I Am I Be Lyrics by De La Soul

I Am I Be Lyrics


    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 cleaner
    Betcha pos'd have the cleanest rugs i am.

    Verse 2

    The plug two brand with the flavour
    In the flute watch the sniffin'
    So a sack of shows in demand
    I read the diction from the second page
    I got the one-two gauge
    Baritone to the izm fan
    Trees fall so i can play ground with my ink
    So let me need ya to my ems go
    I push the infinite and carry it
    My carrier's the three over one
    So my pluggins already know
    Lick shots with moo
    Catch the boo
    From a ghost in the heckling crowd
    If i give a foot
    Jack ville caught a spill
    When a still came from my mouth
    I brought a head down south
    I don't check for the noose and the neck
    So i never tell my ems
    That finesse is knocking at my door
    I choose to run from the rays of the burning sun
    And dodge a needle washing up upon a sandy shore
    I bring the element h with the 2
    So ya owe me what's coming when i'm raining on your new parade
    It's just mind over matter
    And what matters is
    That the mind isn't guided by the punished shade
    I keep the walking on the right side
    But i won't judge the next who handles walking on the wrong
    Cuz that's how he wants to be
    No difference, see
    I wanna be like the name of this song i am

    Verse 3

    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
    The deeds of a natural
    Are seeds that are no longer planted
    So the famine in the mind is strong
    Tactics of another plane is now proven sane
    Sane enough to let you know from within this song
    I stabilize many cableized viewers
    So my occupation's known
    But not why i occupy
    And that is to bring the peace
    Not in the flower but the as-salaam alaikum in the third i am

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