Yasiin Bey - Body Rock lyrics

[Intro - Mos Def] Alright y'all, slow down, I'm trying to Aight, yo, I only took a little bit of Spanish, you gotta Aight I hear what you're saying but yo, alright, okay Alright okay, alright okay, okay Alright okay, I'm feelin you, okay [Hook] All my people in Brooklyn and you know we're hot, I say: We don't stop the Body Rock All my people in Queens, and the land in between, say we: Don't stop the Body Rock Shaolin and L-I, say you know we're fly, say we Don't stop the Body Rock From the East to the West, son, we take it to the chest say we Don't stop the Body Rock [Verse 1 - Mos Def] Check me out y'all I'm in the lab with Ab, I got the pen and pad My man T-A-S-H take it to yo' breastplate It's the Mighty Mos Def, complete the trilogy Just shot myself a dime, see are you feeling me? Son I'm wicked and nice when I'm on facility Let me take a sec to review what I wrote .. "Mos Def and does it sound far fetched?" OK it's dope Let's record this ('cord this) they gonna award this (award this) And all area crew is gonna applaud this {*clapping*} And when we step to the plate Pah it's flawless My man T-A-S-H with styles glory great Great, great great, great great [Tash] Up next we got CaTash with that West coast rhyming Bombing n***as with the style as dangerous as mountain climbing Cause the Alkie words I'm spitting be twisting while you listening Plus I'm in this motherf**er with the Likwit coalition That'll leave you in position, twisted backwards like yoga While you staring down my throat like, "Is he drunk or is he sober?" Who knows?! All I know is Tash got flows And got the technique to get the ladies out of they clothes I been overly exposed to the forty-oh's and chickens So I'mma keep it pumping til the beat stop kicking Or til the plot thickens, cause this is how we do CaTashtrophe, Mos Def, and the brother man Q! [Q-Tip] What's up Tash, hey yo, Tip can't call it Sure as Mos is Def and you Alkaholik I'mma be surfing at, thing that's worth dealing Hypodermically, shoot up your feeling Figuratively speaking, of course, now Old and greediness seeking it's course now What we gonna do? Eradicate them Shoot them from the jam, they be diseased phlegm [Mos Def] Tash Love... are you ready to rock the mic? Q-Tip... are you ready to rock the mic! Mos Def... are you ready to rock the mic? We got the universal style that you got to like! And ain't nobody steppin up when we got the mic So turn the A.C. up cause it's hot tonight! And til the bright early morn' we be rockin you all Don't stop, the Body Rock! [Tash] Cause I'm next to flex, and I'm technically advanced To turn you on like cybers**, so in less than two sec's I blind MC's like Thomas Dolby with the Science that'll leave They braincells fryin slowly (FIRE!) so slowly I flow and Express written consent, from the undergroundin n***as Coast II Coast I represent cause gettin bent, I do But I'm doper than sherm plus the way I put it down Could burn the perm off Big Worm, so peep this private screening Of the Last Action Hero that be freezin rappers dead in they tracks Like Sub Zero (Zero), cause Rico ain't no joke I eat yo' flows and yo' beat up rappers even feel my presence When I'm home with my feet up [Mos Def] Yo what you skied up or treed up? Relax and pull a seat up, make your landlord turn the heat up Got the opposition shook like Tiger Woods about to tee up So n***as no competition with the clear Mos Definition MC's screamin now for years can't rhyme without they mom's permission You just a young'un comin out, gettin ga**ed to run your mouth Wildin on the Runabout, Baby Pah you comin out Barkin that you want a bout but son you know the comeabout When Mos Def blow up and, you don't, nuttin Don't you know nuttin? My crew go huntin We keep it on the norm then we transform som'in And while, we do it, you bounce to it The cops wanna stop the Body Rock but don't do it [Q-Tip] DY-NO-MITE!!! Like Jimmy J.J Slobbed down pen-ny, somewhere in L.A. (A) Now we got to bond like Voltron (tron) Tash you the bomb, Mos you the won ton (ton) Q will pick the lead, I must drop on thee (thee) A-B-S, I bust down, facility (ty) T-R-A-C-T is the MC (cee) It's the LL, inside the place to be (be) [Mos Def] Tash Love... are you ready to rock the mic? Q-Tip... are you ready to rock the mic! Mos Def... are you ready to rock the mic? We got the universal brothers that you got to like! Now ain't nobody steppin up when we got the mic So turn your A.C. up cause it's hot tonight! And til the bright early morn' we'll be rockin you all Don't stop, the Body Rock! All my people out in Queens that know you're hot, you say Don't stop, the Body Rock! All my people out in Brooklyn and you know we're hot, say Don't stop, the Body Rock! Shaolin to L-I and you know we're fly, said Don't stop, the Body Rock! All the people on the Greens and the land in between said Don't stop, the Body Rock! ... no stoppin ... no stoppin Out in Jersey ... no stoppin Philadelp-i-I ... no stoppin Chi Town gettin down ... the playgrounds Detroit you say ... no stoppin In Cali ... no stoppin And the great V-A ... no stoppin Cause in the Brooklyn town ... no stoppin And the Boogie Down ... no stoppin L-I and Queens ... no stoppin And you see Medina Greens ... no stoppin You know we, Lyricist Lounge ... no stoppin And my man Abstract ... no stoppin Cause see we never the wack ... no stoppin Don't stop, the Body Rock D-dah, don't stop