[ti:Excursions]
[ar:A Tribe Called Quest]
[al:The Low End Theory]
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[00:00.00]Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest
[00:05.40]Written by：Kamaal Fareed/A Tribe Called Quest
[00:10.80]Back in the days when I was a teenager
[00:13.05]Before I had status and before I had a pager
[00:15.77]You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
[00:17.94]My pops used to say it reminded him of Bebop
[00:20.22]I said well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles
[00:22.68]
[00:23.21]Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael
[00:25.59]It's all expected things are for the looking
[00:28.16]If you got the money Quest is for the booking
[00:30.64]Come on everybody let's get with the fly mode
[00:33.16]Still got room on the truckload of black boom
[00:35.72]Listen to the rhymes then get a mental picture
[00:38.23]Of this black man and black woman fixture
[00:40.71]Why do I say that cos I gotta speak the truth man
[00:43.14]Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
[00:45.77]Planted on the ground the act is so together
[00:48.13]Bona fide strong you need leverage to sever
[00:50.03]
[00:50.60]The unit yes the unit yes the unit called the jazz is
[00:53.14]Delivering each year an LP filled with street goods
[00:55.87]You can find it on your rack in your record store
[00:58.21]If you get the record say your thoughts are adored
[01:00.37]And appreciated cause we're ever so glad we made it
[01:03.32]We work hard so we gotta thank God
[01:05.30]
[01:05.84]Dishing out the plastic do the dance till you're spastic
[01:08.24]If you diss it gets drastic
[01:10.77]Listen to the rhyme cause it's time to make gravy
[01:13.38]If it moves your booty then shake shake it baby
[01:15.75]All the way to Africa  the Motherland
[01:18.37]Stick out the left then I'll ask for the other hand
[01:20.85]That's the right hand Black man
[01:22.39]
[01:23.06]Only if you are noted as my man
[01:24.85]
[01:25.82]If I get the credit then I think I deserve it
[01:28.35]If you fake moves don't fix your mouth to word it
[01:30.85]Get in the zone of positivity not negativity
[01:33.33]
[01:33.94]Cos we gotta strive for longevity
[01:35.85]If you botch up what's in that a**
[01:37.24]
[01:38.09]What
[01:38.60]A pair of Nikes size ten and a half
[01:40.34]
[01:41.89]We gotta make moves words
[01:43.53]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[01:46.97]We gotta make moves words
[01:48.65]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[01:51.94]We gotta make moves
[01:52.72]
[01:53.34]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[01:57.01]We gotta make moves
[01:57.90]
[01:58.48]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[02:02.38]Time time is a ship on a merciless sea
[02:05.56]Drifting toward an average of nothingness
[02:07.55]
[02:08.11]Until it can be retarded for its own destiny
[02:10.54]Time is an inanimate object
[02:12.99]Praying and praying and praying with no justification for relief
[02:16.58]Time is dancing boogalooing away all memories of past
[02:20.16]
[02:21.02]We gotta be a winner all the time
[02:22.98]Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
[02:25.36]With the d**e raps and d**e tracks we move blocks
[02:27.85]From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
[02:30.33]Musically the Quest is on the rise
[02:32.85]We on these excursions so you must realize
[02:34.84]
[02:35.34]That continually I pop my Zulu sh*t
[02:37.99]If you don't like it get off the Zulu tip
[02:40.23]So what can you do in the times which exist
[02:42.78]You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis
[02:45.21]But if your sis is a b**ch brother is a jerk
[02:47.90]Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
[02:50.25]Whatever it may be in today's society
[02:52.86]Everything is fair least that's how it seems to me
[02:55.34]You must be honest and true to the next
[02:57.97]Don't be phony and expect one not to flex
[03:00.41]Especially if you rhyme you have to live by the pen
[03:02.89]Your man is your man then treat him like your friend
[03:05.13]
[03:05.77]All it is is the code of the streets
[03:07.74]So listen to the knowledge being dropped over beats
[03:10.50]Beats that are hard beats that are funky
[03:13.10]They could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
[03:15.54]What you gotta do is know the Tribe is in the sphere
[03:17.84]The Abstract Poet prominent like Shakespeare
[03:20.52]Or Edgar Allan Poe or Langston Hughes
[03:22.82]We gotta make moves
[03:23.93]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[03:27.12]We gotta make moves
[03:27.96]
[03:28.57]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[03:32.06]We gotta make moves
[03:32.90]
[03:33.71]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[03:37.05]We gotta make moves
[03:38.37]Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
[03:42.14]Time is running out on black power advocates in the day
[03:44.23]And white thigh supporters at night
[03:45.40]Every time you see them they're chasing some white woman
[03:47.76]With their tongue hanging out
[03:49.10]Time is running and passing passing and running
[03:51.85]Running and passing passing and running