Midnight Marauders

[Chorus: Dove - De La Soul]<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>New York, NJ, N.C., VA<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John<br><br>[Q-Tip]<br>People give your ears so I be sublime<br>It`s enjoyable to know you and the concubine<br>Niggaz, take off your coats ladies, act liike gems<br>Sit down, Indian style, as we recite these hymns<br>See, lyrically I`m Mario Andretti on the mo-mo<br>Ludicrously speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo<br>Heard me in the eighties, J Beez on the promo<br>On my never endin quest to get the paper on the caper<br>But now, let me take it to the Queens side<br>I`m takin it to Brooklyn side<br>All the residential Questers to invade the way<br>Hold up a second son, cuz we almost there<br>You can be a black man and lose all your soul<br>You can be white and blue but don`t crap the roll<br>See my shit is universal, if you got knowledge and dolo<br>Of delf for self, see there`s no one else <br>Who can drop it on the angle, acute at that<br>So, do that, do that, do do that that that(come on)<br>Do that, do that, do do that that that(OK)<br>Do that, do that, do do that that that<br>I`m buggin out, so let me get back cuz I`m wettin niggaz<br>So run and tell the others cuz we are the brothas<br>I learned how to build mics in my workshop class<br>So give me this award, and let`s not make it the last<br><br>[Chorus: Dove]<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>Chinatown, Spokane, London, Tokyo<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>Houston, Delaware, DC, Dallas<br><br>[Phife]<br>Back in `89, I simply slid into place<br>Buddy, buddy, buddy all up in your face<br>A lot of kids was bustin rhymes but they had no taste<br>Some said Quest was wack, but now is that the case<br>I have a quest to have the mic in my hand<br>Without that, it`s like Kryptonite and Superman<br>So Shaheed come in with the sugar cuts<br>Phife Dawg`s my name, but on stage, call me Dynomutt<br>When was the last time you heard the Phifer sloppy<br>Lyrics anonymous, you`ll never hear me copy<br>Top notch baby, never comin less<br>Sky`s the limit, you gots to believe up in Quest<br>Sit back , relax, get up out the path<br>If not that, here`s the dancefloor, come move that ass<br>Non-believers, you can the steps<br>I roll with Shaheed and the brotha Abstract<br>Niggaz know the time when the Quest is in the jam<br>I never let a statue tell me how nice I am<br>Comin with more hits than the Braves and the Yankees<br>Livin mad phat like an over sized Bam-bi<br>The wackest crews try to dis, it makes me laugh<br>When my track record`s longer than a DC-20 aircraft<br>So, next time that you think you want somethin here<br>Make somethin deffer, take that garbage to St. Elsewhere<br><br>[Chorus: Dove]<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>S.C., Maryland, New Orleans, Motown<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>Chinatown, Spokane, London, Tokyo<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>Houston, Delaware, DC, Dallas<br>We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man<br>Goin each and every place with the mic in their hand<br>New York, NJ, N.C., VA