(Monica Payne)
brooklyn got the funk
uptown got the funk
east west northside got the funk
l.a. got the funk
boogie down got the funk
queens do got the funk
the bottom got the funk
we got the funk
(Butterfly)
i’m high as the wind so i blow mines
curb hangin and hoppin at the oracle of hipster
just like black ceaser my depths are fresh
cause you’re a fish and i’m a water sign
my laid back pimp walk is linear by design
gold fronts soul i shotee now watch you shine
me and cee know makin it a pundit
i’m glad to see my nigga he plush and lavish on the
block
(Ladybug)
cleaner than others in my form i resort on the corners
connect up my propers
count my double players
cleo still hittin ‘till 38’s pump and they up it
yell it and could never by defunked
i’m totem in the fashion born flyers
unscared against the palest of em
gem percents unheard since i’m the storm
donned ‘69’s power
blocks
(Doodlebug)
you can check my stats i got crazy ups baby
cee know got style don’t play me like i’m lazy
fady but never will i go out
my clout is known across the crooklyn lands
my universal fams got stamina
polar bears are fear when we step in the arena
360 cee know simply cyclin
firm as a rock prints the god when i’m buildin blocks
(Monica Payne)
mecca she got the funk
she got the funk yeah
my man cee knowledge got the funk
he got the funk yeah
(Doodlebug)
from the 11217 i transmit
my area is thick my vision focused
my jitterbugs limp n’ learn as i squirm
but i’m a team player so i waits my turn
and when i get the rock i’m going straight to the hole
my average per game is pure black soul
in the 13 x styles the ignorance
got the clearance to speak intelligence on the block
(Ladybug)
into illusion we drown
by forth sounds smooth enough to break you left
another pound as my conscience get they rest
that’s right we shaft it
includes this pro strips as i shit, burnin, blowin
shakin, yeah solid
three different bags of proof
i ultra swallow, approach em one time
declare us finer and sharper in the hours of black
steel power
blocks
(Butterfly)
son i’m divin
a worm walk in jeans highest forms
the nigga in the cadillac, so watch my spokes twist
spread him out a pound you slide me to one two six
my soul zodiac stroll with g licks
my understanding bill doses sevens to the six
i pump a fist
even my hair got an ego
gettin super id
the kid is super kid
i doozey with the young marx plus the seven odds on the
b line
(Monica Payne)
butterfly got the funk
he got the funk yeah
sulaiman got the funk
he got the funk yeah
(Sulaiman)
ay yo here’s the man
the true mastermind born and planned
talents skills not the wimp stand
so kill the sham as i speak techniques mad deep
to represent for the streets to city corners
leave em hot as a sauna
word is bond cause sule the steps be on
the true original sunset to rise with foes and those
you probably recognized on the block
(Butterfly)
i play my jeff tilted cause i got shtyle
like every nigga on the corner stroll with brown boots
this is our block and we do be tripping
i fling around the ave like sata at mad volume
i flash a slick grin sayin cool with nuance
the donut eater sweated the blackest we all fronts
he asked my whats my name
i told him mark essex
sucker i got lessons forever, i’m bout to bless it
ay yo sul noise it up
blocks
(sulaiman)
i know you feel that you’re real
did you check to see, no peep the crew members
brothers like ambush and c.o.
filthy rich down a mans in savages
shown hows kr swings a method to your madness
real troops walk around with the joint so get the point
get get the point, get the point, get the point
and now lounge to the sounds cause the best spoke
i catch you on the next note
or on the block
(Monica Payne)
original got the funk
we got the funk yeah
hip hop gots the funk
we keeps the funk yeah
teri got the funk
monica got the funk
d.p.s. got the funk
seven odds got the funk
operation from the bottom got the funk
seven and a crescent got the funk
jazzy joyce got the funk
joy know she got the funk
groove theory got the funk
pudgee straight got the funk
the streets got all the funk
three t’s got all the funk
zhane got the funk
h.b. got the funk
little p.o’s haven’t got the funk
beneficient got the funk
actual facts haven’t got the funk
soul foods got the funk
k.b. got the funk
ro dog got the funk
brother arthur four got the funk
t.e. got the funk
dave got the funk
dex got the funk
watts prophets got the funk
Peace.. peace.. peace y'all!
(Strange!) Real strange.. real strange..
(An overdose..) A.. nickel bag of funk
(WE GOT BEAT!!)
Now move on.. move on.. yeah..
("Hey man are you ready to go?") Yeah..
[Butterfly]
Boogie jive and rap is life where I'm from
Where I'm from, I might play with Izzy where I'm from
Where I'm from, it be like, "run your coat black"
Jupiter, keeps her fat beats by the pack
Where I'm from, nappy hair is life
We be reading Marx where I'm from
The kids be rockin Clarks where I'm from
You turn around your cap, you talk over a beat
and dig some sounds boomin out a jeep
Where I'm from, cocoons hide the youth, swoon units 100 proof
You want some beef, they will cut you some
Where I'm form, the beats is infinite where I'm from
Voodoo, ashubani, gangsta lean where I'm from
I'm interplanetary, my insect movements vary
It's kinky if it's hair, G, where I'm from
The firehoses blow, it's purple wind and snow
I do a hit and go, SPLIT
It's hip, what's hip? When hip is just the norm
Cause Planets pledge allegiance to the funk in all it's forms
The kinks, the dance, the prints in all the shirts
My grandmother told my mother it's Africa at work
On vibes, we freak, them universal beats
You find it at the spot you hit at ends of every week
We twist, exist, to spin the maddest hits
Up here funk is our neighbor so we paid her a visit
The lip we sip can't house the nine zips
For rock we can't do nothin, for this we come equipped
Off disc, off tape, rap blastin til from 8
The really truly fat the fly on the flip
Cocoa gotta know, how Planets, gotta roll
Speak the mega cool, get funky as a goal
It's calm, relax, we're only some new jacks
that acts from the funk but don't play the role
Where you from?
....
[Doodlebug]
Weekend "Dig Plans" got T's where I'm from
Where I'm from, it's Collins 13 where I'm from
Where I'm from, brothers took the beat and got fly
(Why?) That's most asked by 85, where I'm from
Fakin the funk you get did
Projects, tenements, pyramids
Where I'm from, we're livin off the boom boom crack
It's that hip hop rockers jazz when I max
Peace be the greeting of the insect tribe
Pestilent forces can't catch the vibe
We live to love and we love to rock mics
We speak in ghetto tongue cause ghetto's the life
Food for thought so get a buffet plate
The lyrics are so fat you might gain weight
So just watch me step alone, into the sunset
Left foot right foot 1-2 mic check
Brewin funk inside my soul kitchen
So pull up a chair here's a bit have a listen
of hardhead intervene, damn I know you're fluent
Yeah, cause Doodle ain't havin it and Butterfly knew it
Where you from?
....
[Ladybug]
Venus acts a fool at the square right? (Yeah)
Doctors engineer in apparel right? (Yeah)
Hip-Hop made a point last year right? (Yeah)
But Planets is the joint this year right? (Yeah)
Planets got the dubs and live to grass-hop
Duck out from the fuzz, that sweat the hip-hop
Risin like we foam, get it from the dome
I'm from where the fat beats stretch for mad blocks
We can get a kit, without, no thread
Feelin funky beats go straight, to the head
Fall into a club, dig on what we love
It be past six, before we reach bed
Butter freaks on relics we say, those are fat
Doodle makin silk, LaQuan, where it's at?
We need to stack a sack, for rap to take us dap
So we treat our clips, just like, bustin caps
Rip it til dawn, kick it til dawn
Hip-Hop is the fix, or else, we be gone
People thought they canned it, rap is not by bandits
Digable Planets got it, goin on
{all together}
Butterfly searchin for a relax
Pullin from the jazz stacks cause it's Sunday
On the air is incense sounds to the ceiling
Tried to get this feelin since Monday
Lookin out the window watchin all the people go
Buggin off a funny vibe cause now it seems they're equal
Wonder what would 'trane say wonder what my pop say
Buggin off the calmness in the Apple
Who me I'm coolin in NY, I'm chillin in NY
The hoods is on my block and the brothers at the court
The baseball hats is on and the projects is calm
Dreamtime's extended - and highly recommended
But early birds like me's up checkin out the scene
The early worms jog, forget about your job
Just come dig the essence while the decadence is hidden
when people act like people the theory ??
If you know the norm it's like Hades transformed
On sunday's early hours the city sprouts its flowers
So get with the rhythms while you gettin with the planets
Vibe off the jams but don't take them for granted
We venture through the streets in search of funky beats
Extensive is the travels and it's heavy on the sneaks
ye it's kickin out the speakers of the sunday morning jeepers
my man do planets do it lovely?
Am I my brother's keeper?
We foot it to the park where the swoon units walk
And sit with the phoenicians diggin on musicians
Hangin with the rebels sippin on a Snapple
Buggin with my crew just trippin in the Apple
you be thinkin peace when you're vibin with your flock
But you be thinkin damn everybody's got a glock
If you got some beef please express that in silence
or else - violence
But right here is the life it's the children of the concrete
Livin off the fruits and the functions of the fat beats
Hip-Hop's all around the members is growin
Please dig on the sounds cause the good vibes they snowin
Wake up, prayin' that the game's on
Maybe it's the Runnin' Rebs, maybe it's the Knicks
maybe it's a rerun of an old tv show
like hawaii 5-0 or karate flicks
maybe if the phone rings butterfly will take wings
speakin on some cool things frontin like i cope
born under flat ground now i'm chillin shaky ground
reachin for pacific heights sunday is my rope - dig it
Sunday's to relax
Some Sunday morning drama is callin up my mama
The hot line is in I guess the ? knew the deal
Vibin off the jams of the crews on Sugarhill
Lay around and think ain't nothin to do
Checkin out some frommes, some satre, camus
Mingus's Ah Um, damn Roach can drum
The DP's are life there they go here they come
It's time to grab some loot put on the timber boots
Checking out some dollies/dali's like tasha and kamali
NY is a museum with its posters and graffiti
If you're in the city on Sunday
[Butterfly]
We like the breeze flow straight out of our lids
Them they got moved by these hard-rock Brooklyn kids
Us flow a rush when the DJ's boomin classics
You dig the crew on the fattest hip hop records
He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds
She frequents the fatter joints called undergrounds
Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane
They flock to booms man boogie had to change
Who freaks the clips with mad amount percussion
Where kinky hair goes to unthought-of dimensions
Why's it so fly cause hip hop kept some drama
When Butterfly rocked his light blue-suede Pumas
What by the cut we push it off the corner
How was the buzz entire hip hop era?
