Lyrics My Kung-Fu - Mos Def, Dcq, Ces

My Kung-Fu

Baba-baba-baba-baba-baba, you been so good to me When I was a little boy you were the only one I wanted to be To be like pa duke and ma duke\nHow much I love the both of you\nI know all the strain we been through\nBut it’s of no consequence cause we’re comin through\nCheck it I first studied my kung fu in the Brakalak\nIn the center of (?)\nThis had to be about ten years back\nBefore I ever even heard of a 24 track\nTalkin about you was an MC was not the move\nCause if you said you had skill, well then you had to show and prove\nAnd if there ever was a party, son yo, I would set it And tell the DJ run the beat from (Ultra-magnetic)\nI grab the mic and then I leave the party buzzin\nTellin all the honeys I was Slick Rick’s cousin\nWhen they knew I wasn’t, but I had no shame\nPa, you know the name, the Mos always had game\nBack in the day of the Rap Attack\nWhen brothers knew how to act, before glocks and crack\nAnd Vandy C was doin radio shows\nAnd 'crossover'meant that you wore your mom’s clothes\nWhen Sweet G was talkin about the games that people play\nI used to sit back and say: yeah indeed, someday\nAnd as I grew older my kung fu grew better\nInstead of shootin the humbles I was shootin (?)\nAnd now my time has come\nAnd now hip-hop's an industry polluted by bums\nPosin with guns, they’re puffin mad blunts\nAiyo, brothers just started rhymin last month\nThey gettin fat deals on any major label\nWhen they only seen other people hold the mic cable\nFive years ago when we was dancin house\nWhen the DJ played hip-hop, then you walked out\nBut now you’re hard, talkin about you paid mad dues\nI used to see your ass abused wearin platform shoes\nI ain’t confused, who you think you’re foolin with that get-up?\nYou ain’t genuine, so don’t waste your time\nRiffin over here cause there ain’t no chance\nThat you could break the sound, son, you ain’t that advanced\nTimes are gettin critical across the land\nDon’t provide the b-boy, introduce the b-man — understand?\nThe M-o-s D is who I am, now check it out, y’all\nMy kung fu is the style you haven’t mastered\nAt the age of 18 made a little money\nAnd I needed some advice on how to live my life\nWas goin through strife, people couldn’t understand\nThat I was comin into my own, becomin a man\nI had to have a plan cause I know what I’m here for\nSo I can’t waste time, y’all\nGotta be on the ball and represent for my peeps\n(Where?) In the streets!\nI make beats and kick facts over fat tracks\nIt’s all of that from the Brakalak\nGoin through problems as a adolescent\nA lot of troubles and turmoils, there was persistence\nAnd I know that I stutter\nBut it don’t matter cause I’m a bad —\nI flip a verse either backwards, sideways\nI rocks my from here, Mondays, Fridays\nSaturdays and I get a weekend off\nMy ain’t soft\n(Well, excuse me, baby)\nYou paid your dues cause I’m the boss\nSo mother Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross\nBecause they know what the time is I rock for the fly kids, b-men, bouncin bass bombastics\nKick it drastic, you get tossed like an ash, kid\nYouknowmsayin?\nWell, I’m sleek and I freak a beat\nFor you and your peeps to bump inside your jeeps\nYour Acura, Honda or whatever\nBump it in the Benzi and get your head together\nStrollin down the F.D.R.\nPlayin the microphone star\nDeep in your car\nWith the thump-diddy-thump-da-thump-da-thump-thump\nPop up the trunk and let the bass bump\nIf you ain’t got a ride, well, that’s alright\nLet the U keep you company on your hike\nTrekin down the ave with your headphones on Take em off for a sec, you still feel gone\nYou’re pressin rewind, many, many times\nI must rock the mic cause it’s only right\nComin right up off of Eastern ground\nThis is how you get down, I hope you like the sound\nThermo offering number one\nThere’s more in store, there’s more to come\nWe far from done, no, the show ain’t over\nSo when we comin through, don’t say I never told ya That