Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
They grow fast, one day she’s your little princess
Next day she talking boy business, what is this?
They say the coolest playas and foulest heart breakers in the world,
God gets us back, he makes us have precious little girls
I’ve been in this game for years, it made me an animal
It’s rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual
A step-by-step booklet for you to get
Your game on track, not your wig pushed back
I done came through the block in everything that’s fly
I’m like, Che Guevara with bling on, I’m complex
I never claimed to have wings on
….. I get mine, by any means on whenever there’s a drought
Get your umbrellas out because, that’s when I brainstorm
To da one on da flam
Boy it’s tough
I just toss that ham in the fryin’ pan
Like spam
It’s done when I come in
Slam
Damn, I feel like the Son of Sam
I got a call from my girl last week
She telling me about that time of the month, and how it may not come
Dropped the phone right before she said I might have a son
And I started asking God how come
I got dreams I ain’t reach yet, ends that ain’t meet yet
And when it comes to being a man, shit I’m barely getting my feet wet
I put my hand upon your hip
When I dip you dip we dip
You put your hand upon my hip
When you dip I dip we dip
Major MCs become minor B-flats
So retire the mic, get your chains and your bats
Here’s your chance to advance, get in your stance
I shoot the holster off your cowboy pants
Sick, sick dreams of picnic scenes
Two kids, 16 with M-16’s and 10 clips each
And them shits reach through six kids each
Dead in the middle of Little Italy
Little did we know that we riddled
some middleman who didn’t do diddly
Momma ain’t raised no fool
Put me anywhere on God’s green earth, I’ll triple my worth
Smooth—not what I am
Rough—cause’ I’m a man
City runnin wild, cats don’t give a fuck
Junior High students don’t say no to drugs
Liquor stores don’t ask shorties for their ID
This is a place where don’t nothin surprise me
And I don’t claim to know much, all I really know is
We were 17 once actin’ like we were immortals
I could kill it all day, but you can only kill me once
Shells lay around on the battleground
Dead bodies are found throughout the town
Tried to put shame in my game to make a name
I’mma put it on a bullet, put it in your brain
It’s not your enemy who get you, it’s always your own people
You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate
Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me
So when you see me come up, freeze
Or you’ll be one of those 7 mc’s
Reflect upon greatness, embrace it to your balance
Ultimate awareness comes from when you seek the truth
See, life is a journey, plans and patience
Know that you’re worthy, transformation
You couldn’t catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer.
That’s like Malcolm X catching the Jungle Fever
I’m a menace to society
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me!
After the date, Ima want to do the wild thing
You’re talking lobster, I’m thinking Burger King
I’m representing for the gangsters all across the world
Still hitting them corners in them low low’s girl
I’ve been nice since niggas got killed over 8-ball jackets
and Reebok Pumps that didn’t do shit for the sneaker
I’m a heatseaker with features that’ll reach through the speaker
and murder counter revolutionaries personally
It’s time to stand together in a unity
Cause if not then we’re soon to be
Self-destroyed, unemployed
The rap race will be lost without a trace
I’m alone but my tone is a sharp tune
Developing pictures in your brain like a darkroom
Rappers are captured and tortured with rapture
In 3-D is a G coming at you
I love a young lady that’s beautiful
But one that’s smart for me, is more suitable
In other words, to make it simple and plain
You gotta have a brain in order to be Ms. Kane
Now we livin’ better now,
Gucci sweater now,
And that G4 could fly through, any weather now,
See niggas get tight, when you worth some millions.
That’s why I sport the chincilla to hurt they feelin’s.
Dead right, if the head right, biggie there every night
Come with a nice young lady
Intelligent, yes she gentle and irie
Everywhere me go me never lef’ her at all-ie
Yes-a Daddy Snow me are the roam dance man-a
And battlin’ me is hazardous to health,
so put a quarter in your ass, cuz ya played yourself
Like a game in the arcade. You need a far aid.
I’m walkin’the path that Allah made
Now we livin’ better now,
Gucci sweater now,
And that G4 could fly through, any weather now,
See n….. get tight, when you worth some millions.
That’s why I sport the chincilla to hurt they feelin’s.
I said, “Cheer up,” I gave her a kiss
I said, “You can’t have me, I’m too young for you miss.”
She says,”No, you’re not!” then she starts crying
I says, “I’m nineteen,” she said, “Stop lying!”
I’m investin mils on a hunch over lunch, puffin chesterfield, who wants to test the real scandalous?
Can’t pay my rent cause all my money’s spent
But that’s okay, cause I’m still fly
With more power than a spark plug
Termite cause to live wire
A rhyme writer that spit higher than split fire
We street fighters with kicks tighter than Ryu