Was fresh and fat since they started sayin outie
Cause funks made fat from right beneath my hoodie
The puba of the styles like miles and shit
Like sixties funky worms with waves and perms
Just sendin chunky rhythms right down ya block
We be to rap what key be to lock
I'm cool like dat [x7]
I'm cool...I'm cool...
[Ladybug]
We be the chocolates taps on my raps
She innovates at the sweeta cat naps
He at the funk club with the vibrate
Them they be crazy down with the ?five plate?
It can kick a plan then a crowd burst
Me I be diggin it with s bump verse
Us we be freakin til dawn blinks an eye
He gives the strangest smile so I say hi (wassup)
Who understood yeah understood the plan
Him heard a beat and put it to his hands
What I just flip let borders get loose
How to consume or they'll be just like juice
If its the shit we'll lift it off the plastic
The babes'll go spastic
Hip hop gains a classic
Pimp playin shock it dont matter I'm fatter
Ax Butta how I zone (man Cleopatra Jones)
I'm chill like dat [x7]
I'm chill...I'm chill...
[All]
Blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink....
Think..think..think..think..think..think..think...
[Doodlebug]
We get ya free cause the clips be fat boss
Them they're the jams and commence to goin off
She sweats the beat and ask me cause she puffed it
Me I got crew kids seven and a crescent
Us cause a buzz when the nickel bags are dealt
Him thats my man with the asteroid belt
They catch a fizz from the Mr. Doodle-big
He rocks a tee from the Crooklyn non-pigs
The [Butterfly]
We like the breeze flow straight out of our lids
Them they got moved by these hard-rock Brooklyn kids
Us flow a rush when the DJ's boomin classics
You dig the crew on the fattest hip hop records
He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds
She frequents the fatter joints called undergrounds
Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane
They flock to booms man boogie had to change
Who freaks the clips with mad amount percussion
Where kinky hair goes to unthought-of dimensions
Why's it so fly cause hip hop kept some drama
When Butterfly rocked his light blue-suede Pumas
What by the cut we push it off the corner
How was the buzz entire hip hop era?
Was fresh and fat since they started sayin outie
Cause funks made fat from right beneath my hoodie
The puba of the styles like miles and shit
Like sixties funky worms with waves and perms
Just sendin chunky rhythms right down ya block
We be to rap what key be to lock
I'm cool like dat [x7]
I'm cool...I'm cool...
[Ladybug]
We be the chocolates taps on my raps
She innovates at the sweeta cat naps
He at the funk club with the vibrate
Them they be crazy down with the ?five plate?
It can kick a plan then a crowd burst
Me I be diggin it with s bump verse
Us we be freakin til dawn blinks an eye
He gives the strangest smile so I say hi (wassup)
Who understood yeah understood the plan
Him heard a beat and put it to his hands
What I just flip let borders get loose
How to consume or they'll be just like juice
If its the shit we'll lift it off the plastic
The babes'll go spastic
Hip hop gains a classic
Pimp playin shock it dont matter I'm fatter
Ax Butta how I zone (man Cleopatra Jones)
I'm chill like dat [x7]
I'm chill...I'm chill...
[All]
Blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink....
Think..think..think..think..think..think..think...
[Doodlebug]
We get ya free cause the clips be fat boss
Them they're the jams and commence to goin off
She sweats the beat and ask me cause she puffed it
Me I got crew kids seven and a crescent
Us cause a buzz when the nickel bags are dealt
Him thats my man with the asteroid belt
They catch a fizz from the Mr. Doodle-big
He rocks a tee from the Crooklyn non-pigs
The rebirth of slick like my gangsta stroll
The lyrics just like loot come in stacks and rolls
You used to find a bug in a box with fade
Now he boogies up your stage plaits twist or braids
I'm peace like dat [x7]
I'm Peace
[Butterfly]
Check it out man I groove like dat
I'm smmoce like dat
I jive like dat
I roll like dat
[Ladybug]
Yeah I'm thick like dat
I stack like dat
I'm down like dat
I'm black like dat
[Doodlebug]
Well yo I funk like dat
I'm fat like dat
I'm in like dat
Cause I swing like dat
[Butterfly]
We jazz like dat
We freak like dat
We zoom like dat
I will drive a thousand miles
To escape the smog in this town
I will drive although I don't have a license
To escape the ideal that this city crowns
Hide every little scar with so much make-up
The skin can't even breathe
Hide every little scar or become the food they feed
Shift into a higher gear
Place the brick on the gas
On what I left behind I won't waste a tear
My rearview mirror has got broken glass
I will drive until I reach the desert
And wait until I see with my own eyes again
I will drive I'll head for the desert
And wait until our minds speak the same words as back then
This makes me into nothing in their eyes
But I'm willing to pay the price
hook
You can be my cutty buddy, my hangout honey
You can be my cutty buddy, cutty cutty
(T-Mo)
Now when I saw you in the club, all I did was stare
Intimidated by my golds and my long ass hair
But I couldn't let you pass, and didn't even care
I had to make conversation, and let you know this here
Who am I, the well known T-Mo, represent the G Mo B
Trinity to infinity
Baby whats your name, where you came from
Where you get your game from, I bet you learned a lot growing up
Being a cute lil' thang, like to bang with the big dawgs
Roll in the big hogs, 18, living life raw
Little shawty was a dream
Had to put up my dream my brother had
hook
(Cee-Lo)
Well my dear, this here you can quote
Carlitto will cut your motherfucking throat
Left low, you can ride shotgun in the boat
Hit my red light digit and thats all she wrote
Of course, she shaped like a stallion horse
Goddammit, shawty finish your drink
We going to get a room, what the hell you think
I'll buy you something to eat, but you can't break the bank
First time, the gold plate from the IHOP
Then to the inn to umm drop, plop plop, fizz fizz oh what a relief it is
Get it, got it gone, now he out for his
hook
(Sleepy Brown)
Hey Jo (huh), I know this girl that wanna cut your throat
(Khujo)
Hold up shawty
Before you finna to get your boy in some serious trouble man
I'm talking bout' cost cutting (snip-snip), ain't nothing
Tell her all we can do together, is make this grip-grip
She talking 'bout chiefing, sipping, bending and stripping
I ain't chicken fool, you know I'm ranged up
All these fools around here may be harder
But I ain't studying this young buck
Jail baits are best seen hiking the drawls
And looking for a daddy to cake her
(Sleepy Brown)
All you gotta do is take her out, stuff her face, get her pumped
Put her on the chopping block, now she nice and crunk
(Khujo)
But I ain't no punk dutty
Heard if you stick your thumb in their booty it drive 'em nutty
She'll walk nann day, owe me but a cent and out when I'm through boo
Now you know the real meaning of cutty
hook
(Big Gipp)
Gipp cutty, they call me too fresh too clean
Got the girls hooked off the D like morphine
Where we gonna go, I don't know but lets hit it
With the strawberries, blueberries, looking for the tooth fairy
For the night out, downtown, second floor, in the loft with the lights out
Candles straight burning
Everybody hot, clothes on the floor
You ain't know, yo we got some hollywood cake we can slice Mrs. Meyer
Even got some twins that can get in
Head for head, bed for bed, it don't matter
Everything jumping off just right, and we ain't leaving till the sunlight
Cause we undercover with our cutty buddy
hook
it was 8:49 on a beautiful 9th day of july
there was not a cloud to speak of so the orange sun hung
lonely in the sky
i was laying prone in my ?catbeat? home
listening to fine nappy jackie and his jazzcat's horn
sliding in a tape of bird on verve when suddenly rang my phone
hello butterfly , a voice said
slip on some duds comb out your fro and slide on down to my pad
the vibe here is very pleasant and i truly request your presence
a problem of great magnitude has arose
and as we speak it grows
damn, what could it be i thought
a juice i bought and rolled on down to her pad
seeing bros i know slapping fives i arrived and pressed G-5
and there was nikki
lookin some kind of sad with tears fallin from her eyes
she sat me down
and dug my frown and began to run it down
"you remember my boyfriend sid that fly kid who i love
well our love was often a verb and spontaneity has brought a third
but do to our youth an economic state we wish to terminate
about this we don't feel great , but baby that's how it is
but the feds have dissed me
they ignore and dismiss
and the pro-lifers harrass me outside the clinic
and call me a murderer, now that's hate
so needless to say we're in a mental state of debate"
hey beautiful bird i said digging her somber mood
the fascists are some heavy dudes
they don't really give a damn about life
they just don't want a woman to
control her body or have the right to choose
but baby that ain't nothin
they just want a male finger on the button
because if you say war they will send them to die by the score
aborting mission should be your volition
but if souter and thomas have their way
you'll be standing in line unable to get welfare while they're out
hunting and fishing
it has always been around it will always have a niche
but they'll make it a privelege not a right
accessible only to the rich
pro-lifers should dig themselves
cause life doesn't stop after birth
and to a child borne to the unprepared
it might even just get worse
supporters of the h-bomb and fire bombing clinic
what type of shit is that? orwellian in fact
if roe v wade was overturned would not the desire remain intact
leaving young girls to risk their healths
and doctors to botch and watch as they kill themselves
i don't want to sound macabre
but hey, isn't it my job
to lay it on the masses and get them off their asses
to fight against these fascists
so whatever you decide make that move with pride
sid will be there (ladybug will be there, doodlebug will be there)
and so will i
an insect til i die
rhythms and sounds
spinning around
confrontations
across the nation
your block
my block
dreadlocks
what a shock
land of the free - but not
Butterfly searchin for a relax
Pullin from the jazz stacks cause it's Sunday
On the air is incense sounds to the ceiling
Tried to get this feelin since Monday
Lookin out the window watchin all the people go
Buggin off a funny vibe cause now it seems they're equal
Wonder what would 'trane say wonder what my pop say
Buggin off the calmness in the Apple
Who me I'm coolin in NY, I'm chillin in NY
The hoods is on my block and the brothers at the court
The baseball hats is on and the projects is calm
Dreamtime's extended - and highly recommended
But early birds like me's up checkin out the scene
The early worms jog, forget about your job
Just come dig the essence while the decadence is hidden
When people act like people the theory?
