Shaheed:
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It's a new decade
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The Native Tongues are about to proceed with the usual lingo
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The usual rhythm
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Q-Tip:
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Devoted to...the art of moving butts
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The rhythm's happenin, and it's movin up
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The Tribe has been on hold for much too long
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Don't fear the rhythm because it's strong
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On the corners, brothas bop their heads
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>From the high-tops to the knotty dreads
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I'm a nubian y'all, look what we did
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Took the crust away from the third eye lid
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Now, it's kinda open, longs to see the site
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Rhythms of the Tribe which is passed out right
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Night after night, day after day
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Questin for the rhythms of the Native Tongue lay
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Rhythm is the key as we open up the door
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Things a B-boy has never seen before
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Polyrhythmatic with a big fat boom
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You have an eargasm as you start to consume
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The ghetto beat with a ghetto poem
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Yeah, it's from the heart, cuz it's from the home
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Jarobi, Phife, Ali Shaheed
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Call me Koala, got what you need
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You're a disc jock, then jock this
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Rhythms can't lose, rhythms can't miss
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If you feel uptight and you need to freak
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It'll be alright once we drop this beat
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chorus:
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I got the rhythm, you got the rhythm(8X)
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Q-Tip:
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Ma ma sa ah, ma ma coo sa
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Gets hectic, freak a bourgeios
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We Quest around for the musical hard
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On the avenues, streets and boulevard
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Not sellin out, that's a negative
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Lovin hip hop, lovin heritage
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Got the instinct to travel miles and miles
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Gotta whole lot of room for piles and piles
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Now, you're kinda with it, wanna get the funk
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>From the Zulu Nation, toppin all the junk
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Standin on the top like the Temptations said
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Rhythms are obese, yeah, you gotta keep 'em fed
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Read what I read, can't be better said
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Tribalic motions dabble in the head
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Sweetback's bad, not as bad a beat
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It's a "stone groove baby"
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Continue, on the windy road
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But, I'm luggin, a crazy big load
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Will we be on point for the ninety deck
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Is it muscle bound and will it flex?
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But trudgin, we are used to
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You don't Quest alone, Quest with a crew
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We're four, once more, must make the tracks
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You see four fronts, but now you see four backs
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chorus(unti end)
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Rhythm (Devoted to the Art of Moving Butts)
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| A Tribe Called Quest |
