Song | Funky 97 |
Artist | Five Fingers of Funk |
Album | Slap Me Five |
作词 : Five Fingers of Funk ... | |
Funky fresh tracks I'm strapped with a pack | |
Pump the real rap false crap to the back | |
I stay true to the vibe and the flavor the old school | |
Gave you what all others lacked | |
Integrity contained in the grain of the lines | |
Artistic expression conveyed in the rhymes | |
Critics dismissed it and dissed it and wished it would die | |
But it lifted and strengthened the mind | |
Now the nineties are here so have fear it's getting washed out | |
All the original vibes are being tossed out | |
Taken from the streets and jacked for the beats | |
These companies are weak their songs incomplete | |
They seek to sell hip hop but instead they disrespect it | |
Dissect it use what they can sell and then neglect it | |
Everywhere I turn I find a sucker with a rhyme | |
Not an M.C. 'cause an M.C. knows the time | |
Rap is popping up like toast from coast to coast | |
They try to boast that their style is so dope | |
But it won't last a round when the real sound macks | |
"For all the pioneers I'm going way back" | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 | |
Lyrics have been kicking hard from day one | |
I wake around noon I squint at the sun | |
Consider all my chores each day I catch more | |
Throw on my drawers before I get the job done | |
I step out the apt. without delay | |
Walkman pumping "It's a brand new day" | |
I'm gonna meet the keen-one when suddenly I see some | |
Ducks in a truck playing "Ice Ice Babe" | |
Down upon my ears my worst fears had ascended | |
I guess I must admit that at the shit I was offended | |
They proceeded to park stepped in the minute-mart | |
I thought to myself "The situation is splendid" | |
I stepped up to it and began to analyze the | |
Scene in green I tagged my name "Pete Miser" | |
Wide strokes in green dripping down the hood while I'm flipping | |
The pilot in my pocket is my duty to advise a | |
Bandwagon buster not to dis hip hop | |
The shit they hit it makes me wonder how they get props | |
As if you didn't know it takes the skills to flow | |
Go back to the lab 'cause if you step you'll get dropped | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 | |
Go back to that rack of wax and two twelves | |
'Cause back then we'd rap when caps sent the braincells | |
Flying toys dying many punks sunk denying | |
Their fronting ain't it something fluffing nothings still trying | |
To come off but the drums lost their weak minds | |
I cultivate a great state of thought caught between lines | |
These toys nowadays employ the sound waves | |
To get paid and laid but still played the proud ways | |
Don't understand the plan the man or my reasons | |
Wack rhyme's a crime and I'm trying you for treason | |
You're a goner if I catch you on a corner in a freestyle | |
But I never will you lack skills that's why you're on trial | |
Go back to the basics or face it your fake shit | |
Wastes airspace it's a disgrace when you make it | |
If it don't sell well tell me would you do it? | |
If not then hot shot you'd better not pursue it | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 |
zuò cí : Five Fingers of Funk ... | |
Funky fresh tracks I' m strapped with a pack | |
Pump the real rap false crap to the back | |
I stay true to the vibe and the flavor the old school | |
Gave you what all others lacked | |
Integrity contained in the grain of the lines | |
Artistic expression conveyed in the rhymes | |
Critics dismissed it and dissed it and wished it would die | |
But it lifted and strengthened the mind | |
Now the nineties are here so have fear it' s getting washed out | |
All the original vibes are being tossed out | |
Taken from the streets and jacked for the beats | |
These companies are weak their songs incomplete | |
They seek to sell hip hop but instead they disrespect it | |
Dissect it use what they can sell and then neglect it | |
Everywhere I turn I find a sucker with a rhyme | |
Not an M. C. ' cause an M. C. knows the time | |
Rap is popping up like toast from coast to coast | |
They try to boast that their style is so dope | |
But it won' t last a round when the real sound macks | |
" For all the pioneers I' m going way back" | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 | |
Lyrics have been kicking hard from day one | |
I wake around noon I squint at the sun | |
Consider all my chores each day I catch more | |
Throw on my drawers before I get the job done | |
I step out the apt. without delay | |
Walkman pumping " It' s a brand new day" | |
I' m gonna meet the keenone when suddenly I see some | |
Ducks in a truck playing " Ice Ice Babe" | |
Down upon my ears my worst fears had ascended | |
I guess I must admit that at the shit I was offended | |
They proceeded to park stepped in the minutemart | |
I thought to myself " The situation is splendid" | |
I stepped up to it and began to analyze the | |
Scene in green I tagged my name " Pete Miser" | |
Wide strokes in green dripping down the hood while I' m flipping | |
The pilot in my pocket is my duty to advise a | |
Bandwagon buster not to dis hip hop | |
The shit they hit it makes me wonder how they get props | |
As if you didn' t know it takes the skills to flow | |
Go back to the lab ' cause if you step you' ll get dropped | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 | |
Go back to that rack of wax and two twelves | |
' Cause back then we' d rap when caps sent the braincells | |
Flying toys dying many punks sunk denying | |
Their fronting ain' t it something fluffing nothings still trying | |
To come off but the drums lost their weak minds | |
I cultivate a great state of thought caught between lines | |
These toys nowadays employ the sound waves | |
To get paid and laid but still played the proud ways | |
Don' t understand the plan the man or my reasons | |
Wack rhyme' s a crime and I' m trying you for treason | |
You' re a goner if I catch you on a corner in a freestyle | |
But I never will you lack skills that' s why you' re on trial | |
Go back to the basics or face it your fake shit | |
Wastes airspace it' s a disgrace when you make it | |
If it don' t sell well tell me would you do it? | |
If not then hot shot you' d better not pursue it | |
Go back... to the Funky 97 |