Loungin’

Lyrics

[Intro] Yea, I'm loungin', I got my man Donald Byrd on the horns I wanna give a big shout out to my little man, Miko, he's 2 years old He's away visiting his grandmoms but I miss him dearly [Verse 1] Check it out If I rhyme this, you will find this situation shall advance You could take a glance or dance Elevator lyrics to arouse the crowd Now tell me who's the man to show you how Many legacies of brothers who get busy And I do it fluid 'til the suckers get dizzy Saying peace to the blackbirds 125th street And check the flow that's unique [Chorus] For loungin', loungin', mellow out and just loungin' Loungin', loungin', mellow out and just loungin' [Verse 2] Can't refuse this, never lose this, it's the choice this 'Cause my voice is the smoothest Dominating to your boys 'cause I've been around doing work And sold tons of other jerk Donald Byrd, word on the track, quite exact Giving you the format, Jack See we gotta pave the way and display [Chorus] How to loungin', loungin', mellow out and just loungin' Loungin', loungin', mellow out and just loungin' [Verse 3] Peace to the pioneers but I gotta try and clear My throat, check out what I wrote You can't tap into this unless you know the roots Word shoe like life absolute For real, so now you gotta know the deal [Chorus] For loungin', just loungin', mellow out and just loungin' Loungin', loungin', mellow out, check it out, and loungin' Loungin', loungin', mellow out, and just loungin' Loungin', loungin', peace to Brooklyn where I live [Verse 4] Realistic, kind of mystic when I kick this You should witness the slickness Of the horn player and the dope rhymesayer Quite emotional and inspirational Philosophical and yes, very logical Teaching you the method for loungin' [Outro] Everybody knows they have times when they wanna just lay back Kick their feet up, y'know Listen to some good music and just lounge That's right, I said lounge [Outro] This rap thing It's a part of the– the whole Black experience That when you, like he said, Keith, when you wrapped up and frustrated and you got all this inside, it's gonna come out And regardless of what people think That wha— what you been talking about now, the reason this music is so great and everybody wants do it And because what, it's a living music And what, it's given the people a chance to express themselves like yourself You got something to say, you wanna get it out And this is not just lyrics, you're talking about literature You t— you talking about saying to get in a message to people And that's what it is and you can't suppress that And that regardless if they don't play it on the radio or they don't play it like that, it's still gon' be heard (Mmm) I mean, there's a network In both jazz and rap, th— there's been times In the— in both of the eras of the music that t— the industry tried to change it from its classical roots See like— see like we're the type of rap group when we rock shows, we rock shows, we don't use that Just because that's came out and all the groups want to use that now No more turntable, or if the— if the DJ's up there, he's not really doing nothing You know, he's just scratching over, over the, uh, th— that And basically what we do is press some instrumental tracks to everything we do Because when rap started, rap started with— What they did was so ingenious to create a whole form of urban style music from just two turntables and two microphones