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from Q-Tip - Gettin Up [single] (2008)
Sent you a message, sent you an email
Hasty decisions we may still prevail Both needed breaks, we both needed to bail Walking thru the corridors of my mind The hideaways, the nooks, there filled with good times Memories certainly yes they still bind Still a common man and yeah that's for sure Still a bankroll and yeah still couture The madness, the thing we had was much more Come back home, don't be out in the world It's a rat race and place for a girl And most scavengers have found the pretty pearl It's for the faint of heart who never get enough Gotta get tough, buckle em up, we call em duds And we, and we and we ahhh We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Come over here baby, don't look so grumpy This kind of lifestyle could be so comfy We can start a clan just like the Kennedy's You and I advance, certainly we can expand Feelings that should never end And you respect me like a friend But love me like your man No other could contend Or we could be like Doves exposed 2 history Like staying with each other with truth and chivalry The things we go thru they shape our identity Yes pretty let's do this all nite Consummate this thing and make it alright And when we cuddle up and promise that it's right We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up I like to watch everybody gravitate towards you Your magnetic presences make them come thru The same way you got them you got me too Now look at our lives so colorful A wonderful spectrum, not 1 tone dull Full of excitement and not 1 lull See we had an understanding, oh yes we did I'm bringing it back, I'm puttin in my bid Have a couple of kids, have a couple of cribs We like Ruby Dee and Ossie, Martin and Corretta Doin it to death, no one can do it better When we leave our physical our sprits still together Come on now, here's a placement for your hand You rockin with the #1 MC man The #1 controller of right with the plan We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
Sometimes I phase out
When I look at the screen When I think about my chance for me To intervene And it's up to me to bring back the hope Feeling in the music that you could quote Not saying that I hate it 'cause here I kinda dig it But what good is a ear If a Q-Tip isn't in it So to stick it in To inform your friend Your boy from the hood Is on that shit again He has upped the degrees And dropped the mercury To splash on the mass And look to upper class And win the records spins That Sometimes goes a win A fickleness of friends They sometimes hate again They always bring up tribe on me Could not suprive on me 'Cause this is my man's on me 'Cause this is my fams And here's somethin' new It's from row for you So don't miss 'Cause you was tribe on the true My due sue hassle heart Don't stop Your repertoire As long as you could see It's you who's staying we 'Cause life is filled with mer? Pills and little pearls and shit I'm fucking up A man I'm tripp'n up But still There is a boy Them people get annoyed Who's focus is on the feel Before we get a deal Cum on! Think it if life can be a thing That wilderness is wild to me But a trip all the road I see we're just the same Think that we're not Where we should be Movin' on we came to Prefect on the street Let's take it a pause And ensure we eat And open an end To criticize the boys They're out in between They loose all their boys They can't keep it down With Dominic and Brown And Doe's of other shades They joy up a way But wait this frame to add Like brai' and cap a Pad And magazine debris A shit She gotta see it I'm no different to you I goes through it too I dumps through the pages I don't come a age I'm not a D A T I'm far from Percy I roll the tumble weed It's just a humble scene That I present to you Is just a Mister Crue Who burrs a harmony And sum a melody Just speaks to where we are And don't a hopes a jar A soon we're walking in A blim to just to say A cum on! |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
Now that I know what is boy
For your epitaph niggers Laugh, tricks that he gassed your ass Siphon and not your cash Seeing the door in a flash While I stay enclosed Walking out my clothes she said, I won't trade him for nothing You're mother fucking right Walking this shit every night Fin this shit? Hold it tight Rina Filma on my sleeve? Even when I have to leave Cooler than even in the breeze Do you believe I was waiting for nothing The one division leader In the rebound new group of shorties Off the post, going coast to coast She on the hard ones, sub him out the game she saying "No, he good, I mean" I won't trade him for nothing For no amount of dough Franchise this man Give him all the things you can Think long term plans He be bringing in the fans Front page magazine, listen to this lady scream I won't trade him for nothing Cause she know what?s better her top and