If you know the norm it's like Hades transformed
On sunday's early hours the city sprouts its flowers
So get with the rhythms while you gettin with the planets
Vibe off the jams but don't take them for granted
We venture through the streets in search of funky beats
Extensive is the travels and it's heavy on the sneaks
Ye it's kickin out the speakers of the sunday morning jeepers
My man do planets do it lovely?
Am I my brother's keeper?
We foot it to the park where the swoon units walk
And sit with the phoenicians diggin on musicians
Hangin with the rebels sippin on a Snapple
Buggin with my crew just trippin in the Apple
You be thinkin peace when you're vibin with your flock
But you be thinkin damn everybody's got a glock
If you got some beef please express that in silence
Or else - violence
But right here is the life it's the children of the concrete
Livin off the fruits and the functions of the fat beats
Hip-Hop's all around the members is growin
Please dig on the sounds cause the good vibes they snowin
Wake up, prayin' that the game's on
Maybe it's the Runnin' Rebs, maybe it's the Knicks
Maybe it's a rerun of an old tv show
Like hawaii 5-0 or karate flicks
Maybe if the phone rings butterfly will take wings
Speakin on some cool things frontin like I cope
Born under flat ground now I'm chillin shaky ground
Reachin for pacific heights sunday is my rope - dig it
Sunday's to relax
Some Sunday morning drama is callin up my mama
The hot line is in I guess the ? knew the deal
Vibin off the jams of the crews on Sugarhill
Lay around and think ain't nothin to do
Checkin out some frommes, some satre, camus
Mingus's Ah Um, damn Roach can drum
The DP's are life there they go here they come
It's time to grab some loot put on the timber boots
Checking out some dollies/dali's like tasha and kamali
NY is a museum with its posters and graffiti
If you're in the city on Sunday
(Butterfly)
glide through the corner bout peace the hour
slide twenty spaces to mate a life
went through my place, ain’t nothin but hers
you wind at the box and they playin my joint
uh huh
limped through the concrete, the hell we a buzz
afros, cubatas and the round ball cuffing
they say, what’s happenin
(Ladybug)
what’s happenin nigga
(Butterfly)
the six fly honeys and the new bomb tape
nothin but the baby cuttin jazzy core
while they kick a butter flow where the fly shit be had
we the most
ninety three million miles
and i kicked that on everything
time for the countdown mec
gimme the countdown
word
right on
block, blocks and blocks
[Ladybug]
The Bloom, the Swoon, the Sugars on your block
The Planets land in flesh in the corners of New York
The ghetto, the meadow, the Mr. Butter flew
The Honeybugs dug and licked the honey dew
The sun, the kiss, the funk for a bliss
The lips with the soul and some jazz for ya hips
The puff, the buzz, the lids be heavy slick
The Mecca get a rush when the beats be very thick
The hands, the feet, the brown baby treat
The femmes fumble loose and drink the doodlejuice
The steps, the flams, the Planets goddamn
The peoples get a grip with a tape from a jam
{all together}
A nickel bag of funk (x8)
[Butterfly]
The big, the fat, the cool cool cats
The psychedelic soul puts the Planets on the map
The chic, the love, the far out name
The lack of the funk's the main why we came
The boogie gets done, the colors won't run
The funk hits the square, the kids gotta come
The pizza with the pop, the west 4th stop
The crew after crew that do the grasshop
The true cool is black, the new school is fat
The beats by the ounce, the funk by the pack
The hanging off the butts with the fat sole kicks
{all together}
A nickel bag of funk (x8)
[Doodlebug]
The wide, the hip, dig it it's the trip
The loops, the scene and the funkifying it
The sounds, the pounds, the stacks, the flair
The baggy baggy jeans, the notty notty hair
The twinkle in the eye, the kids that livin' fly
The crew from the sky, the stuff that gets you high
The action, the work from the rhyme
We goes the whole nine
The papers won't rot, the vapors get got
The streets give the buzz the funk up your block
The opium groove, the smacked out soul
The kickin' it live the fat gotta roll
{all together}
A nickel bag of funk (x8)
A nickel bag, a nickel bag Ladybug'll hit ya with a
nickel bag
A nickel bag, a nickel bag Butterfly'll hit ya with a
nickel bag
A nickel bag, a nickel bag Doodlebug'll hit ya with his
nickel bag
A nickel bag, a nickel bag DPs always hit you with they
I'm blue mood y?all, I slive with jiva y?all
I'm actually deep y?all, invented time y?all
In ten fourths y?all, I pay your cap y?all
I player late y?all and draw down to
I bust raps y?all, in love with naps y?all
The sweet beats kid, I speak my thoughts y?all
I wreck the break y?all, don?t trust the flag y?all
I dig the birds y?all, I'm layin' out now, yeah
The season?s been good like a sweet
I hang out with a gang out flat bush with cool beats
I found the reverberated shout was goddamn
And questions 'bout the methods how the Planets made jam
Wallowed through a gang a murk in the interim
I couple time we got jerked but still invented them
Wicked little kinky joints that got us ghetto weight
And also kept the jazz alive by pullin' off the plates
Maybe only we was hip to stretchin' out the brain
I felt Bird Parker when I shot it in my vein
I toss these major losses on the Mingus jazzy strum
Flip off into a nod and dig myself a dyin' young
It?s like cool was the bop and the flair
I kicks to my pools by the nap of their hair
I'm pinnin' Uncle Sam for the death of swingin' quotes
For losin' Bud Powell slidin' over Dizzy's notes
Was it that the rebirth was the birth for new shit, of cool shit
The jazz power showers from the crew was sure legit
But hey, present since gone Hank Mo's gone
They kill the coolest breeze in this land of the free
And it been like that since they lied about they flag
Like all my main mans gave they beats up for skags
So I pops it at your crew like Bu I did a lid
But I used Lee's Cooker got my buzz around midnight
I'm so shy y?all, I'm hip to badge y?all
From sector six, yeah and now and then too
I slows the trims y?all and fades a fake now
I know the nat y?all I'm layin' out y?all, yeah
The season?s been smooth like the suede
Pumas that butter got when butter got paid
Or better yet Dolphy's archetypes for cool dudes
Or better still Trane usin' space in afro blue
It?s simple, swing be the freakin' of the time
The spinnin' by the kings good for speakin' of the mind
The forty seven sessions gave the buzzes that I caught
They asked was it cool blues knowledge
(What you thought?)
I told 'em it was solid, dig, the licks was way out
My baby loves to kiss when Ornette just lays out
So the quotes be as such bout the kits, uh
You down with Digable Planets yous a hipster, shit
I lay it on the cats about monk
The logical extensions comin' boomin' out that trunk
Assumin' that the room in which you zooms designed by your mind
Not the stars and stripes but red Cali? booms
And the rat-a-tat-tat by Max or Philly Joe on we go
The fly shit y?all, we don?t quit y?all
It?s slick beats here and it?s out there
A smooth groove kid, the jive is high y?all
We ain?t marks y?all okay pow me up
Uh, the seasons been fat like some boom
Doodlebug?s math jazz fillin' up the room
When Booker jam with Eric at the funky five spot
Jimmy Cob's job was layin' crashes on the top
Butter cop his lid at this little Harlem jam
The tenor bop the middle and his shades and his tam
I'm diggin' how these dudes made my buzz a little hipper
And angles on the moves really couldn?t get no blacker
I'm sinkin' deep to the sleekness of the horn
I'm thinkin' take the hipness and just lay it in my form
So when the hoodlums flood waitin' for another anthem
I say it?s in the blood cause it notin' but rhythm
And rhythm goes on and on to the break of moon, baby
The dads is gone but they used to come lovely
The sickness towards the world?s cause Sam caused the blues
But hipness takes a swirl and jams by my crew
Infect space y?all, we swing time y?all
It?s like milk yeah, it?s like be bop
The new scat slips, oh shit, we got fly kicks
[Butterfly]
Yo, everybody's goin retro, right?
And I was thinkin... if the 60's and 70's were now,
Isaac Hayes woulda have his own 900 number.
[Mecca]
I know, and MC Hammer would've been a pimp, right?
[Butterfly]
Word, and jimmi would've dug us right?
[Doodlebug] Word.
[Butterfly] Yeah.
[Butterfly]
Get yours, float up to the stars
Planets hits a spot 'bout six blocks east of Mars.
Air soul kicks and crush velvet hats,
hangin off the ave with the beautifulest naps.
Ride in the crest with the blessed, give a yes.
Planets kinda funky, as if you hadn't guessed.
Placebo's gettin blocked, funky joints get rocked
Jive is not found, we fly from the flesh
Whether Jeep or 'Lac, Peak you as you been there and
Float to them raps, Butterfly's planets for the
Jam 8 Tracks... from the 90-tops with the
Twists and plaits, look beneath my hat
Find the braids that hit ya, metro quite equiped
Knows of all the funk that was laid in 7-zips
Funk is phat, homey homey don't you know me?
Cool is back, give some skin, lay it on me
Groovy you could call it, hip, yeah, you could call we,
Fikky sticky fingers stuck us, loot junkies.
If you diggin rhyme, then you diggin rap
Jimmi's diggin this and we be diggin that...
yeah...
(The song is by some groovy cats. If you can dig
the cats, you can dig the song).
[Butterfly]
Yo, the black panthers would've had their own show
right?
[Mecca]
I know, and 8-track walkmans, right?
[Doodlebug]
True, The Jackson Five would've had dreads.
[Mecca]
Word, my man Tito would look fly, right?
[Butterfly]
Word, and Jimmi would've dug Dig Planets for real,
word.
