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A Tribe Called Quest
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Key: A major
Verse 1
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I had a dream about my man last night
And my man came by the studio
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G
G

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And his name is
Busta Rhymes in effect,
Shaheed is in effect
Phife Did-awg is in effect
C
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D

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Check it out and give me my 'spect
Verse 2
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I'm moving, yes I'm grooving
cause my mouth is on the motor
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Am

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Use the Coast in the morning
to avoid the funky odor
G
G

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Can't help being funky,
I'm the funky Abstract brother
C
C

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Funky in a sense,
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but I play the undercover
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G

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Once had a fetish, fetish for some booty
Now I'm getting funky and my rapping,
that's my duty
Brothers tend to jock on the
style in particular
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C
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If you got the ego like some brothers,
then I'll get with ya
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G

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But if I don't pursue,
then I just don't give a (fuck)
My motto in the 90's is be
Am
Am

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happy making bucks
Em
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G
G

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Girls love the Jim,
'cause it causes crazy friction
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D

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When it goes up in and fluctuates the diction
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G

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I still understand the oomph
'cause that's what I met her for
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I'm hooked on the swings,
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G

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Am
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so just call me the music whore
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Women love the voice,
brothers dig the lyrics
Quest the people's choice,
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we thrive it for the spirit
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G

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If you can't hear it,
then get the wax utensils
Write my rhymes straight up,
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Am

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don't get with no fancy stencils
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The rhymes we get is sweet,
we stay away from tart
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Our perfection is at work, perking up the art
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If you want to battle,
I suggest you check your clock
D
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Your demise is coming up and I
C
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Am
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want your man to watch
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G
G

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Be the prime ex ample,
I deep instilled the sample
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Insignificance,
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G

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here I'll place you on the mantle
Born up in Harlem,
reside down in Jamaica
The girl I used to rock,
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her moms was a Quaker
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G

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Now what does that make her?
The evil money taker?
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The crazy move faker,
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I used that to break her
Verse 3
Phife is in the house (ooh, you know you got going on)
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Uncle Mike is in the house (this ain't
a R&B song)
Bob Power is in the house (you got
it going on)
C
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Tim Latham is in the house
(and on and on and on)
G
G

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Wise Men is in the house
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G
G

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The Brand Nubs is in the house (on)
The J Beez, they in the house
C
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And De La, they in the house
Verse 4
Am
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G
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I must regroup my thoughts and kick the
next ones for my people
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Please don't be deceived by the
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Am
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ugly slice of evil
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The world is kinda cold and the
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Em
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rhythm is my blanket
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C
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D
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Wrap yourself up in it, if you love
it, then you'll thank it
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Don't move to rebuttal,
wave your hand for action
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Some ladies in the '90's want
more than satisfaction
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They want keys and Gs,
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and all those illy things
D
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If you want to, I'll show you,
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G

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Am
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just what the Ab can bring
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G

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I keep a tight net with my
brothers Ken and Kenny
If the question is of rhymes,
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then I'll tell ya, I got plenty
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G

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The thing that men and women need
to do is stick together
Progressions can't be made
if we're separate forever
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I hooked this funky beat with the
G
G

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Bm
Bm

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loop and the feature
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G

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C
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With the funky singing by Miss Vinia Mojica
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G
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So listen because the Quest is led
through the underground
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My people been up on Quest to long, no
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more will we be down
G
G

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People tend to riff 'cause they
D
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don't know the mental
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Bm
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C
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People tend to bug 'cause their beats
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are hard but gentle
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G

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Africano lurks through the body
of this youngin'
Play like Bobby Byrd on your
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back and your coming to
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G

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The house of the jazz,
of the funk, of the rhythm
All the goods are welcome,
Am
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but if you're a vil lain
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I'll just wait and debate,
contemplate your arrival
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If flexing is your motive,
then you don't like survival
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The Abstract is speaking,
the hard beats is reaching
The Black and Puerto Ricans
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'Cause their butt naked,
Em
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G
G

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streakin' through the ever murky streets
Bm
Bm

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Of the urbanized areas
G
G

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Blastin' out the speakers
Am
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is the hip hop hys teria
Verse 5
G
G

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Craig is in the house (ooh, you know you
got going on)
C
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Pete Rock is in the house
(this ain't a R&B song)
Am
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G
G

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Cl is in the house (you got
it going on)
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D
D

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Ultra Mag is in the house (and on
and on and on)
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Nice and Smooth is in the house
Big Daddy Kane is in the house
Beatnuts is in the house
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Special Ed is in the house
Verse 6
Em
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D
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Yeah
This one goes out to my man
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G
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Thanks a lot Ron Carter on the bass
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D
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Yes my man Ron Carter is on the bass
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G

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Now check it out
D
D

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Born into the '91 decade
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G

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Up in until the 2000 decade
Bm
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You gotta say the Quest is on
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And goddamn it, yes the Quest is on
And we out

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