Pulp Fiction

[Intro]

Uh, there, turn my mic on so I can hear me a lil' bit

Nonstop on life, gon' survive

It's in our plan to survive

Sunlight and love in the sunshine

Yeah, I plant the seed on the vine

We pray our family will survive

And grow to be strong in the sunshine

And grow to be strong in the sunshine

We give the love on the soil

Nothing there now can't be spoiled

Nothing of our sunshine

Now, we be getting a little sunshine

If my lovin', duh, nah, nah, no, no, no, no, nah

No, no, no, nuh, fah, nah, no, my, my, my, my

[Chorus]

We plant the thorns in the vine

We know we are all the vine

Now, all we need is sunshine

All we need is sunshine

[Verse 1]

See, I said "We plant the"—

We say "We plant the seed in the vine" because we are the vine

Not "de-vine", because that means void of the vine

We are the vine, we are the root

[Chorus]

We plant the seed in the vine

Now all we need is sunshine

We plant the seed in the vine

Now all we need, my

In the vine

[Verse 2]

As we had the seed, we put the stronger soil around us

To make sure that we would grow in the mind

Once we have the stronger soil with the most nutrients, all we need is a little sunshine

You know, some exposure, you don't need to keep your kids

We— we don't need to keep our kids closed in and indoors

We need that exposure, we need that sunshine

But as long as they have a planet with the best soil around them

And not to spoil around them, and not too all around them

I got somethin' bumpin' all around them, got the thump in, never round 'em

Watch the people that's around them, something's on, that's down

Another somethin' that could ground 'em, I didn't even know they got to fly us

Got some people that's gon' round 'em, I got something's on them, at 'em

And things they didn't allow, and that's just so they just cool us down

And then I know they stole 'em down, uh

Do you beat your kids?

Do you read to your kids?

Wanna be some kids?

Have you ever worked for somebody that ain't never wanna— wanna meet your kids?

That's definitely a job, yeah

[Chorus]

Plant, don't stop now in the vine

Now we need the sunshine

We plant the seed in the vine

All that we need is sunshine

[Verse 3]

How much energy we be putting into going to work?

How much energy we be putting into— or we gon' do this for our kids

But at that certain point, your kid don't want a bigger room

Your kid don't want a bigger house, they actually want the house smaller so they can be closer, to us

[Chorus]

We plant the seed in the vine

All we need is sunshine (Let me catch that, they say)

All that we need is sunshine (We don't say that, we say this, so like this, let 'em see)

All we need is sunshine (Simplify, simplify, simplify)

All—

[Verse 4]

See, God is the simplicity, the devil is in the details

How they send 'em, they see tales, somethin', somethin' on retails

Got them pumped on, Fidel, lock them, see mails on the e-mail

Got the green before they see Hell, goin' hard like a shemale

You know what I mean, get it? Goin' hard like a shemale? Shit

[Chorus]

In the vine (Hahaha)

This the, in the vine

All that we need is sunshine

All that we need is sunshine

All that we need is sunshine

All that we need is sunshine

We plant the seed in the vine

Now all that we need is some shine

[Verse 5]

You see, I said "now", uh, I'm used to that, we used to that, right?

But there is no past, no present, no future, so the word "now" doesn't actually exist

It's stuck between space and time, so we avoid those words

We just say "We plant the seed in the vine"

And then say "All we need is sunshine"

Not "now", we always need it, it's not, no, specifically not—

'Cause like if somebody say, "Oh, you look good today"

But what about yesterday? Like, what are you talking about?

"Oh, you look real nice today" (Nah, yeah)

There's only one day, by the way (All that we need)

So that's what we gon' do, we gon' make, we gon' take all the holidays and put 'em in one day

So what's your favorite type of morning?

