Pops Rap III Lyrics by Common Sense

Pops Rap III Lyrics

    [Pops]
    Hey, hey old bean
    And you to baby sweetness
    Yeah, this is Pops, and I'm back in the studio
    And I didn't have to break in this time
    I'm back as a special guest by special request
    And I want to thank my son for loaning me this microphone once again
    They may have to wrassle to get it back
    You know, as a result of my son Common touring the world
    Pops has acquired a wonderful extended family
    From around the globe
    he has returned with positive messages to my earlobes
    From all my children From Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Japan
    And of course in the motherland
    Even in the orient, they know what I meant
    Nanaan, tanaan, tinaan, hanchinaan
    So I didn't come in here to give any shouts out
    I came to give praise and honor and to identify my children
    Who've been saying and doing the right things
    You know they sat on those nines of 1999
    and kept them from turning upside down
    And teaching the babies
    to love, to be able to give love
    And to enter the new century with their own prophecy
    The century of amends
    You see I deal with the premise that all children are ours
    And that we all travel the same path
    It's just that we don't get there at the same time
    (See you next lifetime) See you next lifetime
    And to my children running around here
    talking about how nice is they ice
    that they've already paid for twice
    What karat is they gold
    that was yours before you were done in the hole
    Or that crew from 1629, buy some land
    Think agriculture; beat that neighborhood
    which you claim you love so dear
    Are you mankind or what kind of a man?
    See, Pops is straight out of the garden
    from when the world was starting brand new,
    Hip Hop, Hip Hop, the language of the underground railroad
    In it's purest form
    Yeah true hip hop is just like the Underground Railroad
    If the message is not for you
    It can sit on your nose and your brain remain froze
    So when you see me traveling on a spiritual high
    I'm flying high with Cee-Lo
    Or maybe watching my long's heart dancing to a De La flow
    Everybody knows there's no fruit on the tree with The Roots
    And Black Star said we are what we are
    The Knowledge Of Self Determination
    And my little homie KG
    Up there in Minnesota milking 10000 lakes
    Keep the heat on em', we got to be kind to the growing mind
    So if your heart is real
    You will hear Big Will and Ms. Lauryn Hill
    If your love is true, you will hear Badu-ism
    And you can't go right until you go left
    and get some ingredients from the music chef Jazzy Jeff
    Children, I've traveled this globe
    north to south, east to west
    And whenever my soul appears lost
    I turn to the musical stylings of a Tribe Called Quest
    Okay, we ready to get out of here
    We ready to take it home now
    Just so everybody knows
    When Pops get ready to say something good
    I mean when it's time for me to lay it on the wood
    And it ain't no time for no shecky shecky
    That's when I turn to a Black Girl Named Betty
    Y'all looking for the only truth and it doesn't even exist
    I just come to give love and peace and honor to all my children

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