Now a beckon on the flu Like a running with the nicest nigger Kinda sorta ? When he's singing just to slaughter no matter the quarter I won't trade him for nothing The club house king Batting practice Slugger swing, Game time same thing When I'm in about a minute Holding the bat, as good as fat She's out the park and coming back she?s saying I won't trade him for nothing And for ray you say you get it good If you were the ball player at all And the famous fall inevitably will make a call Hanging memorabilia from you walls This is why you can't trade me I won't trade him for nothing Now that I know what is boy You can bet your money on a sure thing Certain profit?s what it brings Ceremonies of the ringer in the white house wing Clear your mantle, the trophies I bring, do you wanna trade? I won't trade him for nothing Cause in the air there's a teammate you're looking for Back-shoot and laughter ball ? Leaves it all on the floor Always looking to score Pep talks in the locker room This is why you sing this tune I won't trade him for nothing And then you reach can't make me sit out I go til you get out Her ball no get out An all night get-down I train for the pressure And come out fresher Equipped for the game You know my name, it makes me better I cheer for the whole team Let's go for the whole thing The ballots that you're holding MVP voting And I represent the sentiment you're emoting And you say I won't trade him for nothing The physical ability with mental capability Legitimately faces me outside of your vicinity And I ain't really seeing me Vacating this community I?m staying in I won't trade him for nothing I'm glad that you feel this way, Here is where I like to play Need to hear it everyday They cheer for me, say "Olay!" Wait a minute, "Andale?" I don't know, well anyway |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
Sent you a message, sent you an email
Hasty decisions we may still prevail Both needed breaks, we both needed to bail Walking thru the corridors of my mind The hideaways, the nooks, there filled with good times Memories certainly yes they still bind Still a common man and yeah that's for sure Still a bankroll and yeah still couture The madness, the thing we had was much more Come back home, don't be out in the world It's a rat race and place for a girl And most scavengers have found the pretty pearl It's for the faint of heart who never get enough Gotta get tough, buckle em up, we call em duds And we, and we and we ahhh We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Come over here baby, don't look so grumpy This kind of lifestyle could be so comfy We can start a clan just like the Kennedy's You and I advance, certainly we can expand Feelings that should never end And you respect me like a friend But love me like your man No other could contend Or we could be like Doves exposed 2 history Like staying with each other with truth and chivalry The things we go thru they shape our identity Yes pretty let's do this all nite Consummate this thing and make it alright And when we cuddle up and promise that it's right We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up I like to watch everybody gravitate towards you Your magnetic presences make them come thru The same way you got them you got me too Now look at our lives so colorful A wonderful spectrum, not 1 tone dull Full of excitement and not 1 lull See we had an understanding, oh yes we did I'm bringing it back, I'm puttin in my bid Have a couple of kids, have a couple of cribs We like Ruby Dee and Ossie, Martin and Corretta Doin it to death, no one can do it better When we leave our physical our sprits still together Come on now, here's a placement for your hand You rockin with the #1 MC man The #1 controller of right with the plan We gotta gettin up We gotta gettin up Today is nice come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up Tonite is right come on we gettin up Said we gettin up Said we gettin up |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
[Chorus]
Oh yeah Well the bell has rung Cause the time is here Oh Yeah We gotta switch it around And put the thing in gear Oh yeah Not much is for sho But this here is true Oh yeah I gotta do it for me But then I'll do it for you Major attraction Trouble distraction Scramble up my name and it still come action Musics our number Dial to sue slumber Open up ya ears to the low tint of thunder Created Queens native Mixes automated Want some fresh shit then we?ll correlate it Busta is ferocious I'm flawed and percosious Carryin' fools out Cause ma willy bodocious Peoples don't blame me Shorty's cant game me Country Cherokee But the city here made me rock like coral distinctive bout my hormals Gotta lil grime And gotta lotta lorals The rhthym stay banging My one two thingin' Is eximplified by the cop left hanging Percussion's our weapons Drums are Smith and Wessn's lyrics pop it off Leaving deep impressions [Chorus] I