Start It Up

[Intro]

Yo, yo, I hope y'all ready

Are ya ready? Here we go

What ya deal with? Uh

What ya deal with? What ya deal with?

Turn me up some more

[Verse 1: Q-Tip]

Incognito, speakin', to ya

Feel this, have it, makin', music

Men and, women, boys and, girls and

Welcome to the movement, the fifth with improvement

Aristotle, Plato, Freud

Yeah right, Abstract, never, void

I make it, easy, for y'all to boogie down to

Hard to the ground, ooh, the Tribe with the sound boo

Touch me, tease me, feed me, squeezy

Take it, easy, never, sleazy

Promise, that I, will not, answer

The phone when it rings, love, while we do our thing, love

Never, fakin', enslave, spirits

Through the, music, is our, mission

Money's, cool, but not, cooler

Than a ghetto rebel risin' to overthrow a ruler

Dearly, beloved, dearly, departed

There's a, reason, why we, did it

Cause it's inside the body and the heart

So here we are fam, let's start, c'mon

[Hook: Q-Tip]

Don't beat me in the head with the bullshit bat

C'mon everybody, let's start (Uh, yo)

Don't beat me in the head with the bullshit bat

C'mon everybody, let's start (C'mon)

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]

Ummah, Mos, Jane Doe, Willy

Punchline, Wordsworth, SV, Chrissy

S.O.S., Tribe Called Quest

Get it off your chest, say it (Tribe Called Quest!)

Can you, feel it, when it, hit right?

Can you, feel it, when we, do it?

Truth, power, taste, devour

Niggas in the street, here comes the illest beat now

Move, oceans, with your, mental

Think it, do it, be it, embellish

Here's another point for everyone to relish

When Ski busts his tools, all y'all foes will embellish

For somethin', wicked, at y'all, faces

What I, see is, longin', needin'

Hey I got you with that good stuff

And ya probably won't get enough

Ayo, lyrics, I got it, lyrics, cadence

Do it, with fun, and, patience

Funky, rhythmic, characteristic

Ebonically lingustic with the ghetto futuristic

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay

[Hook: Q-Tip]

With the bullshit bat

C'mon everybody, let's start

Don't beat me in the head with the bullshit bat (Ghetto futuristic)

C'mon everybody, let's start

[Outro: Q-Tip]

Beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head

Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head

Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head

Don't beat me in the head, head, head, head

So here we are fam, let's start

So here we are fam, let's start

So here we are fam let's start

To The Ummah family, let's start

Ayo, get off your ass and let's start

Uh, ayo, here we are fam, let's start

C'mon, get off your ass and let's start

Here we are fam, let's start

Here we is fam, let's start

Get off your ass and let's start

Here we are fam, let's start

Get off your ass-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

And let's start