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The Score. 48
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. 94
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0. 126
Fugees
Blunted On Reality
(1994)
"Introduction"
THE YEAR
THE MAN
THE MISSION
To carry out the word of the shephard into this cold world
THE GROUP
I don't know...
Tran...Tranzlators!!
[Lauryn Hill]
My rope
"Nappy Heads"
[Wyclef]
Barber can I get a fade? (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)
Teacher teacher check my grades (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)
"You sure you wanna hang with old Eddie Kane?" (The Five Heartbeats)
Word is bond, you get wrong, I'll have you sing like Louis Armstrong
But what the fuck was so wonderful bout pickin cotton -- on a farm?
The harder they come, the harder they fall, so come one come all
Ten-nine-eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two-one-
-you-slept-on-a-kid-from-the-boondocks
Some say newcomer like the yuma but save the rumor
One out of ten, I'm passin the mic next time I'll get WICKED
You tried to gas me up, too much gas, you got intoxicated
Teacher teacher check my grades (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)
[Pras]
You put, one and one together now you think you a rapper
Natural rhythm rock a mic I always rhyme I'm never drinkin vodka
[Lauryn Hill]
[Pras]
Sad sung blues who's, chose the one to feel the pain
[Wyclef]
You hung a man after dark (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)
Yo who got the power, to make a man raise from the dead?
Some said that it was Jesus, they said he was a notty dread
[Lauryn Hill]
[Wyclef]
for those who died (THE NAPPY HEADS ARE COMIN OUT)
"Blunted Interlude"
[Intro]
Ay, pass this over here man, so we can just cipher youknowI'msayin'?
Yo, man, c'mon pass the blunt man (Yo champ, champ, champ)
Whassup man? (Yo, hold it up, aight, take the fuckin' blunt)
(C'mon man, let's cip man about the good ol' days man youknowI'msayin'? (yeah)
See man, white man tryin' to keep this away from us man youknowI'msayin'? (Uh-hmm)
That's why they try to make it illegal man (...you far, you far from reality...)
Yo, check this out man, this is, a natural herb man youknowI'msayin'?
Yo, yo, yo man, yo we just ciphin' man (...talkin' that, pass the motherfuckin' blunt)
I know you Latin shit, burn the fuck out (I hate when motherfuckers do that shit)...
[Wyclef Jean]
Y'all know there's a lot of emcees but just give my CHANCE ON THE MIC!!
Open the, open the, open the, open the, open the, open the
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
When Melle Mel was Melle Mel and Al Capone was Al Capone
So when you hear me it's the man with the deeper thoughts
Ya hear the rhyme you stand still, some ask for refill
So they had it at bein' a heroes, where did their bodies go, only God knows
So all the bad boy talk, come on cause I'm the nice dog, yeah hawk
[Lauryn Hill]
Well their gatin' for another pirate to lose his neck, check
But I saw true and had to shake a him before he got through
Hey, hey guy the loot the booty, I formed like a ram
And so I took it upon myself to make the brother walk the plank
[Pras]
Fo'-to-the-fo'-to-the-fi-fe-come
So when I get them someone will know where the hell I'm from
The hand that rocks will be the hand of the gun bum
Makin' emcees walk like a doggy, hah-hah, I'll make them walk like a doggy
It's like the blunt to the phillie, the ganja to the sessy
But the chant from my peers that I know are really down with me (CHEERS!!)
Cause some say are your friend before wanna dem bring you poison
You wished you stayed around, you know my clip got the (LIP!!)
And if your hip's a book you know you got to get off bricks man
"Recharge"
[Wyclef]
[Pras]
Still the MC, hit the target, you get bombarded yeah
[Wyclef]
Makin MC's run when it come to rappin I'm the Darth Vader
??
[Pras]
I used to, rip the rapper cause they said we'd been said wack
[Wyclef]
Here it comes!
Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne
Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne
[Wyclef]
means I work hard, but got no money, and that ain't funny
Hey honey when you work for free see it's hard to get a lady baby
So let me predict in pure trick I'm sure the rap form will recharge
Me lick me onnnnnnnnnnne
[undecipherable chat]
"Vocab"
[Chorus]
Hey, yo pass the mic so I can tell 'em I got the gift o' gab
Hey yo catch me when I'm sober, but now I drink for the belt.
The last bird who mocked he got caught in my roughneck chicken pot.
I back track far enough to make a nigga run and leave his tongue back.
You think I'm cool I think you're cruel so here's a shell cap.
Ratatatat.
[Chorus]
Hoboes above leave the boat for the Pope (?) [x3]
And search for some knowledge that come runnin' in the woods.
My proof is in my puddin'
What's the matter with the black man? (Black man) [x2]
Poor bastard gets mystic I don't believe you checked the psychic
Emancipate your mind. Don't set the limit. Reach the summit.
'Live off the streets' says the brother with the machete.
'Live off the lady' says the brother with the glock in patrol.
You see it's very easy to slip between the asphalt sheet.
Is she skivs 'cause the skin that she's in makes you sin?
Does you hit her just to get her integrate another sister?
I wonder for a smack, but don't think that it would help this.
With a rappin' up for the eight track play back laid back sit back
'Cause I trappin' a back like a cool six pack now bring it back. Woah!
What's the flavour? More Babylon, more Babylon, more Babylon fall [x2]
Because he pull out his gun and send another boy down.
We out
"Boof Baf"
[Wyclef Jean]
But how are you gonna tell the real I bust from these fo' knees
[Pras]
I'm from the island, the island I'm from is the strong island
[Wyclef Jean]
Said if you write with pencil you must write with (PEN!)
[Pras]
One, two, I throw a flow to catch it
[Lauryn Hill]
get the - hoodie came first then mans' then would be Nancy
To kill the Jesse James rough, step back, check your steps
[Wyclef Jean]
Pras take the mic man, you know you're really critical
[Pras]
[Wyclef Jean]
down with my last one, last one, last one, last one and
(Boo-shoo-coo-coo!!) SMOKE!!
[Mad Spider]
This the new thing under the Sun, when I come, I come
but the spot that I clock, you get shot if your numbers' about
[Pras]
Tape recorder, duplicator, roughly rhymin' with the head tranzlator, hah!
[Wyclef Jean]
Say gun-man (BOOF BAF!!) say tell me where you get your ?? from (BOOF BAF!!)
Say gun-man (BOOF BAF!!) say tell me where you get your ?? from (BOOF BAF!!)
You want to kill your own brother man (BOOF BAF!!), ay, ay, ay (BOOF BAF!!)
[undecipherable singing]
"Temple"
One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!
[Lauryn Hill]
Was just one baptist - me! The stories o' God sent
and the pastor just couldn't figure out where baptist fit
The prize is the up the wise, wise who has a spiritual health
Now to explain they had the problems/visions of gettin' along with herself
Logic brothers...
(Ahhh, yo sister can Praswell and Wyclef get some, check it out)
One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!
[Wyclef Jean]
the only rappin' they doin' is in they room before they packin'
You gained the world sucker, but you lost your soul
So some get blunted but you're back all on this when it's all over
Cause some check in but don't check out and either Hell or Heaven high
So they predict to be Haiti's and kill till there's nothin' left, hah
But I'ma hit with a gun, that's harder than all guns
But the bird said the word was absurd, have ya heard?
[Pras]
While any priest here builds his church on a solid rock, hit me
[Mad Spider]
Stick this business, stock me up, they took me coat with a stun gun
The Privates' don't make the orders it's the General that makes the wig-wack
and at night I was back and the Jeep got attacked by a gang that sold crack
Though I wish I could zap outta here but I quack like a dog
And all the jumper the guys that I see to me pass the class
Check out the vocab, it'll get out, then get it, do it again
gift of the guy if you're good you're good, if you're bad you're bad
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
[Pras]
Yo, watch yourself for your health I'll snatch your last breath
[Wyclef Jean]
Mad and they ignorance, think they can test the performance of an ancient (RAPPER!!)
cause there's more than righter rapper, paid for the rapper be-bop
[Mad Spider]
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
[Levi]
I gotta jump on the A-Train, I saw cat with a scat he was blowin' like coal-train
My boys' said give him a call, I gave him a dollar, he said are you a rapper?
