[00:00:00] Butter - A Tribe Called Quest [00:00:01] Written by:Kamaal Fareed/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Malik Taylor/A Tribe Called Quest [00:00:10] 1988 senior year at Garvey High [00:00:13] Where all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly [00:00:15] Lounging with the Tipster cooling with Sha [00:00:18] Scoping out the honeys they know who they are [00:00:20] I was the b-ball playing fly rhyme saying [00:00:23] Fly girl getting but never was I sweating [00:00:26] Cause when it came to honeys I would go on a stroll [00:00:28] Until I met my match her name was Flo [00:00:31] Yeah I messed around with the one called Flo [00:00:33] All the troopers round the way used to call her a ho [00:00:36] But deep down in my heart I knew that Flo was good to go [00:00:39] Cause I thought it was me like Bell Biv Devoe [00:00:41] But little did I know that she was playing with my mind [00:00:44] The only thing I learned is good girls are hard to find [00:00:47] I feel like Heavy D I need somebody for me [00:00:49] Not someone whose mind is blank and tryna juice me for my banks [00:00:52] Swinging with my main man Lucky behind my back [00:00:54] What type of crap is that yo how's about a smack [00:00:57] Word life I can't front thought I was all that [00:00:59] But now it seems I've met my match [00:01:02] I was a stone cold lover you couldn't tell me jack [00:01:05] Settling down with one girl wasn't trying to hear that [00:01:07] I had Tonya Tamika Sharon Karen [00:01:10] Tina Stacy Julie Tracy [00:01:12] Used to love 'em leave 'em skeeze 'em tease 'em [00:01:15] Find 'em lose 'em also abuse 'em [00:01:18] My whole attitude was new day next hon [00:01:20] And believe it or not they all got done [00:01:23] Well here comes Flo with the crazy whip appeal [00:01:25] And I'm all true man like Alexander O'Neal [00:01:28] Is this really love then again how would I know [00:01:31] After all this time trying to be a super ho [00:01:33] She finally played me but yo I'd find another [00:01:36] Cause I got the crazy game and yo I'm smooth like butter [00:01:38] Ayo it's like butter it's like butter baby [00:01:41] It's like butter it's like butter baby [00:01:44] It's like butter it's like butter baby [00:01:46] It's like butter it's like butter baby [00:01:49] It's like butter it's like butter baby [00:01:52] It's like butter it's like the butter baby [00:01:54] Not no Parkay not no margarine [00:01:57] Strictly butter strictly butter baby [00:01:59] I remember when girls were goodie two shoes [00:02:01] But now they turning freaks [00:02:02] All of a sudden we love you Phife ease off ho [00:02:04] My name's Malik [00:02:05] Phife this Phife that where you going where you at [00:02:07] These girls don't know me from jack yet I feel like the Mack [00:02:10] You didn't want me then so yo hon don't want me now [00:02:12] Here here take the towel wipe off your brow [00:02:15] And take the contact out your eye you're far from looking fly [00:02:18] You get an E for effort and T for nice try [00:02:20] Now tell me what's the reason for dying your hair [00:02:23] Slum village gold still dangling in your ear [00:02:26] You barely have a neck but still sporting a rope [00:02:28] Four-finger ring just so Phifer can scope [00:02:31] You looked in the mirror didn't know what to do [00:02:33] Yesterday your eyes were brown but today they are blue [00:02:36] Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true [00:02:38] And if you really liked yourself then you would try and be you [00:02:41] If your hair and eyes were real I wouldn't have dissed ya [00:02:44] But since it was bought I had to dismiss ya [00:02:46] But if you can't achieve it then why not try and weave it [00:02:49] If you can't extend it then you might as well suspend it [00:02:52] If you can't braid it best thing to do is fade it [00:02:54] I asked who did your hair and you tell me [00:02:56] Diane made it