Nuff` Of The Ruff` Stuff

Get funky with it<br><br>[ VERSE 1 ]<br>I told you before: you burn when you play with fire<br>So take off your hats, matter of fact hail the new Sire<br>You`re hungry as hell, so i`m cookin up the chowder<br>It`s laced with ingredients, gon` come on like gunpowder<br>Pom-pom! lick a shot, then I got to order<br>I`m runnin for the border for causin disorder<br>Pom-pom! lick a shot, got on my defenses<br>I`m runnin for the fences, of course I`m relentless<br>The particular name of this queen is Latifah<br>I`ve often been classified as a feminine teacher<br>Collectively capture the heart of a nation<br>Love my culture and show appreciation<br>You`re lookin for the black influ`?<br>I do want too give it to you<br>What are you mad?<br>Give me some of what you had!<br>You can huff-huff, puff-puff and bluff-bluff<br>But I got nuff of the ruff stuff<br><br>(Ruff and tuff)<br>(And all that stuff)<br><br>[ VERSE 2 ]<br>Now nuff of the ruff stuff, that`s what I do, and I do it well<br>The proof is in the puddin, I show and prove, not show and tell<br>Talk tales, you get caught up in a crossfire<br>Buckshot must be what you want and desire<br>I write concepts, I don`t be frontin or be buggin<br>I solely write the rhymes for the beats that you be lovin<br>It`s a love thang, the Queen doin her thang<br>If I was a liquid, you would drink me like Tanq`<br>You think I`m kickin things that I myself don`t even heed?<br>I rap not for the love of music, but for greed?<br>"Latifah`s booty, yo, she could never succeed"<br>Shiiit...<br>You watch me do it and boom it, the Flavor Unit will snap necks<br>You a-fi listen a likkle, you fi go buy the cassette<br>You`re starvin, cause you ain`t had enough<br>That`s right, nuff of the ruff stuff<br><br>(Ruff and tuff)<br>(And all that stuff)<br><br>[ VERSE 3 ]<br>You talk about flavor...<br>I got enough flavor to make a grapefruit sweet<br>Get old ladies jumpin out of their seats<br>Change a peach to a pear to a plum with a little sun `n rays<br>I got flavor for days<br>Now I`m the type that the fellas call a honey, and<br>>From me you know you get a worth for your money, and<br>This is no meaningless attack, I gave you a chance<br>Matter of fact, yo, I ordered them to `dance<br>For me`, they tried to turn me `inside out`<br>They felt the `wrath of my madness`, I let them `come into my house`<br>It`s called `latifah`s law`, for the criminal to curse<br>And all the gentlemen know its rule: `ladies first`<br>Not the typical female that tends to<br>Fall vitim to the `evil that men do`<br>Small puff, I call your bluff<br>I`m not mad, I just had enuff of the ruff stuff<br><br>(Ruff and tuff)<br>(And all that stuff)<br><br>Everybody know Latifah love positivity<br>Now positivity erase negativity<br>Mi comin inna di dance ???<br>Me rollin with the Flavor Unit posse<br>As a black woman mi want equality<br>Equality, and di freedom to be me<br>Mi have a mother Rita, only call her Mommy<br>Likkle brother and sister, Angelo and Kelly<br>A brother in them laws, but mi call him Winki<br>Lost mi daddy and ??? family<br>??? black ??? black country<br>Believe in one God, one tribe, one destiny<br>Cease!<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------