In the South
Speech
In the south is where it's at crazy phat weather no leather needed on yo
back perfect for a ride outside hop in the drop top pop in the hip hop
tape and marinate in the sun speakin' of sun there's only one and nine
months outta twelve can U guess where it dwells in the south parks
literally breathe like a mouth and at night kids go out the little ones
go in and pout cuz they gotta go to bed cuz in the south in is dead and
out is alive so everyone strives to keep it outside! D.J.s play in the
streets bumpin' beats and sellin' mix tapes of all the greats women is
rentin' roller skates ice cream and soul plates fill the hands of this
land cats caravan and just drive around bumpin' sounds pound for pound
the south's where everyone gets down c'mon . . .
Chorus
In the south we can take you all around and everywhere you go we got
these funky sounds in the south
Eshe
Cadillacs, Pontiacs, Benzs, and BMWs Impalas and Cutlass you can't
touch as when we cruise
Speech
Yo I set a mood like a dimmer guess who's coming over to eat cornbread and
collard greens and hot sauce for dinner I don't hang around the scene but
that don't mean that I'm not in the scene I'm just doin' somethin' cuz I
refuse to cuss it don't mean that I'm frontin' I be the first to bum rush
your whole dinner or luncheon
In the south baby!
Chorus
In the south we can take you all around and everywhere you go we got
these funky sounds in the south we can take you all around and
everywhere you go we got these funky sounds
Eshe
Halter tops, cut off shorts, wife beaters, and Jesus sandals it's not too
hot but just enough for you to handle and what do you know about them long
johns under yo shorts wit them Reebok classics that we all love to sport
it's all about feeling good it ain't no shame we even got big girls
wearing capri pants still spitting game average heat index is 80 very
seldom shady whether you looking for men or ladies it's always a
possible maybe yeah
Jasse Pha
Eggs grits by the dozen it's just your country cousin sometimes I might
be a slight buzzin' uh huh thought it is when it wasn't Cadillacs vogues
be dippin' out of big jugs I'm sippin' got it goin' on I be gripping on
a little cheesehope I don't get a whippin'
Chorus
In the south we can take you all around and everywhere you go we got
these funky sounds in the south
Jazze Pha
Roll sown the streets
Bumpin my beats
Eat a little meat
Look at pretty feets
Girls look good
Sittin' on the hood
It's a fly lady
Cadillac diamond in the back yeah
Chorus
In the south we can take you all around and everywhere you go we got
these funky sounds in the south
Chorus
In the south we can take you all around and everywhere you go we got
these funky sounds in the south
Jazze Pha
Mama's in the kitchen cookin' up greens
Making them yams cookin' them hams
Rules 2 Da Game
the heart is not to be discussed in a rhyme makes U seem soft it's a hip
hop crime love is not to be brought up on what you wrote unless yo love
is for money weed yo niggas or yo coast yo video it has to be bright
directed by Hype and filled wit girl dancers butt out wit gear tight you
attitude don't ya dare smile act vile unless you're pretty den dress like
you work at Magic City yo interviews don't act like you really care act
like U don't really wanna be dere try not to stare marriage not to be
discussed cuz that would imply trust and that can't describe none of us
God that won't be too odd as long as U ain't really tryin' to live right
just front it in the rhymes you write O.K. if you'll do it this way u'll
be fine just sign on the dotted lines these is the rules to da game
I been in this biz since the 80s drivin' a Ford Escort no Mercedes our
first record deal we got 70 grand made an albumfor 60 spliit the rest wit
my band toured black colleges in a 12 seat van with 10 musty cats
fartin' burpin' and sleepin' cramped up filledwith laughter and anger and
weepin' amped up waitin' for the next stop we was eatin' I did what I
did for the hip hop gigs grab the microphones at benues to rock hip hop
kids there was many non believers so we shut many lids then sealed em
wit a saelant so brute it left em mute! some press claimed that what I
rocked was just cute then fans like U put a sock up in dey chute and
left em mute den dey boss gave em da boot little knowing I'd get one too
lesson learned more wisdom next turn God willin' here I am again your
friend not yo villain you remember me spillikn' that X-Ray vision that
exposes hypocrisy for all who wanna listen sure there's always those
who'll be dissin' talk me down a prophet never respected up in his
hometown so those who wanna get into this sound it's all the same and
Here's the Rules to Da Game
Rules 2 da game is it ever gone change can I ride in a pluck do I have
to rent a range huh change names or would you keep the same what a shame
it's how they do to stay in the game I can't complaineverybody wants
the fame and the big change quick to bring to big thangs try to
rearrange but we split flames A.D. superstars we ahead of the game
that's why the shhh . . . we got so hot to me you could probably strike
a match and set fire to me get high wit me no that just don't ride wit
me A.D. never falling in a trap you see from MTV, BET, NAACP that's who
A.D. from SNL to supreme cliental cause of our record sells that's who
6 million sold in the states and over seas don't act brand new that's
who A.D. doing shows in the states most artists can't pronounce making
foreigners bounce that's who A.D.