feel what the beat does People fuck wit me cause When the song end I become what the beat was Same thing is other No need for cookie cutta The bar gets raised Not ya average old gutta For that I hit a chin up B, ya time been up Would of came sooner But I overslept my get up Now lets get in the middle Girl I'll solve ya riddle Cause we can be strong And protect against the brittle Ya groupies need to see me Go and get the CD I aerosol you all top to bottom like graffiti ? Dudes say I'm plotting When you here the music Thus begin the mardi gra'n Bribes ain't the issue That's how I'm gone get you Don't need a bill board hit for me to hit you The clear for ya mic its Who always come the tightest Queens everywhere Demonstrating who the fliest [Chorus] |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
[Chorus]
Wait Its you And at the end of it all its you And at the end Its you At the end of it all its you Its you Its you At the end of it all its you Its you Its you At the end of it all Looking for how I see her When I finally realized couldn't believe it I couldn't, even swallow Had a lump in my throat my stomach hollow I had a notion that things were fishy But everything was fine so I'd be pissy But when you wasn't seeing me nights you get in That's when the snooping and shit it would begin Where you at? Where you going? That's what I get when I pick up the phone Not a hello or I miss you Or the renaissance how does it do? Suspicious ones go few Can stress out your brain In weighs on your mane And helps you peep game I thought it was me But then I could it see [Chorus] I couldn't take it But the spell of love I couldn't shake it Even though I would discover That there was somebody else It was your lover You gave me up And managed to turn the tables And all your honest words they turn to fables The things that you would accuse me of It seem were the things you were doing love Get it? These things you projected And I don't want to be affected But when you get in love Its never easy love To make decisions of You've defected You were doing so much to try to pin me Going through all my stuff but it was empty Answers, that I'm seeking Well it seem I'm getting close That I'm reaching And I was thinking I had no reason Calling you a culprit it was treason And the twinkle in your eye It was kinda not for love And tell me why? We'll make a mends if you admit it We can ascend if your committed Your heart, is it in it? If it goes for many days Sweet love can decay from you [Chorus] |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
and it, and it begins, he walks outside for a cigarette break
and thinks how many cigarettes does it take he takes a long drag with the sun in his eye he squints, he thinks he starts to sigh sometimes he cry when he think bout his girlfriend on his side she held him down, she made him better fought the love, through the fucked up weather and shes thinking about her life with no more work just being a wife But instead her love, she gave it to a man who fought against her lovely palns so when she go to work, plus go to school plus fight the love, she must feel like a fool she wants the ease that come after pain she fights for love, thats her campaign we fight,we love (chorus x2 raphael saadiq) we fight and love so much sometimes I get confused of who we are maybe if we just stop and chat and It will find out who we are (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit more we just keep on (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit more (verse 2) and it, and it begins, he's off the ball he left his friends, he aint home no more he's in a place, that's far away where he can't understand what they say they say salaam, they carry bombs in crowded places, and sause alarm u're the infidel who's univited but really an american boy who's slighted it aint your fault, you want identity so you join this big fraternity you get to travel the world, its cheaper than college and you get guns and you get knowledge looking for your soul, and WMD's you can't find nothing,cause its empty you got your gun, and he's your friend and he's your man, until the end we fight, we love (chorus x2 raphael saadiq) we fight and love so much sometimes I get confused of who we are maybe if we just stop and chat and It will find out who we are (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit more we just keep on (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit (fight) just a little bit (love) just a little bit more |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
She's a dancing machine
