I Am I Be-De La Soul

[ti:I Am I Be] [ar:De La Soul] [al:Buhloone Mindstate] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Am I Be - De La Soul [00:53.28]I am posdnous [00:53.97]I be the new generation of slaves [00:56.24]Here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes [00:58.88]The pile of revenue I create [01:00.83]But I guess I dont get a cut cuz my rents a month late [01:04.22]Product of a north carolina cat [01:05.81]Who scratched the back of a pretty woman named hattie [01:09.33]Who departed life just a little too soon [01:11.66]And didnt see me grab the plug tune fame [01:14.24]As we go a little somethin like this [01:16.00]Look ma no protection [01:16.82]Now I got a daughter named ayana monay [01:18.89]And I can play the cowboy to rustle in the dough [01:22.16]So the scenery is healthy where her eyes lay [01:24.61]I am an early bird but the feathers are black [01:27.39]So the apples that I catch are usually all worms [01:29.72]But its a must to decipher ones queen [01:31.66]From a worm who plays groupie and spread around the bad germ [01:35.38]I cherish the twilight [01:36.51] [01:37.19]I maximize my soul is the right size [01:40.46]I watch for the power to run out on the moon [01:43.16]And thatll be sometime soon [01:44.86]Faker than a fist of kids [01:47.19]Speakin that theyre black [01:48.38]When theyre just niggas trying to be greek [01:50.59]Or some tongues who lied [01:52.16]And said well be natives to the end [01:54.31]Nowadays we dont even speak [01:56.00]I guess we got our own life to live [01:58.08]Or is it because we want our own kingdom to rule [02:00.85]Every now and then I step to the now [02:02.93]For now I see back then I might have acted like a fool [02:06.19]Now I wont apologize for it [02:07.83]This is not a bunch of bradys [02:09.46]But a bunch of black mans pride [02:11.29]Yet I can safely say [02:12.43]Ive never played a sister by touching where her private parts reside [02:16.83]Ive always walked the right side of the road [02:19.03]If I wasnt making song I wouldnt be a thug selling drugs [02:21.79]But a man with a plan [02:23.52]And if I was a rug cleaner [02:24.97]Betcha posd have the cleanest rugs I am [02:27.17]The plug two brand with the flavour [02:28.86]In the flute watch the sniffin [02:30.31]So a sack of shows in demand [02:32.01]I read the diction from the second page [02:33.84]I got the one-two gauge [02:35.47]Baritone to the izm fan [02:37.23]Trees fall so I can play ground with my ink [02:40.07]So let me need ya to my ems go [02:42.27]I push the infinite and carry it [02:44.16]My carriers the three over one [02:45.54]So my pluggins already know [02:46.68]Lick shots with moo [02:47.80]Catch the boo [02:49.56]From a ghost in the heckling crowd [02:51.27]If I give a foot [02:52.90]Jack ville caught a spill [02:54.29]When a still came from my mouth [02:56.55]I brought a head down south [02:58.19]I dont check for the noose and the neck [03:00.33]So I never tell my ems [03:01.59]That finesse is knocking at my door [03:03.15]I choose to run from the rays of the burning sun [03:06.43]And dodge a needle washing up upon a sandy shore [03:08.26]I bring the element h with the 2 [03:10.27]So ya owe me whats coming when Im raining on your new parade [03:13.47]Its just mind over matter [03:14.67]And what matters is [03:16.13]That the mind isnt guided by the punished shade [03:18.83]I keep the walking on the right side [03:21.47]But I wont judge the next who handles walking on the wrong [03:23.42]Cuz thats how he wants to be [03:26.17]No difference see [03:26.92]I wanna be like the name of this song I am [03:29.38] [03:49.06]I am posdnous [03:50.13]I be the new generation of slaves [03:52.08]Here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes [03:54.10]The pile of revenue I create [03:55.42]But I guess I dont get a cut cuz my rents a month late [03:58.94]The deeds of a natural [04:00.82]Are seeds that are no longer planted [04:03.41]So the famine in the mind is strong [04:05.42]Tactics of another plane is now proven sane [04:07.75]Sane enough to let you know from within this song [04:10.52]I stabilize many cableized viewers [04:12.59]So my occupations known [04:13.54]But not why I occupy [04:15.11]And that is to bring the peace [04:17.37]Not in the flower but the as-salaam alaikum in the third I am