
Date of issue: 06.11.1989
Record label: Tommy Boy
Song language: English
Latifah's Law |
Alright listen, I’m back again cause that’s what you required of Me steady rhyming, and I’m so sick and tired of Being forced to put suckers in their place |
You make me mad enough to punch you in the face |
But I’m not trying, so never sound like I don’t bone to pick with you |
Show and prove that you can stand on your own two |
I speak the poetry, dissing those who keep on quoting me Try to play me, cease it, you don’t know me So smile in my face, behind my back take a line or two |
I’m not an idiot, so who you think you lying to? |
Queen Latifah’s here to lay the law down |
So speed it up or shake it around because it’s a showdown |
The 45 King is arising, suprising, hypnotising star, he’s up to par |
So I hope you’ve prepared yourself for what you’re in for |
This is Latifah’s Law |
BMW’s and gold rope chains don’t impress me Or get you closer to the point you can undress me Get skeezed, you nose will bleed, that’s how they live life |
Prepare to feel the wrath of the giver of all life |
Fire and desire make you go a little higher |
When I grab the wire of the mic |
And get hype, I’m sorry you sound dot |
Cause I roll like the homicide squad |
You must be broke and, hoping that I’m soft but I’m dope and |
Left you in the litter to consider coping with |
Life, it’s trife yeah, but these things happen |
You need to make it better, stop trying to be the mack again |
Get a grip on the African way |
Cause there’s a sucker born every day |
Crime’s the way for you to see what the Queen saw |
And this is Latifah’s law |
Now DJ Mark made up a beat that he can bring you |
And I of course supply the rhyme that you can swing to The Flavor Unit keeps all, and keeps a way to band |
And slides keep the hardcore fall, cause I’m heavy-handed |
Whip out a .45 caliber pen and begin |
A funky message from beginning to end |
Peace be to Africa, can’t forget my other land |
Won’t fulfill my heart unless I speak about the motherland |
You say you’re living right, but we know it’s nonsense |
In case you forgot, just check your conscience |
At showtime, I blow lines, you don’t get yours, I get mine |
Your showtimes, you behind, the Queen Latifah divine |
Rule number one: don’t step across the line that I drew |
Number two: don’t take credit for something that you didn’t do Number three: check your heart, every man has a call |
It’s time for me to go, but I’ll be back, y’all |
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