[Chorus 1] Here we come yo Here we come Here we come yo Here we come Here we come yo Here we come Here we come yo Here we come Here we come yo Here we come Here we come yo Here we come [Verse 1] I'm just a brother man descendant of the motherland I fuck with blackberries and dimes and butter tens Good on my right and shuffle on my other hand Life is a tight rope I'm dyein' the balance in And by the end hopefully I be the balance-man A simple dude who can exude the talents and I am the captain of the hot butter-caravan Spread in a different look to charred and battered lands It's outta function I see girls that can top it off I hold mines while these cowboys pop it off You just a movie-dude claimin' that you pop-soft This shit's like cold grits without the hot sauce This government seems to me like it's off course [Chorus 2] Come on come on Let's move and get down [Like it's off course] Come on come on Let's move (This government) and get down Come on come on Let's move and get down [Ride with me, come on] Come on come on Let's move and get down [Verse 2] Your dubious style may rock for right now But in the long run, you really lost one Jamaica, Queens-man land of the tossed gun It's never easy police nah sees we Go through the checkpoints birds flip to po nine I got a bad bird nicknamed her sunshine I treats her so kind sweet nothings at nighttime Into the right tunes we hit the right rhymes I dig her fashion smash into my memory And in the club shorty stays rear end of me A humble dude and never will pretend to be The type of artist that's desired for the industry Came in this fucker me and I'm a leave me And in the end B you would believe me that I'm a leave me So what's a industry if the listeners will always stand beside me? [Chorus 3] Come on come on Let's move and get down Come on come on Let's move and get down Come on come on Let's move and get down Come on come on Let's move and get down [Chorus 1] |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
The people at the label say they want something to repeat
But all my people really want something for the streets So keep hooking Hey ya'll what's goin on? So keep hooking It's time yo word is bond So keep hooking Let's do what we must do So keep hooking Ah ah ah let's hear for Keep keep Who can make it up, dark ages here in rap And the constant conversation has been let's bring it back Corny rap style niggas they lack the pedigree Deep waters they be in when they are just the manatee Who me I am unaffected the Whale, the Hammerhead The Magnanimous decision, unanimous, I am fed What chu looking at, wait, I can help you with that The Formidable, unforgettable painting Abstract On the wall amongst them all from Tucson Michelle A commodity, hot property, hears the morning bell Guantanamo bayin niggas deferring routs You soliloquies are trash inferring that you got clout Homie, what's that about? You should revisit your scheme Before the scheme it seems real it reverts back to a dream Into that pea head of yours You ain't commanding no tours You seeing fee per deim We seeing that in the doors Plus a little bit more because she choosing the prettiest Thou while it's wittiest On the low we the grittiest Taking the task, these barbaric insurgents Who nursery rhyme niggas and play like they are crime figures Man, what could give you such a naive belief? There's examples all around of careers being brief The Luke Cage of the loose leaf page Run and hide, comin out in the yard Bonafied to be hard So keep hooking Keep hooking Keep hooking Keep hooking Keep keep So Keep hooking Keep hooking Keep hooking Keep hooking Keep keep As if we reading pressures higher We should all be that inspired Too just lift it and take it higher Peep the name that's on the flyer The Midnight Marauder, low end theoretical Ring tone rappers rockin shades are forgettable Phantom of the rap world boo Yo you puss in boots Energy's electric who's looking for a love recruit High definition for the fortunate you to view Challenges with riches we will put you on strict review Time to turn the tide around Comin with the tribal sound Brandishing these microphones, we outlaws in the town Corruption in the fool pit, we witness the jam Acquisition of materials the evil of man Trickles down to MC's We combat the disease With the good and hardy measurement A real rap sediment Degenerate genes and your bodies the host You need to open up wide while we give you the douse Gather round Gather round Gather round It's the hottest thing Gather round Gather round Gather round It's the hottest thing |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
Life's filled with gray
