[00:00:00] Show Business - A Tribe Called Quest [00:00:00] Written by：Skeff Anselm/D. Murphy/L. Dechalus/Joe Kirkland/Kamaal Fareed/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Malik Taylor [00:00:00] Let me tell you 'bout the snakes the fakes the lies the highs [00:00:03] At all of these industry shing dings [00:00:05] Where you see the pretty girls [00:00:07] In the high animated world [00:00:10] Checking for a rapper with all the dough [00:00:12] If you take a shit they want to know [00:00:14] And if you're gonna fall they won't be around y'all [00:00:17] So you still wanna do the show business [00:00:19] And you think that you got what it takes [00:00:22] I mean you really gotta rap and be all that [00:00:24] And prepare yourself for the breaks [00:00:26] Check it out [00:00:29] Do you wanna be in the business [00:00:31] The business [00:00:31] The ups and downs with the hoes [00:00:33] The business [00:00:34] Always getting fronted on at shows [00:00:35] The business [00:00:36] People gotta stick their nose [00:00:38] In the business [00:00:39] Yo I gotta speak on the cesspool [00:00:41] It's the rap industry and it ain't that cool [00:00:43] Only if you're on stage or if you're speaking to your people [00:00:47] Ain't no-one your equal [00:00:48] Especially on the industry side [00:00:50] Don't let the gains just glide [00:00:52] Right through your fingers you gotta know the deal [00:00:55] So Lord Jamar speak because you're real [00:00:57] They're giving you the business and putting on a show [00:01:00] You're a million dollar man that ain't got no dough [00:01:02] But you got a ho tickets backstage to a show [00:01:04] Sedated and at that fact they elated [00:01:07] Time pass and your ass say [00:01:08] Where's my loot [00:01:09] The reply is a kick in the ass from a leg and a boot [00:01:12] All you wanna do is taste the fruit [00:01:14] But in the back they're making fruit juice [00:01:16] You ask for slack and wanna get cut loose from the label [00:01:19] Not able cause you signed at the table [00:01:21] For a pretty cash advance now they got a song and dance [00:01:23] That you didn't recoup [00:01:24] More soup with your meal [00:01:26] Cause this is the real when you get a record deal [00:01:29] And I say [00:01:30] Aw shucks look what the cat hauled in [00:01:32] It's Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest let me begin [00:01:35] Like Chuck D I got so much trouble on my mind [00:01:37] 'Bout these no-talent artists getting signed they can't rhyme [00:01:40] And if that ain't bad you got bootleggers [00:01:42] Going out like suckers motherf**kers [00:01:45] Feel it's time that I let loose the lion [00:01:47] And if not that then I'll commence to head flying [00:01:49] Seems in '91 everybody want a rhyme [00:01:51] And then you go and sell my tape for only $5.99 [00:01:54] Please nigga I've worked too hard for this [00:01:56] No more will I take the booty end of the stick [00:01:59] Bogus brothers making albums when they know they can't hack it [00:02:01] Cause they lyrics is played like 8-Ball jackets [00:02:04] Now tell me I can't tear it up [00:02:06] Go get yourself some toilet paper cause your lyrics is butt [00:02:08] Do you wanna be in the business [00:02:10] The business [00:02:10] People can't walk a straight line in [00:02:12] The business [00:02:13] Some of these brothers can't rhyme in [00:02:15] The business [00:02:15] A-yo I'm tryna get mine [00:02:17] The business [00:02:18] The party scene is cool but then again it's all the same [00:02:20] You see the same faces but at different places [00:02:22] When you're up and riding high everything is palsy palsy [00:02:25] Get a million pounds and all the skins give you hugs [00:02:27] Well that's cool I can dig it it really ain't my bag [00:02:29] Prefer to max on the side and let my pants sag [00:02:32] Oh he's a cutie yeah real cute [00:02:34] But I wasn't that cute when I didn't have no loot 404

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