Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Examination Of What, artist - Digable Planets. Album song Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space), in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 31.12.1992
Record label: Capitol
Song language: English
Examination Of What |
One day while I was sipping some groove juice I realized |
That in the span of time we’re just babies |
It’s all relative, time is unreal |
We’re just babies, we’re just babies, man |
Check out, check out |
Every man’s a planet and the props are there to get it |
Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit |
Life, it comes & goes and you do not punch a clock |
I don’t take shit for granted, I think of Scott La Rock |
Also of Tyrel and the battles at the borders |
My cousins in the joint and the homeless gripping quarters |
The forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinking |
Don’t cover up the nappy, be happy whatcha kinking |
Dwelling, yes, you’re dwelling as the norm is itty-bitty |
Figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city |
In the Serengeti, get ready for a box |
But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the Glocks |
If your peoples don’t getcha, you still ain’t off clean |
The politicians mask is worse than Halloween |
I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick em |
Now tell me who’s the vics and tell me who’s the victim |
What is really what is really what is really what |
— if the funk don’t move your butt |
— and if the box don’t make you hot |
— and if the cats don’t dig the raps |
— if your life ain’t got no spice |
— or if the guns just wreck your fun |
— or if some shouts ain’t in the house |
— or if your crew ain’t down with you |
Peace, this is Mecca the Ladybug and I’m saying though |
What is really what if I can’t even get comfortable |
Because the Supreme Court is like, all in my uterus |
Peace, this is Cee-Know the Doodlebug and I wanna say |
What is what if you can’t walk through your hood with Bert, Ernie and Sesame |
Street posse |
Trying to give the Snuffleupagus |
My father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems |
Ate peanuts with the Dizz and vibed with Lionel Hampton |
Now I’m swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics |
Now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic |
Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it |
Hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it |
The old-jacks buckwild and some babies bore their fists |
But the crew from outer space is here, shit |
We grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth Freddy |
And scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady |
Now bleach is in the laundry, the same old beats is handy |
The label may okay it but radio won’t play it |
The censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes |
The legs that’s in the boots is on the corner, with your tape |
Making papes off the crust, for money and for lust |
You’re playing out the planets get slammed, trust |
You think it, see it, run it and slam it |
They peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it |
It just ain’t the haps if they know they can’t control it |
Your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it |
So what |
I’m saying what |
What is really what is really what is really what |
If the funk don’t rule your cut |
Or if the streets don’t dig your beats |
Or if my man ain’t fifty grand |
Or if the hoods don’t think you’re good |
Or if your church don’t really work |
Or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs |
Or if the jeeps don’t roll with beats |
Cause Butterfly is. |
baby, I’m just a baby, man |
I’m a baby, I’m just a baby, man |
And Mr. Doodle? |
(I'm just a baby too) |
And Miss Mecca (I'm just a baby, man) |
And Mister Silk, he’s just a baby, too |
And 801s, they just babies, man |
And Miss Venus, she’s just a baby, man |
The ac-facts, they just a babies, man |
And dps, they just a babies, too |
Oh and, Dash, she’s just a baby, man |
Danny and Dani, they are my babies, man |
Oh and Liz, she’s just a baby, man |
Oh and Stella, she’s just a baby too |
Doc Shane, he’s just a baby, man |
Mike Mann, he’s just my main man |
And Doctor Timba, he’s just a baby, man |
And nappy Jackie, she’s just a baby, too |
Benefi-cent, he’s just a baby, man |
Oh, and you |
You’re just a baby, man |
Ladybug here y’all with Silver Tongue |
Nice cold drums |
With eyes, open wide |
And open pride, which lies inside |
The Digable Planets' eyes |
Peace, this is Cee-Know, the notorious Doodlebug |
Giving universal salutations to my peoples |
Dwelling in the seventh dimension |
Brother Butter |
Uh, um, it was real fun |
Sector six, here I come |
Chilling out, pops and Dani I’m out, later |