But now it cars come in Leaves fall away Hip hop is playing again And it's bangin too Go on bang it for you Don't stop this feeling I feel I just wanna lay around all day And feel the breeze whatever that means I'm so into your rich history Tell me a story to take me away Come and take me ooooooh Come and take me with you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you one step at a time a man walked on the moon One record got played Kool Herc said boom One minute young man your time come soon We waitin it was prophsised you loon We bang our drums enter message through sound We wrasslers and we takin over your town Hands sweatin it's critiquing all this vibe I'm gettin Playlist setting Cold Crush Furious Five and the Masterdon Cosmic Force Bammbaataa Jazzy 5 Lovebug Starski Junebug Busy Bee Run D Jay LL Kane Biz Markie Doug E Will Barry B Spoonie Schooly D Rakim BDP Dana Dane Ricky D Leaders of the New School Snoop Dogg Monie Love BIG and Pac are up above Eazy E and Bone Thugz Fat and Skinny Boys Cash Money and the rapper Nas Large Professor Lauryn Wyclef and Pras Brand Nubian Diamond D Ludacris and Jay R I P Pimp C Common Lil Wayne and 'Ye Primo OutKast where my nigga Dilla at S V uh u where my nigga Dilla at And when you look into my eyes it makes all these feelings rise Makes my space a better place can't you see it in my face Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better Now that now that I found you Life is better since I found you Life is better since I found you Life is better since I found you Life is better since I found you Life is better since I found you |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
I believe thus love, thus love
I believe thus love I believe thus love, thus love I believe thus love I believe love Fool, uh of the things we believe there's a whole lot of work We should roll up our sleeves and we got a whole fun When faces I can see that Why doubt your plans 'cause it's all worth believing We can make it worth do believe That evenness trust in the dust and believe That we can achieve that by tuning out negative feedback Next he is, can he be concentrate to bring believe back Into ourselves, into the world, into the rap gang He's a miserable that means, that means emotion even likes me man Man look we holding out for the truth But we alone and aloof, we gon' hold for the proof Man put it in believing, believe in believing Seeing ain't believing, it's the feeling that we needing Believe in each other, put the question to the system They promising returns then question what you gettin' We should believe in the reasons we existing Time for renaissance to reawaken what is with it Belief can confirm, make it is but it isn't Sometimes I wish I had belief when I didn't I believe thus love I believe thus love In the land of make belief, time to make unbelievable believable Take a believe to the realm of the real Believe in this shit, this force fed to the medium Believe in this real when it's really a raw deal Never disbelieve when you see a new miracle Like ghetto children shining bright in Babylon Believe in that, don't believe in stats to the contrary Gotta be wary of them their carry on People find belief when they don't find identity Believe in your friends, don't believe in your enemy's Mountains of doubt and disbelief right in front of you Troops on the other side, what you gon' do? Ooh, ooh, believe Ooh, thus love, thus love Ooh, ooh, believe Ooh, thus love, thus love I believe, I believe, I believe |
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from The Renaissance (2008)
My brother Shaka would have wanted me to do it like this
So raise the glasses for all the lost ones in your life Dilla dawg and master wow, what up with Emmy Is well to propel with the spirit of the mic Even if you have one person with you when it's hard That makes it easy, celebrate them let know just who they are Because of these experiences, I have some control On the microphone and roll elevating to the stars Her's a demonstration, with the excellence Reverse the pandemic that's filled with pestilence Who has his finger on the post of the b-boy Serving fees with the stream of a deep boy Who's well connected, you must respect it I'm dippin' with the spirits mentioned on this record Hopefully this serves as motivation The never sayin' docon-sensation Put my stamp on it, the mic clamps on it Mama I know let me put little thamp on it Blade running through the day of agility Staying gunning make way for possibilities It's the capital Q, rap it'll do What I want it to, it's like taming a shrew Living life experiencing proportions Knowing better, I've experienced distortions And through the in and outs, of life's revolving doors I'mma see that, I'm still getting more Yeah, I'm comin' in, I'm gonna see my friend To the top floor, seems it never ends Heaven never ends, yeah, it never ends It be goin' on, it's phenomenon, like a new born Or a Stevie song, it be going on Do ya fell it, do ya feel it, do ya feel it? Do ya feel it, do ya feel it Snare drum goes My brother Shaka would have wanted me to say this to y'all Don't lose sight y'all without giving a fight I'm channeling well and Irvine, Mr. clean He would have wanted me to say what I mean And mean get it right Dilla having you in my past has been a blast You've inspired so many and forever will you last And to my father yo your spirit is draping me Never escapin' me, I'm happy that I had you in my past Let's go (Let's go) Let's go (Let's go) Let's go (Let's go) |
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