A Lotta Things To Do
(Chorus) We got a lotta things to do up in here today
lotta things to do lotta things to do
lotta things to do lotta things to do
lotta things to do up in here today
We gotta take our minds back
Take off the blinders and realize we’ve been inside of a matrix so darn confined that
Men’s penal cord’s are re-wired to act as minds and
Womens inner cores are seen as just inner thighs
And hip hop legends are reduced to selling Sprite
And things have gotten so darn weird who knows what’s right?
I feel for the children of Africa, Cambodia, how dey livin?
A descendant of Abraham says Hello to ya
We’ve moved so far from the real in our Utopia
Staring our sets feeling no connect to most of ya
We’re like puppets being pulled by some g-strings
These things are what defines generation bling bling
We sing sing for the people up in sing sing
we da True blue crew you knew you could cling to
Ding! We ring true bring crews the lean grooves
I’m round one Ding! One love is round two (whew)
(Chorus)
I launch this consciousness
regardless If you don’t need or want this, bump this
The dirty south is flooded with rappers that couldn’t cut it
If you aint serious about this game then you need to shut it
And try religion, become a Christian Aint nothing free
you can ask Hammer or TLC
This industry is shady, supporting me and my lady
So don’t even start it, if you aint devoted and whole hearted
If it’s a one hitter quitter nigga, will you consider Pizza deliver
then put your dreams up under the river
If you like it you will never last, you got to love it
Nothing above it a never ending hunger for cash
See my intentions with this dialect
don’t go believing Everything that you receiving from the TV set
You might wake up find your *** in debt
You aint from Bankhead but I bet, you can bounce a check
(Chorus)
Esmerelda
(Chorus)
Everybody
I’m feelin’ Esmerelda the times I don’t think about the girl is seldom
And all the special memories I had I held em Some ask have you ever felt a girl I tell em…
We met at a post office and let me say that I died when I seen you shaped like a goddess from the region of Mosimbique
butternut tone kinda thick on the bones couldn’t leave it alone had to think of how I would speak to you
You was inside I was out for some time I had hopped in my jeep thinking of a line to intrique you
My spontaneous reaction when I saw you jettin’ is to see if you was down wit doing something for my crew
Maybe in a video but not as a video Ho but more like a character wit a legitimate IQ
It was good that you had never ever heard of my group you was into Whitney and R&B type live grooves
I handed you my phone number hoping & praying that underneath it all a call would be following real soon
1, two, three four days past weeks later I got the call I told my crew
(Chorus)
We walked the parkways and watched some kids play and ducks mate while we shared each others “one days” dreams
I knew within…that you were more than just a partner for sin it would depend on what the future brings
So I was trying to call the future to ask but the line was always busy or no one was answering
Maybe I had the wrong # but none the less We decided it’s funner to invest in possibilities
(Esmerelda singing in Spanish): I loved you more than I knew I could love anyone
However I am torn between my father who is sick in my country and who needs me and you who is here in this country
But I must tend to his needs I will be back will you wait for me?
I so hope to see your face again it brings me reasons for making no mistaking Yo But I’m living as a artist in a group with a record and a tour every second there’s a newer fine woman that could lure
me away I can’t hang with the fame and the days of your face being just a faint memory a trace
girl I need you by my side it’s a vibe that you give and I’ll live for you if you can tell your dad prepare my room
I’m coming over
(Chorus)
Honeymoon Day
Yeah yeah woo woo
It’s ya charming one ranked at number one
The one you know to go to When you need some lovin’ to come
(rrah )
And even though I’m just A hop & a skip and a jump
Away baby sometimes We role play the funk (uh)
yo secret thing like a one night fling
that just happened to be married to you and
gave you a ring so no… guilt just pleasure
so much dat it’s known to tilt the measure
yo touch has been known to ease my pressure
oh my God!
