1987
๐ต 4921 characters
โฑ๏ธ 5:22 duration
๐ ID: 2226143
๐ Lyrics
Acid-wash Guess with the leather patches
Sportin' the white Diadoras with the hoodie that matches
I'm wearing two Swatches and a small Gucci pouch
I could have worn the Lugi but I left it in the house
Now, my niggas Duce and Wayne got gold plates with their names
With the skyline on it with the box link chain
I'm wearing my frames
They match my gear with their tint
And you know Lagerfields is the scent
Now, my nigga Rafael just got his jeep out the shop
Mint green sidekick, custom-made rag top
"Strictly Business" is the album that we play
"You're A Customer"; the pick of the day
Now there's a nigga on the block, never seen him before
Selling incense and oil, my man thinks that he's the law
But why on earth would this be on their agenda?
As he slowly approaches the window.
"Uh, uh, I've seen you before, I've been you and more
I was the one bearing the pitcher of water
I rent the large upper room
Furnished with tidings of your doom
Or pleasure, whichever feathers(?) decree."
Yo Ralph is he talking to me?
"No I'm talking to the sea son's resurrected
I'm the solstice of the day
I bring news from the blues of the Caspian"
My man laughs, he's one them crazy motherfuckers
Turn the music back up - 'cause I'm the E-Double'
"Wait, but but but but I know the volume of the sea
And sound waves as I will
Will you allow me to be at your service?"
My man Ralph is nervous. He believes
That this strange tongue deceives
And maybe he's been informed that
He's pushing gats hidden in the back, beneath the floor mats
Come on Jack, we don't have time
For your bullshit or playin
A'salaam a something' or another
"Wait isn't Juanita your mother?
I told you I know you, now grant me a moment"
At the gates of Atlantis we stand
Ours is the blood that flowed from the palms of his hands
On the plow till earth
Till I'm now
Moon cycles revisited, womb fruit of the sun
Full moon of occasions wave the wolves where they run
And they run towards the light casting love on the winds
As is the science of the aroma of sleeping women
Lost in his eyes they soon reflect my friends are grinning
But I'm a pupil of his sight
The wheels are spinning
Yo I'll see ya'll later on tonight
In the beginning her tears were the long awaited rains
Of a parched Somali village
Red dusted children danced shadows
In the newfound mound of mascara that eclipsed her face
Reflected in the smogged glass of carlos east street bodega
Learning to love, she had forgotten to cry
Seldom hearing the distant thunder in her lovers ambivalent sighs
He was not honest
She was not sure
A great grandmother
Had sacrificed the family's clarity for God in the late 1800's
Nonetheless she had allowed him to mispronounce her name
Which had eventually led to her misinterpreting her own dreams
And later doubting them
But
The night was young
She the firstborn daughter of water faced darkness and smiled
Took mystery as her lover
And raised light as her child
Man that shit was wild you should have seen how they ran
She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand
Tupac in lotus form
Innocents' blood on his hands
She woke up on a vessel
The land behind her
The sun within her
Water beneath her
Mushed corn for dinner
Or was it breakfast
Her stomach turned as if a compass
She prayed towards east and lay there breathless
They threw her overboard for dead
She swam silently and fled
Into the blue sea
La soh fa mi, re do, si
The seventh octave
I don't mean to confuse you
Many of us have been taught to sing
And so we practice scales
Many of us were born singing
And thus were born with scales
Mermaids, cooks, and fieldhands
Sang a nightsong by the forest
And the ocean was the chorus
In Atlantis where they sang
Those thrown overboard had overheard
The mystery of the undertow
And understood that down below
There would be no more chains
They surrendered breath and name
And survived countless as rain
I'm the weather man
The clouds say storm is coming
A white buffalo was born
Already running
And if you listen very close
You'll hear a humming
Beneath the surface of our purpose lies
Rumors of ancient man
Dressed in cloud face minstrels in the sky
The moon's my mammy
The storm holds my eye
Dressed in westerlies
Robed by Robeson
Ol' man river knows my name
And the reason you were born
Is the reason
That I came
Then she looks me in the face
And her eyes get weak
Pulse rate descends, hearts rate increase
Emcees look me in the face and their eyes get weak
Pulse rates descends hearts rate increase
It's like "beam me up, Scottie", I control your body
I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
We all rocked fades, fresh faded in ladidadi
And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
(But that's?) the feminine side
Ignore the feminine side
I presented my feminine side with flowers
She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat
And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes
Sportin' the white Diadoras with the hoodie that matches
I'm wearing two Swatches and a small Gucci pouch
I could have worn the Lugi but I left it in the house
Now, my niggas Duce and Wayne got gold plates with their names
With the skyline on it with the box link chain
I'm wearing my frames
They match my gear with their tint
And you know Lagerfields is the scent
Now, my nigga Rafael just got his jeep out the shop
Mint green sidekick, custom-made rag top
"Strictly Business" is the album that we play
"You're A Customer"; the pick of the day
Now there's a nigga on the block, never seen him before
Selling incense and oil, my man thinks that he's the law
But why on earth would this be on their agenda?
