Tonalidad: D# minor
Intro 1
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Back in the days when
Verse 1
I was a teenager
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Before I had status and before
I had a pager
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You could find the Abstract
listening to hip hop
My pops used to say,
it reminded him of be-bop
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I I said, "Well daddy don't
you know that things go in cycles
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The way that Bobby Brown is just
ampin' like Michael"
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Its all expected, things are for the looking
If you got the money,
Quest is for the booking
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Come on everybody,
let's get with the fly modes
Still got room on the truck,
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load the back boom
Listen to the rhymes,
to get a mental picture
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Of this black man, black woman venture
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Why do I say that? 'Cause
I gotta speak the truth man
Doing what we feel for the
music is the proof and
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Planted on the ground,
the act is so together
Bona fide strong,
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you need leverage to sever
The unit, yes, the unit,
yes, the unit called the jazz is
We deliver it each year on the street
for the beat 'cause
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You can find it on the rack
in your record store(store)
If you get the record, then your thoughts are
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adored and appreciated
'Cause we're ever so glad we made it
We work hard, so we gotta thank God
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Dishing out the plastic,
do the dance till you spastic
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If you diss, it gets drastic
Listen to the rhymes,
'cause its time to make gravy
If it moves your booty,
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then shake, shake it baby
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All the way to Africa a.K.a.
The Motherland (uh)
Stick out the left,
then I'll ask for the other hand
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That's the right hand,
Black Man (man)
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Only if you was noted as my man (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
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Get in the zone of positivity,
not negativity
'Cause we gotta strive for longevity
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If you botch up, what's
in that (what?)
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A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half (come on,
on, come on)
Verse 2
We gotta make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake
moves (come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on,
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come on)
We gotta make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake
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moves (come on, come on)
We gotta make moves
Am
Bbm
Never, ever,
Am
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ever could we fake moves (come on,
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come on) You gotta be a winner all the time
Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
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With the dope raps and dope
tracks for you for blocks
From the fly girlies to the
hardest of the rocks
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Musically, the Quest, is on the rise
We on these Excursions so you
must realize
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Hip hop continually, about the Zulu
If you don't like it, get
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off the Zulu tip
So what can you do in the
times which exist?
You can't fake moves on your
brother or your sis
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But if your sis is a
(bitch), brother is a jerk
Leave 'em both alone and continue
with your work
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Whatever it may be into
this society
Everything is fair,
at least that how it seems to me
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You must be honest and
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true to the next
Don't be phony and expect
one not to flex
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Especially if you rhyme,
you have to live by the pen
Your man is your man,
then treat him like your friend
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All it is, is the code of the streets
So listen to the knowledge being
dropped over beats
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Beats that are hard,
beats that are funky
It could get you hooked like
a crackhead junkie
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What you gotta do to is know that
the Tribe's in this sphere
The Abstract Poet,
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prominent like Shakespeare
Verse 3
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
(come on, come on)
Verse 4
We gotta make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake
moves (come on, come on)
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We gotta
Verse 5
make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on,
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come on) We gotta make moves
Never, ever, ever could we fake
moves (come on, come on)
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Time is running out on black
Verse 6
power advocates
in the day (excursions, excursions)
And white thighed supporters at night
(excursions, excursions)
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Every time you see them, they're chas in' some
white woman (excursions, excursions)
With their tongue hangin' out
(excursions, excursions)
Time is running and passing,
passing and running (excursions, excursions)
Running and passing,
passing and running (excursions, excursions)
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