Kids have a seat and don't miss a beat and listen to the battle of the saxin' in your emcee
[Wyclef Jean]
Now Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock, call Red Rock call
[Lauryn Hill]
I rock and shock the dough is show squeeze and cheese and whether pleasin'
I rock and shock the dough is show squeeze and cheese and whether pleasin'
Coolin' breezin' at the teas and how can emcees do was sneeze
(FLOWER, BLOW!!)
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
I wanna know, how hard do you wanna it? (Hard as it can get)
[Lauryn Hill]
AhhhhhH!
And the man who pulled the trigger didn't even lose his necktie
He's got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep
But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my pops told me
[Chorus:]
They/brothers/sisters/families/people/we/brothers
Well aiyyo family I beseech you, in the hopes that I may reach you
My mother taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday
Rock it's kind of new to me, cause my true love was poetry
White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa lackey
built for that B. Nimble Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked
The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this violence why?
Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are braided that you make me
when I enter your vicinity, you see my God ain't never after me
To go and be, the last and good and see what's wrong with me
So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy
[Chorus 2X]
[singing]
I got mine now won't you get yours, we never open doors
And then they cry out, "My people! Why aren't we treated equal?"
Oh c'mon please come now with you can come with me now and blow now
[Chorus 4X]
"Giggles"
[Pras]
You got the fever for the flavor for the giggles
Totally and directly, wonder, more than too fresh and nuttin' really else today
Some say I'm with the losers cause I didn't have the ladies
gettin' murderin' like the a-lovin' - now the news - Rodney King is
remember durin' steebers, why don't you get your speakers tweetered, whoo!!
[Chorus]
[Pras]
Now ya wanna be down, you come around, touch gun of the town
You start to smell like one - all you really are was the head
[Chorus]
[Pras]
You feelin' dirty and quitter, you neither or either a home or hitter
[Chorus]
Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?
Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?
Who got the giggles man? Who got the giggles man?
to just put up your motherfuckin' hands, you know you're a fuckin' immigrant
I'ma start this shit off like this, this time around
H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I
Live or die, it's nothin' but a dark side
H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I
[Wyclef Jean]
I had a friend, they murdered his father and his three-year-old son
I heard him cursin' the essence of the, the (PAUSE) committed the crime
Watch out for the devil, he comes after you after the revival
[Pras]
[Wyclef Jean]
The bigger that you try to put out yours just makes me Mr. Nobody
Take high wit'cha just right, it'll be like Michael get ordered, a viper you know!!
Yeah, a viper cause you might lose a life to the side by like
what did I have to in the line of the barkin' of the bright side
But don't forget the day it's sunny but it'll be foggy
You call me a punk, I gotta step cause all you did was flex
But don't get closer cause the kid still gotta keep his rep
See I'm known for the crew like the jewel was the jewel
Like the follow got the boo, like the miller got the boo
Let the fool cop the man-jewel, suck up, up the ?cool-lew?
The Haitian kid, beeper's goin' off, you know I got no time to sleep, so beep-beep
H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I
[Pras]
Gorillas in the mist, where everything, and the light becomes a priest
Cause the first shall be last and the last shall be first, yeah
It's not funny, but twenty a month is what you earn baby
(We on to the Yankee, pass the mic to the "Yankee")
[Lauryn Hill]
Well I'm as cool to ya the mic I'm checkin' comin' from my temple
I'm the girl "Yankee" rollin' wit' the kids from Haiti
wonderin' who was the first to pull over girl as soon as it came out son
The dope is dope is only get the man since that is true
H-to-the-A-to-the-I-to-the-T-to-the-I...
