Grown Man Sport-INI/Pete Rock

[ti:Grown Man Sport] [ar:INI/Pete Rock] [al:Center of Attention] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grown Man Sport - INI/Pete Rock [00:08.18]Lyrics by：Gregory Phillips/Rahsaan Rousseau/Robert Odindo/Peter Phillips [00:16.37]Composed by：Peter Phillips [00:24.55]Natty Dread like Bob so rock steady [00:27.14]With no spaghetti with meat sauce [00:28.82]Maybe salads with one toss [00:30.32]No bread of the sorrow 'cause afraid to see tommorow [00:32.86]It's religion never suspicious [00:34.54]You're too delicious for the tongue [00:36.67]See the lungs breathe a natural high [00:38.80]Just like the shirts that's so lovely [00:40.60]So ask Marco Polo and I never go solo [00:43.30]Because I roll with the crew that keep the funk flows [00:45.87]That make ya dance until the sisters take glance [00:48.43]I hope you find romance try your luck take a chance [00:51.87]'Til I enter like the Milton Plaza I'm the center [00:54.63]Of it all the f**kin' prince of the ball [00:57.32]Standin' six feet tall that's a long way to fall [00:59.98]But not worried 'cause my vision ain't blurried [01:02.28]The I'n'i is hotter than the spice and curry [01:04.90]So don't stress the father or you might feel the fury [01:07.73]So check the situation a raw deal is what we're facin' [01:11.02]Bust the flavors of the rules they mandate [01:13.45]The climate gets hotter as the city gets smaller [01:15.96]A million and one cats they tryin' to earn top dollar [01:19.35]Half that mill they straight out to kill [01:21.69]Uncultivated and destined to act real ill [01:24.54]Black let up in the things of five boroughs of pain [01:27.42]Only reason why the east and the west it ain't the same [01:30.14]I'm twenty-somethin' years of age [01:31.98]And life surely ain't about hand-outs so I lays my plan out [01:35.57]Hard work is levicated to an art called survival [01:38.38]Consider Jah's lesson from conception to arrival [01:41.04]Now that I'm here my fears shall decrease [01:43.70]Learnin' about life makin' my way to the east [01:46.62]From four square yard struggler [01:48.46]The G's on time yo God hit me with that rhyme [01:51.85]In-tro-ducin the R to the O-B-O [01:54.53]You didn't know I witness ya thoughts I'm Rob Odindo [01:57.63]But your intentions confuse me on the surface [02:00.39]Ya nervous because you lack a purpose [02:02.77]Check it thought about it much much later [02:05.79]Should've kept it real would've been much greater [02:08.26]But you got in it like a p***y in fact [02:11.11]Bein' p***y kept your wack a*s back [02:13.06]Now in '95 to 2000 Rob is on some next s**t [02:16.70]Game tight yeah in ya heart you know it ain't right [02:19.56]Ascension among the ranks [02:21.05]I'm givin' thanks to the most high for plantin' me firm [02:23.89]Upon this world that's forever changin' [02:25.73]The conflict that I'm engagin' [02:27.44]The constant riff and miscommunication [02:30.00]Imagine that me take the weight for some next kid short [02:33.34]Yo it's a grown man sport [02:34.78]Yeah yeah like that [02:36.66]Laalalaaaaalalalaaaaaaaa [02:39.67]It's a grown man sport yeah [02:41.21]Laalalaaalalaaaalaalaalaaaaaaaa [02:45.18]It's a grown man sport come on [02:47.22]Laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa [02:50.68]It's a grown man sport [02:51.86]Lalalaaaaalalaaaalalalaaaaaa [02:55.42]This here is a grown man sport [02:57.32]Hold it suppose it was me speakin' on tapes [03:00.74]To create a lifestyle to marinate [03:02.94]Different latitudes search c*****e to food [03:05.36]Excuse my move to bliss eternal stress in fits [03:08.39]I see the same in many [03:09.88]Penny thoughts 'cause plenty thought I wasn't ready and willin' [03:12.34]Now I'm blowin' through the ceilin' [03:14.14]Go real only when a n***a make me any noise [03:17.06]So figure the first letter supports the sport [03:19.63]Enfin Séraphin [03:20.51]Pieds fins [03:21.37]INI les nouveaux prophètes de la scène mondiale [03:24.60]Oui que voulez vous faire nous tester [03:26.35]Je ne crois pas [03:27.61]Pense à deux fois mon frère et ce grown man sport [03:30.60]Qui veut dire c'est pas chouette dans mon livre là [03:33.20]INI est ici pour vivre toujours [03:36.12]Je prie le grand maître Selassie roi des rois chaque soir Alors [03:42.33]Laalalaaaaalalalaaaaaaaa [03:45.10]It's a grown man sport yeah [03:46.53]Laalalaaalalaaaalaalaalaaaaaaaa [03:50.30]It's a grown man sport come on [03:52.93]Laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa [03:56.17]It's a grown man sport [03:57.50]Lalalaaaaalalaaaalalalaaaaaa [04:00.74]Yeah it's a grown man sport [04:02.58]Like that [04:05.06]This one goin' out dedicate this one to the almighty God [04:11.37]Rastafari Selassie [04:15.18]INI as we come of for 95 96 [04:22.76]Ya live respect [04:25.68]Pieds fins