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De La Soul - Buddy Lyrics & Meanings
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Buddy Lyrics & Meanings: DOVE: / Hello / Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?) / Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?) / Meany, meany, meany, meany, mean / Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?) / Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?) / Meany, meany, meany, meany, mean (Okay) / Hello it's the soul / Troopin' in wit the Jungle patrol / And this one's about the KO's the knockouts out there / Who's holdin' my buddy / Hold up / (wait a minute) / POS: / Now just wait / We're gonna talk about Buddy on this plate / But before we let the herd out the gate / Make sure the all the levels are straight out the jungle / (The Jungle, the Jungle, the Brothers, the Brothers) / AFRIKA: / De La Soul from the soul / Black medallions no gold / Hangin' out wit Pos hangin' out wit Mase / Buddy buddy buddy all in my face / MIKE G: / For the lap Jimbrowski must wear a cap / Just in case the young girl likes to clap / Ain't for the wind but before I begin / I initiate the buddy with a slap / Q-TIP: / Now for the next / I'm the Q-T
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De La Soul Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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De La Soul Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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De La Soul - Me Myself And I Lyrics & Meanings
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Me Myself And I Lyrics & Meanings: [Dove] / Mirror mirror on the wall / Tell me mirror what is wrong? / Can it be my De La Clothes / Or is it just my De La Soul / What I do ain't make believe / People say I sit and try / But when it comes to being De La / It's just me myself and I / / It's just me myself and I (repeat 3x) / / [Posdonus] / Now you tease my Plug One style / And my Plug One spectacles / You say Plug One and Two are hippies / No we're not, thats pure Plug Bull / Always pushin that we formed an image / There's no need to lie / When it comes to being Plug One / It's just me myself and I / / It's just me myself and I (repeat 3X) / / [Dove] / Proud, I'm proud of what I am / Poems I speak are Plug Two type / Please oh please let Plug Two be / himself, not what you read or write / Write is wrong when hype is written / on the Soul, De La that is / Style is surely our own thing / Not the false disguise of show-biz / De La Soul is from the soul / And in fact I can't deny / Strictly from the Dan
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De La Soul - All Good Lyrics & Meanings
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All Good Lyrics & Meanings: [Chaka Khan] / Oooh noo-ohhh, noo-ohhh / Oooh noo-ohhh, noo-ohhh! / Oooh noo-ohhh, noo-ohhh / Oooh noo-ohhh, noo-ohhh! / / Chorus: Chaka Khan (repeat 2X) / / It ain't all good, and that's the truth / Thangs ain't goin like you think they should - it's all on you / / [Chaka Khan] / I don't care about what you think you see / the thangs you want to know when you look at me / God knows I done been through and paid my dues / Can't change how you feel, cause it's - all on you-whoahhha-ohhh-yeah / / [Dove] / I wish that, you could be a little bit more upfront / Weigh the situation how you want (right) / The lovin that you claim is just a four letter word / The third letter's invitin so visualize the verb / You curve thoughtways when you're handlin the candleabra / so you sittin on the baby grand / Transmittin like you're made of man / but you paint a funny face like a chick / When I see you I'ma tell you quick that uhh.. / / Chorus 1/2 / / [Dove] / I can't believe we built this lar
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De La Soul - Fanatic of The B Word Lyrics & Meanings
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Fanatic of The B Word Lyrics & Meanings: Mike g: / Ha ha! ah yeah! got it going on like a big old fat high hard-on! / (hooo-weee!) black sheep in the house, sweet daddy mr. lawnge in the / House, my man the dres in the house, you know what I’m sayin’, / Huey love in the house, long posdnuos, dove, prince paul, the / Immigrant / Lucien in the house. the house dreddy bear, ha, mike g! / / Chorus: / Come on everybody let’s baseball / Come on everybody do the baseball / Come on, come on, come on, come on / Come on everybody let’s baseball / Come on everybody let’s baseball / Come on everybody do the baseball / Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody / Come on everybody let’s baseball / / Mike g: / Got it goin’ on. swing it over here! ochay, ochay, ochay. / We gonna swing it over here, swing it over there. we gonna do the / Baseball. ha ha ha! / / (three feet) / / Pos: / A nubian sprocket is the one / Plug one, cut the cap / Forward is the marcher of the chant, / To the clan, unless you slept
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De La Soul - Jenifa Taught Me Lyrics & Meanings
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Jenifa Taught Me Lyrics & Meanings: Dove: / Access to her code / Lovestruck was my mode / Took a look, dropped my textbook / Jenifa... (oh!) / / Breakfast, broke it fast / She was in my english class / Asked for notes, rocked my boat / Jenifa... (oh!) / / Jenny / Lost her favourite penny / So I gave her a dollar / She kissed me / (and I hollered) / / In a flash the school bell rang / Jenny grabbed on to my hand / Took me home and said, trugoy just / Swing and swing and swing / / Pos: / The downstairs, where we met / I brought records, she cassettes / Lost the breaks, found her shape / Jenifa, oh jenny / / Transcripts showed more than flirt / ’i love daisies’ read her shirt / Grabbed my jeans, jimmy screamed / Jenifa, oh jenny / / Marvelous / Shaped like a vase / No one can live their life for pos / Found a house, aroused my joust / Jenifa, oh jenny / / Her clothes, I did shuck / Just like dan I strictly stuck / To the punt, she cried ’kick it’ / Posdnuos was in / / Jenny / Only thought about j
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De La Soul - Can U Keep a Secret? Lyrics & Meanings
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Can U Keep a Secret? Lyrics & Meanings: Ahh yeah, ah ah ah / / Prince paul likes buddy / Posdnuos likes buddy / Trugoy likes buddy / Mase likes buddy / Wouldn’t you like to buddy too? ooh / / Prince paul needs a haircut / Mase needs a haircut / Posdnuos needs a haircut / Trugoy would you please give us a haircut? / / Prince paul needs a luuden / Trugoy needs a luuden / Posdnuos needs a luuden / Mase needs a luuden / Everybody I want to just get a luuden / / Paul has dandruff / Posdnuos has a lot of dandruff / Mase has big fat dandruff / Trugoy has dandruff / Everybody in the world, you have dandruff / / Dante is a scrubb / Dante is a scrubb (scrubb) / Dante is a scrubb (is a big scrubb) / Dante is a scrubb (a super scrubb) (scrubb) / / (and ya not gettin’ the haircut either, scrubb!) / / /
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De La Soul - I Am I Be Lyrics & Meanings
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I Am I Be Lyrics & Meanings: 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’
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De La Soul - Fallin Lyrics & Meanings
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Fallin Lyrics & Meanings: Intro / / Travellinnnnnnnnnnnnnn’ at the speeeeeeeed...of thought... / / Verse 1 / / Hey, yo kids! (what’s up!) / Remember when I used to be dope? (yeah...) / I owned a pocketful of fame... / (but look what you’re doin’ now!) / I know, well I know / I lost touch with reality, now my personality / Is an unwanted commodity (believe it!) / Can’t believe I used to be mr steve austin on the mic / Six million ways I used to run it / I guess oscar goldman got mad / Cos I got loose circuits (so loose, sigga-sigga so loose...) / I be the mother goose with the eggs / That seem to be... / / [fallin’...] / / Chorus / / You played yourself x4 / / Verse 2 / / A-yo, pack my bags cos I’m outta here / Mama don’t love me and my mama don’t care / Read the papers the headlines say / Washed up rapper got some [buck-kawk!] / Lingo’s busted while the guitar sways / B-side copy for the radio plays for somethin’ / I knew I blew the whole fandango / When the drum programmer wore
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De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named & Quot;Saturdays & Quot Lyrics & Meanings
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A Roller Skating Jam Named & Quot;Saturdays & Quot Lyrics & Meanings: (and rollerskates) / (and rollerskates) / (and rollerskates) / / Q-tip: / Girl meets boy on thursday night / Boy was high, girl fly like kite / They hold hands until next day / Boy then lets go, hit his way / Boy rules butt, brags to his boys / Erection brings bad boy joys / Boy thinks of that big fat back / Big black fat love, big black fat / Girl calls boy to stand him up on saturday / Saturday / / Pos and q-tip: / Saturday, it’s a saturday / It’s a saturday, it’s a saturday / Saturday, it’s a saturday / Saturday, it’s a saturday / / Pos: / Back once more with the wallop in the score / Must I ride and rip, should I make you rock your hip / Reviver of a roller-boogie in a rink / And sure to make you think about the times / To scope fun instead of fights / (but diving from a piece of metal sure to take your life) / Yo, slip your butt to the fix of this mix / Toss that briefcase, it’s time to let loose / ’cause you’ve work
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De La Soul - Oodles Of O's Lyrics & Meanings