[Wyclef Jean]
Yo check it out. This is the boy Wyclef from Tranzlators, I'm coming from the
Booga Basement with a roots drink in my hands. So put the Rotts tonics in the
air, yeah cause I'm-a start this one off like THIS. Cause niggaz are living
like there ain't no tomorrow. I nuked this on the S900 cause I couldn't fford
a 1100. I'm-a start this one a little something like this. Here we go.
When the bum search for drums, the son search for condoms
That leave many dead in hospital beds; now you and death are newlyweds
[Hook]
I called up the VP, she told me she was busy watching TV with Roxy
So keep the light on and make sure that the chick don't that back
She said that she did it with some girl named Lisa
I said what's the boot yo, she pulled the camcorder
She kicked me out cause she was paying for the apartment
Girls smash it up easy, when they know they got the bugsy
And if you're looking for a hit check Charles Bronson from Death Wish
[Hook]
[Wyclef]
Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
[Wyclef]
[Lauryn]
Yo whashup?
[Wyclef]
[Lauryn]
Worrrrrd?
[Verse 1: Wyclef]
You wanna battle swing I bring commanding men like I was king
I was ordered to Code Red, but now I'm chillin with A Few Good Men
I never play the soap opera but now I'm a General Hospital
Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
I don't wear Jheri curls cause I'm nah from the West
Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
The blacker the black man, the better the next man
(Yo some nappy heads need to check they necks for red)
"Oh you wanna hang with old Eddie Kane?" (The Five Heartbeats)
Word is bond, you get wrong, I'll have you sing like Louis Armstrong
But what the hell was so wonderful bout cotton in the farm
The harder they come, the harder they fall, so come one come all
Some say who coming like like the yuma but save the rumor
Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
[repeat 2X]
[repeat 2X]
Mona Lisa...
and to the beat y'all, and to the beat y'all, come on everybody
[to fade]
Fugees
The Score
(1996)
"Red Intro"
Yo, this fucker I was wit the other day, I was chillin'
Is getting mad ill out here man. joker's running out here
They beat my man bob g. up the other day, cops, pigs vampin'
Got power, but fuck them, I got power. I got power, I got family,
And for all. I'm not lettin' nobody I'm going out like
Bite what I got like all of these big record companies, these
Corporations these stores they try to rob me. naw man, I'm going,
[LAURYN:]
But it all stays the same like the love Doctor Strange
Your puerile,
I get controversial
Or Coleco-Vision
[CLEF:]
I used to be underrated
So on my day off,
One day I'll have a label and make deals with Tommy Motolla
The other tried to duck and caught a left with my Guiness Stout
[PRAZ:]
"Ready or Not"
[CHORUS:]
[CLEF:]
[LAURYN:]
No stress
Voo Doo,
[Chorus:]
[LAURYN'S INTERLUDE]
[PRAZ:]
"Zealots"
[CLEF:]
[CLEF:]
Hypocrite, critic, but deep inside you wish you had the pop hit.
It hurts don't it, the refugees come to your turf and take over the earth.
[INTERLUDE (Lauryn):]
[LAURYN:]
Two MC's can't occupy the same space at the same time.
Many styles,
My grammar pays,
[Chorus (CLEF):]
Another MC lose his life tonight, lord
[CLEF:]
[PRAZ:]
[Chorus (CLEF):]
"The Beast"
[CHORUS:]
C'mon
[LAURYN:]
[CLEF:]
The man behind the mask you thought was Batman is Bill Clinton.
[CLEF:]
Mother Mary caught a flashback like Rodney now the cops got Lolly.
[LAURYN:]
And the fuzz treat bruh's like they manhood never was,
And if you too powerful, you get bugged like Peter Tosh and Marley was.
[CHORUS:]
[CLEF:]
BUT TO WHO???
