[00:00.000] 作词 : Davis, Muhammad, Taylor [00:10.73] [00:11.06]Linden Boulevard represent, represent-sent [00:13.17]Tribe Called Quest represent, represent-sent [00:15.47]When the mic is in my hand, I'm never hesitant [00:17.90]My favorite jam back in the day was "Eric B. for Presi—" [00:20.38] [00:20.82]Rude boy composer, step to me you're over [00:23.11]Brothers wanna flex, you're not Mad Cobra [00:25.55]MC shorty black, there ain't no other [00:28.08]Trini-born lad like Nia Long's grandmother [00:30.63]Tip and Sha they all that, Phife Dawg ditto [00:33.19]Honey tell your man to chill, or else you'll be a widow [00:35.55]Did not you know that my styles are top-dollar? [00:38.22]The Five-Foot Assassin knocking fleas off his collar [00:40.72]Hip hop scholar since being knee high to a duck [00:43.21]The height of Muggsy Bogues, complexion of a hockey puck [00:45.83]You better ask somebody on how we flip the script [00:48.36]Come to a Tribe show and watch the three kids rip [00:50.74] [00:51.18]Queens is in the house represent, represent [00:53.30]A Tribe Called Quest represent, represent [00:55.82]No taming of the style cause it gets irreverent [00:58.33]A Tribe Called Quest represent, represent [01:00.89]Huh-huh, here we go, you know that I'm the rebel [01:03.46]Throwing out the wicked like God did the Devil [01:05.92]Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me [01:08.52]We in like that, you're dead like Presley [01:10.99]When we coming through get tickets to see me [01:13.54]We work for the paper so there'll never be a freebie [01:16.06]Lyrics are abundant cause we got it by the mass [01:18.52]Egos are all idle cause the music is the task [01:21.04]Valenzuela on the pitch, curveball, catch it [01:23.63]I think I got it locked, just smooth while I latch it [01:26.06]Right, now I must move with the quickness [01:28.60]Here comes Shaheed so we must bear the witness [01:31.10] [01:31.38]Stir it up! Stir it up! Stir it up! [01:38.62]Steve Biko [01:41.09]Stir it up! Stir it up! Stir it up! [01:48.61]Steve Biko [01:50.96] [01:51.40]New York City represent, represent [01:53.77]A Tribe Called Quest represent, represent [01:56.24]The Dawg is scientific with the styles I invent [01:58.84]A Tribe Called Quest represent, represent [02:01.33]MCs like to meddle, but here's my proposition [02:03.92]I let my lyrics flow, and juxt your whole position [02:06.43]I'm radical with this like the man this song is after [02:09.04]Yo Tip settle down, what's the reason for the laughter? [02:11.45]I really can't say, I guess I laugh to keep from crying [02:13.96]So much going on, people killing, people dying [02:16.41]But I won't dwell on that, I think I'll elevate my mental [02:19.00]Thanks for these bars on the Biko instrumental [02:21.57]Yo I'll take it back, I'm the Indian giver [02:24.05]MCs take notes as I stand and deliver [02:26.60]Percussion isn't less, Ds wear the vest [02:29.10]Why they dodging bullets, you should be dodging Quest [02:31.52]Don't get me wrong, violence is not our forte [02:34.14]I just like to rhyme, kick the lyric skills like Pelé [02:36.62]Tip educate 'em, my rhymes are strictly taboo [02:39.13]Fill 'em with some fantasies and I'll look out like Tattoo [02:41.52] [02:41.90]Ok, I am recognizing that the voice inside my head [02:44.10]Is urging me to be myself but never follow someone else [02:46.42]Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind [02:48.91]So just clean out all of your ears, these are my views and you will find [02:51.48]That we revolutionize over the kick and the snare [02:54.20]The ghetto vocalist is on a state-wide tear [02:56.72]Soon to be the continent and then the freaking globe [02:59.20]There's room for it all as we mingle at the mall [03:01.78]We welcome competition cause it doesn't make one lazy or worn [03:04.35]We gotta work hard, you know the damn card [03:06.82]Try to be the phattest is the level that we strive [03:09.33]Try to be the phattest also to stay alive [03:11.44]