Now I could talk about you chicks with the ice on your writs but you
probably get pissed and spit up all your crys and oh to you girls that be
hanging back stage with your high class looks making minimum wage I
challenge you to play the game another way get up get out get your own
pay lookin' for rappers ball players and thug niggas with seven figures
hopin' and wishin' it'll make you bigger oh no you're labeled as a hoe
you've been seen backstage at every show they don't respect you girl you
got a ways to go you didn't know industry boys got change to blow cuz
you the Kenneth Cole type DKNY BMW 325I I know your type yeah all talk
and no hype livin' up the fast life as long as the price right get
your game right learn the rules and keep it tight the do's don't's and
might's staying out of the thug life ain't nothing changed you the only
one to blame get up out the fast lane that's the rules to da game
the heart is not to be discussed in a rhyme makes U seem soft it's a hip
hop crime love is not to be brought up on what you wrote unless yo love
is for money weed yo niggas or yo coast yo video it has to be bright
directed by Hype and filled wit girl dancers butt out wit gear tight you
attitude don't ya dare smile act vile unless you're pretty den dress like
you work at Magic City yo interviews don't act like you really care act
like U don't really wanna be dere try not to stare marriage not to be
discussed cuz that would imply trust and that can't describe none of us
God that won't be too odd as long as U ain't really tryin' to live right
just front it in the rhymes you write O.K. if you'll do it this way u'll
be fine just sign on the dotted lines these is the rules to da game
Boyee step off a me and don't try ta size me up I'm not yo property in
fact ya need ta about face and hit da highway if ya don't like what I say
fly away like Goodie Mob say
Music & Life
Super dynamite soul microphone check one two yo
Nobody took the place of us had the pace of us comin' at you like a Mack
truck jokers backin' up jokers actin' up dem jokers gettin' tacked up
and racked up and jacked up lyrically cuz they done slacked up now
Music work life death dance stand up down
If you want it come and get it cause A.D. we coming wit it if you don't
then won't you spit it if you not then won't your quit it get it up
get it crunk throw dem 'bows and get buck can bump this in you jeep
or in yo navigator truck what
Playa hated imitate it all you want but never duplicate it love with the
most anticipated A.D. back man don't debate it call the cops I'm out
da box spittin' flames and I chew rocks got it locked down like Fort
Knox double M (Mental Menace) hits and the show stops
Music work life death dance stand up down
Super dynamite soul microphone check one two yo
Bidda dom bidda dom blue this one dedicated to fans like you no matter
if your white China man black or blue this music that we make we make
platinum for you congo bass line rhythm say dis how we do if you love
how we do then make this for you whaa come a come along bring your
family ya like if you are hip and you're hype
Music work life death dance stand up down
Somewhere in North Georgia
Chorus
I heard somewhere in North Georgia there is a place where the heart knows
no pain and the tear knows no face and a song is playin from every roof
top space pack your bags lets go there I heard their closing the gates.
Speech
I vibe on the steets feel alive on the streets put my back pack on and
be like tied to the street the heat of the city makes me sweat to repeat
the experience of life that I get from the street's then life gets hot
and makes me wanna cool off it seems my head can take it but my skins to
soft so I realize I'm only human and my purpose is crossedand by the
waves of life I'm constantly tossed sometimes I wanna sit and just play my
guitar except I don't know how to play so I just stare at the stars and
wonder wonder wonder
Chorus
I heard somewhere in North Georgia there is a place where the heart knows
no pain and the tear knows no face and a song is playin from every roof
top space pack your bags lets go there I heard their closing the gates.