it’s so incredible the way he shaped your bod
ingenious mixing soft wit hard
little sweet little heat spicy hot
gotta a lot a seeds wanna put in yo sod
I can’t see your face If ya feel me just knod
Girl yous da picket fence house and the yard
da picket fence house and the yard
hu huhhh
Girl just take off yo socks Let me lick on yo feet
I’ll rub yo body & watch you roll yo eyes to the ceiling
Won’t you lay on down Let my face be yo linen
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
Let’s just free our bodies like the last day of living
girl we can be real naughty there’s no need for forgiving
Won’t ya dance for me Let my face be your mirror
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
Check it out
I told yo Mama don’t wait up Don’t check up on us
Don’t call we handled it all I’m ready to bust
& I’m really hoping yo daughter can handle my lust
you done had yo chance now that land is handed to us
pop’s knows how it goes shewt any man does
fine daughter like his can’t afford to miss love
& I’m a give it to her sho nuff without a flub
give it her like a fat man giving himself grub
You think we waited for nothing my bloods pumping
needs go to where it’s needed the most
relieve something shewt certain parts of me resemble a mule
stiff and stubborn it’s like I’m Rosa Parks on the stool
(rrrgh)
We going all out hittin’ the balls out
Coming deep from the soul Like a Lou Rawls shout
People next door screamin who let the dogs out
Man it’s our honeymoon we here to knock the walls out
Girl just take off yo socks Let me lick on yo feet
I’ll rub yo body & watch you roll yo eyes to the ceiling
Won’t you lay on down Let my face be yo linen
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
Let’s just free our bodies like the last day of living
girl we can be real naughty there’s no need for forgiving
Won’t ya dance for me Let my face be your mirror
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
When I say true you say love
True (love) true (love)
You got a wedding ring (put it up put it up)
You wore ya bling bling (throw it up throw it up)
Oh yeah it’s on baby I’ve waited for this so long
Oh yeah it’s on baby when I hang up the phone I’m gone!
We gonna bail collect that mail let’s go to the hotel and…
Skip the reception girl lets head to the limo
Tinted window hard to find like Nemo
Real Cancun real honeymoon like woo
You can find us on the beach you know
I’m in heaven daily cuz I’m lovin this the physical bliss
Come here baby give me a kiss
Girl just take off yo socks Let me lick on yo feet
I’ll rub yo body & watch you roll yo eyes to the ceiling
Won’t you lay on down Let my face be yo linen
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
Let’s just free our bodies like the last day of living
girl we can be real naughty there’s no need for forgiving
Won’t ya dance for me Let my face be your mirror
C’mon and sho me yo ways This is our honeymoon day
We’ve been waiting for this day
Wag Your Tail
Yeah can I have a big bimbo box meal hold the bimbo sauce
two super sized freaky fries and a make me shiver shake
(I know who this is…how you doing?)
I’m doing good sweetheart how are you?
(I’m O.K. anyway drive around to the 2nd window please)
Baby remember how you were as a child Everything was up and nothing down
Every day was hopes and dreams no fears Whatever happened to those years?
Let’s Rent a Private Jet and Escape
Fly To Paris Walk on Champs-Elysées
Let’s Live Your Dreams
Wag Your Tail for Me
I Cannot Read Your Mind
When You’re happy Baby Show Me a Sign
Just Let Me See
You Wag Your Tail for Me
Baby don’t depend on what you see
Everything’s perception not reality
Life has thrown some curves but we’ll throw them back
Straighten out what’s wrong and get back on track
I called your boss on the telephone
And said my babies flying off to Rome
Let Wendy take the register
And let Cindy sweep the floors and
Let Joe and dem close the store
my baby needs a dream and I’m taking her
wherever seems to make her happy!
