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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
De La Soul
Vocals
Prince Paul
Vocals
Maseo
Vocals
Posdnuos
Vocals
Trugoy the Dove
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
David Jude Jolicoeur
Songwriter
Vincent Mason
Songwriter
Kelvin Mercer
Songwriter
Edna Wright
Songwriter
Paul Huston
Songwriter
William Marvin Smith
Songwriter
Jeff Perry
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
De La Soul
Producer
Prince Paul
Producer
Tom Coyne
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
This time, put it in mellow
Here we go again
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
First P is passed
I am known as
Posdnuos, Plug One to the whole race
Rhyme on a tour
Smart and mature
Dispatch obscure things with a mad face
Tall, dark and lean
Was once nineteen
Now I'm one year older with reason
Clean thoughts and drawers
Rhyme flow never stalls
The, "Yes, yes, yes, y'all"s
Are in this season
The Soul reached high plains
They didn't reach Soul Train
But Don don't like rap
So that won't happen
Fame we don't lust
God we do trust
Arsenio dissed us
But the crowd kept clapping
Blessed with soul's lights
So turn off your bright
Overexposure will bring about a clear soul
Don't push, but pile
For this here new style
And excuse me, y'all, while I fill my potholes
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Oh yeah
Pass the peas like they used to say
Passed off second
Tru, I reckon
Head full of dreads but knowledge inside
Singin' on records, making it hectic
Wishing it all would fall and die
Radio works it, public consumes it
Tommy Boy wants another Say No, huh
Rough and rugged
It's not a new twist
Been Trugoy since the first get go
Here's the D.A.I.S.Y.
Watching it die, see?
Native is the new like Balance is the shoe
Paul makes a mil like dill makes pickles
Plus is to add like addin' to the crew is
Pimps promote us, RM's work us
MP's watch us close in focus
Watch me steppin', now I'm dancin'
Then disappear with the hocus pocus
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
<span begin="2:21.323" end="2:23.648">People in the place this is very hard to conceal</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:23.771" end="2:25.904">(Pos, get funky, check it out)</span></span>
<span begin="2:26.080" end="2:28.571">People in the place this is very hard to conceal</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:28.639" end="2:30.858">(Dove, get funky, check it out)</span></span>
<span begin="2:31.066" end="2:33.349">People in the place this is very hard to conceal</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:33.589" end="2:35.781">(Mase, get funky, check it out)</span></span>
<span begin="2:35.967" end="2:38.277">People in the place this is very hard to conceal</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:38.287" end="2:40.388">(Prince Paul, get funky)</span></span>
Pass the peas like they used to say
Pass the peas like they used to say
Yeah
Pass the peas like they used to say
Mmm
Pass the peas like they used to say
Fourth P is passed
I am known as
Prince Paul
Yeah, thanks Mase
Applied like chapsticks
To songs are slapsticks
Skeezoids with polaroids give me such a case
Trife or not trife
Don't own a wife
Yet I'm down and around for a good kiss
I got a forty of Pepsi
A girl in Bed-Stuy
And I'll end it like this!
Will rise, not fall
Definition, Prince Paul
Our mentor, don't be sore
When I say that's all
Written by: David Jude Jolicoeur, E. James Smith, Edna Wright, Gregory Stephen Perry, Kelvin Mercer, Paul Huston, Vincent Mason, William Marvin Smith, j.perry