Jettin

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Digable Planets - Rap, Hip-Hop

Jettin

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[Chorus: Butterfly] We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' uptown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' downtown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' crosstown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin', we jettin' We jettin' uptown (Uptown) We jettin' downtown (Downtown) We jettin' crosstown We jettin' all around No wonder, no wonder, eighth wonder, eighth wonder is funky [Verse 1: Ladybug] I live Brooklyn like year twenty-four for sure Sul, C-Know, in my tennis skirt And the kick hurts so good that I gotta sort of accents for this Now here's a notion for my nation 'cause I place you on the dynamite Right? The creamin' is schemin' to get it Right, the means almighty dollar The green power, let loose for the hour I chose the Black Power Extra fly joint from marker to yellow paper And you know I don't delay Together with my honey like silk and soul We grow and take you back to like afros And no quittin' or gettin' jumped by the system It's all day, all play, got verbs and such And cuts and crew, no blue eyes to emulate Some straight, but yeah, we straight up [Refrain: Digable Planets, Butterfly, Ladybug, & Doodlebug] Funky Ease back, the G's is back as an OD, gettin' funky The sun sets, you bets we gets mad funky East coast to West, we stays fresh, easy Smoke rise from the borough where the black cool blow [Doodlebug] The globe spins, gems is dropped No fakin', no bacon, three bridges for money-makin' Crooklyn, the ebb-swinger's lounge-out spot Roll with our pants leg up, bump my sounds Grab my micro', you know how we do in the joint Do a borough check to see exactly who in the joint Hot spots, city streets, lye spots, and Jeeps As a flower, I'm Nile, rivers of style (Fresh, kid) Yeah, story's complete (Fresh, kid) Rollin' on them New York streets With them no-pork beats at the Parliaments Sevens up, C-know steelo no equal, but the sun and that's [Chorus] Funky Ease back, the G's is back as an OD and we funky The sun sets, you bets we gets mad funky East coast to West, we stays fresh, I say quickly Smoke rise from the borough where that black cool blow [Butterfly] It's that nickel slick nig, keep it deep from my heads Let a fed up, appearin in my camouflage My hustler walk say New York Su fronts say Gucci, we make lootchy and never hesitates to set it Slap hands with my hands from the lands of Crook Bein lovely over jams that's on the flams with hook Burn Musk, wear Kush, it's Flatbush Hear the mental's instrumental cause it's ash to dust I like to hit lye deep, keep fam tight tight Keep the vocal strictly any joint, it's right Let me fly Ease back, the G's back with the OD Sun is in the clouds on loud I got raised by the dim street lights of four cities My heroes died in prison: George Jackson Action, she's Buttaflyin, I'm cool eyein And I rocks no 'Lo unless its scrambler gotten Me and my honey, we be like Bobby and Erica Me and my monies, we'll hurt you boulevard empire One love, gun love come free the land with us Pigs they cannot shoot this plush and creamy lavishness Before I pop, I'd rather die in baggy Guess and Timbs And I put that on the B-K-L-Y-N and that's [Refrain] Funky Ease back, the G's is back as an OD, gettin' funky The sun sets, you bets we gets mad funky East coast to West, we stays fresh and we do it on the slickly Smoke rise from the borough where the black cool blow [Chorus] We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' uptown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' downtown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' crosstown We jettin', we jettin', we jettin', we jettin' No wonder, no wonder, eighth wonder, eighth wonder's We jettin', we jettin', we jettin' around town No wonder, no wonder, eighth wonder, eighth wonder's We jettin', we jettin', we jettin', we jettin'

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Credits

Writers
  • Bob James
  • Doodlebug
  • Ishmael Butler
  • Ladybug Mecca