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Centralized or way out in the sticks

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Ha, ha, ha, ha

Ha, ha, ha, ha

A-ha, ha, ha, ha

Now this goes out to all area cliques (what?)

Centralized or way out in the sticks (way out in the sticks)

Remember to keep the De La in the mix

'Cause like log cabin syrup, my sound is game thick (uh-huh)

Now this goes out to all area cliques (what?)

From manicured lawns to projects bricks (to projects bricks)

Remember to keep the Mos Def in the mix

Straight butter hits, drop as a good as it gets now (what up? Uh)

Come on, y'all, get live, get down

What we have is a brand new sound (yeah)

So don't none of y'all just be misled

The De La's gonna do the body good like wheat bread

Shakin' laces out of shoes, Mos Def brought the brews

Sittin' Indian squats to make that bread tie knots

See, I'm out to get the coin like in them rainbow pots (woo)

Swingin' life like a hammock, invested like stocks

Through your sinus complex, I aims to clog it up

Slappin' fives with pain is a crew here to gain

We remain on your mind like skulls, not a dull moment shown

When in the house, all perimeters are blown

Native Tongue come through to make you say, "Yes, yes"

This is the Mighty Mos Def, style fresh like baby breath

We are the killer combination with the size to administer

The beatdown to swell up all three of your eyes

Now this goes out to all area cliques (uh-huh)

Centralized or way out in the sticks (way out in the sticks)

Remember to keep the De La in the mix

'Cause like log cabin syrup, my sound is game thick (what?)

Now this goes out to all area cliques (uh-huh)

From manicured lawns to projects bricks (to projects bricks, y'all)

Remember to keep the Mos Def in the mix (you know)

Straight butter hits, drop as a good as it gets now

Now check it out (check it out)

And ya don't stop (ya don't stop)

We got the big brother beat

Ya don't stop (ya don't stop)

Now check it out (check it out)

And ya don't stop (ya don't stop)

We got the big brother beat

Ya don't stop (check it out)

I don't bug out, I chill, don't be actin' ill

No tricks in '96, Native Tongue gon' build

But we be easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed

'Cause to me (what?), Mc mean makin' cream

When I speak on groups and I'm smooth like gabardine

Tryin' to hang out with Dove and catch love in Aberdeen (word up)

I bag dimes like my man born on August 17 (you know)

Life ain't nothin' but a river, son, I'm swimmin' upstream

Playin' wait up (wait up, what?)

With the data servin' your ears

With information due to confirmation of the nation's most

Wicked ways of livin', like them glassy eyed beans

Inhale the smoke of fiends while bangin' the tape

Rated at the high point of the mass

Rippin' MC's at the top of my class, occasionally

Rippin' some sucker's face or some suckable ass from a girl

It's a big brother beat for the wide, wide world

I'm makin memos off these demos back in '89

Took you all on encounters of an unknown kind (right)

Did the hustle with a couple of us, but soon noted

That my niggas buttered Benedict rolls and then voted (true)

I wrote in the dark so I could feel it like braille (uh-huh)

Heard the big brother beat, got locked with no bail

Came to set it like equators invented, with the heat

Yo Mos Def how you radiate to make it complete

Right, so when I shine the light crabs wince

Manifestin' for the future here in the present tense

No doubt, I love the sound biggin' out off your Jeeps

And, son, I want the little kids bangin' big brother beats

Now this goes out to all area cliques (uh-huh)

Centralized or way out in the sticks

Remember to keep the Native Tongue in the mix

'Cause like log cabin syrup, my sound is game thick (what?)

Now this goes out to all area cliques (uh-huh)

From 718 to the 516 (516, y'all)

Remember to keep the De La in the mix (you know)

We straight butter hits (straight butter)

We straight butter hits (straight butter)

We straight butter hits (straight butter hits)

We straight butter hits

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits (straight butter hits)

We straight butter hits (straight butter)

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits (straight butter hits)

We straight butter hits (straight butter)

Manteca, manteca

Yo, we straight butter hits (straight butter hits)

We straight butter hits (straight butter)

Mantec-ea, baby

(Yeah) word up