Tonart: B minor•
Verse 1
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[Pops]
And you to baby sweetness
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Yeah, this is Pops,
and I'm back in the studio
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And I didn't have to break in this time
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I'm back as a special guest by
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And I want to thank my son for loaning me
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this microphone once again
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They may have to wrestle
to get it back
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You know, as a result of my son
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Common touring the world
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Pops has acquired a wonderful
From around the globe
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He has returned with positive
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messages to my earlobes
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From all my children From Mexico,
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Brazil, Italy, Japan
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And of course in the motherland
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Even in the orient, they know what I meant
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Nanaan, tanaan, tinaan, hanchinaan
So I didn't come in
here to give any shouts out
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I came to give praise and honor and
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to identify my children
and doing the right things
You know they sat on those
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nines of 1999
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And kept them from turning
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And teaching the babies
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To love, to be able to give love
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And to enter the new century
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with their own prophecy
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The cen tury of amends
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You see I deal with the premise
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that all children are ours
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And that we all travel the same path
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It's just that we don't get there
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(See you next lifetime) See
And to my children running
Talking about how nice is they ice
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What karat is they gold
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That was yours before
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you were done in the hole
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Think agriculture; beat
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Which you claim you love so dear
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Are you mankind or what kind of a man?
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See, Pops is straight out of the garden
From when the world
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was starting brand new,
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Hip Hop, Hip Hop,
the language of the underground railroad
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Yeah true hip hop is just like
the Underground Railroad
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If the message is not for you
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It can sit on your nose and your brain
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remain froze
So when you see me traveling
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I'm flying high with Cee- Lo
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Or maybe watching my long's heart
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dancing to a De La flow
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Everybody knows there's no fruit on
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the tree with The Roots
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And Black Star said we are what we are
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The Knowledge Of Self Determination
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And my little homie KG
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Up there in Minnesota
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Keep the heat on em',
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we got to be kind to the growing mind
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So if your heart is real
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You will hear Big Will and Ms. Lauryn Hill
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If your love is true,
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you will hear Badu- ism
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And you can't go right until you go left
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And get some ingredients from the music
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chef Jazzy Jeff
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Children, I've traveled this globe
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North to south, east to west
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And whenever my soul appears lost
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I turn to the musical stylings of a Tribe
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Called Quest
Okay, we ready to get out of here
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We ready to take it home now
Just so everybody knows
When Pops get ready to say
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I mean when it's time for
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me to lay it on the wood
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And it ain't no time for no
shecky shecky
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That's when I turn to a Black
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Girl Named Betty
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Y'all looking for the only truth
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and it doesn't even exist
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I just come to give love and peace and honor to all
Outro 1
my children
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