Baby baby you can live your dreams
Let’s not settle for anything
You deserve the best of things
Honey child let’s go ride in the car
And we’ll fly as far as our minds can conceive
Let’s rent a private jet and escape
Fly To Paris walk on Champs-Elysées
Let’s live your dreams
Wag your tail for me
I cannot read your mind
When you’re happy baby show me a sign
Just let me see
you wag your tail for me
If you’re happy show me a sign
Wag your tail for me
Reality is meant to defy
wag your tail for me
baby darlin you are so alive
so am I so let’s fly the sky
In The Sun
Every morning I wake up with a choice to live life
And I yearn to live it out in the sun
Speech verse:
Yo, coming from a city like Milwaukee
The weather there has taught me
That a foggy day don’t mean there’s no sun
Between being a man of God
Or a no one walking the streets
I yield for no one
(whoo)
Life is like a sword
I wanna wield it like a shogun
Swinging back and forth as I road run
Like Chuck D says ‘My uzi weighs a ton”
So I gotta use it well if I want to succeed
My mama said
There’s no less pain in the heart of the city
Thanks mama,
Now that I’m older I’ve witnessed both extremes
And love seems to be the ocean
While the pain is the stream that leads to it
People say your life seems so fluid
But I tell ‘em yo, it just seems that way
Cause in reality pain comes from day to day
And many bruises I’ve made from the bumps and mistakes
If you get a bruise in life, don’t keep rubbin’ it
Let God take it away
Yo, we gotta hit it, quit it, learn from it, love it
Life lessons all around for the discovering
If the area’s sore, don’t keep rubbin’ it
Let it try to heal itself, let it try to heal itself, let it try to heal itself
Every morning I wake up with a choice to live life
And I yearn to live it out in the sun
Jax:
Truth born
In the deepest part of the great lakes
Living in the heart of the mitten state
The Midwest vibe
Where the Sun don’t shine, half the time
And cats got Cali dreams on their minds
There’s something in the water
Making this part of the world here
Brighter than a light bulb idea
Let creativity be the contrast, clear
To all the greys and browns
That want to keep us down
We live it up
IX Lives:
Moving swift to the rhythm of my heartbeat
shuffling feet absorbing heat from these concrete streets
immersed deep in the struggle
to find the balance between being myself
and letting myself go
I strive to reflect the energy given by
the MOST HIGH like the lunar guide in the night sky
Eyes open searching for the luminous truth
and letting go of the useless excuses
Every morning I wake up with a choice to live life
And I yearn to live it out in the sun
Among The Trees
Among the trees I feel like I am really free
Through the reflection of the pond I can see me
Without the roughness of the world just a gentle breeze
It reminds me of the dream of how I want to be
Silence sometimes I need it
So I can hear the voices in my heart
Cause every bodies got their opinions
And they’re all fighting to play their part
But now and then there’s a place that I can go to
And it’s my Eden just me and God
It’s the nature of life I love to flow to
And it’s refuge when times is hard
Among the trees I feel like I am really free
Within the face of the tree I can see me
Although it stands so tall there’s such humility
It reminds me of the dream of how I want to be
I wish that some could see me
When I’m living like this
It would clear up misunderstandings
And all the petty things are dismissed
It’s just the purest of humanity
Against the power of his majesty
And then we’re nothing there’s no celebrity
There’s no better or worse there’s no vanity
Among the trees I feel like I am really free
Through the reflection of the pond I can see me
Without the roughness of the world just a gentle breeze
It reminds me of the dream of how I want to be
Among the trees I feel like I am really free
The way they stretch up to the clouds it convicts me
The way they reach towards one another it inspires me
And reminds me of the dream of how I wanna be
Baba Oje Is The Oldest One
Many can get the club real hyped excite the people and rock a mic but
Baba Oje is the oldest one
Many have rocked their fans and plenty of hip hop cats can dance but
Baba Oje is the oldest one
Who can travel from state to state 72 in great shape
Baba Oje is the oldest one
There’s many elders in hip hop but even they have got to stop and say
Baba Oje is the oldest one
Don’t let nobody tell you nothing different
Some bodies been busy separating the youth and
The elders in the community while we weren’t looking
But we can make straight what has been made crooked
We need our elders we need their wisdom
We need to be slower to speak and quicker to listen
Is it worth all the shooting, and all the blood that’s spilling?
Jam master Jay, Tupac and Biggie young lives is taken
Elders in they’re house full of knowledge dying
Yet they have done and lived through all the things we’re trying
Get the keys and let them out of their fear drenched prisons
Let’s close the gap envision their vision!
