[00:00.000] 作词 : J. Nyx/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/M. Gaye/Kamaal Fareed
[00:01.000] 作曲 : J. Nyx/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/M. Gaye/Kamaal Fareed
[00:17.75][Verse 1: Q-Tip]
[00:18.07]The taste of nuthin, this does somethin
[00:20.25]Mom's got no back, says I'm frontin
[00:22.44]Call me Smiley, cuz I'm wiley
[00:24.63]Living life like the life of Riley
[00:26.82]Smokin' blunts with a boy named Bud
[00:29.01]We cough up your lungs, cough up your cud
[00:31.19]Put out fires, with a 40, ounce of water
[00:34.32]You know you oughta
[00:35.57]Dance to this, the girl you kiss
[00:37.76]I like fried foods, especially fish
[00:39.94]Afrocentric, I'm electric
[00:42.13]Socialistic and eccentric
[00:44.32]Body's healthy, mind is wealthy
[00:46.51]Thoughts, they flow, that will propel me
[00:48.69]To be a Native, get creative
[00:50.88]Original and designative
[00:53.07]Listen to the line that's playin'
[00:55.25]Listen hard to what Q's sayin'
[00:57.44]Politicians are magicians
[00:59.94]Make your vote, they hope your wishin
[01:01.82]Ambiguous words, senseless verbs
[01:04.32]They all amount to crap that's heard
[01:06.51]Violent hip hop, money flip flops
[01:08.69]Promoters won't book, but it still rocks
[01:11.19]I'm a Zulu, yes, a true blue
[01:13.07]Red Alert is with the poo-poo
[01:15.26]Ozone layer, loses flava
[01:17.44]Here's the edge that you will savor
[01:54.63][Verse 2: Q-Tip]
[01:54.94]With expressions and I'm guessin
[01:57.13]19 years is a youthful lesson
[01:59.32]Fallin skies babe, open eyes babe
[02:01.82]Can't you see what lays inside babe
[02:04.00]Makin mentions on this tension
[02:05.88]Rhythmic lovin, my profession
[02:08.07]Hips, they gyrate, scripts I narrate
[02:10.26]No banana, I ain't a primate
[02:12.76]Ain't no soul glo, just an afro
[02:14.94]The head is bred to let the thoughts grow
[02:17.13]Quest together, to lands of never
[02:19.32]Sleet and snow and storms can't sever
[02:21.51]Tribe is growin, never know when
[02:23.69]For this time, six necks may show in
[02:25.88]Dialogues have been accepted
[02:28.07]Negatives have been rejected
[02:30.26]That's the music, negro music
[02:32.44]Is here for all, so you must choose it
[02:34.63]Phonies fondle, watch it throttle
[02:36.82]3-6-5 straight out the bottle
[02:39.01]Bustin caps, finger snaps
[02:41.19]I prefer the second for ghetto tracks
[02:43.38]Phife, Jarobi, Ali told me
[02:45.57]Get the force like Wan Kenobi
[02:48.07]Force his teachin, beats are screechin
[02:49.94]Poly plateaus, we aim for reachin
[02:52.13]Tribalization, freaks the nation
[02:54.63]A mass of peers in celebration
[02:56.82]Hopes been real high, since the knee high
[02:59.01]Days of youth, feelin good and real spry
[03:01.19]Avid combos, hear those bongos
[03:03.38]Boom cacka boom, that's how they go
[03:05.57]We ain't nomads, but we real glad
[03:07.76]Hip hop slams through the nineties, no fad
[03:09.94]As a rhythm, have been given
[03:12.13]Hurry up, become, we breakin out, out
[03:15.25][Outro: Ali Shaheed Muhammad]
[03:15.57]With a rhythmic instinction to be able to travel
[03:17.75]Beyond existing forces of life
[03:19.94]Basically, that Tribal
[03:21.50]And if you wanna get the rhythm
[03:22.75]Then you have to join a Tribe
[03:24.01]Word, peace
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