As he slowly approaches the window.
"Uh, uh, I've seen you before, I've been you and more
I was the one bearing the pitcher of water
I rent the large upper room
Furnished with tidings of your doom
Or pleasure, whichever feathers(?) decree."
Yo Ralph is he talking to me?
"No I'm talking to the sea son's resurrected
I'm the solstice of the day
I bring news from the blues of the Caspian"
My man laughs, he's one them crazy motherfuckers
Turn the music back up - 'cause I'm the E-Double'
"Wait, but but but but I know the volume of the sea
And sound waves as I will
Will you allow me to be at your service?"
My man Ralph is nervous. He believes
That this strange tongue deceives
And maybe he's been informed that
He's pushing gats hidden in the back, beneath the floor mats
Come on Jack, we don't have time
For your bullshit or playin
A'salaam a something' or another
"Wait isn't Juanita your mother?
I told you I know you, now grant me a moment"
At the gates of Atlantis we stand
Ours is the blood that flowed from the palms of his hands
On the plow till earth
Till I'm now
Moon cycles revisited, womb fruit of the sun
Full moon of occasions wave the wolves where they run
And they run towards the light casting love on the winds
As is the science of the aroma of sleeping women
Lost in his eyes they soon reflect my friends are grinning
But I'm a pupil of his sight
The wheels are spinning
Yo I'll see ya'll later on tonight
In the beginning her tears were the long awaited rains
Of a parched Somali village
Red dusted children danced shadows
In the newfound mound of mascara that eclipsed her face
Reflected in the smogged glass of carlos east street bodega
Learning to love, she had forgotten to cry
Seldom hearing the distant thunder in her lovers ambivalent sighs
He was not honest
She was not sure
A great grandmother
Had sacrificed the family's clarity for God in the late 1800's
Nonetheless she had allowed him to mispronounce her name
Which had eventually led to her misinterpreting her own dreams
And later doubting them
But
The night was young
She the firstborn daughter of water faced darkness and smiled
Took mystery as her lover
And raised light as her child
Man that shit was wild you should have seen how they ran
She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand
Tupac in lotus form
Innocents' blood on his hands
She woke up on a vessel
The land behind her
The sun within her
Water beneath her
Mushed corn for dinner
Or was it breakfast
Her stomach turned as if a compass
She prayed towards east and lay there breathless
They threw her overboard for dead
She swam silently and fled
Into the blue sea
La soh fa mi, re do, si
The seventh octave
I don't mean to confuse you
Many of us have been taught to sing
And so we practice scales
Many of us were born singing
And thus were born with scales
Mermaids, cooks, and fieldhands
Sang a nightsong by the forest
And the ocean was the chorus
In Atlantis where they sang
Those thrown overboard had overheard
The mystery of the undertow
And understood that down below
There would be no more chains
They surrendered breath and name
And survived countless as rain
I'm the weather man
The clouds say storm is coming
A white buffalo was born
Already running
And if you listen very close
You'll hear a humming
Beneath the surface of our purpose lies
Rumors of ancient man
Dressed in cloud face minstrels in the sky
The moon's my mammy
The storm holds my eye
Dressed in westerlies
Robed by Robeson
Ol' man river knows my name
And the reason you were born
Is the reason
That I came
Then she looks me in the face
And her eyes get weak
Pulse rate descends, hearts rate increase
Emcees look me in the face and their eyes get weak
Pulse rates descends hearts rate increase
It's like "beam me up, Scottie", I control your body
I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
We all rocked fades, fresh faded in ladidadi
And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
(But that's?) the feminine side
Ignore the feminine side
I presented my feminine side with flowers
She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat
And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:00.94] Acid-wash Guess with the leather patches
[00:02.71] Sportin' the white Diadoras with the hoodie that matches
[00:05.49] I'm wearing two Swatches and a small Gucci pouch
[00:09.05] I could have worn the Lugi but I left it in the house
[00:11.72] Now, my niggas Duce and Wayne got gold plates with their names
[00:14.42] With the skyline on it with the box link chain
[00:18.04] I'm wearing my frames
[00:19.88] They match my gear with their tint
[00:20.74] And you know Lagerfields is the scent
[00:24.38] Now, my nigga Rafael just got his jeep out the shop
[00:27.04] Mint green sidekick, custom-made rag top
[00:30.64] "Strictly Business" is the album that we play
[00:33.39] "You're A Customer"; the pick of the day
[00:36.09] Now there's a nigga on the block, never seen him before
[00:39.75] Selling incense and oil, my man thinks that he's the law
[00:43.34] But why on earth would this be on their agenda?