Many can get the club real hyped excite the people and rock a mic but
Baba Oje is the oldest one
Many have rocked their fans and plenty of hip hop cats can dance but
Baba Oje is the oldest one
Who can travel from state to state 72 in great shape
Baba Oje is the oldest one
There’s many elders in hip hop but even they have got to stop and say
Baba Oje is the oldest one
I'm Ignoring You
Yo, I’m not even gonna’ front
She makes me be like, I’m saying like
ummmmmm
You’re so fine girl you blow my mind but still
I’m ignoring you
The way ya move your hips when you dance I trip but still
I’m ignoring you
And when ya come my way girl it makes me strange that’s why
I’m ignoring you for real
Cuz if I taste you I won’t wanna put you down
Speech:
First of all I’m inclined to be attracted by a deep black sister with wits
When I looked at you for the first time I saw the potential
And I knew I had my nose wide open to sniff
There were hints by the way you touched my shoulder
As we hugged I loved your scent – cool like peppermint
Dreads hanging like beads in the Seventies in the doorway
As they came and went I’m so bent
IX Lives:
It's not fair the way you came dressed to kill
your sex appeal is enough to give dudes goose bump chills
you givin' meaning to the word thickness
the way you swivel your pelvis got me feelin' motion sickness
ooh, you seeing my composure slip
I know that eye contact would be the death of it
you got me B-movie actin' like I just don't see
you throwin' it in my direction full court pressuring me
You’re so fine girl you blow my mind but still
I’m ignoring you
The way ya move your hips when you dance I trip but still
I’m ignoring you
And when ya come my way girl it makes me strange that’s why
I’m ignoring you for real
Cuz if I taste you I won’t wanna put you down
Carlos Mena:
Honestly I'm quite affected by the way that you stare.
You're glare pierces the air, making Carlos Mena very aware.
but I ignore your walk, the talk, the way that you smile
your eyes calling me outloud, making me turn around.
giving my back to you you baby, cause I just can't hang
feeling guilty from the vibe, and I haven't done a damn thing
let's call it quits and not even start conversating,
'cause I'm feeling afraid for what your feelin and contemplating
You’re so fine girl you blow my mind but still
I’m ignoring you
The way ya move your hips when you dance I trip but still
I’m ignoring you
And when ya come my way girl it makes me strange that’s why
I’m ignoring you for real
Cuz if I taste you I won’t wanna put you down
Pain Thangs
God thank you for giving
Me to this certain path
Living what I be living you
must believe that I can grasp these
things that you be throwing’
I’m just hoping that I can last
These struggles I be fighting against
these battles in my past
Why can’t you wipe my slate clean?
I know you have
You say life’s not forever Lord
it all will pass!
Oh please just grab me tight Lord
I know you have!
I still need your might
I can’t do this all alone!
Pain thangs
that’s the things that grow you
Its those pain thangs
God uses to know you
It’s those damn thangs
Trying to control you
Yo I’ve known some pain
The older that I be getting seems
the more that I don’t know
yet you keep on letting me wake up
so my God what does that show?
I used to be like know it all
But now I’m average Joe God you
humbled me thru time to where
silence has more pull
I’ve learned to keep my mouth shut
Just like Job
I’ve learned to give you credit Lord
That’s all I know
I fight against injustice
Even my own
Including within my family
Whereever known
Pain thangs
that’s the things that grow you
Its those pain thangs
God uses to know you
It’s those damn thangs
Trying to control you
Yo I’ve known some pain
Nicha:
Pain hurts me so much
God, I need your touch
Sustain
Pain thangs
that’s the things that grow you
Its those pain thangs
God uses to know you
It’s those damn thangs
Trying to control you
Yo I’ve known some pain
Nighttime Demons
Nighttime demons starting to roam
Coming out from the shadows to steal his soul
He’s seeing them nighttime demons and they sense his jones
It’s a drug that’s calling his name and won’t leave him alone ooh
What you waiting for brother what you waiting for?
To resist is futile you’ve tried it before
By now you should understand demonic law
I’ve got you in my claws yeah
What I’ve given you has given you nights of pleasure
There was no where else for you to turn and nothing better
Now you’re acting like you can’t face the bad weather
When your life gets raw yeah
Get off the floor you can do it!
I ain’t thru with you until we go through it
People warned you about me you knew it
But you did it for the feeling I gave ya
You know what’s making me sick is your behavior!
I gave you mental orgasms that was major!
Now you’re trying to back out on my labor
Talking bout some savior c’mon!
Nighttime demons starting to roam
Coming out from the shadows to steal his soul
He’s seeing them nighttime demons and they sense his jones
It’s a drug that’s calling his name and won’t leave him alone ooh
This is a cycle that you can’t break easily
Bigger people than you have fallen dealing with me
Just think of the things that I offer you!
