Vapors (Best Of )-Biz Markie

[ti:Vapors] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Hip-Ol' Skool] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vapors (Best Of ) (蒸汽) - Biz Markie [00:00.78]Radio TV and even the press know the meaning of vapors [00:04.69] [00:05.67]The meanin' of this word without no doubt [00:08.35]Means nobody wants to be there when you're down and out [00:10.88]Once you're established and got a lot of money [00:13.50]Everybody wanna be your buddy and honey [00:15.90]Like tall buildings they call skyscrapers [00:17.65] [00:20.95]Can you feel it [00:21.51] [00:22.73]Nothin' can save ya [00:23.56]For this is the season of catchin' the vapors [00:25.61] [00:26.16]And since I got time what I'm gonna do [00:28.00] [00:28.69]Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew [00:30.55] [00:31.07]Wel you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records [00:33.79]Made the music nobody beats the biz [00:35.68]Well check it [00:36.49]Back in the days before this began [00:38.05] [00:38.80]He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran [00:41.44]The type of female with fly Gucci wear [00:43.96]With big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair [00:46.88]When swan tried to kick it she always fessed [00:49.09]Talkin' about baby please you work for UPS [00:50.96] [00:51.98]Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer [00:53.72] [00:54.35]My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her [00:56.19] [00:56.71]But now he trucks gold and wears fly valley boots [00:58.79] [00:59.76]Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits [01:01.48] [01:02.12]Now she stop frontin' an' wants to speak [01:04.05] [01:04.70]And be comin' to all the shows [01:06.21]Every single weekend [01:07.24]To get his beeper number she'd be beggin' please [01:09.03] [01:09.55]Dyin' for the day to get skeezed [01:11.39] [01:12.07]She caught the vapors [01:13.20] [01:17.33]She caught the vapors [01:18.04] [01:22.36]She caught the vapors [01:23.20] [01:27.38]She caught the vapors [01:28.02] [01:33.21]I got another partner that's calm and plain [01:34.69] [01:35.36]He goes by the name of the big daddy Kane [01:37.40] [01:37.93]A mellow type of fellow that's laid back [01:39.75] [01:40.54]Back in the days he was nothin' like that [01:42.34] [01:42.97]I remember when he used to fight every day [01:45.46]What grown ups would tell him he would never obey [01:47.97]He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied [01:50.67]And a rasta type Kango tilted to the side [01:52.63] [01:53.22]Around his neighborhood people treated him bad [01:55.85]And said he was the worst thing his mom's ever had [01:58.35]They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum [02:01.46]Or either in jail or someone would shoot him [02:03.68]But now he's grown up to their surprise [02:05.16] [02:06.12]Big daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide [02:08.65]Now the same people that didn't like him as a child be sayin' [02:11.48]Can I borrow a dollar ooh you're a star now [02:13.78]They caught the vapors [02:14.55] [02:18.86]They caught the vapors [02:19.53] [02:23.96]They caught the vapors [02:24.84] [02:29.22]They caught the vapors [02:29.82] [02:34.72]Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee [02:37.26]Better known to y'all as cut master cool V [02:39.49]He cuts scratch transform with finesse [02:41.12] [02:43.43]And all that mess [02:44.19] [02:45.10]Well I remember when he first started to rock [02:46.99]And tried to get his job in a record shop [02:48.96] [02:49.66]He was in it to win it but the boss fronted [02:52.26]Said sorry Mr. Lee but there's no help wanted [02:54.40] [02:54.94]Now my cousin Von still tried on and on and on [02:57.52] [02:58.19]'Til the like break of dawn [02:59.41] [03:00.13]To put this job in effect [03:01.41] [03:02.43]But they'd look right past him and be like next [03:04.45] [03:05.32]Now for the year of 88 [03:06.80] [03:07.61]Cool V is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight [03:10.29]He walks into the same record shop as before [03:12.76]And the boss'll be like Von welcome to my store [03:15.32]Offerin' him a job but now he don't want it [03:17.86]Damn it feels goo to see people up on it [03:20.48]'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't [03:22.23] [03:23.13]Now guess what they caught from my cousin [03:24.83] [03:25.76]The vapors [03:26.12] [03:30.77]They caught the vapors [03:31.65] [03:35.99]They caught the vapors [03:36.71] [03:41.15]They caught the vapors [03:41.97] [03:46.47]Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark [03:48.68]I had to work for mine to put your body in park [03:51.17]When I was a teenager I wanted to be down [03:53.23] [03:53.81]With a lot of M.C. deejayin' crews in town [03:56.25]So in school on Nobel Street I say can I be down champ [03:58.95]They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp [04:01.01] [04:01.58]After gettin' rejected I was very depressed [04:03.38] [04:04.06]Sat and wrote some def doo doo rhymes at my rest [04:06.61]When I used to come to parties they'd make me pay [04:09.15]I'd have to beg to get on the mike and rap that day [04:11.92]I was never into girls I was just into my music [04:13.92] [04:14.43]They acted like I wanted to keep it [04:15.89]Instead of tryin' to use it [04:17.15]But now things switched without belief [04:18.64] [04:19.35]Yo biz do you remember me from Nober Street chief [04:22.02]We used to be down back in the days [04:24.47]It happens all the time and never ceases to amaze [04:27.13]They caught the vapors [04:27.75] [04:32.24]They caught the vapors [04:33.13] [04:37.54]They caught the vapors [04:38.12] [04:42.63]They caught the vapors [04:43.44] [04:48.00]They caught the vapors [04:48.78] [04:52.92]They caught the vapors [04:53.90] [05:39.53]The vapors [05:39.88] [05:44.44]The vapors