[00:00:00] Vapors - Biz Markie [00:00:00] Radio TV and even the press know the meaning of vapors [00:00:05] The meanin' of this word without no doubt [00:00:08] Means nobody wants to be there when you're down and out [00:00:10] Once you're established and got a lot of money [00:00:13] Everybody wanna be your buddy and honey [00:00:15] Like tall buildings they call skyscrapers [00:00:20] Can you feel it [00:00:22] Nothin' can save ya [00:00:23] For this is the season of catchin' the vapors [00:00:26] And since I got time what I'm gonna do [00:00:28] Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew [00:00:31] Wel you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records [00:00:33] Made the music nobody beats the biz [00:00:35] Well check it [00:00:36] Back in the days before this began [00:00:38] He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran [00:00:41] The type of female with fly Gucci wear [00:00:43] With big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair [00:00:46] When swan tried to kick it she always fessed [00:00:49] Talkin' about baby please you work for UPS [00:00:51] Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer [00:00:54] My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her [00:00:56] But now he trucks gold and wears fly valley boots [00:00:59] Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits [00:01:02] Now she stop frontin' an' wants to speak [00:01:04] And be comin' to all the shows [00:01:06] Every single weekend [00:01:07] To get his beeper number she'd be beggin' please [00:01:09] Dyin' for the day to get skeezed [00:01:12] She caught the vapors [00:01:17] She caught the vapors [00:01:22] She caught the vapors [00:01:27] She caught the vapors [00:01:33] I got another partner that's calm and plain [00:01:35] He goes by the name of the big daddy Kane [00:01:37] A mellow type of fellow that's laid back [00:01:40] Back in the days he was nothin' like that [00:01:42] I remember when he used to fight every day [00:01:45] What grown ups would tell him he would never obey [00:01:47] He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied [00:01:50] And a rasta type Kango tilted to the side [00:01:53] Around his neighborhood people treated him bad [00:01:55] And said he was the worst thing his mom's ever had [00:01:58] They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum [00:02:01] Or either in jail or someone would shoot him [00:02:03] But now he's grown up to their surprise [00:02:06] Big daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide [00:02:08] Now the same people that didn't like him as a child be sayin' [00:02:11] Can I borrow a dollar ooh you're a star now [00:02:13] They caught the vapors [00:02:18] They caught the vapors [00:02:23] They caught the vapors [00:02:29] They caught the vapors [00:02:34] Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee [00:02:37] Better known to y'all as cut master cool V [00:02:39] He cuts scratch transform with finesse [00:02:43] And all that mess [00:02:45] Well I remember when he first started to rock [00:02:46] And tried to get his job in a record shop [00:02:49] He was in it to win it but the boss fronted [00:02:52] Said sorry Mr. Lee but there's no help wanted [00:02:54] Now my cousin Von still tried on and on and on [00:02:58] 'Til the like break of dawn [00:03:00] To put this job in effect [00:03:02] But they'd look right past him and be like next [00:03:05] Now for the year of 88 [00:03:07] Cool V is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight [00:03:10] He walks into the same record shop as before [00:03:12] And the boss'll be like Von welcome to my store [00:03:15] Offerin' him a job but now he don't want it [00:03:17] Damn it feels goo to see people up on it [00:03:20] 'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't [00:03:23] Now guess what they caught from my cousin [00:03:25] The vapors [00:03:30] They caught the vapors [00:03:35] They caught the vapors [00:03:41] They caught the vapors [00:03:46] Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark