Y-O
I like soft music soft serve ice cream
Softballs Nerf footballs Krispy cremes
I'd rather rock a crowd of pimple infested teens
than struggle with the attitudes of kids that's mean
I kick it psychedelic imagine bubble machines
I work all of your body muscles like trampolines
I happen to like apples and oranges not tangerines
Not dissin' tangerines, not dissin' tangerines
But I think your style is quite dysfunctional
I kick a style that is ill with the flow
Now check it out as I go go go go go
Go speed racer go speed racer
I can kick it so phat I'm just like the eraser
Arnold Schwartzenegger from the movie called eraser
I flip a style that the people be like...straight no chaser straight no
chaser
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Y-O Y-O Y-O -O-O
I'm into turning flips on a spring cotton
Reminiscing the first time that I saw or seen Robin
>From the Batman adventures Yo For real yeah
Y-O cool like the beginning stages of winter
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Y-O Y-O Y-O -O-O
Back to my verse I come I swear
with my left hand on the bible and in the air my right arm
I rock crowds even when they say it's not allowed
Cuz I vowed to make both of my parents proud
Wow isn't that cute? oh shoot
I'm tough man just as sure as I got strings in my boots
Exploding like a geiser gushing
lucas and lucas and lucas and
Yo yo yo yo yo how yaw'l doing?
Welcome to the brother Speech hoopla review
gonna rock it just for you blowin' your mind make you rewind 99 times outta
99 times thru
yo you don't understand who I be
an innovator not an imitator m.c.
won't catch me soundin like no Puffy
or Biggie Smalls Tupac Ja Rule or Jay-Z
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Y-O Y-O Y-O -O-O
Jungle Man
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Me don't think that you understand
you don't want none of this jungle man
can swing on vines and swim in quicksand
you don't want none of this jungle man
come into the party and crash your whole jam
you don't want non of this jungle man
um ditty pump da pump da bam bam
jungle man
Don't even think about stepping like that
cause we can drop this track and I'll rock you to a hand clap
click track
sound of some ole school click clacks
in fact
I have my sound patented
so I can get paid every time yaw'l bit some
see in the queendom we kick full grown styles
messing with yours will catch me a pedifile case
this jungle cat creates a pace jetsetters can't lace
you get mauled and dragged off without a trace
to the snake pits
where Medusa's snakes hiss
and like m.c's like you
I might save you for last and commence to boaconstrict your crew
when walking through
show no fear to the go getter
this jungle boogie will turn your roughest m.c's into bed wetters
and no cheddar can what
ha
save you know
and there's no shelter behind your styles
or your rhymes
not when I'm swinging from vine to vine trying to get mine one more time
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Me don't think that you understand
you don't want none of this jungle man
can swing on vines and swim in quicksand
you don't want none of this jungle man
come into the party and crash your whole jam
you don't want non of this jungle man
um ditty pump da pump da bam bam
jungle man
Look out your window and see the tree that's me
hard at the root but at the top free and fancy
I mystery at the crowds you drew like Nancy
industry hype from Peachtree to Delancy
Me amore hip-hop not gore and bloody
I'd rather see an adventure movie on TV
you be like a prisoner de-void of any keys
you be like a guitar de-void of any keys
you got strings attached unmatched except in puppetry
my scissors hands cut strands so sharp like cutlery
I serve like a butler see and be buttery like biscuits from Red Lobster
I take one thought and stretch it out like a chopper
you WHITE CASTLE BURGER
I'm a Whopper
have it your way but yo
didn't I tell you to leave brother Speech alone knocka
I'll make you moan and groan just like Chewbacca
put you on my lap like a poppa
show you what funk is like a locker
swing you high up on my vine then drop ya
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Me don't think that you understand
you don't want none of this jungle man
can swing on vines and swim in quicksand
you don't want none of this jungle man
come into the party and crash your whole jam
you don't want non of this jungle man
um ditty pump da pump da bam bam
jungle man
Poverty
Rapped up in Indian beats
I walk the streets with bums upon my ankles and scum upon their teeth
How do they do it?
