact BOOM! from the cannon
- Not braggin, try to read my mind just imagine
- Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary
- When diggin into my library
- Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
- Eating ayea toadstool like the one Peter Tosh-a
- Uh, uh uhh, alone with the track man
- Uh, pardon me, uhh, as I come back
- As I did it yo I heard you beg your pardon
- When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron
- RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon
- Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin
- Try to step to this, I will, fits you in a turban
- And had you smellin right, like some old stale urine
- Checkady-choco, the chocolate chicken
- The rear cock diesel, for chicks they were kickin
- Yo, bustin out before the Busta bust a nut the rhyme
- the rhythm is in sync (UHH!) the rhymes are on time (TIME!)
- Rippin up this dance just like a radio
- Observe the vibe and check out the scenario!!
- [chorus starts]Yeah, my man motherfucker!
- [Chorus]
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