[00:46.01] As he slowly approaches the window.
[00:48.73] "Uh, uh, I've seen you before, I've been you and more
[00:51.46] I was the one bearing the pitcher of water
[00:53.25] I rent the large upper room
[00:54.15] Furnished with tidings of your doom
[00:55.90] Or pleasure, whichever feathers(?) decree."
[00:57.76] Yo Ralph is he talking to me?
[01:00.40] "No I'm talking to the sea son's resurrected
[01:02.39] I'm the solstice of the day
[01:04.07] I bring news from the blues of the Caspian"
[01:06.88] My man laughs, he's one them crazy motherfuckers
[01:09.58] Turn the music back up - 'cause I'm the E-Double'
[01:11.42] "Wait, but but but but I know the volume of the sea
[01:15.02] And sound waves as I will
[01:16.88] Will you allow me to be at your service?"
[01:19.56] My man Ralph is nervous. He believes
[01:21.34] That this strange tongue deceives
[01:23.16] And maybe he's been informed that
[01:24.91] He's pushing gats hidden in the back, beneath the floor mats
[01:26.76] Come on Jack, we don't have time
[01:28.58] For your bullshit or playin
[01:29.46] A'salaam a something' or another
[01:30.35] "Wait isn't Juanita your mother?
[01:32.23] I told you I know you, now grant me a moment"
[01:39.44] At the gates of Atlantis we stand
[01:41.20] Ours is the blood that flowed from the palms of his hands
[01:43.98] On the plow till earth
[01:44.84] Till I'm now
[01:45.79] Moon cycles revisited, womb fruit of the sun
[01:47.63] Full moon of occasions wave the wolves where they run
[01:50.38] And they run towards the light casting love on the winds
[01:54.01] As is the science of the aroma of sleeping women
[01:56.76] Lost in his eyes they soon reflect my friends are grinning
[01:59.45] But I'm a pupil of his sight
[02:01.26] The wheels are spinning
[02:03.02] Yo I'll see ya'll later on tonight
[02:03.95] In the beginning her tears were the long awaited rains
[02:06.63] Of a parched Somali village
[02:07.52] Red dusted children danced shadows
[02:09.35] In the newfound mound of mascara that eclipsed her face
[02:11.20] Reflected in the smogged glass of carlos east street bodega
[02:14.80] Learning to love, she had forgotten to cry
[02:18.41] Seldom hearing the distant thunder in her lovers ambivalent sighs
[02:21.12] He was not honest
[02:23.03] She was not sure
[02:24.89] A great grandmother
[02:25.79] Had sacrificed the family's clarity for God in the late 1800's
[02:28.47] Nonetheless she had allowed him to mispronounce her name
[02:31.16] Which had eventually led to her misinterpreting her own dreams
[02:34.70] And later doubting them
[02:36.53] But
[02:38.34] The night was young
[02:41.06] She the firstborn daughter of water faced darkness and smiled
[02:43.79] Took mystery as her lover
[02:44.68] And raised light as her child
[02:46.50] Man that shit was wild you should have seen how they ran
[02:50.19] She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand
[02:52.86] Tupac in lotus form
[02:54.64] Innocents' blood on his hands
[02:56.49] She woke up on a vessel
[02:57.39] The land behind her
[02:59.13] The sun within her
[03:00.00] Water beneath her
[03:00.96] Mushed corn for dinner
[03:01.89] Or was it breakfast
[03:03.77] Her stomach turned as if a compass
[03:05.59] She prayed towards east and lay there breathless
[03:08.24] They threw her overboard for dead
[03:10.00] She swam silently and fled
[03:11.81] Into the blue sea
[03:13.69] La soh fa mi, re do, si
[03:16.31] The seventh octave
[03:19.92] I don't mean to confuse you
[03:20.80] Many of us have been taught to sing
[03:21.73] And so we practice scales
[03:22.65] Many of us were born singing
[03:25.40] And thus were born with scales
[03:27.22] Mermaids, cooks, and fieldhands
[03:29.02] Sang a nightsong by the forest
[03:30.85] And the ocean was the chorus