You could see me as your friend if you wanted to
We’ve had such beautiful times together!
This is the relationship you shouldn’t sever
All those others they don’t know who’s the real you
I’ve seen you do things they don’t see you do
C’mon now don’t act like we’re strangers
I know you like a little bit of danger
You know I’ll keep your life living on the edge
Keep your neck in the noose but you’re not dead
Stop listening to others they’ll just cloud your judgment
I was the one there for you when no one wasn’t
I ain’t gonna lie you know I gotta kill you
But forget that and remember what the thrills do!!!!
Nighttime demons starting to roam
Coming out from the shadows to steal his soul
He’s seeing them nighttime demons and they sense his jones
It’s a drug that’s calling his name and won’t leave him alone ooh
Tings Distracting
It’s like Yes!
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
TV popular, dey run tings
Satan ya know he here to run tings
Round n round desert wandering
Most of us be lost
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
Yo I ain’t here to stay I’m just visiting
Passing through grabbin’ some water breath some air
& impregnate somebodys daughter
leave some heirs maybe make a few changes and
water seeds dat’s dere
demand and expand some order things that’s fair
maybe make a lil difference to the ones in my sphere
but really I’m a mist that in the gist of time
is like bucket of drinking water with just a twist of lime
And since Satan’s not a friend of mine
Got no plans of staying no extended time
Got a lot a things to do while my prime is primed
And signs that I’m aging is just by design
So I make a lil noise thru a melody
Tell life strong not short is how U selling me
Dig some ditches and plant while I’m able to
Sit by trees and mystery on what da creator do
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
TV popular, dey run tings
Satan ya know he here to run tings
Round n round desert wandering
Most of us be lost
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
Yo whatever happened to nature I love to listen to it
Know the names of flowers I know it sounds stupid
But when I was younger that’s the things I thought of
To my parents I brought up but they were just too caught up
Now I’m 35 and I’m also caught up
Doing my thing in the studio but every once in a blue moon I get lunar yo
Take the whole tribal platoon outside watch the moon glow
Uh uh uh uh I know you thinking man he playing his self uh
Comin with that straight corn puff stuff like uh
Yo but everything we usually think of is temporary so old lady say…
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
TV, popular dey run tings
Satan ya know he here to run tings
Round n round desert wandering
Most of us be lost
Old lady say young man now listen
Life is bunch of tings distracting!
Glory glory halleujah
Glory glory halleujah
Since I laid my burdens down
A Lotta Things To Do
(Chorus) We got a lotta things to do up in here today
lotta things to do lotta things to do
lotta things to do lotta things to do
lotta things to do up in here today
We gotta take our minds back
Take off the blinders and realize we’ve been inside of a matrix so darn confined that
Men’s penal cord’s are re-wired to act as minds and
Womens inner cores are seen as just inner thighs
And hip hop legends are reduced to selling Sprite
And things have gotten so darn weird who knows what’s right?
I feel for the children of Africa, Cambodia, how dey livin?
A descendant of Abraham says Hello to ya
We’ve moved so far from the real in our Utopia
Staring our sets feeling no connect to most of ya
We’re like puppets being pulled by some g-strings
These things are what defines generation bling bling
We sing sing for the people up in sing sing
we da True blue crew you knew you could cling to
Ding! We ring true bring crews the lean grooves
I’m round one Ding! One love is round two (whew)
(Chorus)
I launch this consciousness
regardless If you don’t need or want this, bump this
The dirty south is flooded with rappers that couldn’t cut it
If you aint serious about this game then you need to shut it
And try religion, become a Christian Aint nothing free
you can ask Hammer or TLC
This industry is shady, supporting me and my lady
So don’t even start it, if you aint devoted and whole hearted
If it’s a one hitter quitter nigga, will you consider Pizza deliver
then put your dreams up under the river
If you like it you will never last, you got to love it
Nothing above it a never ending hunger for cash
See my intentions with this dialect
don’t go believing Everything that you receiving from the TV set
You might wake up find your *** in debt
You aint from Bankhead but I bet, you can bounce a check
(Chorus)