[PRAZ:]
The streets of corruption got me bustin and cussin' in the concrete jungle
Handled by Hannibal
[CLEF:]
[PRAZ:]
"Fu-Gee-La"
[CLEF:]
We used to be number 10
Beat you so bad make you feel like you ain't wanna be born
Stevie Wonder sees Crack Babies Be-Coming Enemies of their own families.
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.
[CHORUS (Lauryn):]
Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang
[LAURYN:]
Yeah in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons till high noon,
Bust rap toons on flat spoons, take no shorts like poon poon's.
ODD-ly enough
Niggas huff and they puff but they can't handle us, WE BUST
Cause we fortified, I could never hide, seen "Cooley High", Cried when Cochise died.
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You have to respect JERSEY, cause I'm superfly when I'm super-high on
the Fu-Gee-La.
[(LAURYN) CHORUS:]
Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang
Farakkhan reads his Daily Qu'ran it's a phenomenon, lyrics fast like Ramadan.
What's goin' on
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.
Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang
"Family Business"
[OMEGA:]
Oppression's subliminal
[CLEF:]
Unclean bad dreams of Wyclef being a fiend, one last kiss from my sweet serpentine
Eliminate then break, navigate to rejuvenate thoughts of suicide with my nickel plate.
Would be your worst enemy and your enemy your best friend.
[CHORUS: (Omega)]
At night the evil armies So defend the family that's the code to obey
[CLEF:]
[CLEF:]
One false move and you'll find her body in the sea.
[LAURYN:]
Your bootie smells rotten and one day you will be gotten
And if you bringin' threats I give you sex if I ain't heard it.
See poppin' shit's about your attitude and how you word it
So what's my purpose?
You'll be screamin' Murder she Wrote like Chaka Demus and Pliars.
[CHORUS: (Omega)]
[LAURYN:]
Yo mouthpiece is yappin'
[CLEF:]
[LAURYN:]
"Killing Me Softly"
[LAURYN:]
[FUGEES:]
El boogie up in here...
[CLEF:]
[LAURYN:]
[Fading:]
Strumming my pain
"The Score"
[CLEF:]
Sing boo,
Raaaaah, raaaah
and kill the toad, But I'll be back with the centipede
[CLEF:]
I'm victorious
[PRAZ:]
[LAURYN:]
Dreams of euphoria,
Aurora,
To another galaxy
Phallic-sy
Henders, mind-bender
Pleasure sender,
Wrongfully you put me down not receiving the full capacity of my smoke
Or emit shit
Natural hallucinogen
[DIAMOND-D:]
You stand stiff and got the nerve to let your man riff
"The Mask"
[CHORUS:]
Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day,
Feds be hawkin me
[CLEF:]
[CHORUS:]
put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.
[LAURYN:]
I backed up off him then caught him with five finger to his face,
But then I recognized the smile, but I couldn't place the style,
Then it hit me that's Tariq from off the street around Grams.
I haven't seeen him since fifteen, when he got booked for doing scams.
Steve was like this kid I went with back in Grammar School.
Then his old lady tried to play me waved her hands up in my face,
Yo I told her check your man cause bitch you acting out of place.
[CHORUS:]
put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.
[PRAZ:]
Well did you shoot him? Naw kid I didn't have the balls,
[CHORUS:]
put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.
"Cowboys"
[(CHORUS) CLEF:]
Forty-five by my side,
[PACE1:]
Zen, zen zen zen zen zen zen
[WYCLEF:]
Wyclef
[PACE1:] [PACE 1]
[WYCLEF:]
[PACE1:]
[WYCLEF:]
[PACE1:]
[PACE1:]
[WYCLEF:]
[PACE1:]
[WYCLEF:]
[WYCLEF:]
[LAURYN:]
If anyone approaches
[RAH DIGGA:]
[LAURYN:]
[RAH DIGGA:]
[LAURYN:]
[RAH DIGGA:]
96
[CLEF: (Chorus)]
Forty-five by my side,
[PRAZ:]
[PRAZ:]
[Young Zee:]
[FORTE:]
Got nerve to mouth about it and the weight you claim you movin'
Your whole style is loose and we gon' sew it like it's cotton.