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Oodles Of O's Lyrics & Meanings: [Trugoy] / Oodles and oodles of O's, you know / You get them from my sister / You get them from my bro / All I is is man / And once an embryo / Am I solid gold? / I don't cast a glow / / Yes, I guess it's reflex / Some have no control / I'd rather let a laughter / And tally / Off I go / Canoeing up the river / Or out into the O / You just know we're not so not play the role / Some are lovey Dovey / You crazy crow / Some shake your hand but (this is called the show) / I was John Doe / Now I'm Mr. Jolico' / Pissed with the witness / And now I adore / O's got the world 'cause O's was on tour / Girls gave the O's / And guys, oh, for sure / Where they arose / Well, nobody knows / What do they mean? / Well, here's how it goes / Oh, shoot's got the O's when you hold the dough / You know who you are but they didn't know / And now with respect they flex like a pro / You're first another nigga but now an Afro / / Oodles and oodles of O's and / Oodles and ood
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De La Soul (Ft. Jill Scott) – Genesis
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Huh! I couldn't be nobody but myself, you know that / But then they all started talking / They were talking about love being gone / In my house / They said that there ain't much
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De La Soul (Ft. Jungle Brothers & Q-Tip) – Buddy
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“Buddy” is the fourth single off of De La Soul’s debut album 3 Feet High and Rising, reaching #2 on the US Rap Chart in early 1990. The song features the Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip
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De La Soul – The Magic Number
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The song is built on the drum beat from Double Dee and Steinski’s “Lesson 3” – which itself is a sample of Led Zeppelin’s “The Crunge,” making Pos’s claim of “no rock and roll
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De La Soul – Me Myself and I
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Released in 1989, De La Soul’s third single “Me Myself and I” established the group’s characteristic style of combining hip hop with humor and social commentary. The group’s
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De La Soul (Ft. Little Dragon) – Drawn
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From Update #49 sent to Kickstarter backers;
Yukimi Nagano from Little Dragon describes “Drawn” as “a dreamy journey about not taking anything for granted in life. About love and
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De La Soul – Stakes Is High
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The climactic point of De La Soul’s “Stakes is High” album serves as a criticism to the state of the world in 1996, along with a declaration that the Native Tongues are back in
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De La Soul – Exodus
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[Hook] / It's the years that we own and we earned them / See the bridges we built now are burned down / Even though a few friends just returned them / Shit and shit there we affirm
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De La Soul – Talkin' Bout Hey Love
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(The radio is so clear in here.) / (Hey) / POS AND ANN ROBERTS: / Hey Love / Talkin' bout Hey Love / Wanna be your push and shove / Pop, popcorn up above / Move me like Soul when I
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De La Soul – 3 Days Later
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Samples Johnnie Taylor’s Love In The Streets, Lou Donaldson’s Hot Dog, dialogue exceprts from Deep Cover, and David Porter’s I’m Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
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De La Soul (Ft. CeeLo Green) – Held Down
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Posdnuos teams up with Cee-Lo Green on this track about being an individual and making your own decisions in life, instead of following the crowd.
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De La Soul – Dinninit
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[Chorus] / Now, where the ladies at? / "Yo, we're chillin' over here" / And all the fellas? The fellas / "Takin over this year" / I heard the party's 'round here, right? / "You
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De La Soul – Sibling Rivalries
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[Verse 1: Trugoy the Dove] / Baby sis, you got super sense hearin' and you touch too much / You be all in my space, you consume my breath / If I go left or right, then you'll go
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De La Soul (Ft. David Byrne) – Snoopies
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[Verse 1: David Byrne] / In a hundred years from now / We will not recognize this place / The dollar store is filled with love / The parking lot is full of grace / Now, judges put
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De La Soul – Oodles of O's
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“Oodles of O’s” is a song featured on De La Soul’s second album, De La Soul Is Dead.