Raz
We're all lokkin' for a natural mystic someplace where we can be free real
free (no pain no more no pain no more) the grass is always greener on the
other side (the country side) Heyy...
Speech
I vibe on the steets feel alive on the streets put my back pack on and
be like tied to the street the heat of the city makes me sweat to repeat
the experience of life that I get from the streets then life gets hot
and makes me wanna cool off it seems my head can take it but my skin's to
soft so I realize I'm only human and my purpose is crossedand by the
waves of life I'm constantly tossed sometimes I wanna sit and just play my
guitar except I don't know how to play so I just stare at the stars and
wonder wonder wonder
Chorus (2x's)
I heard somewhere in North Georgia there is a place where the heart knows
no pain and the tear knows no face and a song is playin from every roof
top space pack your bags lets go there I heard they're closing the gates.
The Story of Us
Eshe the swat swinger R&B singer finesse bringer dance moves up off
the ringer
Rasa see me five six tall chant like yellow make the crowd go wild
Speech the one with split personalities get on the tables and spin bust
a rhyme and then sing
Baba the elder of the group the first to lose my teeth and have to sip
soup
Eshe down south ghetto superstar coming wit the rah rah you know who we
are
Rasa the one the fans love cuz when on the mike I come strictly rub-a-dub
Speech the one to blose his nose at a show like a horn blow that'll make
Black Rob whoa
Baba the papa put the O in O.G.sittin' in my rocker act like you know
me
Strugglin'
Chorus
Strugglin' - trying to make wayholding on - clinging to God diggin' in -
diggin' in the cratesprayin' and - Praying everyday running and - running
around town Hustlin' - gotta feed the kids.
Speech
I see signs in my road (ha) future looks blurry but (ha) gotta learn to (ha)
laugh at my woes and be like (nah) gotta keep my faith on God roll with his
squad bad company corrupts my character (ha) every sin starts within' the
inner center - rely on the book he sent ya - allow it to cut like a ninja
even offend ya. Sister Eshe what cha want. Come up to this microphone honey
about to flaunt yo...
Eshe
Flaunt what? Now days they wanna cut, one night stands and such, hope my
sista's wake up, don't front uh. I see you rolling your blunts, on a sex
hunt, I see U flaunt to get your stunts
Strugglin' 3 years, 2days & 5 months yeah...
Chorus
Strugglin' - trying to make wayholding on - clinging to God diggin' in -
diggin' in the cratesprayin' and - Praying everyday running and - running
around town Hustlein' - gotta feed the kids.
Show - times R ruff and hard to cope with keep losing focus spendin'
nights in Hells Oasis chasing pretty faes a lot of days are wasted
celebrating without a cause these magic cites consist of much more than
naked broads Thru the devils doors we floss welcome with open arms yo
this night life can fool ya like a transvestite. Never close your eyes
always analyze whats in front of you. Remember whose behind cuz the cats
that got your back may turn and burn you Jealously in us all or is it
that we enjoy to see another fall flat? or is it that we enjoy to see
another fall flat?
Speech
women try to flirt I'm like (ha) they see me on tour I'm like (ha) try to
show they little thigh wear their little shimmys sky high (ha) but let it
be known I gotta wife dats too fly music is my bread and butter sorta but
(nah) gotta contemplate my purpose - deeper than the surface diggin' in the
crates for new bombs to make you nervous - sample up don't even blurt it!
You be ...
Chorus
Strugglin' - trying to make wayholding on - clinging to God diggin' in -
diggin' in the cratesprayin' and - Praying everyday running and - running
around town Hustlin' - gotta feed the kids.
Lost Soldiers
Why my man, why why'd you have to go hard core? rap about explicit sex
then give praise to Allah sure I know times is hard but is your cussin'
changing things is that fussin' that you bussin' on wax re-arranging
anything? check the despair and the chaos that blaming brings wallowing
in low self-esteem so we buy flashy rings and costly clothes do you
suppose that I don't know that there'll be niggas whose common
denominators will be low forever and always there'll be cats dat go those
ways that will back the wrath and path that God took in Noah's days
bring about the flow of waves wash away the filth the only ones that
survive is those with eyes to build what Noah built too many flowers wilt
. . . powers that be smash the energy of those out to live positivity
but how can that be when God is above, and the devil is below so negative
gets no love!