[Butterfly]
Planets bustin out of this L-7 square
Check out the wares, check out the hairs
Sweetback chills with Shav, on the ave
Jimmi's diggin cats, and that's just the half
Where'd they find the stuff to freak it like a wizzard,
Slick just like a lizzard? really weird, or is it?
It's just the logic, from how we rocks it
Pop shock picks it up and drops hits
We, the synthesis of then and now melts
channeled to the masses through a DJ and some felts
Long haired hippies, Afro blacks,
All get together across the tracks
Because when we shows up, rythm rolls up
Funk cannot be measured while the pleasure grows up
Life ain't what it seems, life is but a dream
Planets wreakin havok is as constant as the rain
Yeah...
(The song is by some groovy cats. If you can dig
the cats, you can dig the song.
Yeah, I can really dig how these cats get down with the
sound as it is today. The way they're bringing it all
together, they're cool. Brothas are doin it right. And
they're paying good respect to the masters, I can
{all together}
Ya gotta (x4)
Ya gotta do what you feel
Do what you feel
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
If it's real
[Ladybug]
Exit Planet Venus for a Brooklyn stroll
Jazzy fly naps, hands clap to a roll
Leaves fumble falling down, wind blowin' round
Dig the layer change, the funkifying sound
Mecca the Ladybug changing like seasons
Moves I be seeing changes life's reasons
On to express
The ways that I can flex the Swoon Unit glow
As I go Butter flow
I take a chance, go against the norm
But then you still make advance to my lady form
O.K. shall I smack a ghetto punk with the line
{But Mecca!}
O.K. smack a meadow punk with the fine
I slip this only to the ones who lack respect, the rest
Just get your ticket pronto and jet but please
{all together}
Do what you feel (x2)
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
If it's real
[Doodlebug]
Check out the funk brown babies my man
This be the medium used by Dig Plans
Hit the cosmics like a funkanaut
Leave the ladybugs with forget-funk-nots
Black sunflowers bloom be a tune
If the sound's from the Digs it'll zoom up your room
Bugs flock spots where Hip Hop be a norm
If Capri is the Kid, the floor's gettin' stormed
With the bass in your face, space is the place
Bugs take the stand, God damn it's the jam
Cee-Know be no uncivilised just
Popping out the jive and the jazz causing rush
Can you dig it? My mellow it's that cool cat sound
{Doodlebug, Japreme told me that the Gee be gettin'
down}
Shit that's mandatory so you gots to demand it
And if they cannot help, here's a ticket to the Planets
{all together}
Do what you feel (x2)
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
If it's real
[Butterfly]
Man I doos that in the mad degrees
With my and crew and shit honey dip cool breeze can you
dig it?
{I'm with it}
{Butter now you know}
I know the wig gets a braid out, it's fat or else we be
Cop the rap backs from these cats out on bleeker
Rejuvenate the plates for my peoples and their speakers
Bleach your rap, make it need a crutch
Planets wouldn't allow themselves to roll like such
Expressions, sighting, scripting, talk
Fighting the status is being an artist in New York
Tongues be often forked
Flows be often corked
If they call it fad, we just ignore it like it's pork
Planets got them thoughts blooming flowers in the dense
They said the grass was greener so we snuck and hopped
the fence
Landed in a meadow, glimpsed and saw a shadow of
brothers with guitars,
common sense and puffy Afros
Knucks was getting' raised, paths was getting' blazed
Feds was cracking domes but these cats they wasn't
phased
in tight grips yet the lips wasn't talking fun
Rhythms and the struggle kinda funneled into one
True funk cannot disguise, because the streets have
eyes
Whos gonna revive? Well us and delic vibe
Did it like a Dig Planets God dammit
To get a good kicket, suggest you get your ticket and
{all together}
Do what you feel (x2)
Do what you feel yeah
Do what you feel (x3)
Funky, alright
One time for your mind, two times for Mumia's saint crew
Three times for my Brooklyn dimes, seven times for pleasure
I don't trip, I don't trip, we don't trip, we don't trip
He don't trip, please don't trip, we don't trip, pleasure
Now, sixteen times for the mind thieves
For my thinking in tell and I am Erica
Counter fits don't stop the wettest of us we Brooklyn
We define the black people equal to who
Yeah what you supply? I know when I know when I drop dip
That was in beetle's but a snake try to spill a score
On my pride I'm in my Cammy
We bust at cointelpro we creamy like
Fuck that we Creamy Spies tell you schemey lies
We let creamy bullets fly, should it reflect the sun
We say yes when we think of getting dipped
We says guess say yo comrades rest
Because we all bounce, we all bounce, I do bounce
He do bounce, she do bounce, we all bounce
I all bounce, we all bounce
From back since the crook caught a rep
For giving birth to horn loopers
I took my first step with campers, born troopers
Got caps on both cans for the halls I spray
Slap hand with my mans by the walls we play
Now, waist chains and Cammy floors complete sag
Live pools, my squad rules from solar to lunar, cheap to death
From no boot to Puma, sewed up like mesh
My cousin's hit the 'pike
I read it in the, went it's circle C-low
Now all the niggaz hating C-know
As we move on the D E low
For our fam in jail, no stars just bars
No cars unless the B M T own 'em
Crook-town bounce streets delph to south bar on a
I drape soul hearts, I make soul darts
Cover mad areas in my crepe soul Clarks
MC's lyin', is dyin' rap off but here we all y'all
With pleasure, so it's
One time for your mind, twice times for Mumia's saint crew
Thrice times for the Brooklyn dimes and it's seven times for pleasure
I stay on, she stay on, we stay on, yeah we stay on
He is on, we be on, we stay on with pleasure
Here I go, the seven odd, Manchu Squad
Black notes I quote, I dedicate to my young star
Via selway cars I span the metro, C-know sold stee-lo
Is livin' on the D-low
The galactic traveler eternal explorer
Like the invincible master agent, a true warrior
Neither here nor there, the master of illusion
My son's moon sets, catch reps when we cruisin'
The New York Boroughs with classic boom basctic
Studied all the styles and got nasty at it
Like a Thelonius Monk I travel in peace
Left on right on black man from the east
We don't quit, we don't quit
We don't quit, we don't quit
Yeah, like for nothin' but beats and cheese
Subzero degrees can't freeze the cool breeze
Ease, easay straight Brooklyn doob
Hit you off with some pellets did Brooklyn smooth
It's that certain style uh huh, I shoot a leg ball
Squeeze off style quarters till herbs feel stressed
Playing slick games and avoid all rest
I shows, five seconds after that, I flows left one
Caught your rebel grows, devils we grow, jonesin' on the curb I glow
Still posin' a B-girl fresh as this leftist gets with MC's one and all of 'em
Smooth
(Smooth)
Beyond the
(Beyond the)
Automatic, systematic
(Automatic)
Complex
(Just ease it in)
The feelings right
The music is tight
(The music?s tight)
Departin? out of Crooklyn, type Saturday night
The Gear, The God, was rockin? type, way out of sight
Limpin' past the market scene, my man, aight
Steelo type fat, solar type facts
Later for milk and honey
Get the money out this piece, relax
(Relax)
I handle streets, all type slick
Just like a seven no lash
She got moist ?cause I got?s the platinum voice
Like syrup, for delf roamin', the New York Boroughs
As they temp our perms, plus I ride the iron worms
Uptown across down, from the boogie with no fake
Ghetto to my marrow then ease on back to Crooklyn
Hold it, has loot in my timbs and army suits
Parlayin? where Malcolm stood, now brother?s plus they blow out
A slicker nigga pig, dig me picking my fuckin' ?fro out
Limpin' up the one tree fives, the P jects, the eject these herbs
That?s word to green herb, not the curbs
I play that like, primo supreme hustler
Nappy hair, oil slick, loyal to kick and dirty snare, little panther
Answers to the nom de plum butter
Nice, preciser, rubber, slicer and cutter
In a freshly dip state, I contemplate
Who?s avenue be makin' the most bacon
My honey gets the loot out
We?re shaking?
We gettin' live
Dreamin? bein? in the Central Ave. bus stop
Then I call bust out, wassup?
Seems that the dream teams me
Mecca, The God and Sulaiman
If their beats is phatty
And it?s on then I?m gone
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
(Slick as I can)
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in, zoom
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in, slick
You know my motions, slimmer with no limo
I ride the C local and tilt my army brimmer
Milt bless the vibes, pro symbolize
Built with the fives, my clique then amplified
Sounds as we ease beneath the New York moon
Pounds as we dip increase these New York tunes
It?s the universe I have
Nappy and happy, June 12th
I self don?t say that exists, imported on the ships
With irons around the fist
Gradual to afros, black cats and fist picks
Still creatin' boogies and the styles they want
Now they try to move us for the styles we flaunt
But I, seen it sunny, plus seen rain
Plus seen my moneys gettin' smoked for change
I face left in the round up
Pound up The God when the devil wished the cents
Blaowed to the essence sinks
Deep down into the blue train cover
The real got surreal ?cause we feel you ain?t a ganster
When I was a youngster, ate jazz and black
Freedom had a pistol, it was just like that
Old earth gave me kisses to her coach of power records
Pumas, these flavors, busy B mic. checkin?s
The crowd says I?m down from the ground up
But what if emcee comes, come on, emcee go
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
(As slick as I can)
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin in zoom
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
(Slick as I can)
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin in, yeah, slick
The feelin's right
The music?s tight
(The music?s tight)
Departin? out of Crooklyn type, Saturday night
The gear, The God, was rockin? type, way out of sight
Limpin' past the market scene, my man, aight
When the mic, check counts my amount is cash
I don?t shoot out, I get that loot out ?cause I?m fresh
Hit you with the gold front rim with diamond look
Muhammad made ?em, Nikki paid him, I was shook
I tell an emcee in a eye blink
That you whack as crack
(Whack)
C know got my back
And we both can laugh
And for example, we swift this, lifted up on luck
And for complexion like brass and brown skin
We of this, built this with South, Boogie Down Bronx
Ask the clowns, in the suits with the cash
I tell ?em, pass the ruck
Or get stuck by my comrades badge
Just like my mom and dad had it
And did it
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
(As slick as I can)
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
(Slick as I can)
Easin? in as slick as I can
Easin? in as slick as I can
Quiet please, quiet please, welcome to this class
Black studies 700, The Art Of Easing
I?m your conductor, instructor, Mr. Castro
Take a look at your syllabus
You are required to be plushed out and dip daily
Guess, army suits, Timbs, Lugz, whatever
Quiet please in the back, quiet please
You will have 2 texts
And finally, we are takin' a field trip
To the East Star Housin', projects speak perfect slang
Black Ceaser, Superfly, Golden
These are the images we want you portrayed in
Please, could you be quiet Mr. Simmons
[Butterfly]
We jettin, we jettin, we jettin uptown
We jettin, we jettin, we jettin downtown
We jettin, we jettin, we jettin crosstown
We jettin, we jettin, we jettin, we jettin
We jettin uptown (uptown)
We jettin downtown (downtown)
We jettin crosstown
We jettin all around
No wonder, no wonder, 8th wonder, 8th wonder 's
Funkay
[Ladybug]
I live Brooklyn like year 24 for sure
Saw C-know in my tennis skirt(?)
