Key: B minor
Verse 1
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[Pops]
And you to baby sweetness
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Yeah, this is Pops,
and I'm back in the studio
to get it back
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Common touring the world
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Pops has acquired a wonderful
From around the globe
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He has returned with positive
messages to my earlobes
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From all my children From Mexico,
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And of course in the motherland
Even in the orient, they know what I meant
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Nanaan, tanaan, tinaan, hanchinaan
So I didn't come in
here to give any shouts out
doing the right things
You know they sat on those
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nines of 1999
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And teaching the babies
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It's just that we don't get there
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(See you next lifetime) See
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And to my children running around here
Talking about how nice
is they ice
That was yours before
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that neighborhood
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Are you mankind or what kind of a man?
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See, Pops is straight out of the garden
From when the world
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was starting brand new,
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Hip Hop, Hip Hop,
the language of the underground railroad
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Yeah true hip hop is just like
the Underground Railroad
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If the message is not for you
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remain froze
So when you see me traveling
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the tree with The Roots
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And Black Star said we are
what we are
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And my little homie KG
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Keep the heat on em',
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we got to be kind to the growing mind
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So if your heart is real
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You will hear Big Will and Ms. Lauryn Hill
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you will hear Badu- ism
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And get some ingredients from the music
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chef Jazzy Jeff
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Children, I've traveled this globe
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North to south, east to west
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And whenever my soul appears lost
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I turn to the musical stylings of a
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Tribe Called Quest
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We ready to take it home now
Just so everybody knows
When Pops get ready to say
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me to lay it on the wood
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An d it ain't no time for no
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shecky shecky
That's when I turn to a Black
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Girl Named Betty
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Y'all looking for the only truth
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and it doesn't even exist
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I just come to give love and peace and honor to all
Outro 1
my children
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