Chorus: Too many soldiers slain instead of going against the grain they
went along with the game it's so strange
What's the big deal about information if you do nothing with it? what's
the deal about tight rhymes if they keep us blind? on the real man yo
think for a minute when yo fridge is empty did so n' so's tight flow ever
put food in it? naw you had to sip every drop of juice out wit a straw
and fry up dat frozen chicken no time to let it thaw and on the wall a big
lack cock roach on the crawl since when did a tight rhyme ever help that
household yaw'l let's get real some magazines livin' high on the hog as
they force this imaging of black people actin like dogs and it ain't just
dey fault so I ain't the one to throw the salt it's our own darn greed we
planted the bad seed and they ran wit it got a few monkey niggas to flow
and jam wit it go ride in dey van wit it on dey cover hammin', cheesin' to
sandwich it and feed it back to us licking our vomit and disgust a few
times a year gives us an article about African history and stuff man I'm
tired of this nonsense our soldiers are getting shot down and brought down
to the born tent where their name tags are being collected and inspected
to be mailed out no doubt to their next of kin
Chorus: Too many soldiers slain instead of going against the grain they
went along with the game it's so strange
What did you think? did you think A.D. would come back shufflin' and
jivin' and constantly smilin' docile, tamed and on-violent well the
non-violence is surely true about us but you'd think we have any army by
the way hip-hop eliteist come down on us the booge writers frown on us in
dey glass towers on the fault lines of L.A. lookin down on us little
knowin' that the earthquakes are comin' even now it's hummin' leaving
writers 100 miles and running black floks wake up out yo slumber ya life
ain't a movie so why ya playing dumb and dumber? holdin' yo jimmy as if yo
name is Jim Carey praising the cronic as if there's something about Mary .
. . Jane it's plain to see ya uncomplicated monkey nigga all you got on
me is a trigger and maybe your pecks is bigger but don't act like you
never knew us we shared back stage green rooms together at the award shows
we was down like we was bros but when you got in front of your hard core
friends all that would endyou would think A.D. had cooties like elementary
school again ya act like a hooligan but when you're alone you claim
you're a born again Christian yo joka what am I missin? ya mad at me cuz
I'm showin' people all the naps from out our kitchen I'm fishin' for all
the cats dats down for standin' searchin' for lost soldiers who need their
way back to the camp
Chorus: Too many soldiers slain instead of going against the grain they
went along with the game it's so strange
If Dey Ask
At the shark bar sit down and enjoy the fried cat fish fillets no more
than 5 minutes til someones says "Where have yaw'l been? I was ten when I
first heard Tennessee Did yaw'l fall off? Or was it intentionally or would
it have happened eventually?" I say, "I don't know, all I wanna do is do a
show." So here it goes . . . a young cat going with the flow of the
industry plus I was mad broke I only knew two things I wouldn't sell
out, wouldn't talk about stupid things (bling, bling) No crap in the rap
mama raised me better than that so being in a group or a tribe one minute
just trying to stay alive, the next minute on the cover of Vibe C***
speaking loud but so few heard me talk about family they call me nerdy
talk about gun play then I'm worthy Oh I see, if that's the way it be, I'm
not deserving So bounce bounce if you really wanna hear from us bounce
bounce if you know they can't get with us bounce bounce if in God you
trust you asking for A.D. so turn us up . . .
Ain't nothing like the first time says Shalamar can't a negro get some R &
R (rest and relaxation) and raise his seeds so they don't out to be the
same hard headed negro like me play ball in the yard before they sleep
pray to God teach em bout how times are gonna be hard get a you for you
put a ring on her finger and make it true then go on tour and make the
loot cuz most cats they can go a round or two they get a pound or two
they're in magazines around a few Meows scratchin' at their chin if
that's what it takes and win /then we've won So bounce bounce if you
really wanna hear from us bounce bounce if you know they can't get with us
Well since I ain't the bling bling type or the iced out type you might of
missed me at the party if you like that type instead of rockin K for knots
nice short lockes with the oil on the body that you buy off blocks so
never wonder bout the one hit wonders cuz us cats, life cats, A.D. cats
aim to win I know you missed us, we missed you too of course we're
holding it down for those of you who like a message in your music while
you're catchin' your step shaking that booty from right to left So
bounce bounce if you really wanna hear from us bounce bounce if you know
they can't get with us cuz we won't stop until again, it's on can't quit
no no we won't leave it alone so if you ask me where I've been ask me
where I've gone .. .