[03:31.72] In Atlantis where they sang
[03:33.56] Those thrown overboard had overheard
[03:36.20] The mystery of the undertow
[03:38.09] And understood that down below
[03:39.85] There would be no more chains
[03:41.68] They surrendered breath and name
[03:43.49] And survived countless as rain
[03:45.35] I'm the weather man
[03:46.24] The clouds say storm is coming
[03:48.94] A white buffalo was born
[03:49.84] Already running
[03:51.64] And if you listen very close
[03:52.58] You'll hear a humming
[03:55.34] Beneath the surface of our purpose lies
[03:57.11] Rumors of ancient man
[03:58.97] Dressed in cloud face minstrels in the sky
[04:00.72] The moon's my mammy
[04:02.52] The storm holds my eye
[04:03.44] Dressed in westerlies
[04:05.36] Robed by Robeson
[04:06.27] Ol' man river knows my name
[04:08.09] And the reason you were born
[04:09.88] Is the reason
[04:11.72] That I came
[04:20.02] Then she looks me in the face
[04:20.98] And her eyes get weak
[04:22.79] Pulse rate descends, hearts rate increase
[04:25.40] Emcees look me in the face and their eyes get weak
[04:28.20] Pulse rates descends hearts rate increase
[04:38.06] It's like "beam me up, Scottie", I control your body
[04:41.63] I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
[04:44.36] We all rocked fades, fresh faded in ladidadi
[04:48.02] And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
[04:50.76] And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
[04:57.15] (But that's?) the feminine side
[04:58.08] Ignore the feminine side
[05:09.57] I presented my feminine side with flowers
[05:12.26] She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat
[05:16.87] And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes
[05:23.06]
[00:02.71] Sportin' the white Diadoras with the hoodie that matches
[00:05.49] I'm wearing two Swatches and a small Gucci pouch
[00:09.05] I could have worn the Lugi but I left it in the house
[00:11.72] Now, my niggas Duce and Wayne got gold plates with their names
[00:14.42] With the skyline on it with the box link chain
[00:18.04] I'm wearing my frames
[00:19.88] They match my gear with their tint
[00:20.74] And you know Lagerfields is the scent
[00:24.38] Now, my nigga Rafael just got his jeep out the shop
[00:27.04] Mint green sidekick, custom-made rag top
[00:30.64] "Strictly Business" is the album that we play
[00:33.39] "You're A Customer"; the pick of the day
[00:36.09] Now there's a nigga on the block, never seen him before
[00:39.75] Selling incense and oil, my man thinks that he's the law
[00:43.34] But why on earth would this be on their agenda?
[00:46.01] As he slowly approaches the window.
[00:48.73] "Uh, uh, I've seen you before, I've been you and more
[00:51.46] I was the one bearing the pitcher of water
[00:53.25] I rent the large upper room
[00:54.15] Furnished with tidings of your doom
[00:55.90] Or pleasure, whichever feathers(?) decree."
[00:57.76] Yo Ralph is he talking to me?
[01:00.40] "No I'm talking to the sea son's resurrected
[01:02.39] I'm the solstice of the day
[01:04.07] I bring news from the blues of the Caspian"
[01:06.88] My man laughs, he's one them crazy motherfuckers
[01:09.58] Turn the music back up - 'cause I'm the E-Double'
[01:11.42] "Wait, but but but but I know the volume of the sea
[01:15.02] And sound waves as I will
[01:16.88] Will you allow me to be at your service?"
[01:19.56] My man Ralph is nervous. He believes
[01:21.34] That this strange tongue deceives
[01:23.16] And maybe he's been informed that
[01:24.91] He's pushing gats hidden in the back, beneath the floor mats
[01:26.76] Come on Jack, we don't have time
[01:28.58] For your bullshit or playin
[01:29.46] A'salaam a something' or another
[01:30.35] "Wait isn't Juanita your mother?
