Examination Of What - Digable Planets.mp3

[00:00.45]One day..while I was sipping some groove juice I realised..that in the
[00:05.73]Span of time we're just babies..it's all relative, time is unreal.
[00:09.96]We're just babies, we're just babies, man [x4]
[00:20.73]Every man's a planet and the props are there to get it
[00:23.34]Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit
[00:25.83]Life, it comes & goes and you do not punch a clock
[00:28.35]I don't take shit for granted, I think of scott la rock
[00:30.99]Also of tyrel and battles at the borders
[00:33.48]My cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin quarters
[00:36.00]The forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin
[00:38.52]Don't cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin!
[00:41.25]Dwellin, yes, you're dwellin as the norm is itty-bitty
[00:43.65]Figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city
[00:46.50]In the serengetti, be ready for a box
[00:48.81]But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks
[00:51.36]If your peoples don't getcha, you still ain't off clean
[00:54.00]The politicians' mask is worse than Hallowe'en
[00:56.67]I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick 'em
[00:59.22]Now tell me who's the vics and tell me who's the victim
[01:01.80][chorus: butterfly]
[01:02.43]What is really what is really what is really what:
[01:03.90]- if the funk don't move your butt
[01:06.00]- and if the box don't make you hot
[01:08.55]- and if the cats don't dig the raps
[01:11.25]- if your life ain't got no spice
[01:14.34]- or if the guns just wreck your fun
[01:16.89]- or if some shouts ain't in the house
[01:19.44]- or if your crew ain't down with you
[01:21.36][ladybug]
[01:22.74]Peace, this is mecca the ladybug and I'm sayin though! what is really
[01:26.97]What if I can't even get comfortable because the supreme court is,
[01:30.03]Like, all in my uterus?!
[01:31.74][doodlebug]
[01:32.04]Peace, this is cee-know the doodlebug and I wanna say, what is what if
[01:36.69]You can't walk through your hood with bert, ernie and sesame street
[01:40.56]Mossie trying to give the snuffleupagus.
[01:42.69][butterfly]
[01:42.99]My father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems
[01:45.57]Ate peanuts with the dizz and vibed with lionel hampton
[01:48.21]Now I'm swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics
[01:50.67]Now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic?
[01:53.28]Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it
[01:55.98]Hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it
[01:58.38]The oldjacks buckwild and some babies bore their fists
[02:00.84]But the crew from outer space is here.....shit
[02:03.48]We grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth freddy
[02:06.15]And scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady
[02:08.61]Now bleach is in the laundry, same old beats is handy
[02:11.25]The label may okay it but radio won't play it
[02:13.80]The censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes
[02:16.35]The legs that's in the boots is on the corner, watch your tape
[02:18.87]Making papes off the crust, for money and for lust
[02:21.57]You're playing out the planets get slammed, trust!
[02:24.12]You think it, see it, run it and slam it
[02:26.73]They peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it
[02:29.49]It just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it
[02:31.86]Your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it
[02:34.44]So what? I'm sayin, what?!
[02:37.35][chorus: butterfly]
[02:37.89]What is really what is really what is really what:
[02:39.15]- if the funk don't rule your cut?
[02:41.19]- or if the streets don't dig your beats
[02:43.74]- or if my man ain't fifty grand?
[02:46.41]- or if the hoods don't think you're good?
[02:48.93]- or if your church don't really work
[02:51.39]- or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs
[02:54.90]- or if the jeeps don't roll with beats
[02:56.55][butterfly]
[02:56.85]Cause butterfly is..baby, I'm just a baby, man
[03:03.12]I'm a baby, I'm just a baby, man
[03:05.01]And mister doodle? (I'm just a baby too)
[03:07.56]And miss mecca (I'm just a baby, man)
[03:10.14]And mister silk, he's just a baby, too
[03:12.78]And 801s, they just babies, man
[03:15.36]And miss venus, she's just a baby, man
[03:18.57]The ac-facts, they just a babies, man
[03:20.49]And dps, they just a babies, too
[03:23.01]Oh and, dash, she's just a baby, man
[03:25.62]Danny and dani, they are my babies, man
[03:28.26]Oh and liz, she's just a baby, man
[03:30.81]Oh and stella, she's just a baby, man
[03:33.42]Doc shane, he's just a baby, man
[03:35.94]Mike mann, he's just my main man
[03:38.52]And doctor timba, he's just a baby, man
[03:41.13]And nappy jackie, she's just a baby, too
[03:43.47]Benefi-cent, he's just a baby, man
[04:07.11]Oh, and you? you're just a baby, man