If they ask you where I've been if they ask you where I've gone Yin Yang
Greenbriar Mall South Dekalb Mall Club 559 Waffle House Sattle
Whites Shark Bar Piccadilly
If they ask you where I've been If they ask you where I've gone
Hit the Road Jack
Somewhere out there in the land beyond a mon ah lose himself in the legal
system and try to help himself in by using a gun when we should refer to
the foundation up your mind and your spirit jah jah give we word so we
want you hear it put them man put them under pressure revelation talk
bout it getting no better teach the one and the family fear not the
world but ya must fear we jah hah aah the one who will help you see I
fear no evil cause he walk with me
Hit the road jack and don't you come back no more no more no more
no more no more hit the road jack and don't you come back no more
Too many men dem won't make it unless they shake him and show him that
they're still in control don't be no fool and forsake him cause the
price that you pay is unlike the price that you know no one no where
will escape that day of judgement eeah ok I dareyou to do right instead
of wrong Babylon will fall and when em do there will peace for us all
but until that day I stress that you stress he just go away
Hit the road jack and don't you come back no more no more no more
no more no more hit the road jack and don't you come back no more
Cats talk mess bout rebuking the devil but dey caught sleepin' with em
and taking directives from him way more than several times you think
you're standing hard as a rock but you're unintimidating as a pebble you
look tough but when you speak your voice your voice falsetto like Aaron
Neville if you ain't living for God then who you living for? you're a
joke slow poke slow to see your sin within is what makes you tight with
the devil and yoked
Hit the road jack and don't you come back no more no more no more
no more no more hit the road jack and don't you come back no more
Conditional Love
I was workin' at Franklins field picking cotton picking greens the sun
came down
I had to pass you to grind up his cornmeal and every time I did I wish
you could stay around we were just two slaves in a crowded field of slaves
me a housemaid but we had such a jones for each other ironically in
the midst of these conditions there's still love
Chorus: Conditional love ironically in the midst of these conditions
conditional love
Matter of fact I'd risk being abused by the overseer for a moment to get
to know your life I mean our lives ain't that important your physical
life is the same ol' bad condition as mine but I'm talking bout your
dreams the things that can't be taken by no one your love
Chorus: Conditional love ironically in the midst of these conditions
conditional love
If You Want Me to Stay
If you want me to stay I'll be around today to be available for you to
see I'm about to go
and then you'll know for me to stay here I've got to be me You'll never
be in doubt that's what it's all about you can't take me for granted and
smile count the days that I'm gone can't reach me by phone because I
promise I'll be gone for awhile
If you want me to stay I'll be around today to be available for you to
see I'm about to go
and then you'll know for me to stay here I've got to be me
Why yo momma keep messin' with me she's stressin me ain't bout to let
ya'll get the best of me cause you lame ain't got no game caught you
creepin' wit what's her name I tell you all you niggas are the same
ooh
If you want me to stay I'll be around today to be available for you to
see I'm about to go
and then you'll know for me to stay here I've got to be me
If you want me to stay
Love is Contagious
Raz
I spent countless hours one time in my life cuz my thoughts were wrong
didn't wanna know the right. Every rgirl I met was the same to me just
another cute face in the fantasy back me up if U remember the time when
you're views on the subject was the same as mine until the day U got hit
with the spell couldn't eat couldn't move couldn't think couldn't
spell You balled it up and U wrote it again but every single time you
had to start again Is if coming back? Do you re-call the time you felt
like Adam and had to eat from the vine there's another one you done fell
in love might of thought you were a hawk but you're just a dove.
Chorus
Love is contagious - when its alright
Love is contagious - surely makes me smile
Love is contagious - when its' alright
Love is contagious
Speech
Don't you know I never wanted to catch anything, like a cold or a flu or a
chicken pock pie, But girl you know that. You got me feeling alive and I
can't hold it back even when I try. Cuz girl you got me crazy everyday you
got me wondering what you doing girl you got me crazy wondering what you
doing. I never thought I'd catch it but its' so contagious.
