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Digable Planets
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Digable Planets
Composer
Shuggie Otis
Composer
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Digable Planets
Producer
Dave Darlington
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Brooklyn got the funk
Uptown got the funk
East, west, north side got the funk
L.A. got the funk
Boogie Down got the funk
Queens do got the funk
The bottom got the funk
We got the funk
[Verse 2]
I'm high as the wind, so I blow minds
Curb hanger and hop head at the oracle of hipster
Just like Black Caesar, my depths are fresh
'Cause you're a fish, and I'm a water sign
My laid-back pimp walk is linear by design
Gold fronts soul, I shottie, now watch you shine
Me and C-Know makin' it abundant
I'm glad to see my ****, he plush and lavish on the block
[Verse 3]
Cleaner than others in my form, I resort on the corners
Connect with my propers, top my double players
Cleo still hittin' till .38's pump and they up it
Yell it and could never be de-funked
I'm totem in the fashionable flyers
Un-scared against the palest of 'em
Gem percents unheard since I'm the de-stormed on sixty-nine's power
Block
[Verse 4]
You can check my stats, I got crazy ups, baby
C-Know got style, don't play me like I'm lazy
Fadey, but never will I go out
My clout is known across the Crooklyn lands
My universal fans got stamina
Polar bears and fear when we step in the arena
Three-six-oh, C-Know, simply cyclin'
Firm as a rock, print the god when I'm buildin' blocks
[Verse 5]
Mec', she got the funk
She got the funk, yeah
My man, C-Knowledge, got the funk
He got the funk, yeah
[Verse 6]
From the one-one-two-one-seven, I transmit
My area is thick, my vision focused
My jitterbugs limp and learn as I squirm
But I'm a team player, so I waits my turn
And when I get the rock, I'm goin' straight to the hole
My average per game is pure black soul
In the thirteen, X'd out the ignorance
Got the clearance to speak intelligence on the block
[Verse 7]
Into illusion, we drown
Five-four sound smooth enough to break you back
Another pound as my conscience get they rest
That's right, we shaft it
Includes this pro strips as I shit, burnin', blowin'
Shakin' me a solid, three different bags of proof
Why won't you swallow it? Approach you one time, the clearest
Finer and sharper in the hours of black steel power
Blocks
[Verse 8]
Son, I'm divin'
I worm, walk in jeans, high sworn
The **** in the Cadillac, so watch my spokes twist
Spread him out a pound, you slide me two-one-two-six
My soul-zodiac stroll with G licks
My understanding bill doses sevens to the six
I pump a fist, even my head got an ego
Id and super id, the kid is super-kid
I doozy with the young marts plus The seven odds on the B-line
[Verse 9]
Butterfly got the funk
He got the funk, yeah
Sulaiman got the funk
He got the funk, yeah
[Verse 10]
Ayo, here's the man
True mastermind, born and planned
Talents, skills none can withstand
So kill the sham as I speak techniques mad deep, mad deep
To represent for the streets the city corners
Leave 'em hot as a sauna
Word is bond 'cause Sul the steps be on
The true original sunset to rise with foes
And those you probably recognized on the block
[Verse 11]
I play my Jeff tilted 'cause I got style
Like every **** at the corner stroll with brown boots
This is our block and we do be trippin'
Ringin' round the ave like Santa at mad volume
I flash a slick grin sayin', "Cool with nuance"
The donut eater sweatin' the blacks we all fronts
He asked me, what's my name?
I told him, Mark Essex
Sucker, I got lessons forever I'm 'bout to bless it
Ayo, Sul, noise it up, blocks
[Verse 12]
I know you feel that you're real
Till you check the steelo, peep the crew members
Brothers like Ambush and C-O
Filthy rich down to mansey savages
Showin' how chaos is the method to your madness
Real troops walk around with the joints, so get the point
Get, get the point, get the point, get the point
And now lounge to the sounds 'cause the best spoke
I catch you on the next note or on the block
[Verse 13]
Originals got the funk
We got the funk, yeah
Hip hop gots the funk
He keeps the funk, yeah
Teri got the funk
Monica got the funk
D.P.S. got the funk
Seven Odds got the funk
Operation From The Bottom got the funk
7 and a Crescent got the funk
Jazzy Joyce got the funk
Joi, know she got the funk
Ruth, there, he got the funk
Pudgee straight got the funk
The streets got all the funk
Three T's got all the funk
Zhane got the funk
H.B. got the funk
Little P.O. Seven got the funk
Benef. Seven got the funk
Actual Facts Seven got the funk
Soul Foods got the funk
K.B. got the funk
Rodo got the funk
Brother Arthur 4 got the funk
T.E. got the funk
Dave got the funk
Dex got the funk
Watch Prophets got the funk
We got the funk, yeah
Written by: Digable Planets, Shuggie Otis