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Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest[00:00:00]
Written by:Kamaal Fareed/A Tribe Called Quest[00:00:01]
Back in the days when I was a teenager[00:00:10]
Before I had status and before I had a pager[00:00:13]
You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop[00:00:15]
My pops used to say it reminded him of Bebop[00:00:17]
I said well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles[00:00:20]
Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael[00:00:23]
It's all expected things are for the looking[00:00:25]
If you got the money Quest is for the booking[00:00:28]
Come on everybody let's get with the fly mode[00:00:30]
Still got room on the truckload of black boom[00:00:33]
Listen to the rhymes then get a mental picture[00:00:35]
Of this black man and black woman fixture[00:00:38]
Why do I say that cos I gotta speak the truth man[00:00:40]
Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and[00:00:43]
Planted on the ground the act is so together[00:00:45]
Bona fide strong you need leverage to sever[00:00:48]
The unit yes the unit yes the unit called the jazz is[00:00:50]
Delivering each year an LP filled with street goods[00:00:53]
You can find it on your rack in your record store[00:00:55]
If you get the record say your thoughts are adored[00:00:58]
And appreciated cause we're ever so glad we made it[00:01:00]
We work hard so we gotta thank God[00:01:03]
Dishing out the plastic do the dance till you're spastic[00:01:05]
If you diss it gets drastic[00:01:08]
Listen to the rhyme cause it's time to make gravy[00:01:10]
If it moves your booty then shake shake it baby[00:01:13]
All the way to Africa a.k.a the Motherland[00:01:15]
Stick out the left then I'll ask for the other hand[00:01:18]
That's the right hand Black man[00:01:20]
Only if you are noted as my man[00:01:23]
If I get the credit then I think I deserve it[00:01:25]
If you fake moves don't fix your mouth to word it[00:01:28]
Get in the zone of positivity not negativity[00:01:30]
Cos we gotta strive for longevity[00:01:33]
If you botch up what's in that ass[00:01:35]
What[00:01:38]
A pair of Nikes size ten and a half[00:01:38]
We gotta make moves words[00:01:41]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:01:43]
We gotta make moves words[00:01:46]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:01:48]
We gotta make moves[00:01:51]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:01:53]
We gotta make moves[00:01:57]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:01:58]
Time time is a ship on a merciless sea[00:02:02]
Drifting toward an average of nothingness[00:02:05]
Until it can be retarded for its own destiny[00:02:08]
Time is an inanimate object[00:02:10]
Praying and praying and praying with no justification for relief[00:02:12]
Time is dancing boogalooing away all memories of past[00:02:16]
We gotta be a winner all the time[00:02:21]
Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime[00:02:22]
With the dope raps and dope tracks we move blocks[00:02:25]
From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks[00:02:27]
Musically the Quest is on the rise[00:02:30]
We on these excursions so you must realize[00:02:32]
That continually I pop my Zulu shit[00:02:35]
If you don't like it get off the Zulu tip[00:02:37]
So what can you do in the times which exist[00:02:40]
You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis[00:02:42]
But if your sis is a bitch brother is a jerk[00:02:45]
Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work[00:02:47]
Whatever it may be in today's society[00:02:50]
Everything is fair least that's how it seems to me[00:02:52]
You must be honest and true to the next[00:02:55]
Don't be phony and expect one not to flex[00:02:57]
Especially if you rhyme you have to live by the pen[00:03:00]
Your man is your man then treat him like your friend[00:03:02]
All it is is the code of the streets[00:03:05]
So listen to the knowledge being dropped over beats[00:03:07]
Beats that are hard beats that are funky[00:03:10]
They could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie[00:03:13]
What you gotta do is know the Tribe is in the sphere[00:03:15]
The Abstract Poet prominent like Shakespeare[00:03:17]
Or Edgar Allan Poe or Langston Hughes[00:03:20]
We gotta make moves[00:03:22]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:03:23]
We gotta make moves[00:03:27]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:03:28]
We gotta make moves[00:03:32]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:03:33]
We gotta make moves[00:03:37]
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on[00:03:38]
Time is running out on black power advocates in the day[00:03:42]
And white thigh supporters at night[00:03:44]
Every time you see them they're chasing some white woman[00:03:45]
With their tongue hanging out[00:03:47]
Time is running and passing passing and running[00:03:49]
Running and passing passing and running[00:03:51]