Chorus
Love is contagious - when its alright
Love is contagious - surely makes me smile
Love is contagious - when its' alright
Love is contagious
Chorus
Love is contagious - when its alright
Love is contagious - surely makes me smile
Love is contagious - when its' alright
Love is contagious
I should have that it was coming soon Girl I saw my friends getting'
hitched honeymoons I just didn't wanna believe that I could catch it too
but now I donow I do.
It makes me smile
Chorus
Love is contagious - when its alright
Love is contagious - surely makes me smile
Love is contagious - when its' alright
Love is contagious
I Wanna Go Out 2night
I wanna go out 2night cruising down the road got my tape inside
listening in my ride checkin' out all the stars lookin outside my roof
and then I stare at U reminds me what I want in my life
Honey it's been about 2 years now I like the hazelnut coffee U make U
add so much sugar it tastes like cake but that's the way U make it so I
dig it this is the cup God gave me so I swig it let it drip all down
into my inner parts I get so comfortable with U I can fart anytime I
want and you don't mind it U can get wit the best of em in the business
roll wit the sharks in the industry still come real strong in the ministry
a wife of noble character indeed yo . . .
I wanna go out 2night cruising down the road got my tape inside
listening in my ride checkin' out all the stars lookin outside my roof
and then I stare at U reminds me what I want in my life
I gotta have you up in my life no longer a friend gotta make you my wife
I can't think of any other place I'd rather be especially when I think
back on how you treated me when I was down dead broke I was still the
one even when the other girls wouldn't show me love now how can I be a
fool and not bond with you cause I know that I am the one for you like
you for me like water for tea girl you give me that feelin say la vee
love over joy I love the way that it feels mixed with a little dash of
that sex appeal girl you're special you got me high off life the first
time I saw your face I knew it was right so grab your bag toothbrush
and a change of wear hop in the z3 let me take you there
I wanna go out 2night cruising down the road got my tape inside
listening in my ride checkin' out all the stars lookin outside my roof
and then I stare at U reminds me what I want in my life
Wo wo
The Challenge
intresting enuf
u put our cd on to hear new intriguing sounds that ring true. Tribal
carved pellets of bamboo drill holes in ram horns to play flute pry open
mouths whose truths laid mute winter has it's place but spring has new
colors from a pallet left unused for two seasons on ground greens, up high
blues the rainbow hues to excite the pupils ignite a few neurons mic &
cord afford me exerience to give U pure ryhmes God has chosen a few M.C.s
with success, professin' a responsibility. to move heart, and mind, and
body and stir emotionally. I take the challenge.
Take it Take it Take the challenge!
I've been emotionally crushed the world is a ghetto & its left me in the
dust.I'm like a zombie @ my television watching butts there's nothing to
stimulate my brother nothin' much. Its like I'm a baby gettin fed but never
touched. I've bleeded, pricked from the sticks of rose stems
from trying to smell roses from my garden. And there's angels on each
shoulder one good one bad. Good sayin' take the challenge other sayin'
nah! The odds are very heavy on the negative side. Therefore I need my
bamboo pellets from my tribe! Spiritually speakin' It's needed to stay
alive. I take the challenge.
Take it Take it Take the challenge!
If your ready to get upjust come right hereif your ready step upjkust
come right here.
If your ready to get loosejust come right here. If your ready to get
juicedjust come right here.
It's nature to take the path of least resistence. It's spiritual to take the
godly path insistent.
I got things to do things to do things on my mind I got things to do
things to do aint go much time.
I got life to live life to live gotta live it right. I got life to live
life to live and things are getting tight.
So take it take it the challenge.