One of the notable and prominent features of this song is the fact that nearly every bar ends
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De La Soul (Ft. Dres) – Fanatic of the B Word
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[Intro: Mike G] / Ha ha! Ah yeah! Got it going on like a big old fat high hard-on! / (Hooo-weee!) / Black Sheep in the house, sweet daddy Mr. Lawnge in the / House, my man Andres
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De La Soul – De La Orgee
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DOVE: / This is De La Orgee... / (Barry White on in the background, various male and female grunting, panting and screaming sounds / Including...) / (It's in there.) / (Say you
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De La Soul – Jenifa (Taught Me) (12″ version)
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MASE: / This song does not contain explicit lyrics, but the thought is erotic. Awwww, baby! / DOVE: / Access to her code / Lovestruck Dove is Dove's mode / Took a look, dropped my
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De La Soul – Intro (Buhloone Mindstate)
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[Intro] / Yee! Yee! / *Balloon inflating and popped* / Stickabush… Stickabush… Stickabush… Stickabush / (It might blow up, but it won’t go pop) / Stickabush… Stickabush… / (It
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De La Soul (Ft. USHER) – Greyhounds
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On “Greyhounds,” Posdnuos and Dave each rap a verse where they recount a tale about somebody attempting to discover their way throughout everyday life and taking a greyhound bus to
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De La Soul (Ft. Butta Verses & Yummy Bingham) – No
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No is a braggadocios song where De La Soul and Butta Verses rap about how their grind has paid back dividends: they are never last place, whether it’s with work, girls, or life
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Gorillaz (Ft. De La Soul) – Feel Good Inc.
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“Feel Good Inc.” is about criticism of herd mentality, isolation, and escapism.
The music video features computer-generated imagery combined with 2D animation. The inspiration for
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De La Soul – Ain't Hip to Be Labelled a Hippie
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Track 7 on the second disc on the 2001 reissue of the album. Found on the B-side of the Me Myself and I single.
Posdnous addresses what ‘DAISY’ means, and whether he’s a hippy.
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De La Soul – Brakes
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The title of the song is a reference to Kurtis Blow’s seminal 1980 hip-hop hit, “The Breaks”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDUEilS5M4
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De La Soul – This is a Recording for Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)
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[Intro] / This is a recording / This is a recording (Move a lil further down) / This is a recording (Life, life) / This is a recording (Life) / [Verse 1: Pos & Dove] / Living in
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De La Soul (Ft. Otis Redding) – Eye Know
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“Eye Know” is the fifth single from De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising. It was not released as a single in the US, but made the top 30 in several countries overseas, including a #
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De La Soul – Sexy Bitch
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[Verse: Posdnuos] / Da da da da / Once upon a time for the minute by the shape of the hour / The unify finds divide in the power-U / He talk us in and to work its way in and devour
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De La Soul – CBGB'S
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[Verse 1: Posdnuos] / Beach boy bonanza, sunrise, get up / Surfin' on a curb from inception of a set-up / Planet in black granite, halos above it / The autopsy can't top me
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De La Soul – Pease Porridge
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Prince Paul’s production is built on samples of Brother Bones' “Black-Eyed Susan Brown” and Harrell and Susan Lucky’s children’s record “Pease Porridge Hot.”
http://www.youtube.
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De La Soul – Intro
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Posdnuos: The game show concept was one of the last things we did, during the mixing phase. I think Paul might have come up with the idea. [Game show announcer] Al Watts was just
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De La Soul – My Brother's a Basehead
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On this CD bonus track from De La Soul is Dead, these Native Tongues Posse members tell a story about having a brother who is addicted to drugs – a basehead. Pos and Dove lament
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De La Soul (Ft. Dres & Shortie No Mass) – En Focus
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[Intro] / Biofeedback / [Verse 1: Posdnuos + Dres] / You go "ichi, ni, san, shi" / I can't cook, but being a cook I'm servin' much to eat / I got multiple stabs of jazzy
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