[Chorus: Consequence]
Ay yo, you know the deal when the diggy✦ Dawg is on the scene
We got the fiend bumpin'✦ straight from the borough✦ Queens
You know the deal when the diggy✦ Dawg is on the scene
We got the fiend bumpin'✦ straight from the borough✦ Queens
You know the deal when the diggy✦ Dawg is on the scene
You know the deal, ha, you know the deal
[Verse 2: Phife Dawg]
Big up pop Duke, that's where I caught my athleticism✦
My mama,✦ no doubt, that's where I got my lyricism✦
My nana,✦ that's where I got my spiritualism
As for Tip and Shah, they made me stop from smokin'✦ izm
Now, when I'm with some cheese, I'll be lettin'✦ off gism
Writin'✦ rhymes✦ since Daddy✦ Kane and Biz Mark was on Prism
I got a brave heart like the one named✦ Shirley Chisholm
As for my late twin, boy, I wish I was with him
Got the Lightro✦ in the back talkin'✦ bout (come on, get him)
And when it comes✦ to rhymes,✦ no doubt, I flip em
Sucka✦ MC in my path, hey man, I say we ship him
Money✦ please, your rhymes✦ are wack, say word, this geek is trippin'✦
Just because✦ my name is Phife, my man, I'm never✦ slippin'✦
I got the type of flave to have your ass straight bitchin'
For those who act cute, see I put them on mute
Have you walkin'✦ through your projects in your birthday suit
'Cause your style is off loot, so I played him like a flute
If you a sucka✦ MC, then it's you I rebuke✦
My style is, every✦ day all day, similar to water✦
Crushin' MCs as if my name was Sargent Slaughter✦
Keep shit hotter...than a sauna✦
Or better✦ yet, the hormones on your Christian daughter✦
Hey, I tried to warn her
My sounds the type to kill, like the grill on Lauryn Hill
So all ya sucka✦ MCs, y'all best go chill
Bout to go to Union✦ Square just to see my care bear
Singin'✦ good stuff in my ear, runnin'✦ fingers through my hair
Represent✦ the Zulu✦ Nation✦ with illy✦ rap creations✦
Just keep shit hotter✦ than Death Row-Bad Boy confrontations✦
Chillin' with Fudge Love because✦ he represents the Haitians
Ya new mean
[Outro]
Word up
I just wanna✦ big up everybody for supportin' A Tribe Called✦ Quest
Through the years
This be the fourth LP, you know what I'm sayin'?
Tip, Shaheed✦ and Phife, Beats, Rhymes✦ and Life
Featuring my man, you know what I'm sayin', Conse' to the 'quence
192 is the area✦ where we represent,✦ for the ladies✦ and gents, haha✦
You know what I'm sayin'? Big up Shaheed✦ Muhammad, that's my man
Christine, you know what I'm sayin', word life (fading out)
The Abstract Poetic, rockin'✦ this track
Bouncin' it all over✦ the place, up in your face
You know what I'm sayin'? My man Lightro...✦