The World Is Listening Remix歌詞

[ti:The World Is Listening Remix]
[ar:Akua Naru]
[al:The Journey Aflame]
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[00:00.00]The World Is Listening Remix - Akua Naru
[00:01.27]Flash
[00:01.79]Flash
[00:02.42]Flashback '88
[00:03.92]Copped my first tape
[00:05.00]Third Grade
[00:05.66]Young girl banking Roxanne Shante
[00:07.94]Around my way
[00:08.86]Called McKay
[00:09.89]Disarray
[00:10.69]Langston's a dark hues get bruised
[00:12.76]Stored away hey
[00:13.72]Caught in cage
[00:14.59]Fought in the maze gave up
[00:16.06]And now I got dreams of being live on stage
[00:18.75]What
[00:19.22]Turn up the volume me and my cousin
[00:21.19]Doing the wop
[00:22.23]Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut
[00:24.34]Speakers bump like the rock pumps
[00:26.67]The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump
[00:28.77]What you want at once
[00:30.02]And we love the
[00:31.30]We dreamed of ourselves
[00:32.55]Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was
[00:35.16]Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip
[00:37.72]Sweet Tee to follow Monie in the
[00:39.45]Middle on the scene
[00:40.51]So then saw myself I'll drop mics
[00:42.26]When I'm over
[00:42.91]Pick up a pen and like Antoinette
[00:44.56]Lights Out Party's Over
[00:46.11]This is for Latifah for Lyte for Shante
[00:47.99]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B
[00:50.38]For Jean Grae
[00:51.28]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me
[00:53.89]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy
[00:56.18]This is for Rah Digga Rage Left Eye
[00:58.12]For Yo-Yo
[00:58.95]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat for Jane Doe
[01:01.69]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D
[01:03.28]For those never seen
[01:04.35]On the search for female emcees
[01:06.21]The microphone fiends
[01:07.60]Stomped in the '90s
[01:08.57]After school you could find me
[01:10.00]In the backyard begging for a beat box
[01:12.01]Rhyming
[01:12.57]U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues
[01:14.42]Claim the news of the death
[01:15.80]Of Phyllis Hymen
[01:16.61]I rap to keep from crying
[01:17.97]Taking Mine now I'm the Bo
[01:19.29]Recipe for a show
[01:20.29]They say no girls in the cipher
[01:21.81]So I rock solo
[01:22.96]Then on the Blackstreet
[01:24.11]Ill Na Na get me home though
[01:25.88]I rap along to every song
[01:27.23]And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo
[01:28.83]Check how I hit every note though
[01:30.67]Even sung along with patois
[01:32.31]Like in the joint she did with Patra
[01:34.22]I'm on a Romantic Call
[01:36.33]Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard
[01:38.39]Blank page calling a
[01:40.03]The crowd yes ya'llin'
[01:40.72]Nonchalantly in the trees
[01:41.34]At five o'clock in the morning
[01:42.23]Sported he Kim hardcore wig
[01:43.77]Then came Lauryn
[01:44.88]She showed me the beauty and the natural cut
[01:47.23]Amplify my Rage growing out my afro puffs
[01:50.13]This is for Latifah for Lyte for Shante
[01:52.77]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B
[01:54.94]For Jean Grae
[01:55.86]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me
[01:58.48]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy
[02:00.81]This is for Rah Digga Rage
[02:02.25]Left Eye for Yo-Yo
[02:03.57]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat
[02:05.34]For Jane Doe
[02:06.24]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D
[02:07.82]For those never seen
[02:08.91]On the search for female emcees
[02:10.67]The microphone fiends
[02:11.84]New millennium came of age
[02:13.10]While things stayed the same
[02:14.31]Media forms changed
[02:15.45]New name from What-What to Jean Grae
[02:17.25]We bootlegged the bootleg
[02:18.48]Facebook or MySpace
[02:19.91]Put away cassette and VHS
[02:21.42]Tapes in vinyl crates
[02:22.78]Fast forward album release dates
[02:24.50]Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify
[02:27.24]In these days
[02:27.99]Tell me what's the plight
[02:29.04]Of a female MC's fate
[02:30.63]Or what's the worth of a
[02:31.73]Woman's story to a DJ
[02:33.23]Downloading everyone and now
[02:35.09]My heroes seemingly gone
[02:36.32]Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged
[02:37.88]Guess I lost one
[02:38.92]Some come and go
[02:39.87]Self-labeled b***h and ho
[02:41.20]A heretic of discourse
[02:42.83]I turn off the radio
[02:43.98]I can't relate nor can I hate
[02:45.87]For the ways we negotiate
[02:47.23]The sexist spaces we navigate
[02:49.47]I stay reppin'
[02:50.33]Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent
[02:52.07]It seems
[02:52.63]Fantasy's what people want reality to be
[02:54.56]This is for Latifah for Lyte
[02:56.54]For Shante
[02:57.29]Bahamadia Lauryn Hill Heather B
[02:59.46]For Jean Grae
[03:00.39]E-V-E Nikki D Salt-N-Pepa even me
[03:02.89]Apani B for Missy for Kim and Foxy
[03:05.18]This is for Rah Digga Rage
[03:06.75]Left Eye for Yo-Yo
[03:08.00]Paula Perry Nonchalant Da Brat
[03:09.78]For Jane Doe
[03:10.75]Rage Mystic BO Sparky D
[03:12.31]For those never seen
[03:13.37]On the search for female emcees
[03:15.07]The microphone fiends
[03:16.51]The world is listening
[03:27.57]The world is listening
[03:38.17]The world is listening