I pray to God that they can become affluent
if so they don't have to go like this
If you think that we're poor up in the states that's bull
I tell you right now we're living life to the full
and we don't know it cuz we're so ungrateful Gods been merciful because we
sure got a plateful of stuff
and you think we're living ruff no no
we got the stuff that we need we got the stuff that we want
We drive around in Lexus coups even some ghettos is souped
and I tell you right now troops we ain't poor you don't know
at least I got a buck for the bus and you can trust I can get to work if I
work
and it's my fault I got three children back at the asphalt jungle
better known as the projects so I'm humble
yo I made bad decisions up in my life
without a wife I sexed and fiended for more sex
even with latex it busted
Now I'm busted
Now I got HIV to add to more grief
Everything that I saw on TV I wanted it
Because of low self esteem I flaunted it
temptation it grabbed me and tempted me and ravished me and took me to
selling drugs on the streets waiting for beeps
(beeper going off)
Now I impress my peeps got a car
still in the ghetto so my money didn't take me far
but back up in Africa
Lagos
People stay close to def all the time civil war and crime
India
Talking about Tanzania
Ethiopia
No Utopia and I ain't joking ya
check it
we can wreck it if you reckon the lessons that God gives
& you live to the full and positive
Word
Yeah Yeah
Tell me baby
Why have you not returned none of my calls since back in the day?
I think it was in the fall
Tell me honey
Am I not cool enough for you
that you cant understand who I be & the type a man I be
you used to hug me you use to love & tickle me constantly
you used to laugh at my jokes even if they were not funny you used to jone
on me sayin' their can't be no black folks that come from Milwaukee (ha ha)
and then I moved to Tennessee & I met you & you met me
it was love
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I never was the dangerous type
the type a man that your mama would not like
no mysterious sex appeal
and probably would be accused of not keeping it real
but when I was with you I was cool
when I was with you I was no fool
I was Mr. got it going on
check the sister that brothers got around his arm
it was love
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Yeah yeah yeah
You know you was the only girl that my grandma would ever let come over
you called my moms on the line yaw'l was cool even if me & u wasn't cool at
the time
but we could always work things out
at least that was my vibe
but now I don't know if your alive
it's been 3 or 4 weeks maybe 5
baby baby
there's been 3 or 4 new releases that's come out at the movie theater that
we ain't seen
now I can be the fronting type to act like this don't hurt & I'm alright
but what would be the point in that when inside I'm still trapped with the
fact I'm in love
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Yeah yeah yeah
Our Image
I walk down the street not with a knot inside my pockets it
gets hard where i'm at
mistake if one thinks you can live phat, I sold alot of records been on
tour with band or dat. With rap skills i won't fold bills unless i'm wise.
Been advised to be cool and let my money earn. I max out wit Larry lar cuz
he's concerned about my well-being won't catch me spendin' doe skiing acting
podgy. Tour any city got mad folk who will odge me. Hip hop somewhat builds
family. Listeners and such feel like they know me. Yet I got fam, deep deep
fam in the kingdom. There's halls with fans wanting me to rock songs so I
sing em. talkin bout freedom, like Marley soft though hardly.
hard core rugged and raw like Mental Menace here to brawl. Lyrically that is
& spiritually i handle biz. In my house hold we watch nick @ night. i make
money from music but it ai't my whole life. Real is raising my seeds and
makin' blameless my wife cuz she's there for me to pull me from strife. And
at night I'm quick to rock a mic ad humble yo might. Show you the diff
between fad & fact and give you stage fright. Inside the sea of darkness I
give ships direction and sight. A yo I'm Speech...
Spiritual People
God placed in our hearts eternity
that's the emptiness that be eternally burning me
I look out into the sea wondering what my purpose supposed be
Trying to find a meaning walking down the streets of New York City
Everything fast paced in a rat race trying to find my place we be Spiritual
people
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Spiritual people spiritual people spiritual
I -2 I'm back at the clubs tonight at a open mic gonna recite tonight
alright
in a room full of open minds open brains
people ashamed to say that we don't have no clue
and every form expression that we do
is all dedicated to a higher cause
a higher plain
a higher thing
a higher name
it's all the same baby
even blue suits with corporate pursuits
feel the same emptiness that we do
Who on this earth can claim that they don't search to fill a void that we
done had since birth
yeah cause we are spiritual people
spiritual people spiritual people