Japanese - Lift up the world
Whose Da Man
You met her at the Royal Peacock she had leopard spotted booty shorts and
a low cut top she wore high heels that'll make her calves pop and to
show more cleavageman, she had her breast propped up with tape in order to
make dem joints go plow sportin' girdles on da butt ta keep her gut down
she wore perfume and put it on certain spots so her scent would get
around to all the club blood hounds all a dat planned out and purposely
done not just for looking good and not just for havin fun how I know?
cuz when she gets home she can't wait to take it off skin can breathe
breast can fall awww huaww her illusion did the trick incite yo toy
mind to start thinkin wit yo joystick get in some deep --- brothas watch
out! I been where you at so I know what I'm talkin' bout girls like dat
a lower you to a mut lead ya down a path that a leave you in a rut ya
can't lead da world when you always hard up get impeached like Clinton
when you chasin' da butt you go from a man whose supposed to lead to a
mouse near the trap out to snatch the cheese! you go from a man who was
born a leader to a gerbal in a cage getting fed by da feeder
How's about dat Man, I never thought this way don't U know that it's all
a game brotha's let me tell U run as fast as U can. U supposed to be a
leader but tell me whose the man?
You been taught by yo uncle who was taught by his daddy who was taught
by his daddy what a man is to be but yo uncle's daddy's papa was a
rollin' stone been wit 15 wives only one was his own how he know dat
makin' kids didn't make him grown bunch a half brothers and sisters
workin' da farms all around Mississippi kids workin' da crops knew dey
mama knew dey owner didn't know dey pops now in Y2K you keepin' it
down workin' the field steady spreadin' bastard seeds around got the
nerve to make a jam about how life's so bad and how U so mad cuz U never
had no dad then U lie and say you sellin' drugs to try ta support yo
seeds but da blood money really supports yo greed give yo kids warrior
names in African or Zulu yet the deepest war dey fightin' is to not to be
like you cuz you supposed to lead but your a mouse near the trap out to
snatch the cheese! you go from a man who was born a leader to a gerbal
in a cage getting fed by da feeder
How's about dat.
How's about dat Man, I never thought this way don't U know that it's all
a game brotha's let me tell U run as fast as U can. U supposed to be a
leader but tell me whose the man?
Arrested Development
You don't understand how we came wit you apparently didn't understand the
stuff we do while hangin' round the hood ya got cha 5% plank in dey eye
impact yo mind wit splinters did ya think we're out to wreck the ignorance
musically re-invent the current lack of intense spiritual content in
this musical tent all we're out to do is move crews and smash repent yo
d.j.s scratch us women love it cats dey secretly but it dub it d.j.s
scratch us women love it cats dey secretly buy it dub it put it thru yo
veins run it thru the pipes spread it around the nation watch the
people get hyped put it thru yo veins run it thru the pipes spread it
around the nation watch the people get hyped despite Arrested
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We're still in Arrested Development yaw'l once froze the unawareness now
ya lettin' it thaw but Baba Oje is older den you so give the brother
respect when he comes thru neighborhoods respect due we're outta touch
with the scene backwoods wit little influence from the machine but don't
be surprised if we don't follow the wide and if ya say what's up nigga and
I don't reply
d.j.s scratch us women love it cats dey secretly but it dub it d.j.s
scratch us women love it cats dey secretly buy it dub it put it thru yo
veins run it thru the pipes spread it around the nation watch the
people get hyped put it thru yo veins run it thru the pipes spread it
around the nation watch the people get hyped despite Arrested
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It's been a while since we put that life in yo feet got you cats sweatin'
it out for the love of our beats it's like cancer once it starts to spread
it's all thru the club from the sweetest of mommies to the hardest of
thugs blaze one blaze two we blaze em all for yaw'l and if it ain't got
that heat we don't touch it at all so what are the chances of you not
movin' yo hips callin' yo click sayin' dem cats did it again
I know you love it but you can't stop hatin' on us Georgia born and
grown Eshe got the right touch People Everyday was our hit in 92 man I
thought yaw'l I knew It's been a long time since folks heard from us had
a lot of beef but God straightened it up time flies and that's why
spiritual cleansing was needed and that was for sho
d.j.s scratch us women love it cats dey secretly but it dub it d.j.s
scratch us women love it cats dey secretly buy it dub it put it thru yo
veins run it thru the pipes spread it around the nation watch the
people get hyped put it thru yo veins run it thru the pipes spread it
around the nation watch the people get hyped despite Arrested
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Resurrection
The streets is callin' us backback from the grave the depths from Hades to
upper decks with music to manifest it's the resurrection what you requested
son Arrested Development develop what ancestors brung rock it in Soweto to
streets and meadows with petals like flowers that will settle and polinate
the ghettosback with a righteous indignation a jazzy sensation that raids
the radio stationblastin' with a ration of beats, rhymes and passion
like we did on the 1st . . . the 2nd here comes the verse you reckon
it's just me but uh uh it's Eshe and Raza and Oje from the original days
walk down the block folks think it's a revolution posse so dark radar
mistakes us as pollution not any man can wipe out our race or kill our
esteem it's the sin that dwells within that makes us praise the creamand
lust and schemesell weed and crack to fiends while yellin' a double
standard that curses our very means of true freedom you say you wanna know
the deep things of truth by any means but do you wanna heed em big ballin'
you don't understand the we, the us, you only understand the I like an
optometrist you about as unique as a franchise store but we be the
joint so do you want more?
