Big Brother Beat

[Mos Def mumbling]

Centralised or way out in the sticks

[Intro]

Ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha! ha-ha-ha-ha

Ah-ha-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha!!

[Chorus: De La Soul & Mos Def]

Now, this goes out to all area cliques

Centralized or way out in the sticks

Remember to keep the De La in the mix

Just like Log Cabin syrup, our sound is game thick (Uh-huh)

Now, this goes out to all area cliques (What?)

From manicured lawns to projects bricks / from 718 to the 51-6

Remember to keep the Mos Def in the mix

Straight butter hits, drop as good as it gets

[Verse 1: Mos Def, Dove & Posdonus]

Now, come on, y'all, get live, get down

What we have is a brand new sound

So don't none of y'all just be misled

The De La's gonna do the body good like wheat bread

Shakin' laces outta shoes, Mos Def brought the brews

Sittin' Indian squats to make that bread tie knots

See, I'm out to get the coin like in them rainbow pots (Woo!)

Swingin' life like a hammock, invested like stocks

Through your sinus complex, I aims to clog it up

Slappin' fives with pain is a crew here to gain

We remain on your mind like skulls

Not a dull moment shown

When in the house, all perimeters are blown

Native Tongue come through to make you say, "Yes! Yes!"

This is the mighty Mos Def, style fresh like baby breath

We are the killer combination with the size to administer

The beatdown to swell up all three of your eyes

[Chorus]

Now, this goes out to all area cliques

Centralized or way out in the sticks

Remember to keep the De La in the mix

'Cause just like Log Cabin syrup, our sound is game thick

Now this goes out to all area cliques

From manicured lawns to project bricks

Remember to keep the Native Tongue in the mix

Straight butter hits, we as good as it gets

[Bridge]

Now, check it out, and ya don't stop

We got the big brother beat, ya don't stop

Now, check it out, and ya don't stop

We got the big brother beat, ya don't stop

[Verse 2: Mos Def, Dove & Posdonus]

I don't bug out, I chill, don't be actin' ill

No tricks in '96, Native Tongue gon' build

But we be easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed

'Cause to me, MC mean makin' C.R.E.A.M

When I speak on groups and I'm smooth like gabardine

Tryin' to hang out with Dove and catch love in Aberdeen (Word up)

I bag dimes like my man born on August 17

Life be nothin' but a river, son, I'm swimmin' upstream

Playin' wait up! With the data servin' your ears

With information due to confirmation of the nation's most

Wicked ways of livin', like them glassy-eyed beans

Inhale the smoke of fiends, while bangin' the tape

Rated at the high point of the mass

Rippin' MCs at the top of our class

Occasionally, rippin' some sucka's face

Or some suckable ass from a girl

It's the big brother beat for the wide, wide world

I'm makin' memos off these demos, back in '89

Took you all on encounters of an unknown kind (Right)

Did the hustle with a couple of us, but soon noted

That my niggas buttered Benedict rolls, and then voted

I wrote in the dark so I could feel it like braille (Uh-huh)

Heard the big brother beat, got locked with no bail

Came to set it like equators, invented with the heat

Yo, Mos Def, how you radiate to make it complete?

(Right!) So, when I shine the light crabs wince

Manifestin' for the future here in the present tense

No doubt, I love the sound biggin' out off your Jeeps

Son, I want the little kids bangin' big brother beats

[Chorus]

Now, this goes out to all area cliques

Centralized or way out in the sticks

Remember to keep the Native Tongues in the mix

Just like Log Cabin syrup, our sound is game thick

Now, this goes out to all area cliques, from 718 to the 516

Remember to keep the De La in the mix

[Outro]

Yo, we straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

We straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

We straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

We straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

We straight butter hits, we straight butter hits

Manteca, manteca

Word up