Pop babies whisperin' that there's a body dropped, behind the lot
[CHORUS: (Clef)]
Forty-five by my side,
[CLEF:]
Away,
And then we'd hit the corner store for Roots, paper, and brew.
[CHORUS: Oh ah oh ah (7 times)]
[CLEF:]
[CHORUS: Oh ah oh ah (5 times)]
"Manifest"
[CLEF:]
Jah Rhastafari,
Passed it down the table said today I'll be betrayed by one you 12 disciples
The kid on the block who makes less money than you.
[LAURYN:]
You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
[PRAZ:]
"Mista Mista"
Mista mista
Hell no motherfucka
Drug free
Mista mista
Hell no motherfucka
What can a quarter get you?
Nothing motherfucka
Motherfucka
Drug free
Refugees up in here
Buss it
Where is my spirit?
Buss it,
You see I loved hard once
But my eyes saw the deception my heart wouldn't let me learn from um
Some dumb woman was I and every time he lied he would cry and inside I'd die
I tried to call the cops that type of heat they can't arrest
Buss it,
(Buss it)
Fugees is on a roll
"Take It Easy"
[Lauryn:]
We bout to drop.
[L-Boogie:]
[Chorus]
[Lauryn:]
too sleazy
[Clef:]
And that ain't blood on your shirt, man that's ketchup (That's ketchup)
I'd rather kill myself become a ghost and write for myself (OH MY GOD!!)(***see C)
Cuss I'm the top celebrity, top celebrity, top celebrity, MC (Bing!)
[Chorus]
Here's come the rocket launcher, take it easy, take it easy, you better take it easy
Ay papi, mami take it easy, take is easy, you better take it easy
[L-Boogie:]
Reckless driving and grieving them, Matthew Andrew and Peter them
(Slow down)
We bout to reconcile (Slow Down) (tell them to get my off style) [repeat]
[Pras:]
I got love for my crew like Big had for Cease (C's)
[Lauryn:]
too sleazy
Ay papi, mami take it easy, take is easy, you better take it easy
[Lauryn:]
what
Clef,
"Lost Ones"
Consequence is no coincidence
But there come many paths and you must choose one
See you might win some but you just lost one
And some don't know what they have 'til it's gone
Cause you might win some but you just lost one
[repeat to end]
"Ex-Factor"
[Hook:]
It ain't workin'
It ain't workin'
This is crazy
This is crazy
I keep letting you back in
[Repeat Hook]
[Repeat]
"To Zion"
[Talking]
Zion!
Marching, marching
It's been three weeks since you've been looking for your friend
The one you let hit it and never called you again
You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim
Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even fooling him
Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn.
Come again
More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women
Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen
Let's not pretend, they wanna pack pistol by they waist men
The pretty face, men claiming that they did a bid men
The quick to shoot the s***n stop acting like boys and be men
Come again
"Superstar"
They'll hail you then they'll nail you, no matter who you are
And make you face it, if you slit the bag open
[repeat to end]
"Final Hour"
Words so profuse
Rather simeon
If I Jimmy on this lock I could pop it
Drop it
Respect demanded
Say your rhymes, let's see if that get you out your bend
Word to Boonie
Hoodshock to Hood-chic
Whoever's closest
I'm about to be in it
For a minute
Be seen through
Gave up my power,
[Repeat to end]
Dem noh know weh dem do, dig out yuh yei while dem sticking like glue,
True, Ah Who???
And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you, to you
I stand position
Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas,
Backstabbers do this
Dem a yuh fren who yuh depen pon from way back when,
But if yuh gi dem yuh back den yuh mus meet yuh end,
Looking back,
Looking back
Looking back
Looking back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Looking back
[To end]
"Everything Is Everything"
Everything is everything
[2x]
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
I philosophy
I begat this
Sometimes it seems
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
I look at my environment
"Tell Him"
Yo heh heh tell him it's like uhh you know uhh
Tell him...
