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One day..while I was sipping some groove juice I realised..that in the |
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Span of time we're just babies..it's all relative, time is unreal. |
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We're just babies, we're just babies, man [x4] |
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Every man's a planet and the props are there to get it |
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Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit |
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Life, it comes & goes and you do not punch a clock |
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I don't take shit for granted, I think of scott la rock |
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Also of tyrel and battles at the borders |
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My cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin quarters |
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The forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin |
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Don't cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin! |
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Dwellin, yes, you're dwellin as the norm is itty-bitty |
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Figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city |
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In the serengetti, be ready for a box |
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But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks |
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If your peoples don't getcha, you still ain't off clean |
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The politicians' mask is worse than Hallowe'en |
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I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick 'em |
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Now tell me who's the vics and tell me who's the victim |
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[chorus: butterfly] |
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What is really what is really what is really what: |
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- if the funk don't move your butt |
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- and if the box don't make you hot |
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- and if the cats don't dig the raps |
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- if your life ain't got no spice |
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- or if the guns just wreck your fun |
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- or if some shouts ain't in the house |
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- or if your crew ain't down with you |
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[ladybug] |
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Peace, this is mecca the ladybug and I'm sayin though! what is really |
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What if I can't even get comfortable because the supreme court is, |
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Like, all in my uterus?! |
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[doodlebug] |
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Peace, this is cee-know the doodlebug and I wanna say, what is what if |
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You can't walk through your hood with bert, ernie and sesame street |
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Mossie trying to give the snuffleupagus. |
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[butterfly] |
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My father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems |
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Ate peanuts with the dizz and vibed with lionel hampton |
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Now I'm swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics |
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Now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic? |
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Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it |
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Hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it |
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The oldjacks buckwild and some babies bore their fists |
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But the crew from outer space is here.....SHIT |
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We grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth freddy |
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And scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady |
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Now bleach is in the laundry, same old beats is handy |
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The label may okay it but radio won't play it |
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The censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes |
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The legs that's in the boots is on the corner, watch your tape |
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Making papes off the crust, for money and for lust |
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You're playing out the planets get slammed, trust! |
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You think it, see it, run it and slam it |
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They peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it |
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It just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it |
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Your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it |
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So what? I'm sayin, what?! |
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[chorus: butterfly] |
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What is really what is really what is really what: |
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- if the funk don't rule your cut? |
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- or if the streets don't dig your beats |
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- or if my man ain't fifty grand? |
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- or if the hoods don't think you're good? |
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- or if your church don't really work |
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- or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs |
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- or if the jeeps don't roll with beats |
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[butterfly] |
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Cause butterfly is..baby, I'm just a baby, man |
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I'm a baby, I'm just a baby, man |
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And mister doodle? (I'm just a baby too) |
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And miss mecca (I'm just a baby, man) |
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And mister silk, he's just a baby, too |
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And 801s, they just babies, man |
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And miss venus, she's just a baby, man |
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The ac-facts, they just a babies, man |
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And dps, they just a babies, too |
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Oh and, dash, she's just a baby, man |
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Danny and dani, they are my babies, man |
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Oh and liz, she's just a baby, man |
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Oh and stella, she's just a baby, man |
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Doc shane, he's just a baby, man |
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Mike mann, he's just my main man |
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And doctor timba, he's just a baby, man |
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And nappy jackie, she's just a baby, too |
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Benefi-cent, he's just a baby, man |
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Oh, and you? you're just a baby, man |