And the kick hurts so good that I gotta sorta accents for this
Now here's a nation for my
Nation cuz I place you on the dynomite
Right? The creamin' to schemin' to get it
Right demeans almighty dolla
The green power, let loose for the hour
I chose the Black Power, extra fly joint for mocha to yellow paper
And you know I don't delay
Together with my honey like silk to sew
We grow and take you back to like afros
And no quittin or gettin jumped by the system
Its all day, all play got verbs and such
And cuts and crew, no blue eyes
To emulate, some straight but yea we straight up
Funkay
Ease back, the g's back as an o.d. gettin
Funkay
The sun sets, you vex, we gets, mad
Funkay
East coast to west we stays fresh
Ezay
Smoke rise from the borrough where that black cool blow(?)
[C-know]
The globe spins, jims is drop
No fakin, no bakin three bridges fo money makin
Crooklyn, the ep swinger's lounge-out spot
Roll when I pass lake up drop my saz
Grab my mic-ro, you know how we do in the joint
Do a borrough check to see exactly who in the joint
Hot spots, city streets lot spots and jeeps
As a flow-er I'm Nile, rivers of style
(fresh kid)
Yea, stories complete
(fresh kid)
Rollin on them New York streets
With them no-poor beats at the parliment
7s up C-know steelo no equal, but the sun and thats
Funkay
Ease back, the g's is back as an o-d gettin
Funkay
The sun sets, you vex, we gets, mad
Funkay
East coast to west we stays fresh I say
Quicklay
Smoke rise from the borrogh where that black cool blow
[Butterfly]
Its that naykle slick near keep it deep from my heads
Let a fed up, appearin in my camulflage
My hustler walk's in New York
Su fronts say Gucci we make lucci, and never hesitaste the setting
Slap hands with my hands from the lands of Crook
Bein lovely over jams that's on the flams w/hook
Bear muffs, wear cush, its Flatbush
Hear the mental's instramental cuz it's ash to dust
I like to hit live deep, keep fam tight tight
Keep the vocal strictly any joint, it's right
Let me fly
Ease back, the g's back w/the r
Sun is in, the clouds on loud
I got raised by the blue street lights of four cities
My heros died in prison: George Jackson
Action, she's Buttaflyin, I'm cool eyein
And I rock snow low unless a scrambler got
Me and my honey, we be like Bobby and Erica
Me and my monies, we'll hurt you boulevard and..(?)
One love, gun love come free the land w/us
Pigs they cannot shoot this plush and creamy lavishnuss
Before I pop I'd rather die in baggy Guess and Timbs
And I put that on the BKLYN and thats
Funkay
Ease back the g's back as an o.d. gettin
Funkay
The sun sets, you vex, we gets mad
Funkay
East coast to west we stays fresh and we do it on the
Slicklay
Smoke rise from the borrogh where the black cool blow
Planets be the champ of amplified sound
Swimmin' in this art born up the boogie down
The Rubin Rod Squad flew angles toward the point
Could a wierdo group of bugs slam a gang of funky joints
The provin?s in the movin' of the baggy clothes
At the dimly lit clubs where flock the milk duds
Hip hop enzymes with pride kicks inside
Dig the threads the nappy heads
Bobbin' over beats that sleeps with ghetto slang
No sirens just felts and wax from ghetto brains
The cosmic child's hit with dance and beats and kits
Like the [Incomprehensible] uhh uhh and shit
The ancestors grin cause rap is gettin' fat
To some of them it?s grim cause it?s youth be havin' gats
So save all the cares, let down your nappy hairs
'Cause the beats is givin' life like air
The flyest fly bids is swellin' the inside
The locest loc kids left they Glocks in the ride
Hoodlums in the house gettin' they flams on
'Cause even peace got some clout when the funky jams on
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Insects at the joint no flam just kickin' it
Wiggle with the fruits over by the liquids
The slick kids is down, the flyers passed around
We try to dig the group or recognize the loop
The strobe light is out in the crowd, dig my speakin'
Who you see freakin' is the native cause your seekin'
I came in the door, I said it before
Jams make me kite, if they slam then it?s life remember this
Yo, silkworm?s chillin'
Butterfly?s chillin'
A crew of Ladybugs
We giggle with the thugs
The world is in here 'cause expressions under hair
I love my peers
You for a black jam makes you for a black man
A kid I didn?t know slapped his fingers in my hand
A wisdom caught my eye damn a jams fly
Honeys with some cuties someone havin' hootie
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
I think every mom and dad should say to their kids
K-k-kids be free
Be whoever you are and do whatever you wanna do
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Get free, get free y?all
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
Funk is you, funk is me, funk is us, funk is free
(Sara Webb)
we are the creamy spies
the cream always rises up
we all got sequel
the man’s game has peaked
we are sun moon and star
we all got pieces
it’s nation time nation time
ready to put in work
we got mad peoples
your double dealin is scoped
your tongue is forked we know
we ghetto level
we can make life better
together
not divided
universal original, creamy
the man ain’t shit
what’s happenin
(Doodlebug)
check it out
in the year of ‘89 i stole back my black mind
found peace up in the east i shine
one time blind i refined, then over time
i realized the creamy spy gots to climb
find the spot in this land of uncle sam
focus my thoughts and be that true black man that i am
i stand in the face of oppression
with my sisters and my brothers, no slippin no half
steppin
the five percent nation is my representation
i wear timberland study in timbuktu
won’t rest until they free brother mumia abu
now can you feel it (huh) nothing can save ya
for this is the season of our self saviour
light che guevara this young angry guerilla
sparks the revolution, black tactics, whatever
(Sara Webb)
black tactics, aight
we see what’s happenin
we might start bustin
we’ll spell it out for you
if you talk it live it
let’s get creamy
really creamy
up down
with pleasure
(Ladybug)
wussup
i cannot answer for my damages due to layin soul type
sentences
i prepare time for and sisters fought passage in a
tactic front style
warfare for the projects i live
a series of niggas atop a target
watch out with preset we swift to light strike
in an aerial form we closin
select territorial aim let’s be out
on an onslaught
we plague you
cannot get took
even for the suckers we light up it’s good lookin out
even could get takin out i die fightin
subtract the devils that get smoked
(Sara Webb)
hey, funky
hey, funky
hey, funky
hey, funky
black people, black people
steal your mind back
don’t die in their wilderness
fuck that
for c-m-b dogs in l.a.
new york project hallways
let’s point our heaters the other way
creamy
(Butterfly)
just like that, i seen i was the sun of all man
type good, be a realer fighter super fro
bust it
the beast may wanna war in the summer
thus, i rock my camouflage playin corners
represents kikes while they pimp hip hop
i strategize my joints you know it don’t shtop
and it don’t pop son it’s p-jects bound together
for beats in concrete when i’m creamin with my stiletto
got sixteen for the imperial fascists
war, beats, brothers and honeys we’s bouts to set it
domino theory cause they stalled our flow
collectin pitchforks ‘till they free geronimo
while you blaze up right on i say my fist raise up
while you bent, i represent
what
uptown downtown across like wherever
meet me in the crook and we could piece it all together
(Sara Webb)
hey super funky
hey super black and superb
hey super super fine
(Ladybug)
space i got round to
acted when i fee it
in how i see it
you be it if you be it
started out in crooklyn
... butters word
(Butterfly)
chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill
hold up
aww shit, oh shit
guy look who that is
look who rolled up in this piece
(Guru)
peace y’all
(Butterfly)
word up, brooklyn everyday
hey yo yo, lets do that brooklyn shit
it’s the day
(Guru)
yeah we gonna da that shit
we gonna give it to them in style right?
