Feb

29

PICTURES WITH WORDS: A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions (Q Tip’s Verse)

by Zack Lee | Filed Under PICTURES WITH WORDS 

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Back in the days when I was a teenager
Before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the abstract listening to hip hop
My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
I said, well daddy don’t you know that things go in cycles
The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael
Its all expected, things are for the lookin’
If you got the money, Quest is for the booking
Come on everybody, lets get with the fly modes
Still got room on the truck, load the back boom
Listen to the rhyme, to get a mental picture
Of this black man, through black woman victim
Why do I say that, cuz I gotta speak the truth man
Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
Planted on the ground, the act is so together
Bonafied strong, you need leverage to sever
The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz is
Deliberately cheered lp filled with street goods
You can find it on the rack in your record store
If you get the record, then your thoughts are adored
And appreciated, cause were ever so glad we made it
We work hard, so we gotta thank God
Dishin out the plastic, do the dance till you spastic
If you diss… it gets drastic
Listen to the rhymes, cuz it’s time to make gravy
If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby
All the way to Africa a.k.a. the motherland
Stick out the left, then I’ll ask for the other hand
That’s the right hand, black man
Only if you was noted as my man
If I get the credit, then I’ll think I deserve it
If you fake moves, don’t fix your mouth to word it
Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity
Cuz we gotta strive for longevity
If you botch up, what’s in that (what? )
A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half (come on, come on)

Exactly.



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