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A Tribe Called Quest
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Back in the days when 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
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My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
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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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It's all expected, things are for the lookin'
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If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'"
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Come on everybody, let's get with the fly modes
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Still got room on the truck, load the back boom
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Listen to the rhyme, to get a mental picture
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Of this black man, through black woman victim
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Why do I say that, 'cuz I gotta speak the truth man
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Doing what we feel for the music is the proof
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And planted on the ground, the act is so together
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Bonafied strong, you need leverage to sever
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The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz
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Is deliberately cheered L.P. filled with street goods
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You can find it on your rack in your record store
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(Store)
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If you get the record, then your thoughts are adored
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And appreciated, 'cuz we're ever so glad we made it
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We work hard, so we gotta thank God
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Dishin' out the plastic, do the dance till you spastic
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If you dis, it gets drastic
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Listen to the rhyme, 'cuz it's time to make gravy
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If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby
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All the way to Africa A.K.A. 'The Motherland'
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Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
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That's the right hand, Black Man
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(Man)
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Only if you are noted as my man
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(Man)
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If I get the credit, then I'll think I deserve it
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If you fake moves, don't fix your mouth to word it
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Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity
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'Cuz we gotta strive for longevity
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If you botch up, what's in that
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(What)
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A pair of Nike, size ten-and-a-half
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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Time, time is a ship on a merciless sea
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Drifting toward an average of nothingness
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Until it can be retarded for its own destiny
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Time is an inanimate object
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Praying and praying and praying for [Inaudible]
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Time is dancing, moving lingering all memories of past
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We gotta be a winner all the time
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Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
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With the dope raps and dope tracks for you for blocks
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From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
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Musically the Quest, is on the rise
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We on these excursions so you must realize
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That continually, I pop my Zulu
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If you don't like it, get off the Zulu tip
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So what can you do in the times which exist
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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
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Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
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Whatever it may be in today's society
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Everything is fair, at least that's how it seems to me
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You must be honest and true to the next
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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
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Your man is your man, then treat him like your friend
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All it is, is the code of the streets
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So listen to the knowledge bein' dropped over beats
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Beats that are hard, beats that are funky
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It could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
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What you gotta do to is know that the Tribe is in the sphere
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The Abstract Poet, prominent like Shakespeare
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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(Come on, come on)
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We gotta make moves
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Never, ever, ever could we fake moves
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Time is running out on black power Africans today
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And whites, blacks and reporters at night
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Every time you see them they're chasing some white woman
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With their tongues hangin' out
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Time is running and past and passing and running
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Running and past and passing and running
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