Examination of What

[butterfly]<br>one day..while I was sipping some groove juice I realised..that in the <br>span of time we`re just babies..it`s all relative, time is unreal.<br><br>we`re just babies, we`re just babies, man (x 4)<br><br>every man`s a planet and the props are there to get it<br>insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit<br>life, it comes & goes and you do not punch a clock<br>I don`t take shit for granted, I think of scott la rock<br>also of tyrel and battles at the borders<br>my cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin quarters<br>the forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin<br>don`t cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin!<br>dwellin, yes, you`re dwellin as the norm is itty-bitty<br>figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city<br>in the serengetti, be ready for a box<br>but beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks<br>if your peoples don`t getcha, you still ain`t off clean<br>the politicians` mask is worse than Hallowe`en<br>I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick `em<br>now tell me who`s the vics and tell me who`s the victim<br><br>chorus [butterfly]<br><br>what is really what is really what is really what:<br>- if the funk don`t move your butt<br>- and if the box don`t make you hot<br>- and if the cats don`t dig the raps<br>- if your life ain`t got no spice<br>- or if the guns just wreck your fun<br>- or if some shouts ain`t in the house<br>- or if your crew ain`t down with you<br><br>[ladybug]<br>peace, this is mecca the ladybug and I`m sayin though! what is really <br>what if I can`t even get comfortable because the supreme court is, <br>like, all in my uterus?!<br><br>[doodlebug]<br>peace, this is cee-know the doodlebug and I wanna say, what is what if <br>you can`t walk through your hood with bert, ernie and sesame street <br>mossie trying to give the snuffleupagus.<br><br>[butterfly]<br>my father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthems<br>ate peanuts with the dizz and vibed with lionel hampton<br>now I`m swimming deep in the hip-hop with eclectics<br>now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic?<br>scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it<br>hip-hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it<br>the oldjacks buckwild and some babies bore their fists<br>but the crew from outer space is here.....SHIT<br>we grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth freddy<br>and scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady<br>now bleach is in the laundry, same old beats is handy<br>the label may okay it but radio won`t play it<br>the censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes<br>the legs that`s in the boots is on the corner, watch your tape<br>making papes off the crust, for money and for lust<br>you`re playing out the planets get slammed, trust!<br>you think it, see it, run it and slam it<br>they peep it, hear it, lynch it and ban it<br>it just ain`t the haps if they know they can`t control it<br>your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it<br>so what? I`m sayin, what?!<br><br>chorus [butterfly]<br><br>what is really what is really what is really what:<br>- if the funk don`t rule your cut?<br>- or if the streets don`t dig your beats<br>- or if my man ain`t fifty grand?<br>- or if the hoods don`t think you`re good?<br>- or if your church don`t really work<br>- or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs<br>- or if the jeeps don`t roll with beats<br><br>[butterfly]<br>cause butterfly is..baby, I`m just a baby, man<br>I`m a baby, I`m just a baby, man<br>and mister doodle? (I`m just a baby too)<br>and miss mecca (I`m just a baby, man)<br>and mister silk, he`s just a baby, too<br>and 801s, they just babies, man<br>and miss venus, she`s just a baby, man<br>the ac-facts, they just a babies, man<br>and dps, they just a babies, too<br>oh and, dash, she`s just a baby, man<br>danny and dani, they are my babies, man<br>oh and liz, she`s just a baby, man<br>oh and stella, she`s just a baby, man<br>doc shane, he`s just a baby, man<br>mike mann, he`s just my main man<br>and doctor timba, he`s just a baby, man<br>and nappy jackie, she`s just a baby, too<br>benefi-cent, he`s just a baby, man<br>oh, and you? you`re just a baby, man