yeah yeah
(Butterfly)
china, who we rock one for
who we rock one for
crooklyn everday
(Guru)
brooklyn is up in here
(Ladybug & Butterrfly)
uhh, block party, corner store
the downtown, the projects
borough shots
my clique is so tight
the mix tapes, yeah, forever
(Butterfly)
yo word
yo one fro the trouble
two for the time
three fro the rumble
four for the rhyme
do that crooklyn shit style all the time
(Guru)
yeah yeah, what
who want it yeah yeah kid
(Butterfly)
one, two uh
(All)
brooklyn, brooklyn, big borough with t
but everything in ain’t always what it seems
you might get hurt if you come from out of town
but down by lord that’s word
(Butterfly)
fantastic
(Ladybug)
show stoppin emcees
(Guru)
yeah here streets is move by glocks in whos pocket
(Ladybug)
but if your down come around check the super rhyme
(Butterfly)
we don’t drop dimes
(Ladybug)
come and have a funky time
(Butterfly)
well it’s the 718 and everything is straight
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Butterfly)
with the type street curb hangers and the beat don’t
shtop
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Doodlebug)
it’s no lie, do or die in the land of showin proof
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Ladybug)
well keith, cee know, my fist in butters fro
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Guru)
the fly clothes, cash flow, and crazy hells to spark
(Ladybug)
it’s crowded plus they jerkin my space
shouted cause they chase when i strut out
sift through my block i’m c-cool
she’s my mood to brace
stole my mind back black
so what you play the boards
skimmer we got butter so surfaces out
clever, and i fix it for you, funk time is monk time
slackers hit the bat, blackest fit my pack
and we for whatever
we get down in this pleasure heavy
and we are measured by the tens degrees of math
in a puzzle hand locked, clocked in struggle
can’t keep the three foot three above mec
in so depth i defect
(Ladybug & Doodlebug)
with my vanguard squad the gods in brooklyn
(Doodlebug)
and we troopin throught the fulton forkways
the eastern parkways
i’m broader than broadway, nothing more than morays
i sways, why cause i’m a brooklyn stroller
no ones cooler, pigs on my boulder
so i switch my pitch as i stretch down atlantic
strictly slickly with my fork mean tactic
in fact it’s really on the daily
kids with guns and herbs look for herbs
now i think you feel me
i freaks it, cause yo like my pimp stroll is cool
when i creeps up the sweet and jeeps blast
tools rule the area, yo these fool don’t play
i got the comrades of love, so the g stays
brooklyn side with the crooklyn slide
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Ladybug)
out on fulton ave where the honeys be at
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Guru)
type slick, keep it movin when it’s after dark
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Butterfly)
uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
(Doodlebug)
no lies, do or die in the land of showin proof
(Guru)
the place where i dwell is where the warriors dwell
too many stories to tell
so on the block we don’t talk
stack of loot takin propers
might get a serious offer from a corrupt ass copper
so um, stop the nonsense
brooklyn is the illest, the realest
observe these words as i reveal this
man my peoples out here they get down for this
each one’s a one man gang with a crown for this
man burners to handle any business
and mad sneaky ways so ain’t leavin any witness
got way more drama the theatrical lessons
so my suggestion, you come correct no question
cause if you comin with that funny hot dog style
you might get looted, executed black mob style
from east new york back to ft. green
brooklyns’ classic mystical magic scene
(Butterfly)
we are plush like a millian bucks
down every ave for like a zillion blocks
blowin out
with my nappy hoods down fulton
blessin guess style limpin past the walt whitman
steelo’s changed on the corners we hang
the crime stoppers get mad with poppers and tens
and my scrambles ample kid, no part timin, just rhymin
in other words, i play these curbs, with j u ice
when they say you nice, i say son a little somethin
brooklyn’s asphalt rolls like a syl keith rodeo
we big sound, down and gritty
record and mic checkin, no question, this section of
new york city
where the crooks lounge out, block powers found
butterfly ground the sky favorite package of pound
it’s like th-that, the beats know we be strappin em out
mad moneys wish they g like us, clout
when i made the boogie i’m imported, i study chairman
ain’t nothin but crooklyn in my plasma now
i got my g’s behind the tongue of my gold high classics
i’m all city when i’m dip, if you want us you can find
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Doodlebug)
coney island’s buck whiling and we b-boy stylin
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Butterfly)
yeah, on the spot we hustle cause like th-that
(Guru)
mad game, takin wins, the shit is real son
(All)
we live in brooklyn
(Ladybug)
with my girls and marissa now you’re up in cambridge
(Butterfly & Ladybug)
fly shit
and every spot we hit is gettin blown
that’s just how we do it baby
out here in brooklyn baby
slick move
cause can’t nothin stop up but us
so we gettin ours baby
nothin but brooklyn baby
(Butterfly)
ft. green, the sty, queensburg, coney i
(All)
it’s like that, it’s fat where we be at, brooklyn
(Butterfly)
red hook, crown heights, it’s tight
(All)
it’s like that, it’s fat where we be at, brooklyn
(Butterfly)
bushes, wigs, flat, it’s east new york, brownsville
(All)
it’s like that, it’s fat where we be at, brooklyn
(Butterfly)
sights, everywhere, brooklyn style everywhere
(All)
it’s like that, it’s fat where we be at, brooklyn
(Butterfly)
brooklyn style
(Scratching)
We always roll down, no doubt
At the funky side of ten spots
Dash yeah, crystals how clear, I broke out
Pretenders bent out and ready to do my splendor
Move, move the smoke groover, dudes from the zoo
That play the mic like, wow
Walk with a cane, talk where the slang
Develop on crooklyn blocks which I walk
But our radius is the whole universe
Kiss yourself goodbye 'cause Amu know you no plush
Cheese dime, let me try her, gold smile
Fro in the pile, beep beeped my sun visor
She filled with sun visor, stat in the third
Love, love, everyday, that?s my word
When I see your crew, I say that?s them herbs
So blau, blaum, blaw black and it just don?t stop
Fresh, lush black, slick
Right off the block, fat
No doubt we turns it out
'Cause we
Keep black movement and castle keep rockin'
Plus hang with my niggas and hit the dope spots
Play in the corners and maybe even boogie
Till the sun come up or a gun come up
Shootin' at the breeze the local emcees
Stylin' wit ease, doin' it like the sun is in here
'Cause we bomb rhyme, sayin', butter ain?t playin'
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Black on time been still layin? like I said
Under the screen, be a eight wonder
So for Dania, I do it, shit, push a little fist
Fit my one twenties, greet the avenue blue
Corner flyin? it into a forty, twenty
Brothers lay in a bottle, thirty fly right by double time and shit
Next, I?m hittin?, so I can step sooner
On the nova, so no water goes south
So see my G, yeah, she comin' and we not a flesh vendor
Mecca got soul livin? so, livin' so
Shot open on my left just in time
No we finger pops it to a liter, whet it?s cool
In a sense we smoother than oils contents
Loyal to the kick drum like flavor
Bounce, bounce, ease back when we do it fluid
Yes, nickel type fresh
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
We always blow out, without a doubt, without a doubt
For the funky side of town, no doubt
Yes, yes, y?all, yes, yes, y?all
We always blow out, check it out
For the funky side of town, no doubt, word
We gets liver than any eighty fiver
And the funk pots thicker out here in our Brooklyn
Every crews badder, we choose to rack fatter
'Cause I stimulate life and matter
When I spread my wings, I dos my thing
'Cause doodle big wants to live like a Zooloo king
So I swing with my crew to where the beats be fat
Swoon units by the pound and they natural black
Without a doubt, this is the place to be
I see baseball caps, hear beats by Warren G
I sinks into the mode of the cool out breeze
You know, the cool breeze rocks the beats wit ease
So nigga, please, full of the dread poetic
The sun moon sect in the house made to set it
With the peace signs, fat rhymes, the planet fix
Add butter to the mec then jet to eighty six
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Blowin' out, blowin' out
Alright boy, ah man
Give you your rights, here we go again
You have the right to remain silent
Hey Ish what?s goin' on? Chill, chill it's cool
Give up the right to remain silent
Anything you say can and will be used against you
Whatever man, whatever
Do you understand each of these rights I've explained to you?
Oh, like I ever had rights, kid
Do you wish to give up the right to remain silent?
Hell yeah
So now let's let into in my pocket pack
Pummel and I epic black ethic lack, I walk again
You were shade gray ,come display
Mazes in black fire in the west
Shit is shakin' it's fly
I'm in lookies when I pushin' vinyl time
Up the forts, where I'm caught
And my thought to shakin' up a few loose
Now I let my cause shoo KRS one
'Cause we fade in and out, are you swingin' or coming?
I'm solid on this thought, this ain't livin'
It?s heavy every set back, even when I was a shorty
Now we cross you and your foe, thrice
Check me in another place space enjoy
Nothing you could server could ever ace me, boy
Fat laces I'm out fat and no maybe's
That's right, baby
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
I got Harlem on my mind, Darren on my back
Brooklyn in my blood and butters on the track
I got insect thoughts, catch the cool ways
Clouds of purple haze keep me in a daze
The jazz, the jive, the poetry
The style, the lingo, the bags of equality
Many different things tryin' to get to me
But in a world of hard rock, I keep my humility
The funkanaut from the kingdom of not
With galactic sure shot, they can't, won't, don't stop
Flock to the rhythm I bring
Sing songs call survival on the Mingus revival
Scored the bass hit with my bugged out clique
It?s doodlebugm give me love for a visual script
Sip the groove juice, it?s kinda rough
Sevens never bluff, I had enough, eleven
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
In the east I rose, froze in the pose
Of a land diseased, flows that coolest summer breeze
Nikki did Kevin braids, we got four in the 'Lac
As we swoop at Warp Seven, holler don't crowd cats
'Cause look corpie is the color and butter he do it low
All you hear is poppers and rubber I'm sayin', oh
Man we keep it poppin' on hot day shit
I got the fish eggs droppin' any block you dip
And I dazzle that mood with the cool out fool
Easin' semi-swerve to the curb like the do
I'm fro, blow, you got that right
Groove with soul and I'm still spinnin'
Cross 110 and indicate 'em somethin' else
Blackest space, deepest sea
My shit's on natural high
The man can't put no thing on me
So dig me when my mind stretch out, it?s astro black
Time reachin' end to end, nappy afro blue
We'd swoop and fight in, out the corners
Do my thang like you be with a nigga
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
That?s right, show you right, alright
[Swoon Unit]
What's happenin' Butterfly, what's happenin'?
What's happenin' Butterfly, what's happenin'?
What's happenin' Butterfly, yeah what's happenin'?
What's up Butterfly, what's happenin'?
[Butterfly]
If it's swoon I can dig
I peep out the flowers when they bloom if you dig
Sisters do their dips to our blooms 'cause they dig
Muslims add perfumes and the zoom be a dig
I scoped out as a sprout then Mamma said to dig
The mind then the butt 'cause the drama ain't to dig
Lovely little honeys in their crews is what I dig
If they fake the fig it's the Blues Child dig
{Want some of my soda?}
Fine they be mega, sexy they be ultra
But don't enroll in pageants to get judged by the
chauva's
Crazy fly whips, baggy jeans and sneakers
Silver hoops and Jeeps, hip-hop in the speakers
The gag rule is bunk, it's like chains on the rump
We help to liberate through this butt-shaking funk
Nikki Giovanni and Maya Flamm
With peoms so I tried for the units cause damn
{all together}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
The units I know are the swoonest
{The what?}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
I love it when I speak it so boomin'
{Yeah!}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
Getcha getcha ya ya mamma
[Butterfly]
To the gals I am hip
The funky naturals is the ones, are you hip?
