[Chorus: Q-Tip & Vinia Mojica]
Phife is in the house (Ooohh, you know you got going on)
Uncle Mike is in the house (This ain't a R&B song)
Bob Power✦ is in the house (You got it going on)
Tim Latham is in the house (And on and on and on)
Wise Men is in the house
The Brand Nubes✦ is in the house
The J Beez, they in the house
And De La, they in the house
[Verse 2: Q-Tip]
I must regroup my thoughts and kick the next ones✦ for my people
Please don't be deceived by the ugly✦ sights of evil✦
The world is kinda✦ cold and the rhythm is my blanket
Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it
Don't move to rebuttal, wave your hand for action✦
Some women✦ in the 90s want more than satisfaction✦
They want keys and Gs, and all those illy✦ things
If you want to, I'll show you, just what the Ab can bring
I keep a tight net with my brothers Ken and Kenny✦
If the question✦ is of rhymes,✦ then I'll tell ya, I got plenty✦
The thing that men and women✦ need to do is stick together
Progressions can't be made if we're separate✦ forever
I hooked✦ this funky✦ beat with the loop and the feature
This the funky✦ singing by Miss Vinia✦ Mojica✦
So listen✦ because the Quest is led through the underground
My people have been oppressed too long, no more will we be down
People tend to riff cause they don't know the mental
People tend to bug cause the beats are hard but gentle
Africano lurks through the body✦ of this youngun'
Play like Bobby✦ Byrd on your back and you're coming✦ to
The house of the jazz, of the funk, of the rhythm
All the goods are welcome, but if you're a villain
I'll just wait and debate,✦ contemplate✦ your arrival✦
If flexing is your motive,✦ then you don't like survival✦
The Abstract is speaking,✦ the hard beats is reaching
To Black and Puerto✦ Ricans cause they're butt naked✦ streaking✦
Through the ever✦ murky✦ streets of the urbanized areas
Blasting out the speakers is the hip hop hysteria
[Chorus: Q-Tip & Vinia Mojica]
Craig is in the house (Ooohh, you know you got going on)
Pete Rock is in the house (This ain't a R&B song)
CL is in the house (You got it going on)
Ultramag is in the house (And on and on and on)
Nice and Smooth is in the house
Big Daddy✦ Kane is in the house
Beatnuts is in the house
Special Ed is in the house
[Outro: Q-Tip]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
And this one goes out to my man
Thanks a lot Ron Carter✦ on the bass
Yes my man Ron Carter✦ is on the bass
And check it out, going into✦ the '91 decade✦
Up in until✦ the 2000 decade✦
You gotta✦ say the Quest is on
And goddamn it, yes the Quest is on
And we out!