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Flash flash flash,flashback, '88 |
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Copped my first tape,third Grade |
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Young girl banking Roxanne Shante |
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Around my way |
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Called McKay |
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Disarray |
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Langston's a dark hues get bruised,stored away, hey |
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Caught in cage |
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Fought in the maze, gave up |
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And now I got dreams of being live on stage |
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What |
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Turn up the volume, me and my cousin |
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Doing the wop |
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Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut |
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Speakers bump like the rock pumps |
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The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump. |
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What you want? At once |
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because we love the |
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We dreamed of ourselves |
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Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was |
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Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip |
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Sweet Tee, |
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to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene |
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So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over |
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Pick up a pen and like Antoinette |
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"Lights Out, Party's Over" |
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This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante |
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Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae |
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E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me |
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Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy |
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This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo |
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Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe |
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Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D |
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For those never seen |
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On the search for female emcees |
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The microphone fiends |
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Stomped in the '90s |
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After school you could find me |
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In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming |
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U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues |
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Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen |
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I rap to keep from crying |
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Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$ |
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Recipe for a show |
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They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo |
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Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home, though |
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I rap along to every song |
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And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo |
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Check, how I hit every note, though |
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Even sung along with patois |
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Like in the joint she did with Patra |
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I'm on a Romantic Call... |
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(Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard) |
| [01:39.06]Blank page calling, a ...[??] |
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Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning |
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Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn |
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She showed me the beauty and the natural cut |
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Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs |
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This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante |
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Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae |
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E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me |
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Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy |
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This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo |
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Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe |
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Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D |
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For those never seen |
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On the search for female emcees |
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The microphone fiends |
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New millennium, came of age |
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While things stayed the same |
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Media forms changed |
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New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae |
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We bootlegged, the bootleg |
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Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates |
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Fast forward album release dates |
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Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify |
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In these days |
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Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate? |
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Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ? |
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Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone |
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Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged |
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Guess I lost one |
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Some come and go |
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Self-labeled ***** and ho |
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A heretic of discourse |
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I turn off the radio |
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I can't relate, nor can I hate |
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For the ways we negotiate |
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The sexist spaces we navigate |
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Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent |
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It seems... |
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"Fantasy's what people want reality to be" |
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This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante |
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Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae |
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E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me |
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Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy |
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This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo |
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Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe |
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Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D |
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For those never seen |
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On the search for female emcees |
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The microphone fiends |
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The world is listening |
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The world is listening |
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The world is listening |