[Background singing]
It'll be alright
[Background singing]
It'll be alright
[Bridge]
To the love that was shown when our lives were spared
[Background singing]
It'll be alright
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
(2002)
"Mr. Intentional"
Counting all the money, that you give them just because
Stop before you drop because that's just the way it was
Please don't justify me, Mr. Intentional
Oh, oh oh oh
And if you need much more than that, I'm not available
Cut off from the sunshine, only smart in his own head
Wanting to be intellectual
Drifting from the way she got turned down one day
Caught up in emotion
Now the 3 of them are dying by the poison she perceived to be good head
He will try us
Be not wise in thine own eyes and you can follow him
We grin and shake hands, then lay ambush for the man
But God know with the heart, what man esteemed as smart
Is an abomination to Emmanuel
Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live
It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word
Oh Jerusalem...
"Freedom Time"
[Singing Chorus]
Trapped in a section
Submitted to committee election
Moral infection
Insurrection
Heavy as gravity
Without a bottom
I had a vision
Intelligent fools
PhD's in illusion
Conference is in Yale
Totally paranoid
How incomplete
In vanity
Picture that
Scripture that
An invisible war
Achin' in sores
What authority do we do
We majored in curses
So we can stand
[Singing Chorus]
...It was such a hot time in the city at that point, I was afraid that if I
put the record out, people would Misunderstand what I meant by "Rebel" and
Cuz my own eyes can see, through all your false pretenses
Your lives are so incomplete, and nothing, and no one, can replace it
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up...
Wake up and rebel
[Verse 1]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Moisturizing me to satisfaction
In my imagination? No no!
Cleaning me
He's purging me
He's bathing me
And around
Moving me around
He's purging me
And around
I need to tell you all, all the pain he's caused, mmmm
I trust every part of you, cuz all that I... All that you say you do
Touch my mouth with your hands, touch my mouth with your hands
I'm telling you it's possible, I'm telling you it's possible
When it all...
Children...
Little children...
Cuz it all...
Yo!
Witness despised
Crooked lawyers
The subpoenas
Representing security
The prosecution
Political prostitution
Legal actors
Babylon's benefactors
Hypocritical giants
Morally non-compliant
Framed by intentions
Of disinterested peers
Materially corrupt
Spiritually amuck
Prosperously bankrupt
Filthy as swine
Legal extortion
In vein deceit
Victimizer or Victim
Empty traditions
Leaning on horses
Turning me ill
Oh it's real
Caused us to die
You'll find what you sought...was based on the deception you bought
A perception of naught
Loving a lie
Loving a lie
Loving a lie
Loving a lie
When it all...
[Singing Chorus]
Knowin' my condition
[Verse 1]
Is no type of solution
Repressin' me to death
[Pause]
Hehehehe, awhh
No more compromises
[Singing Chorus]
I get out
Knowin' my condition
[Singing Verse 2]
Psychological locks
[Singing Chorus]
Knowin' my condition
[Singing Verse 3]
Obligated to a system
Animal conditioning
[Singing Chorus]
Oh, just get out
Knowin' my condition
Knowin' my condition
"I Remember"
I feel so beautiful
I'll never forget no way, how they sold Marcus Garvey for rice
I'll never forget no way, how they turned their back on Paul Bogle
I'll stand firm, and give Jah all the thanks and praises
Cuz when the rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top
Remember that
See when this rain falls, it don't, fall on one man's house top
Said I, never forget, how they turned their backs on Paul Bogle
Cuz when this rain, cuz when this rain, rain, rain, rain, rain falls
It don't fall on one man's house, I'm telling you the rain...
I'm telling you the rain, rain, rain, rain, rain don't fall
They'll have so many things to say about you... to say about you
They don't know me, oh they don't know me, oh they don't know me
They, they, they, they, they, they, they don't know my Father
Again and again and again and again and again and again
Ohh, yeah
Hey, he's gonna break all of those chains if you just let him
Give him, give him the victory, give him the victory
"All My Time"
(feat. Paid Alive)
[Lauryn Singing]
[Chorus]
[Rapping]
(So let's blow this scene girl and check this flick)
[Chorus]
[Paid Alive]
[Lauryn: rapping]
if you tryin to knock it down then I'm not that type of girl
but if you righteous I might just let you spend the night and...
