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Q-Tip

Official

Release date: 4th November 2008

From The Renaissance
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About This Track

"Official" is a track by Q-Tip, from the album The Renaissance, released 4th November 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Q-Tip

Q-Tip

Lyrics

Official

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah

Well, the bell has rung because the time is here

Oh, yeah

We gotta switch it around and put the thing in gear

Oh, yeah

Not much is for sure, but this here is true

Oh, yeah

I gotta do it for me, but then I'll do it for you

[Verse 1]

Major attraction, trouble distraction

Scramble up my name and it still come action

Music's our number, doubters who slumber

Open up your ears to the low, tender thunder

Creative Queens native, mixes are the Native

Want some fresh shit? Then we're correlative

Busta is ferocious, I'm flawed and precocious

Airin' fools out 'cause my willy bodacious

Peoples don't blame me, shorties can't game me

Country Cherokee, but the city here made me

Rock like coral, distinctive 'bout my orals

Got lil' grime and got a lot of laurels

The rhythm stay bangin', my one-two thing-in'

Is exemplified by the comp left hangin'

Percussion's our weapons, drums are Smith & Wessons

Lyrics poppin' off, leavin' deep impressions

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah

Well, the bell has rung because the time is here

Oh, yeah

We gotta switch it around and put the thing in gear

Oh, yeah

Not much is for sure, but this here is true

Oh, yeah

I gotta do it for me, and then I'll do it for you

[Verse 2]

I feel what the beat does, people fuck with me 'cause

When the song end, I become what the beat was

Same thing as other, no need for cookie cutter

The bar gets raised, not your average old gutter

For that I hit a chin up, B, your time been up (Huh)

Would've came sooner (Yeah), but I overslept my get-up

Now let's get in the middle, girl, I'll solve your riddle

'Cause we can be strong and protect against the brittle

(Oh) If dudes need to see me, go and get the CD

I'll aerosol your wall top to bottom like graffiti

(Mm) Bismillah-in', (Mm) dudes say I'm pardon

When you hear the music, thus begins the Mardi Gras-in'

Rhymes ain't the issue, that's how I'm gon' get you

Don't need a Billboard hit for me to hit you

The clairvoyant mic'-ist who always comes the tightest

Queens everywhere, demonstratin' who the flyest

[Chorus]

Oh, yeah

Well, the bell has rung because the time is here

Mmm, mmm

We gotta change it around and put our things in gear

Oh, yeah

Not much is for sure, but this thing is true

Mmm, mmm

You gotta do it for me, then I'll do it for you

[Outro]

Oh

Oh, you gotta do it for me, then I'll do it for you

Oh

Yeah, you gotta do it for me, then I'll do it for you

Oh

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Track details

From The Renaissance

2008
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Album
The Renaissance
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
Release year
2008
  1. —Renaissance Rap
  2. —Won't Trade
  3. —Move
  4. —Dance on Glass
  5. —Gettin' Up
  6. —ManWomanBoogie
  7. —Official
  8. —Shaka
  9. —Good Thang
  10. —Feva
  11. —Life Is Better
  12. —WeFight/WeLove
  13. —Believe
  14. —Johnny Is Dead

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Production & Engineering

Writer
Q-Tip
Producer
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Bass
Derrick Hodge
Drums
Mark Colenburg
Guitar
Kurt Rosenberg
Keyboards
James Hunt
Vocals
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