| [ti:Grown Man Sport ] | |
| [ar:Pete Rock] | |
| [al:Center of Attention] | |
| [00:00.00] | Ras G: |
| [00:23.06] | Natty Dread like Bob so rock steady |
| [00:26.56] | With no spaghetti with meat sauce |
| [00:28.38] | Maybe salads with one toss |
| [00:29.59] | No bread of the sorrow cause afraid to see tommorow |
| [00:32.16] | It's religion never suspicious |
| [00:33.96] | You're too delicious for the tongue |
| [00:35.65] | See the lungs breathe a natural high |
| [00:38.06] | Just like the shirts that's so lovely |
| [00:39.66] | So ask Marco Polo and I never go solo |
| [00:42.29] | Cause I roll with the crew that keep the funk flows |
| [00:45.46] | That make ya dance until the sisters take glance |
| [00:47.89] | I hope you find romance....try your luck take a chance |
| [00:51.29] | Til I enter like the Milton Plaza I'm the center |
| [00:54.16] | Of it all, the fuckin' prince of the ball |
| [00:56.70] | Standing six feet tall, that's a long way to fall |
| [00:59.56] | But not worry, cause my vision ain't blurried |
| [01:01.72] | The +I+ is hotter than the spice and curry |
| [01:04.17] | So don't stress the father or you might feel the fury |
| [01:06.96] | Grap Luva: |
| [01:07.31] | So check the situation, a raw deal is what we facin' |
| [01:10.42] | What's the flavour of the rules they mandate |
| [01:12.77] | The climbin' gets hotter as the city gets smarter ( ? ) |
| [01:16.12] | A million one catch they tryin' to earn top dollar |
| [01:18.91] | Half that mill, they straight out to kill |
| [01:21.30] | I'm cultivated and destined to act real ill |
| [01:23.92] | Black let up in the things of five burroughs of pain |
| [01:26.71] | Only reason why the east and the west it ain't the same |
| [01:29.59] | I'm twenty-something years of age and life surely ain't about hand-outs |
| [01:33.36] | So I lace my plan out, hard work is levicated to an encore survival |
| [01:37.60] | Considergize less and from conception to arrival |
| [01:40.46] | Now that I'm here my fear shall decrease |
| [01:43.00] | Learn about life makin' my way to the east |
| [01:45.89] | From four square yard struggler |
| [01:47.86] | The G's on time, yo god hit me with that rhyme |
| [01:50.89] | Rob-O: |
| [01:51.06] | In-tro-ducin the R to the O-B-O |
| [01:53.83] | You didn't know, I witness ya thoughts I'm Robodendo |
| [01:56.83] | But your inventions confuse me on the surface |
| [01:59.56] | Ya nervous, because your lack of purpose |
| [02:02.03] | Check it, thought about it, much much later |
| [02:04.76] | Should've kept it real would've been much greater |
| [02:07.60] | But, you got in it like a pussy, in fact |
| [02:10.16] | Bein' pussy kept your wack ass back |
| [02:12.56] | Now in '95 to 2000 Rob is on some next shit |
| [02:16.16] | Game type, yeah in ya heart, you know it ain't right |
| [02:18.90] | Dissention among the ranks |
| [02:20.61] | I'm givin' thanks to the most high for plantin' me firm |
| [02:23.30] | Upon this world that's forever changin' |
| [02:25.18] | The conflict that I'm engagin' |
| [02:26.75] | The concert with amiss communication |
| [02:29.39] | Imagine that me take the weight for some next kid short |
| [02:32.76] | Yo it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [02:33.56] | InI & Pete Rock: |
| [02:34.51] | Yeah yeah like that |
| [02:35.78] | laalalaaaaalalalaaaaaaaa |
| [02:39.30] | it's a Grown Man Sport, yeah |
| [02:40.56] | laalalaaalalaaaalaalaalaaaaaaaa |
| [02:44.27] | it's a Grown Man Sport, come on |
| [02:46.61] | laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa |
| [02:49.89] | it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [02:51.56] | lalalaaaaalalaaaalalalaaaaaa |
| [02:54.93] | this here is a Grown Man Sport |
| [02:57.06] | Mekolicious: |
| [02:57.40] | Hold it suppose it was me speakin' on tapes |
| [02:59.97] | To create a lifestyle to marinate |
| [03:02.66] | Different latitudes search cocaine to food |
| [03:04.83] | Excuse my move to bliss |
| [03:06.05] | Eternal stress in fits |
| [03:07.78] | I see the same in many, penny thoughts |
| [03:10.08] | Cause honey thought I wasn't ready but willin' |
| [03:12.26] | Now I'm blowin' through the ceiling |
| [03:13.57] | Go real only when a nigga make me any noise |
| [03:16.20] | So figure, the first letter supports the sport |
| [03:39.96] | InI & Pete Rock: |
| [03:40.37] | Come on |
| [03:41.58] | laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa |
| [03:44.59] | it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [03:45.93] | lalalaaaaalalaaaalalalaaaaaa |
| [03:49.33] | it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [03:52.31] | laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa |
| [03:55.40] | it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [03:56.82] | laalalaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaa |
| [04:00.73] | yeah it's a Grown Man Sport |
| [04:02.47] | Like that |
| [04:04.59] | This one goin' out dedicate this one to the almighty god |
| [04:10.72] | Rastafari Selassie |
| [04:14.62] | InI as we come of for '95 '96 |
| [04:22.16] | Ya live, respect |