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Queen Latifah
All Hail The Queen (1989)
Ladies
First
[Queen Latifah]
The
ladies will kick it, the rhyme that is wicked
Those that don't
know how to be pros get evicted
A woman can bear you, break you,
take you
Now it's time to rhyme, can you relate to
A sister
dope enough to make you holler and scream
[Monie
Love]
Ayo, let me take it from here, Queen...
Excuse me but I
think I'm about do
To get into precisely what I am about to
do
I'm conversating to the folks that have no whatsoever
clue
So listen very carefully as I break it down for
you
Merrily merrily merrily merrily hyper happy
overjoyed
Pleased with all the beats and rhymes my sisters have
employed
Slick and smooth throwing down the sound totally a
yes
Let me state the position: Ladies first, yes?
(Yes)
(Yeah, there's going to be some changes in
here)
[Monie Love]
Believe me when I say being a woman is
great, you see
I know all the fellas out there will agree with
me
Not for being one but for being with one
Because when it's
time for loving it's the woman that gets some
Strong, stepping,
strutting, moving on
Rhyming, cutting, and not forgetting
We
are the ones that give birth
To the new generation of prophets
because it's Ladies First
[Queen Latifah]
I break into a
lyrical freestyle
Grab the mic, look into the crowd and see
smiles
Cause they see a woman standing up on her own
two
Sloppy slouching is something I won't do
Some think that
we can't flow (can't flow)
Stereotypes, they got to go (got to
go)
I'm a mess around and flip the scene into reverse
(With
what?) With a little touch of "Ladies First"
Who said the
ladies couldn't make it, you must be blind
If you don't believe,
well here, listen to this rhyme
Ladies first, there's no time to
rehearse
I'm divine and my mind expands throughout the
universe
A female rapper with the message to send the
Queen
Latifah is a perfect specimen
[Monie Love]
My sister, can
I get some?
[Queen Latifah]
Sure, Monie Love, grab the mic
and get dumb
[Monie Lovie]
Yo, praise me not for simply
being what I am
Born in L-O-N-D-O-N and sound American
You dig
exactly where I'm coming from
You want righteous rhyming, Imma
give you some
To enable you to aid yourself and get paid
And
the material that has no meaning I wish to slay
Pay me every bit
of your attention
Like mother, like daughter, I would also like
to mention
I wish for you to bring me to, bring me to the
rhythm
Of which is now systematically given
Desperately
stressing I'm the daughter of a sister
Who's the mother of a
brother who's the brother of another
Plus one more; all
four
Have a job to do, we doing it
Respect due, to the mother
who's the root of it
And next up is me, the M-O-N-I-E L-O-V-E
And I'm first cause I'm a L-A-D-I-E
[Queen
Latifah]
Contact and in fact, the style, it gets
harder
Cooling on the scene with my European partner
Laying
down track after track, waiting for the climax
When I get there,
that's when I tax
The next man, or the next woman
It doesn't
make a difference, keep the competition coming
And I'll recite
the chapter in verse
The title of this recital is "Ladies
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Queen Latifah Ladies First lyrics