Stop messing around with my sanity,
Got me in a bubble, I can barely breathe…
- Truth Enola, “Voicetress,” 12”, 1999
How long before they split like atoms?
Don’t ask me, but what I do stand behind
Is someone havin’ your back seems hard to find.
- Posdnous, “The Book of Life,” from De La Soul’s Plug 1 and Plug 2, First Serve, 2012
Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis
Wouldn’t exchange the love and fame
Attached to their loved ones’ names
Just to have ‘em still alive in their arms?
- Posdnuos, “Rewind DJ, ” from Eslam Jawaad’s The Mammoth Tusk, 2009
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don’t sleep
- Q-Tip, “Mind Power, ” A Tribe Called Quest’s Beats, Rhymes and Life, 1996
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
- Posdnuos, “The Grind Date,” from De La Soul’s The Grind Date, 2004
Come on everybody, wear your rollerskates today
It’s Saturday…
- De La Soul, “A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays,’” De La Soul is Dead, 1991
- Dove, “The Bizness,” from De La Soul’s Stakes is High, 1996
- Afrika Baby Bam, “Buddy”, from De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising, 1989
Colombians ain’t never ran with your crew.
Why you acting all spicy and sheisty?
The only Italians you knew was ICEEs.
- Dove, “Itsoweezee,” Stakes is High, 1996
For I cannot see
Where the booty is.
- Dres, “Fanatic of the B Word,” from De La Soul Is Dead, 1991
The engine to my comprehension is just too complex
- Dove, “The Bizness,” from De La Soul’s Stakes is High, 1996
See, it could all change in one eye blink.
- De La Soul, “Trouble in the Water,” from DJ Honda’s HII, 1998
- Common, “The Bizness”, from De La Soul’s Stakes is High, 1996