If you dis a sis' then you ain't actin' hip
Check Doodle, Silk and Butter 'cause we be black and
Silky like jazz silky beats to move the hip
The chocolate and the braids and the eyes be so hip
That insects for the units gettin' live gettin' hip
{I think you need a quota!}
The gardens known as cities sprout ferns and tulips
A sexy "hi" followed by requests to do it
When funky duds is drapin' off the curves of a vixen
And fig leaf sugars start to sprout elix 'em
And roll with the lines, damn they be fine
Ask T from the deep, we heard it through the vine
I keep cans of bait for the fishes in aquariums
Boosting me with verve like marine boys aquagum
{all together}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
The units I know are the swoonest
{The what?}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
I love 'em so I speak it so boomin'
{Yeah!}
Swoon units
{What?}
Swoon units
{What?}
Run and tell your mom about this
[Doodlebug]
The original swarm whether cold whether warm
I, the Doodlebug Knowledge every form
It's a beautiful day by the park take a seat
As bosoms float by keepin' Doodlebug in heat
Chocolate treats, silky bronze skin
Butter sees what I see and gives me a grin
All is good in the land of the honey-dip lovelies
Don't wanna be 'em just to see 'em
[Swoon unit]
Oh that's what's happenin' y'all
Yeah that's what's happenin'
Oh I see what's happenin' now, yeah
[butterfly]
one day..while I was sipping some groove juice I realised..that in the
span of time we're just babies..it's all relative, time is unreal.
we're just babies, we're just babies, man (x 4)
every man's a planet and the props are there to get it
insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit
life, it comes & goes and you do not punch a clock
I don't take shit for granted, I think of scott la rock
also of tyrel and battles at the borders
my cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin quarters
the forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin
don't cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin!
dwellin, yes, you're dwellin as the norm is itty-bitty
figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city
in the serengetti, be ready for a box
but beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks
if your peoples don't getcha, you still ain't off clean
the politicians' mask is worse than Hallowe'en
I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick 'em
now tell me who's the vics and tell me who's the victim
chorus [butterfly]
what is really what is really what is really what:
- if the funk don't move your butt
- and if the box don't make you hot
- and if the cats don't dig the raps
- if your life ain't got no spice
- or if the guns just wreck your fun
- or if some shouts ain't in the house
- or if your crew ain't down with you
[ladybug]
peace, this is mecca the ladybug and I'm sayin though! what is really
what if I can't even get comfortable because the supreme court is,
like, all in my uterus?!
[doodlebug]
peace, this is cee-know the doodlebug and I wanna say, what is what if
you can't walk through your hood with bert, ernie and sesame street
mossie trying to give the snuffleupagus.
[butterfly]
my father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems
ate peanuts with the dizz and vibed with lionel hampton
now I'm swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics
now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic?
scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it
hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it
the oldjacks buckwild and some babies bore their fists
but the crew from outer space is here.....SHIT
we grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth freddy
and scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady
now bleach is in the laundry, same old beats is handy
the label may okay it but radio won't play it
the censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes
the legs that's in the boots is on the corner, watch your tape
making papes off the crust, for money and for lust
you're playing out the planets get slammed, trust!
you think it, see it, run it and slam it
they peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it
it just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it
your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it
so what? I'm sayin, what?!
chorus [butterfly]
what is really what is really what is really what:
- if the funk don't rule your cut?
- or if the streets don't dig your beats
- or if my man ain't fifty grand?
- or if the hoods don't think you're good?
- or if your church don't really work
- or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs
- or if the jeeps don't roll with beats
[butterfly]
cause butterfly is..baby, I'm just a baby, man
I'm a baby, I'm just a baby, man
and mister doodle? (I'm just a baby too)
and miss mecca (I'm just a baby, man)
and mister silk, he's just a baby, too
and 801s, they just babies, man
and miss venus, she's just a baby, man
the ac-facts, they just a babies, man
and dps, they just a babies, too
oh and, dash, she's just a baby, man
danny and dani, they are my babies, man
oh and liz, she's just a baby, man
oh and stella, she's just a baby, man
doc shane, he's just a baby, man
mike mann, he's just my main man
and doctor timba, he's just a baby, man
and nappy jackie, she's just a baby, too
benefi-cent, he's just a baby, man
[Butterfly]
DPS forever hit ya' with the live stuff
Suliman the Bronx Ripper on the live puff
V Love, that's my money like dominoes
Brooklyn do keep it rocking till the sun shows
I pop my junk my junk, I pop my junk my junk
I pop my junk my junk, Pop my junk my junk
I pop my junk my junk, like what you want you want
Pop my junk my junk, I pop my junk
The noise that we made is blue, in color sound
???? that play my crew couldn't walk the new found
I chalk the new sound
I bop like Teddy Charles was burning
when I excurse on excursions
Arriving at the doors of mind shores of seas
Burnt you with degrees solarly
Plus my leather jacket go acid disappear in the wisp
In the mist, with a fist
Proletariat, Cad-i-lac steering it
Fro soul gold Panther crew grab our poppers
Now, I'm making bacon
Still saying wa ah salaam ah lakum
Fresh joints we make 'em like water
Butter rap treasures at my leisure whatever whatever
So I gave my mind a pound cause y'all we had it down
We symbolize the blessed and represent the rest
Grass in my pockets I release my hot rockets
K.B. said "What you give 'em?" I was like "Mad rhythm."
That's my junk
[Ladybug Mecca]
Eric ???? always hits me with the live stuff
Bahamadia back the sounds with the love love
T.J. and Lisa real peoples 89 and still
In Fort Green on diamond back is where I'm at
Feelin' da funk da funk that's in the trunk the trunk
I feel the funk da funk, feelin' the funk da funk
I'm feelin' funk da funk I'm in the trunk da trunk
Feelin' da funk da funk, I am the funk
I raise everyday for the mass
Tote my fist right up right against the fascist
Descend to my borough digs my diction
It's way on time ????
So watch fifth line still shining
I'm left this year a ???? player
In my vein lives bell hooks Derrick Bell, Reggie Butler
See Marvin knew it, and Sly knew it
Cube know it and now we do it outta Brooklyn
Outta sight brown sandals ???? in M.C.s with angles
Commit to street corners where players be jayin
I'm saying a Digable swinger
Word to mouth brought the clout 'specially in the summer
We vanish like vapor
Burn paper
We deal real-real so chill
We linger in the funk
[Butterfly]
Yes Yes, bus stop what's (Watts) up
On the script side
Low down the whole mix and flips I 63
Jay B and M.C. baby blue great
Do it fluent keep it real and straight
[Ladybug]
We make it bump de bump, we make it bump se bump
We make it pump se pump, we make it bump
[Butterfly under Ladybug]
Buuump, Buuump, Puuump, Buuump
[Butterfly]
Save your corny missions for the tracks you lying on
We got ammunition for the streets we dying on
[Ladybug]
Stones, rocks, subways, blocks, chill mode
[Butterfly]
Loot fold
Rebel wit no pause down to die for cause be-cause
Denia gotta see a fatter day
[Ladybug]
It's Saturday I'm looking at the streets as my Nikes
Cover asphalt ???? the night
[Butterfly]
My weight crush trash broken glass
Play the wall with one foot up
"Yo What up Ish?", "What's up."
[Ladybug]
The flyer we get the higher we get
Good try-ers
[Butterfly]
Is good die-ers that it so I move
We showed and we prove
[Ladybug]
It's groove food
[Butterfly]
What's going on
You want to see knowledge born, see C Knowledge Born
Before we fall victim we lick 'em
I ain't playin'
[Ladybug]
Meet me at the corner Murder and Adolpha
I bless you with some joints, the mental hollow points
We do it in the park, we do it in the park
[Butterfly under Ladybug]
That's right, that's right
We do it in the park, we do it in the park
[Butterfly]
I'm fluent after dark, in any sit-e-ation (situation)
[Ladybug]
My tools, jewels, the nation
[Butterfly]
Ah yea (echo)
Whole world
Whose slick
We lounge stay phat notice our G limp
A natural flair with our fresh ass hair
Style baggy out clouts slick
creamy and fresh east coast to west
Brooklyn
uptown
to the universal fair
old school mcs
(being scratched in the background)
make your money
I'm slicker this year
I'm slicker this year
Myrtle Ave A-train got the pick in my hair
and what, 16 joints later, still lounge
fresh, from flatbush in my baggy, boots, to Guess [name brand]
style is tight ees bust the cami' fatigues
50,000 leagues of black, so what's up
can we avenue slide player style ghetto walk
to the east, son--wild Crooklyn, New York
creamy kid yo smith and wesson win a blessing
the angular slang blow spots..bang..eleven
hangin' like bats 'cause the 12-inch wax.
say scorpio
and my hair say 'fro
and my blood say bro
my cliques say "eh, yo!"
make sparks from the barrel me-tal pistol
to the depths I dive, seems lunar like aqua
the cool blast mega, we black, we wild flowers
"Scott La Rock had emm all," I gots the ball
and roll with little panthers through these project halls
the 3-color flag can't hold my baggy sag
7-1-8 to omega
black motion is ocean style
slick in my ways since days of the classic
now glamour boys want to be triple phatted
but I'm slicker this year
I'm slicker this year, yea
east born
beast candles on?
lovely all over the city
and your tape deck blasting
7ods and the phat fly sneakers
and the camouflage
(being scratched in the background)
make your money
to the hip hop nation
to the mixtape crew
to the west coast
to the boogie down bronx
I was raised in the ways of the Manchu Clan
and 5 elements posture take a B-boy stance
with the gold front shinin' the baggy pants saggin'
this Brooklyn stylin' got the fly girls smilin'
but I'm climbin' findin' new ways of rhymin'
not livin' like a star is strictly about survivin'
divin', deep into the groove of the ghetto
this downtown flavor shines from many angles
yes the notorious, with rhymes so glorious
the Manchu Monkey over flunkies is victorious
rappers be boring us with rhymes of conventional
dazed and amazed when they hear the three dimensional
lyrical skills of the insect emotion
coasting down fulton with a bag of magic potion
now I'm rolling with the seven and the crescent
puffin' some expression
manifestin' today's lesson
stressin the fact that I'm solar guarenteed to go far
cause the mind is intestellar
still pieced like that so have no fear
but I'm slicker this year
I'm slicker this year
to the queens everywhere
to the whole S.I.
to the lumpen mass
don't forget about your peeps when ya...
now you see that I am 68 inches above sea level
93 million miles above these devils
play me in the winter
play me in the summer
play me in the autumn
any order
You want 'em? I got 'em, drippin' like water
catch me at a hot spot with the dusk daughters
we bouncing... moving within the truth circles
we played you made you change...straight "New Yorked" you
we stratify our wealth from my loochie [money] in the bank
there's love amongst the ranks, now...I'm a...
