Phony Rappers-A Tribe Called Quest

[00:00.000] 作词 : Fareed, Mills, Phife Dawg [00:03.436]Phony rappers who do not write [00:06.052]Phony rappers who do not excite [00:08.493]Phony rappers, check it out, aight [00:12.337]Yo, I was riding the train [00:13.671]And this Puerto Rican kid said simple and plain: "Let's battle" [00:16.850]It kinda took me by surprise 'cause the brother was moving [00:19.739]Wit' his eyes on the prize, I said 'Screw it' [00:21.748]I ain't got nuttin to lose but um [00:23.795]But I got to do this **** real quick so um [00:26.026]Hurry up kid, bust your joints and then I'll bust mine [00:28.699]And I'll be out 'cause I got to see this hottie,' he said 'OK' [00:31.481]'Now check it, check it out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah' [00:33.326]That's what he said [00:34.302]Then I came back and just ****ed up his head [00:36.408]'Cause yo, he thought an MC who was seen on TV [00:38.732]Couldn't hold the **** down in New York City [00:41.297]Ayo, I showed his ass, then I went off on my task [00:43.928]To bless her ass Uptown, real MC's will hold it down [00:47.038]Yeah, yeah, sonny, to the beat like that [00:49.131]You wanna bring it to me, where you at? [00:50.901]Yes, dread, I had a similar situation [00:52.418]When this kid tried to tell me I didn't deserve my occupation [00:55.137]He said I wasn't **** that I was soon to fall [00:57.802]I looked him up and down, grab my crotch and said balls [01:00.218]Of course he tried to bring it on the battling tip [01:02.662]And you know me, you know I had to come out my **** [01:05.171]Trying to lounge at the mall, me, Skeff and Mr. Walt [01:07.786]And finally I banged his ass wit the verbal assault [01:10.245]He said a rhyme about his .45 and his nickel bags of **** [01:12.823]That's when I proceeded to give him what he needed [01:15.356]Talking 'bout I need a Phillie right before I get loose [01:17.778]Poor excuse, money please, I get loose off of orange juice [01:20.589]Preferably Minute Maid 'cause that's exactly what it takes to write a rhyme, huh [01:23.243]So screw your nickels and your dimes [01:25.562]Because an MC like me be on TV [01:28.040]Don't mean I can't hold my **** down in NYC [01:32.109]Phony rappers who do not write [01:34.625]Phony rappers who do not excite [01:37.106]Phony rappers, you know they type [01:39.622]Phony rappers, check it [01:42.248]It seems there's a sanitation, y'all full of trash talker [01:44.758]Sounding good, but money, can you be the dog walker? [01:47.543]Talking 'bout your mic days and your breakdancing [01:50.185]Not enhancing, you sound tired... [01:51.683]Oh, ****, I didn't know you like to play yourself in front'cha friends [01:55.577]Sitting there, lying to no end [01:57.405]MC's for me make things happening [01:59.852]Talk about a world but in a form of rapping [02:02.272]Who will be the captain of this ship [02:04.719]If it goes down, don't you know you have to go wit it [02:07.481]Just because you rhyme for a couple of weeks [02:09.848]Doesn't mean that you've reach the MC's peak [02:12.202]Let me stop sounding all bitter [02:13.899]Ghetto child, never be a quitter [02:15.607]But don't be a phony in the litter [02:17.547]Take it as a letter from the better [02:19.520]Take it from a man who used to rhyme in busted ass Jettas [02:22.479]Yo, Phife, you need a condom [02:23.826]Word to God [02:24.637]Mess around, I catch AIDS from MC's being on my nuts too hard [02:28.146]'Cause on my boulevard, you better bring your bodyguard [02:30.307]And what's your boulevard? [02:31.107]L.B., I represent naturally [02:32.679]So don't step on the boulie if you know that you're phony [02:35.151]Or else I'll bend that ass like elbow macaroni [02:37.667]'Cause I gotta keep it real (gotta keep it real) Yep! [02:40.078]A Tribe Called Quest, you see we never half step [02:42.680](So on your mark) Get ready, MC's be jetty [02:45.333]Me and Phife be hangin' like Veronica and Betty [02:47.884]Archie, Jughead, snuffing MC's [02:50.270]From Brainslane down to Hempstead [02:51.921]Yes 'Quence, see over [02:53.186]His rhyme style is older that a Chrysler Cordoba [02:55.394]I'm wilder then the cats from Arizona [02:57.274]Villanova, or, or, Kentucky [02:59.229]Who's the next MC stepping up to try and bust me [03:01.556]Bring him here and boy, will I ever let him have it [03:04.234]And when it comes to the microphone, don't even try to grab it [03:06.874]What?!?! [03:13.393] [03:13.998]��This feeling of embarrassment [03:19.357]This shyness, this bashfulness�� [03:23.515]If you take that out of the people then these people will do whatever they want to do [03:29.433]And that is the very definition of America [03:31.930]A people who have no shame and therefore do whatever they want to do."