Key: D major
Verse 1
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Now I'm not for the rock, I know the territory
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Go ahead and try, that's a different story
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Similar to Grimm, I could tell a better one
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All about a kid, who couldn't rap and didn't run
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No, never ever, go back and try again, man
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The Abstract Poetic, majors in recital arts
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Do it for the kids, the elders and the rap peers
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Gotta feel the vibes, real from my creation
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If the hands clap, I'm filled with elation
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Here I am ghetto, full with a lot of steam
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Think I gotta, I think I gotta,
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Let your hair down, so we can get buckwild
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The name is Q-Tip, the Midnight Marauder
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Give enough respect to Afrika Bambaataa
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As a man in the world, I must do my job
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Take care of Mama Duke, I won't resort to rob
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Not selling out, from hardrock to disc jock...
Verse 2
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I don't know what to say, but here I go freak it
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If the papes come, then you know I'll seek it
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I'm just a short brother, dark skin face
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Weigh a buck-fifty, 36 waist
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Hair is crazy curly, flip like Mr. Furley
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Brothers try to front, but everybody know
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I get more props than the Arsenio Hall Show
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Party animal I was, but now I chill at home
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Go out on my own, something that I gotta do
Chorus 1
Word Up, rest in peace,
and you know what else?
We got, we got, we got the vibes
All the people in Long Island, we got the vibes
Uptown and Now Rule, we got the vibes
People Upstate, we got the vibes
If you're in DC, you got the vibes
Out West, we got the vibes
In the Bahamas, we got the vibes
Over in Europe, you know what,
we got the vibes
And we gotta keep it alive, it goes on
Verse 3
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Of rap I'm a fan, I've seen a whole lot of slums
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Good with the girls, I get a whole lot of 'em
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From fat to skinny, Freda to Winnie
my father well prepared me
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Better yet the long term, I don't have a perm
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In a way I do, call 'em the perma-naps
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When I get the mic in my hand
with the crowd in the stand
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It's as good as grand like that
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I wanna say peace and dedicate this joint
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And to uh, Trouble T Roy
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And to um, Cowboy, you know what I'm sayin'?
you know what I'm sayin'?
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This is a special, special, special,
you know what I'm saying?
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'Cause this is Vibes and Stuff, and we out
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