Vapors-Biz Markie

[ti:Vapors] [ar:Biz Markie] [al:Goin' Off] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vapors - Biz Markie [00:10.23]Can you feel it [00:10.90] [00:11.81]Nothin' can save ya [00:12.90]For this is the seaon of catchin' the vpors [00:15.43]And since I got time what I'm gonna do [00:17.97]Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew [00:20.45]Wel you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records [00:23.02]Made the music "Nobody Beats the Biz" [00:24.97]Well check it [00:25.76]Back in the days before this began [00:27.52] [00:28.09]He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran [00:30.21] [00:30.86]The type of female with fly Gucci wear [00:33.13]With big trunk jewelry [00:34.49]And extensions in her hair [00:35.86]When Swan tried to kick it [00:37.35]She always fessed [00:38.26]Talkin' about "Nigger [00:39.35]Please you work for UPS" [00:40.95]Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer [00:43.35]My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her [00:46.05]But now he trucks gold and wears fly Valley boots [00:48.69]Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits [00:51.20]Now she stop frontin' an' wants to speak [00:53.92]And be comin' to all the shows [00:55.17]Every single weekend [00:56.48]To get his beeper number [00:57.67]She'd be beggin' please [00:59.01]Dyin' for the day to get skeezed [01:01.29]She caught the vapors [01:02.12] [01:06.53]She caught the vapors [01:07.63] [01:11.65]She caught the vapors [01:12.42] [01:16.68]She caught the vapors [01:17.50] [01:22.26]I got another partner that's calm and plain [01:24.07] [01:24.63]He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane [01:27.25]A mellow type of fellow that's laid back [01:29.47] [01:30.11]Back in the days [01:31.01]He was nothin' like that [01:31.97] [01:32.59]I remember when he used to fight every day [01:34.79]What grown-ups would tell him [01:36.27]He would never obey [01:37.31]He wore his pants hangin' down [01:38.79]And his sneakers untied [01:40.06]And a rasta-type Kango tilted to the side [01:42.53]Around his neighborhood [01:43.83]People treated him bad [01:45.10]And said he was the worst thing [01:46.65]His mom's ever had [01:47.73]They said that he will grow up [01:49.27]To be nothin' but a hoodlum [01:50.47]Or either injail or someone would shoot him [01:52.99]But now he's grown up to their surprise [01:55.39]Big Daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide [01:58.02]Now the same people [01:59.01]That didn't like him as a child be sayin' [02:00.98]Can I borrow a dollar ooh you're a star now [02:03.10]They caught the vapors [02:03.95] [02:08.02]They caught the vapors [02:08.82] [02:13.11]They caught the vapors [02:13.84] [02:18.24]They caught the vapors [02:19.06] [02:24.05]Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee [02:26.30]Better known to y'all as Cutmaster Cool V [02:28.47] [02:29.01]He cuts scratch transform with finesse [02:30.45] [02:32.84]And all that mess [02:33.67] [02:34.20]Well I remember when he first started to rock [02:36.47]And tried to get his job in a record shop [02:39.04]He was in it to win it but the boss fronted [02:41.69]Said "Sorry Mr Lee [02:42.90]But there's no help wanted" [02:43.86] [02:44.68]Now my cousin Von [02:45.60]Still tried on and on and on [02:47.72]'Til the like break of dawn [02:49.46]To put this j-o-b in effect [02:51.09] [02:51.85]But they'd look right past him and be like "next" [02:54.70]Now for the year of 88 [02:56.11] [02:56.74]Cool V is makin dollars [02:58.49]So my cousin's like straight [02:59.75]He walks into the same record shop as before [03:02.14]And the boss'll be like [03:03.07]"Von welcome to my store" [03:04.93]Offerin' him a job but naw [03:06.59]He don't want it [03:07.51]Damn it feels goo to see people up on it [03:09.98]'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't [03:12.40]Now guess what they caught from my cousin [03:14.92]The vapors [03:15.69] [03:19.88]They caught the vapors [03:20.65] [03:25.01]They caught the vapors [03:25.85] [03:30.20]They caught the vapors [03:31.09] [03:35.64]Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark [03:38.06]I had to work for mine to put your body in park [03:40.48]When I was a teenager [03:41.75]I wanted to be down [03:43.35]With a lot of M C -deejayin' crews in town [03:45.74]So in school on Nobel Street [03:47.40]I say "Can I be down champ" [03:48.72]They said no and treated me [03:49.78]Like a wet food stamp [03:50.99]After gettin' rejected [03:52.00]I was very depressed [03:53.36]Sat and wrote some def doo-doo [03:55.13]Rhymes at my rest [03:56.10]When I used to come to parties [03:57.37]They'd make me pay [03:58.48]I'd have to beg to get on [03:59.97]The mike and rap that day [04:01.18]I was never into girls [04:02.47]I was just into my music [04:03.85]They acted like I wanted to keep it [04:05.53]Instead of tryin' to use it [04:06.52]But now things switched without belief [04:08.77]"Yo Biz do you remember me [04:09.92]From Nober Street chief [04:11.03] [04:11.55]We used to be down back in the days" [04:13.65]It happens all the time [04:15.41]And never ceases to amaze [04:16.45]They caught the vapors [04:17.24] [04:21.45]They caught the vapors [04:22.28] [04:26.66]They caught the vapors