Cure

[Verse 1: Papoose]

I was born in a human body, I’m deadly and dangerous

The way I decrease life quality is outrageous

But you don’t gotta worry, I’m not contagious

I’m genetic, I travel through your family for ages

I could live in yo daughter, I could live in yo son

If you smoke cigarettes, I could live in yo lungs

I can develop in yo stomach and be that small

But I grow to the size of a basketball

Now you can ignore me and try to pass it on

You’ll be a statistic, in the casket gone

I could be a sharp pain that you feel in yo spine

I can be a brain tumor on the back of yo mind

I’ll even be in yo food if you eatin that swine

Don’t go to the doctor so you never catch me in time

I done cause some strong men to lose they strength

Even cause some pretty women to lose they breasts

Only God know the cure and to whom he bless

Is the chosen, he choose the best

I’m a physical enemy, here to bring miserable treachery

I can affect him, her, they, you or them and me

But one small woman gotta checkup randomly

They burn me out of her body with chemotherapy

If you come late I’ll deflate your energy

Take all of your hair and erase your memory

I can shorten your life if you livin it long

Even took a black queen named Vivian Strong

If you don’t go to the doctor that mean you support me

The only way to stop me is to catch me early

And gangstas who think I can’t get in y'all body

I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti

Have you had a checkup? If no is your answer

Then let me introduce myself, my name is cancer

[Hook x2: Erykah Badu]

He rides to it

Don’t stress a lot

Put protection on

If he’s in your home

[Verse 2: Papoose]

The prettiest woman out here blows long in the wind

Even sip when she wasn’t soft as her skin

Teeth look like ivory, pleasant as a beach

Breasts like 2 watermelons, ripe like a peach

On the outside, sexy as can be

But on the inside she’s infected with me

She be up in every neighborhood, dead on the street

Give you her phone number, give you head in the V

And she don’t like condom, she sex it for free

So if you ever met er get tested for me

Every single day I add names to my dying list

My epidemic is strong as an iron fist

You should check your body fluids, that’s where I exist

Can travel through saliva, I hope you like to kiss

You can’t get rid of me, you can cry and wish

It’s no denying this, science says

He says I was born in Africa, but he’s a lying bitch

I was born in the laboratory, my father’s a scientist

You can’t contact me if you walk in a bathroom

Or if you talk to your classmate in your classroom

You never see me coming, I’m smooth as a jazz tune

Not airborne, I pass moves

But you should make sure they clean the needle when you getting them tattoos

I’m the reason the word positive means bad news

Idiotic if you don’t believe in me

Even took a great rapper named Eazy-E

If you have a lot of sex you should have some condoms

Cause you could live with me, ask Magic Johnson

I enter your body with only one assumed mission

That’s only to break down your immune system

Become sick easy cuz you not immune

And I can pass over through every open wound

So make sure you put a Band-Aid on your cut

Before you shake another man’s hands sayin wussup

I’m physical and visible, you can’t feel me

Medicine, I’m invincible, you can’t kill me

AIDS is my name, don’t get it wrong

It stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

[Hook x2: Erykah Badu]

[Verse 3: Papoose]

This drug addict named Raj is infected with my evil

Got some new dope he wanna try with his people

He said go ahead and try it, it’s some brand new diesel

That’s when I found myself travelling through a needle

Don’t even know what he getting into is a shame

Tied his arm up and pump me right in his vein

He had a lot of women, was living to play his life

But he was married, he took me home to his wife

Now she’s a carrier who carries on with me

His wife had a baby, the baby was born with me

And I hope that you wouldn’t take this song silly

A lot of people infected, it’s a strong pity

You got a jimmy hat? Then you should put on jimmy

Let’s protect ourselves, we should all, really

I’m tryna live long, won’t you live long with me?

Suburbs to the city, sing this song with me

[Hook x3: Erykah Badu]