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BACK ON THE
BLOCK - QUINCY JONES, ROD TEMPERTON, SIEDAH GARRETT, CAIPHUS SEMENYA,
ICE-T, MELLE MEL, BIG DADDY KANE, AND KOOL MOE DEE Ice-T, let me kick my credentials A young player bred in South Central, LA, home of the body bag You wanna die, wear the wrong color rag I used to walk in stores and yell "lay down" You flinch an inch, AK spray down But I was lucky 'cause I never caught the hard time I was blessed with the skill to bust a dope rhyme All my homies died or caught the penzo Lost their diamonds, cops towed the Benzo Livin' that life that we thought was it Fast lanin' but the car flipped I'm not gonna lie to ya 'cause I don't lie I just kick thick game some people say why? 'Cause I'm back on the block I got my life back So I schooled the fools about the fast track I get static for my style and my technique Profanity, the blatant way in which I speak But the Dude knows the streets ain't no kiddy game You don't know the Dude, Quincy's his first name He told me "Ice, keep doin' what you're doin', man Don't give a damn the squares don't understand, You let them tell you what to say and what to write, Your whole career'll be over by tomorrow night, Write from your heart and your heart's with the street Rap on my record man, Kimiko send Ice the beats," The Dude is back, he's def what can I say The man can roll with Ice-T or Michael J. (MELLE MEL) I'm back on the block, on the screen I'm on the wax, I'm on the stage, I'm on the scene I'm on the case just like an attorney The Dude took me on a magic journey To dance in France, alone in Rome On the farmlands of Nebraska, the cold of Alaska The heat of the Motherland to be with my brotherman On top of a snowcapped mountain I'm scoutin' What another man saw in a race of people To see him give his life for the price of equal The highest wisdoms the richest kingdoms The song of songs we heard David sing them He showed me me when I was young and hung out Showed me making love even showed me strung out He showed me pumpin' irons standing on a rock But tears came to my eyes when he showed me my block (ENGLISH VERSION) (TEVIN CAMPBELL AND ANDRAE CROUCH SINGERS) Stokie's just Stokie, Mama Stokie's Stokie And one by one each woman he kiss He kiss her and she gon'ta fall in love Stokie's just Stokie, ya know Stokie's Stokie Til someone shows that they care enough Ain't nothin gonna bother Stokie much Some say they can't take it no more Comin' here, comin' here startin' stuff But Dude is back on duty for sho' Back on the block to stay They say he ain't gonna be with it Comin' back, comin' back to the street But Dude he know he'll never forget it Back on the block to stay (BIG DADDY KANE) Back up and give the brother room To let poetry bloom to whom It may concern or consume As I reminisce before this The bliss that exists But now we brought about a twist 'Cause I remember reading of my people bleeding Put through slavery and killed for bravery We should have got our freedom much sooner You never seen a black man on the "Honeymooners" But now somehow we learn to earn To grow, to show The elevation that our people built is so Jesse Jackson, Miss America, a black one No more livin' for just a small fraction I was once told by the Dude that knowledge is a food To nourish so to conclude This from an Asiatic descendant, Big Daddy is shocked Yo Q, we Back on the Block (KOOL MOE DEE) An everlasting omnipresence is my present State of being seeing the unpleasant Sight of righteous souls live like peasants The mind stunts growth in adolescence My insight enables me to enlight The weakest of minds and put it in flight As I transcend, ascend or descend Recreate, re-incarnate, and re-send The powerful spirits of our ancestors For those that don't know how God blessed us Because man messed up the media dressed up Lies perpetrated as truths And it left us confused But I've seen it all before From Babylon to the Third World War I'm more than a man I'm more of an entity Back on the Block this time my identity is The Dude (TEVIN CAMPBELL) (ZULU VERSION) Stoki ke Stoki Mai-bo Stoki, Stoki Wam babma, wam bamb'u mandisa Wam bamba, wambamb'u mandisa Stoki ke stoki, mai-bo Stoki, Stoki Wam bamba, wam bamb'u mandisa Wam bamba, wam bamb'u mandisa M'yeke, yeke, yeke, wena Kh a' mye Kha'myeke wena 'Yo khala, khala, khala-U mama 'Yo khal'u mama khe M'yeke, yeke, yeke, wena Kh a' mye, Kha'myeke wena 'Yo khala, kha, 'yok 'shaya u Baba 'Yok 'sha y 'u Baba khe ENGLISH TRANSLATION Oh yes Stoki is Stoki Stoki is Stoki He grabbed, he grabbed Mandisa He grabbed, he grabbed Mandisa Oh yes Stoki is Stoki Stoki is Stoki He grabbed, he grabbed Mandisa He grabbed, he grabbed Mandisa You leave her alone, leave her alone You just leave her alone you Her mama's gonna cry, cry, cry Her mama will cry You leave her alone, leave her alone you You just leave her alone Her mama's gonna cry, her daddy's gonna beat you Her daddy's gonna kick your body |
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