Start It Up - A Tribe Called Quest

[00:01.12](quiet eerie voice)
[00:05.19]Yooooo....Yooooo...I hope ya'll ready...
[00:08.30]Are ya ready? Here we go....
[00:10.49](Q-Tip)
[00:15.83]What ya deal with...uhhh...
[00:17.43]What ya deal wit'...what ya deal wit'...
[00:20.07]Turn me up some more?
[00:21.91]Incognito, speakin' to ya
[00:24.40]Feel this, have it, makin' music
[00:27.05]Men and women, boys an' girls an'
[00:29.54]Welcome to the movement, the fifth wit' improvement
[00:32.13]Aristotle, Plato, Freud
[00:35.13]Yeah right, Abstract, never void
[00:37.46]I make it easy for ya'll to boogie down to
[00:40.04]Hard to the ground, ooh the Tribe with the sound boo
[00:42.58]Touch me, tease me, feed me, squeezy
[00:45.08]Take it easy, never sleazy
[00:47.73]Promise that I will not answer
[00:50.38]The phone when it rings love, while we do out thing love
[00:53.03]Never fakin', it's late, spirits
[00:55.51]Through the music is our mission
[00:58.00]Honies who were not cooler
[01:00.55]than the ghetto rebel risin' to overthrow a ruler
[01:03.14]Dearly beloved, dearly departed
[01:05.69]There's a reason why we did it
[01:08.32]Cuz it's inside the body and the hearts
[01:10.86]So here we are fam let's start, c'mon...
[01:12.91]CHORUS:
[01:13.46]Don't beat me in the head with the ******** bat
[01:16.06]C'mon everybody let's start (2x)
[01:24.07]Ummah, Mos, Jane Doe, Willy
[01:26.37]Punchline, Wordsworth, SV, Chrissy
[01:28.87]S.O.S., Tribe Called Quest
[01:31.45]Get it off your chest, say it: "Tribe Called Quest!"
[01:34.04]Can you feel it when it hit right
[01:36.58]Can you feel it when we do it
[01:39.13]Truth, power, taste, devour
[01:41.72]****** in the street here comes the illest beat now
[01:44.25]Move oceans wit' your mental
[01:46.80]Think it, do it, be it, embellish
[01:49.35]Here's another point for everyone to relish
[01:51.89]When Ski busts his tools all ya'll foes will embellish
[01:54.39]For somethin' wicked at ya'll faces
[01:57.00]What I see is longin', needin'
[01:59.70]Hey I got you with that goooooood stuff
[02:02.45]And ya probably won't get enough
[02:04.45]Ay-yo, lyrics I got it, lyrics, cadence
[02:07.56]Do it with fun and patience
[02:09.90]Funky, rhythmic, characteristic
[02:12.45]Ebonically lingustic wit' the ghetto futuristic
[02:14.95]Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay....
[02:16.09]CHORUS (2x)
[02:17.12]Don't beat me in the head with the ******** bat
[02:18.14]C'mon everybody let's start (2x)
[02:26.06]Beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head
[02:28.35]Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head
[02:30.85]Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head
[02:33.38]Don't beat me in the head, head, head, head...
[02:36.02]So here we are fam let's start,
[02:38.36]so here we are fam let's start
[02:41.01]So here we are fam let's start
[02:43.44]To the Ummah family lets start
[02:46.22]A-yo get off your ass and let's start,
[02:48.46]A-yo, here we are fam let's start
[02:51.21]C'mon, get off your ass and let's start,
[02:53.75]here we are fam let's start
[02:56.53]Here we is fam let's start,
[02:59.07]get off your ass and let's start
[03:01.54]Here we are fam let's start,
[03:04.13]get off your aaaassss-ah-ah-ah-ah
[03:08.20]Ha ha ha ha ha...let's start