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De La Soul - I Am I Be

Verse 1

I am Posdnous

I be the new generation of slaves

here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes

the pile of revenue I create

But I guess I don't get a cut cuz my rent's a month late

Product of a North Carolina cat

who scratched the back of a pretty woman named Hattie

Who departed life just a little too soon

and didn't see me grab the Plug Tune fame

As we go a little somethin' like this

look ma, no protection

Now I got a daughter named Ayana Monay

And I can play the cowboy to rustle in the dough

so the scenery is healthy where her eyes lay

I am an early bird but the feathers are black

so the apples that I catch are usually all worms

But it's a must to decipher one's queen

from a worm who plays groupie and spread around the bad germ

I cherish the twilight

I maximize, my soul is the right size

I watch for the power to run out on the moon

(And that'll be sometime soon)

Faker than a fist of kids

speakin that they're black

When they're just niggas trying to be Greek

Or some tongues who lied

and said "We'll be natives to the end"

Nowadays we don't even speak

I guess we got our own life to live

Or is it because we want our own kingdom to rule?

Every now and then I step to the now

for now I see back then I might have acted like a fool

Now I won't apologize for it

This is not a bunch of Bradys

but a bunch of black man's pride

Yet I can safely say

I've never played a sister by touching where her private parts reside

I've always walked the right side of the road

If I wasn't making song I wouldn't be a thug selling drugs

But a man with a plan

and if I was a rug c

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