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On Conscious
This tangled web we weave when we judged based on only what we believe and
not on what God believes all of us are just people we're just trying to
get through this thing life all having made mistakes and keep making
mistakes I was trapped in this judgemental thing too I'm gonna come at
it like this . . .
I had some thoughts about black conscious scene the red black and the
green afrocentric routine whether we be consciously or sub-consciously
aware or keen or just knocked on conscious now of course it's great to
feel great about your race your nose your face your country even your
state yo spicey foods yo unique attitudes what makes me me and you you
but all roots come form just one source the creator that's the missing
link that justified having slaves for the enslaver thinking one is lessor
and the other greater ones lost the other the savior on the conscious
scene you'll find more greetings than in a hallmark store when hello's are
said the brother nods his head and what's next is his fist to his chest.
How you doing god? Oh I'm blessed in the conscious scene there's more
blessed human beings than there is grass that's green at least that's how
it seems bingo sayin' blessed has become just lingo cuz stressed is how
it really goes when we think deep down and when no one else is around in
the conscious scene we take things to the extreme we won't call the sista
sista we call the sista queen but a queen is royalty so we should treat
her that way but if U ask does she feel likea queen I wonder what she'd
say if she's conscious she'd probably say I'm blessed . . . I guess
even if her relationship's a mess in the conscious scene we don't confess
anything that's not perfect it don't mean wack stuff ain't goin' on we
just quilt our covers to be strong and cover up and protect our seemingly
righteous wrongs now the conscious scene will judge you quick if you now
use rollers when you used to use a pick or opposite one day a perm the
next all natural but what change did U're heart undergo? is the good
heart determined by a Fro? what if the KKK wore fro's would dey suddenly
have soul? if I don't hug you on both sides am I truly off balance? if I
shake with my left hand did I truly disrespect the man? man o man it's
hard to be a conscious African if you're conscious of the double stand I
mean double standards. Understand? Oops I mean overstand . . . there it
goes again I guess it's the way of the world or just the way of the words
speakin' of words the conscious scene is not down wit the way Tupac and
Biggie did dey thing now ain't that sumpin'? they're just more blatant
wit their womenizing statements while we're more slick but will make booty
calls jus as quick like Atari both of us controlled soley by our joysticks
we diss the white man for being so materialistic yet we the only ones
going ballistic to get his materials we ice friends to make cream we
pass around a pipe just to have a dream (inhale) yeah god I know God is
higher than we are but not higher than we are . . .get it? we can stop
callin' each other niggas but won't guns still have triggers? and won't
our hands still have fingers and won't we still be finger lickin'? eatin'
chicken black folks? Truthfully? we must be proud of our roots but there
is no substitute for the fact we're all wack whether white, Jewish, Asian,
Hispanic, Indian, or black the truth is we're all ruthless and our love
is as conditional as medical insurance and without the man Jesus we're
hopeless I say the man not the slaveship but the one spoke of in God's
manuscript and not the one painted wit a pale face at yo grandma's crib
and surely not the one at dem churches that's all preach and no live if
we're gonna be conscious let's start really being conscious about treatin'
our wives with respect not takin' dey welfare checks and start puttin' all
fake jokas in straight up check no mo thinkin' wit our joysticks no more
takin' chick fliks at freak nic while we way that the whit man is so sick
cuz until we stop bein' such hypocrites we gone continue to be knocked
on conscious can U dig it?
