
Date of issue: 31.12.2004
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Pimpa's Paradise |
And yes y’all, you now rocking with the best |
Black Thought from the legendary Roots crew in the flesh |
I split up in here with the brothers from the Marley family |
Creston--we gon' say it for y’all |
She loves to party, have a good time |
She looks so hearty, feeling fine |
She loves to smoke, sometimes shifting coke |
Hey… she'd be laughing when there ain’t no joke |
Pimpa’s paradise! |
that’s all she was now |
Pimpa’s paradise! |
that’s all she was |
Pimpa’s paradise! |
that’s all she was now |
Pimpa’s paradise! |
that’s all she was |
Cause coke was a thing that once she first try |
Was once a blue moon to once a blue sky |
Now she’s wondering who else wants to go buy |
She don’t got no money and wants to get high |
Story sounds familiar, |
Like born to be wild but she sillier |
Not quite the same, but she similar |
A waste of my sarsaparilla |
Used to look good in the videos, now she look hideous |
Now it’s broken crack pipes with lipstick traces |
Walks the cold nights red district places |
She seen more hotels than my tour suitcases |
More male customers than Old Navy’s |
She love lime light more than John Swaby’s |
Seen more miles than a Rent-A-Avis |
She don’t slow down then someday maybe |
She lost and can’t find her way to safety |
Check it out |
She keep her head up in the space like a satellite |
Because she got an insatiable appetite |
For staying out late nights with all the parasites |
Plotting on a way to cop a little piece of paradise |
Her dignity the only thing that she could sacrifice |
Just get the monkey off her back and she’d be back in line |
Five minutes she stay on the move, |
She’d done smoked up the stone that the builder refused |
All coked up alone, she ain’t even in tune |
And it’s sad cause she ain’t really have a reason to use |
She was pretty girl |
Cleaner than the Board of Health |
Studied and enjoyed herself, I don’t know what drove her to avoid herself |
Destroyed herself and took a taste of the yay' |
And now she on the track, working while she wasting away |
It’s safe to say, she looking for a someplace to stay |
Who ever got a little paper to play |
Can get a slice of this… |
For no reason a seasoned splif was the first thing |
One spring season while she’s out flirting |
Now she season in and don’t need rehearsing |
Esteem get a beating, life is uncertain |
Ego need feeding, now the wants worsen |
Beneath the demons she’s a warm person |
When she’s not fiending, swearing and cursing |
Behind the curtains, she’s really hurting |
And while her people don’t even trust her at home |
The dealer dem grin and cook the rocks down |
And she without sin will spark the first stone |
The feeling kicks in she’s in the dark zone |
Old friends walk pass going 'bout their own |
As if she is someone that they don’t know |
Then the King of Kings lift her off the floor |
Saying, «Life is a thing when you learn you grow.» |
She rise and she fall like a star |
Her life write off like a car |
Her face full of all kinda scar |
Always quick fi start a war |
She can’t keep herself up to par |
She plays like a broken guitar |
She always want tek it too far |
I doubt she a-go mek it too far |
She rise and she fall like a star |
Her life write off like a car |
Her face full of all kinda scar |
Always quick fi start a war |
She can’t keep herself up to par |
She plays like a broken guitar |
She always want tek it too far |
Mi wonder how she mek it so far |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Make It Bun Dem ft. Damian Marley | 2012 |
X-Ecutioner Style ft. Black Thought, Roc Raida, Sean C | 2020 |
Medication ft. Damian Marley | 2017 |
Right Now ft. Black Thought, Styles of Beyond | 2005 |
Patience ft. Damian Marley | 2010 |
You're Gonna Leave | 2007 |
Three Little Birds ft. Jason Bentley | 2012 |
Burnin' And Lootin' ft. The Roots, Black Thought | 1998 |
Welcome To Jamrock | 2004 |
Road To Zion ft. Nas | 2004 |
Yah Yah ft. Royce 5'9, Black Thought, Q-Tip | 2020 |
One Love (in support of UNICEF) ft. Bob Marley, Skip Marley, Cedella Marley | 2020 |
Medication ft. Stephen Marley | 2017 |
America ft. Black Thought, Chuck D, Big Lenbo | 2017 |
Leaders ft. Damian Marley, Stephen Marley | 2010 |
Get A Light ft. Damian Marley | 2005 |
Thorn Or A Rose ft. Black Thought | 2016 |
Rock Stone ft. Capleton, Sizzla Kalonji | 2016 |
Immortals ft. Fall Out Boy | 2015 |
It Was Written ft. Capleton, Damian Marley, Drag-On | 2000 |
Artist lyrics: Damian Marley
Artist lyrics: Stephen Marley
Artist lyrics: Black Thought