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The ladies will kick it, the rhyme that is wicked |
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Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted |
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A woman can bear you, break you, take you |
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Now it's time to rhyme, can you relate to |
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A sister dope enough to make you holler and scream |
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[Monie Love] |
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Ayo, let me take it from here, Queen... |
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Excuse me but I think I'm about do |
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To get into precisely what I am about to do |
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I'm conversating to the folks that have no whatsoever clue |
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So listen very carefully as I break it down for you |
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Merrily merrily merrily merrily hyper happy overjoyed |
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Pleased with all the beats and rhymes my sisters have employed |
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Slick and smooth throwing down the sound totally a yes |
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Let me state the position: Ladies first, yes? (Yes) |
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(Yeah, there's going to be some changes in here) |
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[Monie Love] |
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Believe me when I say being a woman is great, you see |
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I know all the fellas out there will agree with me |
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Not for being one but for being with one |
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Because when it's time for loving it's the woman that gets some |
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Strong, stepping, strutting, moving on |
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Rhyming, cutting, and not forgetting |
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We are the ones that give birth |
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To the new generation of prophets because it's Ladies First |
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[Queen Latifah] |
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I break into a lyrical freestyle |
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Grab the mic, look into the crowd and see smiles |
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Cause they see a woman standing up on her own two |
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Sloppy slouching is something I won't do |
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Some think that we can't flow (can't flow) |
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Stereotypes, they got to go (got to go) |
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I'm a mess around and flip the scene into reverse |
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(With what?) With a little touch of "Ladies First" |
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Who said the ladies couldn't make it, you must be blind |
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If you don't believe, well here, listen to this rhyme |
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Ladies first, there's no time to rehearse |
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I'm divine and my mind expands throughout the universe |
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A female rapper with the message to send the |
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Queen Latifah is a perfect specimen |
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[Monie Love] |
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My sister, can I get some? |
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[Queen Latifah] |
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Sure, Monie Love, grab the mic and get dumb |
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[Monie Lovie] |
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Yo, praise me not for simply being what I am |
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Born in L-O-N-D-O-N and sound American |
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You dig exactly where I'm coming from |
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You want righteous rhyming, Imma give you some |
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To enable you to aid yourself and get paid |
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And the material that has no meaning I wish to slay |
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Pay me every bit of your attention |
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Like mother, like daughter, I would also like to mention |
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I wish for you to bring me to, bring me to the rhythm |
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Of which is now systematically given |
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Desperately stressing I'm the daughter of a sister |
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Who's the mother of a brother who's the brother of another |
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Plus one more; all four |
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Have a job to do, we doing it |
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Respect due, to the mother who's the root of it |
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And next up is me, the M-O-N-I-E L-O-V-E |
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And I'm first cause I'm a L-A-D-I-E |
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[Queen Latifah] |
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Contact and in fact, the style, it gets harder |
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Cooling on the scene with my European partner |
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Laying down track after track, waiting for the climax |
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When I get there, that's when I tax |
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The next man, or the next woman |
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It doesn't make a difference, keep the competition coming |
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And I'll recite the chapter in verse |
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The title of this recital is "Ladies First" |