Christmas (Mm, mm, mm, mm)

The doors always open

So imagine this, I'ma give you the visual

When you wake up, every morning is Christmas

Every afternoon is Valentine's Day and then every night is New Year's Eve

Every morning is Christmas, every afternoon is Valentine's Day and every night is New Year's Eve

Every morning is Christmas, every afternoon is Valentine's Day and every night is New Year's Eve

Every morning is Christmas, mm

Every night, Valentine's Day, at night, it's New Year's

(First one got ahead so we gotta chop it up to get the best version, so just—)

Take all your favorite holidays

You know, I feel like in Martin Luther King Day, for his dream to really be alive

We have to not celebrate, because what it does, 'cause it puts us—

We have to not celebrate the holiday because it, it puts us in the loop

Just keeps reminding us of the struggles, they start pulling up pictures of us getting hit by dogs and firehoses and all that

You know like, my daughter came home from school, and her mother said

My daughter— our daughter came home from school

And our companion said—

Because, just like, I was about to say like "our" and "my wife" and "her mother", and that, that separates us, so we should always speak together somehow

So we just trying this out, this is just a lil' freestyle, you know?

The way we can speak to each other, non-violent communication

Also, it shouldn't be "non-violent" because we should say "non-more violent"

But both of those are negative, so how can we say that in a positive way?

You say, um, "healing communication", "sharing communication"

What's the opposite of separation? What would be a word that's the opposite of separation?

Joining communication

Joining communication

Our daughter arrived home

Instead of saying "My kid came home from school"

You saying, "Kid, came, that, got"

Some grandmothers tell you "Don't say got"

You know what I'm sayin'? What you got? Get

[Chorus]

That's the dirt in the vine

All we, that we have (So we don't need sunshine, why would I say oh we need it if we got it? We got sunshine, sunshine free)

In the vine (So we plant our seeds in the vine, right?)

We have sunshine (And we just have, we don't need, we don't want, we have sunshine, we have all we need)

[Verse 6]

So, so, our daughter arrived home

Her mother, I need to find a way to be able to say—

What is the way I would say "my wife", "her mother", at the same time?

One statement, so it's all become this sorts of joining, forming a communication

Do you know how to say that?

What's one word that will bond us together?

Yeah, "Our family discussed school"

You got that? "Our family—"

Because what she said, she said "Tell Daddy what you learned at school today"

But we would say "Our family discussed school"

Um, but not "discussed" because I don't like it to sound like "disgusting"

What's another way to say "discussed"?

I don't know if I love the word "about"

Our family... what?

"In quorum", what?

What's "quorum"?

Formed, "Our family formed"

Forumed, "Our family created a forum"

There you go

"Tell Daddy what you learned at school today"

And she said "I learned that I'm black and Mommy's white"

I'm like "Damn, I wish she had the heads up"

And, uh, my wife said "No, no, she learned that because it's Martin Luther King Day, and they had to tell her why we have the holiday"

So, a white woman let my daughter know that she has a separation inside of this country from her mother

In order to inform her of Martin Luther King holiday

Can we give— can we give him a mic too?

Can you get one? Plug one of these in

Yeah, yeah, heheheheh, yeah, heheh

Can— can you go closer to 'Quence right now? S— or when you record just get real close to him

Get real close to him so we can get his mic, yeah, yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah, that's like if we had, uh, a holiday for couples that's like "Remember When You Cheated on Me Day"

Hahahahahaha, haha

And you bringin' up— start bringin' up the posts

"Remember when I found your phone? And remember what I was goin' through?"

Hahaha, we gon' have "Remember When You Cheated on Me Day"

Mm, yeah, you— you gave that mic to 'Quence? Yeah

[Chorus]

Plant the seeds in the vine

Lovely, we have sunshine

We plant our seeds in the vine

Lucky we have sunshine (Lovely, not lucky)

We plant our seeds in the vine

Lovely, we have sunshine

We plant our seeds in the vine

Lovely, we have sunshine

[Outro]

Ice Cube wanted me to pass his— along, his new album for you to hear if you have time

Oh, most definitely

Plantin' our seeds in the vine

Alright, stop recording