The Love Movement

Rock Rock (Y'all)

A Tribe Called Quest

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[Verse 2: Jane Doe]

The Church of Scientology,^✦ feminine biology^✦

Manic^✦ depressive psychologically,^✦ A.D.D. logically^✦

Polluted by technology,^✦ the fumes^✦ in this ecology^✦

While your thought you was out of copy,^✦ I get nastier than sodomy^✦

Probably^✦ the odyssey started back on robbery

Was the degree of the economy^✦ that do the sovereignty

Regarded as a prodigy, leery^✦ in sociology^✦

Leather Wallabees, always conceal my gynecology^✦

Rhymin'^✦ pathologically,^✦ that's how it gotta^✦ be!

Never^✦ makin'^✦ no apology,^✦ worshippin' my anthropology^✦

Fuck the modesty! Studyin' microbiology^✦

Causin'^✦ verbal lobotomy^✦ is in my genealogy^✦

Six-months of sobriety, movin'^✦ very^✦ methodically^✦

Like a unicorn, more waves^✦ than oceanography

Gods acknowledge me, rip shows anti-biotically^✦

True thugs bionically^✦ give birth to criminology^✦

[Verse 3: Wordsworth]

Uh, yo, check it, yo, uh-huh, yo!

Now, as a youngin', I swear to God, y'all couldn't tell me nothin'^✦

I swore I was gettin'^✦ somethin', clothes-on humpin'^✦

For girls with the church, slacks with some shirts tucked^✦ in

I set it up for money,^✦ my mom worked^✦ when I was cuttin'^✦

Unsigned strugglin', for the heat I lit the oven^✦

One would buy the CD, the other^✦ would do the dubbin'^✦

Before^✦ I met Tribe, I was in the clubs frontin'

"Oh, yeah, I know Tip" – when I see him, I be duckin'^✦

But now when I'm clubbin', those that used^✦ to dis me buggin'^✦

Overweight chicks, spandex, they stomachs sucked^✦ in

Stay interruptin', dance and try to cut in

Told people that you got in free when you really^✦ snuck in

[Verse 4: Q-Tip]

We never^✦ get concerned^✦ about^✦ who's in the lead

We just stay workin'^✦ so no one will need

An unconcerned^✦ outsider givin'^✦ niggas^✦ feed

My niggas^✦ puff weed, but negotiate^✦ the seed

The family^✦ is granite, and you can't intercede

Or try to switch lanes^✦ at this operatin'^✦ speed

Cats in the game be gamblin' with greed

We the house, you the player and we gonna^✦ catch these

Who's the Sam Snead makin'^✦ microphones bleed?

Poker-face creed while my mind just read

Shorty^✦ got rhythm, but her freak got freed

(That's) insignificant, but (this) take heed

[Verse 5: Mos Def]

They say I'm pretty^✦ like Clay is, bright like the day is

Beats from my fleet be sweet like Sugar^✦ Ray is

I'm swingin' this from Bay Ridge to where the Oakland Bay is

My game is tough to play, I'm tucked^✦ away^✦ like your safe is

The aim is to make you recognize what the name is

Mos Def gon' set it straight from where the 7-1-8 is

The place with the greats who originate^✦ the flavors

A All-Star^✦ block with some All-Star^✦ neighbors

(Turn the music^✦ down!) This is probably^✦ some haters

Achin'^✦ 'cause they hear us rotatin'^✦ on the playlist

From B-boy laces^✦ to Detroit gators

Yo, Tip, I gotta^✦ bail, where the scale? Help me weigh this

[Outro: Q-Tip]

Yo! We want all y'all to know

That this is the family,^✦ right?

And what we want everybody out there to do

On the dance floor

Is get ready^✦

Because now, we gonna^✦

[Hook: All]

Rock rock y'all, freak freak y'all