[Chorus]
[ad libs]
"Black Rage"
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when Im feeling sad,
I simply remember all these kinds of things, and then I dont fear so bad
Spiritual treason
Sacrifice, sacrifice
Free enterprise
Is it myth or illusion
Or blood transfusion
Victims of violence
Politics, politics
[Lauryn Hill]
Y-y-yo.. [echoes]
Y-yo..
uhh, y-yo..
Uh-uh..
Y-y-yo..
Is this just a silly game that forces you to act this way
Forces you to scream my name, then pretend, that you can't stay
[Lauryn harmonizes]
[Chorus: Lauryn]
No matter how I think we grow
[Lauryn Hill]
As crazy as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else
I know what we've got to do, you let go I'll let go too
[Lauryn: rapping]
Yo, y-yo, yo yo
Thinkin they can mess with your plan, but I'ma play lamb
Knowin that the Kingdom's at hand, and showin those who want it
[Chorus: Lauryn]
[Lauryn Hill]
Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me
There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me
Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!
Care for me, care for me, you said you'd care for me
There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me
Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!
Give to me, give to me, why won't you live for me?
Why..hahhhihhhhhh, won't you live, for me, for me, for meeee
Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me
There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me
Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!
Give to meeeeeee..
Give to meeeeeee..
It could all be simple, but you'd rather make it harrrrrd..
Hmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmmm
[Tanya Blount:]
A constant friend is he
[Lauryn Hill:]
[Tanya:]
He watches me
[Lauryn:]
[Tanya:]
I know he watches
[Lauryn:]
I know he watches me
[Lauryn:]
[Tanya:]
He watches me
[L&T:]
[Tanya:]
[Lauryn:]
He watches me
[Tanya:]
[L&T:]
He watches me
"Joyful, Joyful"
(feat. St. Francis Choir)
[Lauryn]
Joyful, joyful
[Beat Starts]
[Chorus: Choir]
Joyful, joyful
Drive it away
Fill us
[Rapper 1]
Joyful, joyful
[Rapper 2]
So no-one commanded
[Choir]
[Rapper 1]
[Choir]
[Rapper 2]
[Choir]
Yeah, you know me
[Rapper 1 & 2]
[Choir]
Everybody
[Choir]
By the way!
So we sing!
us)
Fill us
LIGHT OF DAY!
"Keep It Tight"
DJ Skribble just relax, haha! I'm a get you the joint! haha! (Can I see
you?)
[Lauryn]
Chicks try to model after me like I'm Tyra (Like I'm Tyra) [Pause] Banks
(Banks!)
But when it's all over you can tell who's the gimmick (You can tell!)
Kids move they body like they're tripping off of acid, Anthony
And just when you thought it was safe to relax (Safe to relax!)
Keep It Tight
"Lose Myself"
I Love You
"Repercussions"
In a racist world
Is it my reflection?
[CHORUS:]
Ya need to know the repercussions (things can come right back to you)
Hey repercussions
Aint that a bitch...the way the world spins around (spins around spins around spins around)
[CHORUS:]
That it is seen
How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots
The chocies that I've made, oh have been nothing but mistakes
That it is seen
And then he
And then he came
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
It was the...Ah
I tried to explain
[Chorus]
Oh I, oh I, oh I
[Lauryn]
That I, that I
Oh I, oh I, oh I
[Lauryn]
Telling the Lord how grateful I am cause I know him (what? word)
Oh I, oh I, oh I
[Lauryn (Bob)]
Lauryn:
Triumphantly
L. Boogie
Lauryn:
God's recruit
Tribal truth
Redemption song (x 5)
"Feeling Good"
(originally by Nina Simone)
Don't ya know
[Scatting]