...bout to meet my homegirl 'cause we be alike
a alike, c alike, let's g alike
jazzy joyce [on the wheels]
jazzy joyce [no one's smoother]
jazzy joyce [phatter than a '94 land cruiser]
where you from?
[the bronx representin' like whatever, pop]
cool are you slicker this year?
[yea, watch]
hit it...
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The ticky ticky buzz the sun winks the sky
I fumble through my fuzz and buzz Mr. I
Tell him scoop the beats in the flying saucer kit
Meet me at the port with the nickel bags and shit
Tell my pops I'm out earthbound with the crew
He said butterfly may the boogie be with you
Left my moms a note with these quotes on a trunk
It says I split to earth to resurrect the funk
A dozen snapple pops and a little box of beats
Travellin' through space with the funky funky beats
Stopped at Pluto to cop some petrol
Met some klingons and got our things on
Cruisin' warp 6 with Mr. Wiggles in the mix
Hendrix passin' peas star child get the fix
The saucer shook the Heavens with the blooms and the blams
Because when we hit New York, Shazam
We droppin' like a comet and this Vulcan tried to Spock it
These Martians tried to do it, but knew they couldn't cop it
The others from our brother planet lands in the flesh
From up in sector 6 yes y'all
And it's good to be here when we landed up on lex
Stirrin' up the ground with the sound of doug e fresh
And the hard rockin' kids that did it for the black
With the Pumas on their feet and the Barmas on their back
We learned and we earned it so you know you got to hand it
We planned it when we left how to freak it and to slam it
Add a ladybug transformation is complete
For the metamorphosis from the box to the jeep
And it's good to be here gettin' fly with the raps
We love it where we from but we kick it where we at
Bumpkin' out with somethin' that pops and transcends
DPs baby it's slim but not thin
In amongst the pebbles we rocks on your blocks
Soakin' in the ghetto for kids that have not
Slappin' on some skin when we slam check the cheers
So we greet their virgin ears with a kiss
It's so good to be here
We jazz up the streets to prove we have beats
Fat jazz fat style and the sound so sweet
And there ain't no doubt that you got to check
Doodle, silk, butter, mec
It's so good to be here yeah baby that's the style
The jazz can fill a club or papers by the pile
Just ask toy soldier, toy soldier could of told you
At the boomin' funk hut it was the Afro with the butt
So to the flam lovers that crowd in dark spots
So see 'em kick the lingo and grip that little crotch
Now we have arrived with crazy boogie sounds
Get yourself a mate today's to boogie down
This is all we know we feel it when we slams
You could hear the love, it comes out in our jams
The hip hop diggin' cats just deliverin' the words
From the ghetto-dwellin' youth to the bourgies in the burbs
And it's good to be here
It's so good to be here
It's so good to be here
Yeah it's so good to be here
It's so good to be here
It's so good to be here
It's so good to be here
[Butterfly]
We like the breeze flow straight out of our lids
Them they got moved by these hard-rock Brooklyn kids
Us flow a rush when the DJ's boomin classics
You dig the crew on the fattest hip hop records
He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds
She frequents the fatter joints called undergrounds
Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane
They flock to booms man boogie had to change
Who freaks the clips with mad amount percussion
Where kinky hair goes to unthought-of dimensions
Why's it so fly cause hip hop kept some drama
When Butterfly rocked his light blue-suede Pumas
What by the cut we push it off the corner
How was the buzz entire hip hop era?
Was fresh and fat since they started sayin audi
Cause funks made fat from right beneath my hoodie
The puba of the styles like miles and shit
Like sixties funky worms with waves and perms
Just sendin chunky rhythms right down ya block
We be to rap what key be to lock
I'm cool like dat [x7]
I'm cool... I'm cool...
[Ladybug]
We be the chocolates taps on my raps
Innovates at the sweeta cat naps
He at the funk club with the vibrate
Them they be crazy down with the ? five plate?
It can kick a plan then a crowd burst
Me I be diggin it with s bump verse
Us we be freakin til dawn blinks an eye
He gives the strangest smile so I say hi (wassup)
Who understood yeah understood the plan
Him heard a beat and put it to his hands
What I just flip let borders get loose
How to consume or they'll be just like juice
If its the shit we'll lift it off the plastic
The babes'll go spastic
Hip hop gains a classic
Pimp playin shock it dont matter I'm fatter
Ax Butta how I zone (man Cleopatra Jones)
I'm chill like dat [x7]
I'm chill... I'm chill...
[All]
Blink.blink.blink.blink.blink.blink.blink...
Think.think.think.think.think.think.think...
[Doodlebug]
We get ya free cause the clips be fat boss
Them they're the jams and commence to goin off
She sweats the beat and ask me cause she puffed it
Me I got crew kids seven and a crescent
Us cause a buzz when the nickel bags are dealt
Him thats my man with the asteroid belt
They catch a fizz from the Mr. Doodle-big
He rocks a tee from the Crooklyn non-pigs
The rebirth of slick like my gangsta stroll
The lyrics just like loot come in stacks and rolls
You used to find a bug in a box with fade
Now he boogies up your stage plaits twist or braids
I'm peace like dat [x7]
I'm Peace
[Butterfly]
Check it out man I groove like dat
I'm smmoce like dat
I jive like dat
I roll like dat
[Ladybug]
Yeah I'm thick like dat
I stack like dat
I'm down like dat
I'm black like dat
[Doodlebug]
Well yo I funk like dat
I'm fat like dat
I'm in like dat
Cause I swing like dat
[Butterfly]
We jazz like dat
We freak like dat
We zoom like dat
[Butterfly]
Smooth to the ooze came Butter
Try to gank my style and I'll hip you to the heater
At the speed of bop grew the hard rock
You can ask my dads Chairman Mao comrades
Squattin' at they pads
Diggin' on the jazz that's the half of it
Uncle Sam showed us all his space we refuted it
Told him that ghetto is the aim, let go of my brain
Then we changed your boogie cause your boogie had to change
[Ladybug]
Caught a fat chat with a cat where I'm from
Flipping mad tracks on a love child Nickel Bag
Ah Mecca much jive and a jazz touch
With a straight no chase, a Dig Plan erase
Snatch an acid insect changed her dialect
{Kept it}
Mr. Doodlebug come tight with a ticket
Said we couldn't drip it
Came in and we kicked it with a glass of water on the rocks
Nip it
[Doodlebug]
Jazz, in the last 5 years has progressed in its fits
And starts of sudden discoveries and
Startled reactions. New principles, new sounds,
New rhythms and harmonies have been advanced with unusual frequency.
Not surprisingly, many of the younger musicians have been quietly digesting
This information almost as quiuckly as it has appeared.
As a result, they've acquired a degree of
Musical sophistication which supersedes many of the previous standards of excellence.
So it's no longer especially relevant to ask the young saxophone player,
For example, to demonstrate his ability by running through all the Charlie Parker licks.
[Ladybug]
Come little hoods peep out the eyelids
Stash a fat gat cause the loops let you dig
With a Bloom Swoon and a Full Moon
Mecca Bug no fake takes we let alone baits
Pitchin' up your cakes might cause a horn rush but then a bass flush
Meta more emphasis as I trip this Butter bug pour it out the mouth
[Butterfly]
O.K. floater to the order don't we wreck before we split
From the chaos came the fattest little shit
By the soak of it at the point of hammer click
You could either read a little Marx or hang with Spiddyocks
When the bass faces fix the deepest cuts they're the sickest
Then we just make you think you boomed with a quickness
This is what's the haps when I go to do my smack
Slip slide dip then take a dive
planets lookin high when we travellin on a vibe
cribs dorms grasshoppers and swarms
thinkin life is big is that hip is it norm
psychedelic and fat
flowers and beads and peaces and naps
ah yes planets got the blessed
beats are played on friday to get monday off your chest
kick live dig into the quotes
lose yourself and groove in the beaty as it floats
hair clothes monochrome it ain't
many different worlds in the sweet and funky joint
pounds hands speakers and jams
even those that flams get fitted in the plans
light years sugar for your ears
hiphop is the fave we been diggin it for years
funk rhythm psychedelic money
studied my lessons got vision 20/20
check out the glow they need it what we brought
ladybug don't we boom it from new york
yes we do
time space what is that like?
just how we livin when in the hip life
kids roll with hot buttered soul
from 125 right down to ludlow
the juice the cup the token fare is up
the ancestors peace with the daughters of the dust
we just freaks aquafunky beats
vented to the streets from the boxes and the jeeps
nuclear is we different time different space
uh oh planet earth we brought the mad bass
brung is the tongue they all can understand
i'm free so let me pass it to my g
check me out
butterflies funk induced highs
i gain a better reason to smack me up a five
bald caps pleasurable naps
time and space is fake and that's the real haps
youth flights land on friday nights
birds be with the cats djs savin lives
soul funk jive and rhythm jams
sound drips comin off the lips
smuggled from the planets that freak the 9 zips
time space no one's is alike
be you and just be you or be out
that's right so
step into the jams
let the sugars make you sweet
kept it underhand cause the planets get you free
ladybug mecca with the groove in time and space
with the funkin rhythm butter chase