Word to the Mutha!
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Word to the Mutha! Lyrics
[Intro: Johnny Gill]
Hoo, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh
Johnny, Ronnie, Ricky, Mike, Ralph, Bobby, too
Yeah
Word
Word
Word
Whoa, word
Word to the mutha
Hoo
Hoo
Ooh
Yeah
[Verse 1: Ricky Bell]
People come
People go
In this business
You'll never, never know
Some are good
Some are bad
You know we got what no one's ever had, oh
Hoo, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh
Johnny, Ronnie, Ricky, Mike, Ralph, Bobby, too
Yeah
Word
Word
Word
Whoa, word
Word to the mutha
Hoo
Hoo
Ooh
Yeah
[Verse 1: Ricky Bell]
People come
People go
In this business
You'll never, never know
Some are good
Some are bad
You know we got what no one's ever had, oh
[Ralph Tresvant]
And the time will come
When we will be as one
Wanna be legends, yeah
And nobody knows
How we really feel
They don't know the deal
[Chorus: Bobby Brown + (Bell Biv DeVoe)]
(Get back)
We've got to put this back together
(Get right back)
And send our word to the mutha
(Get back)
Right back where we started from
(Get right back)
And send our word to the mutha
[Verse 2: Michael Bivins + (Ronnie DeVoe)]
Times are getting kinda hard on the boulevard
Brothers and sisters being slayed and scarred
Girlies in the halls, bitin' the walnuts
Of the pusherman, for losing the loot
(Get to know the Johnson or he will shoot)
He pulled the trig' 'cause he figured he could be a bigger nig
In the projects, you see
So feel the bozack
Yo, Rick, come easy
And the time will come
When we will be as one
Wanna be legends, yeah
And nobody knows
How we really feel
They don't know the deal
[Chorus: Bobby Brown + (Bell Biv DeVoe)]
(Get back)
We've got to put this back together
(Get right back)
And send our word to the mutha
(Get back)
Right back where we started from
(Get right back)
And send our word to the mutha
[Verse 2: Michael Bivins + (Ronnie DeVoe)]
Times are getting kinda hard on the boulevard
Brothers and sisters being slayed and scarred
Girlies in the halls, bitin' the walnuts
Of the pusherman, for losing the loot
(Get to know the Johnson or he will shoot)
He pulled the trig' 'cause he figured he could be a bigger nig
In the projects, you see
So feel the bozack
Yo, Rick, come easy
[Ricky Bell]
We are one, breaking new
Oh, Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph, and Johnny, too
You see, it ain't nothing but a thing that we're gonna do
Everybody's always talking 'bout the NE crew
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
[Ronnie DeVoe]
It's poison
Don't be cruel
It's my prerogative
To do what I gotta do
Have a little sensitivity
Do me, baby
I wanna get rubbed the right way
So what you gotta say
Oh, no, she's a candy girl
Living in a half-crazy world
That's the way I'm living, girl
Now every little step I take
Is another NE heartbreak
My, my, my
Word
[Chorus: Bobby Brown + (Bell Biv DeVoe)]
(Get back)
We've got to put this thing together
(Get right back)
And send our words to the mutha
(Get back)
Bringing it right back where we started from
(Get right back)
And send our words to the mutha
(Get back)
We got to bring it back
We got to bring it back to the mutha
(Get right back)
Hey, hey, hey
We are one, breaking new
Oh, Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph, and Johnny, too
You see, it ain't nothing but a thing that we're gonna do
Everybody's always talking 'bout the NE crew
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
[Ronnie DeVoe]
It's poison
Don't be cruel
It's my prerogative
To do what I gotta do
Have a little sensitivity
Do me, baby
I wanna get rubbed the right way
So what you gotta say
Oh, no, she's a candy girl
Living in a half-crazy world
That's the way I'm living, girl
Now every little step I take
Is another NE heartbreak
My, my, my
Word
[Chorus: Bobby Brown + (Bell Biv DeVoe)]
(Get back)
We've got to put this thing together
(Get right back)
And send our words to the mutha
(Get back)
Bringing it right back where we started from
(Get right back)
And send our words to the mutha
(Get back)
We got to bring it back
We got to bring it back to the mutha
(Get right back)
Hey, hey, hey
Yo, Rizz...
[Verse 3: Ralph Tresvant + (Bobby Brown)]
It's bound to go down
Lost spirits never found
(Trips to the graveyard's a common thing in Beantown)
Smugglers, pimps, pocket-pickers, punks and troublemakers
(Pick eject in button pushers and dream shakers)
Crackhead's having babies, future's hazy
I don't know, shit's crazy
(All I could do is turn the heat up
Defeat all odds, get revenge and put the beat up, and eat up)
Suckers looking for the kill, first blood's gotta spill
Light 'em up with a Mac-10, and that's basin'
(Check the scene with the green pepper weapon
Keep stepping)
Like true brothers
Word to the mutha!
[Ralph Tresvant]
The time will come
And we will be as one
Wanna be legends, yeah, yeah
Nobody knows
How we really feel
They don't know the deal
[Outro (repeat until end)]
Hey, y'all
Hey, y'all, hey
Word to the mutha
[Verse 3: Ralph Tresvant + (Bobby Brown)]
It's bound to go down
Lost spirits never found
(Trips to the graveyard's a common thing in Beantown)
Smugglers, pimps, pocket-pickers, punks and troublemakers
(Pick eject in button pushers and dream shakers)
Crackhead's having babies, future's hazy
I don't know, shit's crazy
(All I could do is turn the heat up
Defeat all odds, get revenge and put the beat up, and eat up)
Suckers looking for the kill, first blood's gotta spill
Light 'em up with a Mac-10, and that's basin'
(Check the scene with the green pepper weapon
Keep stepping)
Like true brothers
Word to the mutha!
[Ralph Tresvant]
The time will come
And we will be as one
Wanna be legends, yeah, yeah
Nobody knows
How we really feel
They don't know the deal
[Outro (repeat until end)]
Hey, y'all
Hey, y'all, hey
Word to the mutha
About
Genius Annotation
“Word to the Mutha” was the only single released from Bell Biv DeVoe’s 1991 remix album WBBD-Bootcity! and it peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. It was the first song to feature all six members of New Edition following the departure of Bobby Brown in 1985 and the addition of Johnny Gill in 1987. The music video was shot around the housing projects in the Roxbury section of Boston where the original five members of New Edition grew up.
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Red Chamber Studios (Sherman Oaks, CA) & Summa Music Group (West Hollywood)
Release Date
August 27, 1991
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Word to the Mutha! Remixes
Word to the Mutha (Radio Mentality w/ Rap) by Bell Biv DeVoe (Ft. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, New Edition & Ralph Tresvant), Word to the Mutha (Radio Mentality w/o Rap) by Bell Biv DeVoe (Ft. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, New Edition & Ralph Tresvant) & Word to the Mutha (Club Mentality) by Bell Biv DeVoe (Ft. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, New Edition & Ralph Tresvant)
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