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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Digable Planets
Digable Planets
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Maryann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira
Maryann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira
Composer
Craig L. "Doodlebug" Irving
Craig L. "Doodlebug" Irving
Composer
Bobby Robinson
Bobby Robinson
Composer
Ishmael Butler
Ishmael Butler
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Digable Planets
Digable Planets
Producer
Dave Darlington
Dave Darlington
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

Ah, yeah
Whole world
MCs
Who's slick?
We lounge, stay fat, notice our G limp
A natural flair with our fresh ass hair
Style baggy out, clout, slick
Creamy and fresh, East Coast to West
Brooklyn (Making money)
Uptown (Making money)
To the Universal fam (Making money)
Old School MCs (Making money)
I'm slicker this year, I'm slicker this year
Myrtle Ave, A train, got the pick in my hair
And what, sixteen joints later, still lounge
Fresh from Flatbush in my baggy booster Guess
Style is type ease, busted cami fatigues
50,000 leagues of black, so we shep
Can we avenue slide, player style, ghetto walk?
To the East son, wild Crooklyn, New York
Creamy kids yell, "Smith and Wesson" when I'm blessin'
The angular slang blow spots, bang, eleven
Hanging like bats 'cause the twelve-inch wax
Say, "Scorpio" and my hair say fro
And my blood say, "Bro"
My clique say, "Ayo"
Make sparks from the barrel, mental pistol
To the depths I dive, seems lunar, like aqua
The cool blast mega, we black, we wildflowers
Scott La Rock had 'em all
I gots to ball
And roll with little panthers through these project halls
The three-color flag can't hold my baggy sag
7-1-8 to omega
Black motion is ocean-style
Slick in my ways since days of deep classics
Now glamor boys wanna be triple-fatted
But I'm slicker this year, I'm slicker this year, yeah
East-born beats Tannoys on
Lovely, all over the city
In your tape deck, blasting
7R's and the fat fly sneakers and the camouflage
To the hip-hop nation (Making money)
To the mixtape crew (Making money)
To the West coast (Making money)
To the boogie down Bronx (Making money)
I was raised in the ways of the Manchu clan
And five elements posture, take a B-boy stance
With the gold front shining, baggy pants sagging
This Brooklyn styling got the fly girls smiling
But I'm climbing, finding new ways of rhyming
Not living like a star, it's strictly 'bout surviving
Diving, deep into the grooves of the ghetto
This downtown flavor shines from many angles
Yes, the notorious, with rhymes so glorious
The Manchu monkey over flunkies is victorious
Rappers be boring us with rhymes so conventional
Dazed and amazed when they hear the three-dimensional
Lyrical skills of the insect in motion
Coasting down Fulton with a bag of magic potion
Now I'm rolling with the seven and the crescents
Puffing some expression
Manifesting today's lessons
Stressing the fact that I'm solar
Guaranteed to go far
'Cause the mind is interstellar
Still peace like that, so have no fear
But I'm slicker this year, I'm slicker this year
To the queens everywhere (Making money)
To the whole S-I (Making money)
To the lumpen mass (Making money)
Don't forget about your peeps when ya (Making money)
Now you see that I'm 68 inches above sea level
93 million miles above these devils
Play me in the winter
Play me in the summer
Play me in the autumn
Any order
You want 'em, I got 'em, dripping like water
Catch me at a hot spot with the dusk daughters
We bouncing, moving within the true circles
We played you, made you change, straight New Yorked you
We stratify our wealth from my lucci in the bank
There's love amongst the ranks
Now I'ma 'bout to meet my homegirl 'cause we be alike
A-alike, C-alike, yes, G-alike
Jazzy Joyce
On the wheels
Jazzy Joyce
No one smoother
Jazzy Joyce
Fatter than a '94 land cruiser
Where you from?
The Bronx, representing like whatever, pa
Cool, are you slicker this year?
Yeah, watch
Written by: Bobby Robinson, Craig L. "Doodlebug" Irving, Ishmael Butler, Maryann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira
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