[01:32.23] I told you I know you, now grant me a moment"
[01:39.44] At the gates of Atlantis we stand
[01:41.20] Ours is the blood that flowed from the palms of his hands
[01:43.98] On the plow till earth
[01:44.84] Till I'm now
[01:45.79] Moon cycles revisited, womb fruit of the sun
[01:47.63] Full moon of occasions wave the wolves where they run
[01:50.38] And they run towards the light casting love on the winds
[01:54.01] As is the science of the aroma of sleeping women
[01:56.76] Lost in his eyes they soon reflect my friends are grinning
[01:59.45] But I'm a pupil of his sight
[02:01.26] The wheels are spinning
[02:03.02] Yo I'll see ya'll later on tonight
[02:03.95] In the beginning her tears were the long awaited rains
[02:06.63] Of a parched Somali village
[02:07.52] Red dusted children danced shadows
[02:09.35] In the newfound mound of mascara that eclipsed her face
[02:11.20] Reflected in the smogged glass of carlos east street bodega
[02:14.80] Learning to love, she had forgotten to cry
[02:18.41] Seldom hearing the distant thunder in her lovers ambivalent sighs
[02:21.12] He was not honest
[02:23.03] She was not sure
[02:24.89] A great grandmother
[02:25.79] Had sacrificed the family's clarity for God in the late 1800's
[02:28.47] Nonetheless she had allowed him to mispronounce her name
[02:31.16] Which had eventually led to her misinterpreting her own dreams
[02:34.70] And later doubting them
[02:36.53] But
[02:38.34] The night was young
[02:41.06] She the firstborn daughter of water faced darkness and smiled
[02:43.79] Took mystery as her lover
[02:44.68] And raised light as her child
[02:46.50] Man that shit was wild you should have seen how they ran
[02:50.19] She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand
[02:52.86] Tupac in lotus form
[02:54.64] Innocents' blood on his hands
[02:56.49] She woke up on a vessel
[02:57.39] The land behind her
[02:59.13] The sun within her
[03:00.00] Water beneath her
[03:00.96] Mushed corn for dinner
[03:01.89] Or was it breakfast
[03:03.77] Her stomach turned as if a compass
[03:05.59] She prayed towards east and lay there breathless
[03:08.24] They threw her overboard for dead
[03:10.00] She swam silently and fled
[03:11.81] Into the blue sea
[03:13.69] La soh fa mi, re do, si
[03:16.31] The seventh octave
[03:19.92] I don't mean to confuse you
[03:20.80] Many of us have been taught to sing
[03:21.73] And so we practice scales
[03:22.65] Many of us were born singing
[03:25.40] And thus were born with scales
[03:27.22] Mermaids, cooks, and fieldhands
[03:29.02] Sang a nightsong by the forest
[03:30.85] And the ocean was the chorus
[03:31.72] In Atlantis where they sang
[03:33.56] Those thrown overboard had overheard
[03:36.20] The mystery of the undertow
[03:38.09] And understood that down below
[03:39.85] There would be no more chains
[03:41.68] They surrendered breath and name
[03:43.49] And survived countless as rain
[03:45.35] I'm the weather man
[03:46.24] The clouds say storm is coming
[03:48.94] A white buffalo was born
[03:49.84] Already running
[03:51.64] And if you listen very close
[03:52.58] You'll hear a humming
[03:55.34] Beneath the surface of our purpose lies
[03:57.11] Rumors of ancient man
[03:58.97] Dressed in cloud face minstrels in the sky
[04:00.72] The moon's my mammy
[04:02.52] The storm holds my eye
[04:03.44] Dressed in westerlies
[04:05.36] Robed by Robeson
[04:06.27] Ol' man river knows my name
[04:08.09] And the reason you were born
[04:09.88] Is the reason
[04:11.72] That I came
[04:20.02] Then she looks me in the face
[04:20.98] And her eyes get weak
[04:22.79] Pulse rate descends, hearts rate increase
[04:25.40] Emcees look me in the face and their eyes get weak
[04:28.20] Pulse rates descends hearts rate increase
[04:38.06] It's like "beam me up, Scottie", I control your body
[04:41.63] I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
[04:44.36] We all rocked fades, fresh faded in ladidadi
[04:48.02] And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
[04:50.76] And when we rock the mic when we rock the mic
[04:57.15] (But that's?) the feminine side
[04:58.08] Ignore the feminine side
[05:09.57] I presented my feminine side with flowers
[05:12.26] She cut the stems and placed them gently down my throat
[05:16.87] And these two lips might soon eclipse your brightest hopes
[05:23.06]