Common - Band & DJ Introductions (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005) lyrics

Yes, feel good, y'all
How you feelin' out there?
I said how y'all feelin' out there?
I'd like to welcome the North Sea
Jazz Festival to the Basement Experience
So what we gon' do this afternoon
We gon' treat this
This room right here like
This is our basement like this is our cellar
Now, you know in the cellar
You gotta feel free
This how we do it in the basement
This soul music, hip-hop music, jazz music
It's music and we here to share that with
Y'all in our Basement Experience
We choose to call it BE, 'cause
You free to be you, and I'm free to be me
So if you feel like you
In the basement right now
I want you to close your eyes real quick
And just imagine what we do in
The basement, come on now, close them eyes
A'ight, open 'em up y'all, we here now
And y'all know how in
The basement sometimes
You be under that red light chillin'
Listenin' to some good ass music
And you be like
Just feelin' the vibrations, right?
And then sometimes
You might be under the blue
Light in the basement
Just ready to get open
Get open 'cause it's beautiful
Ladies in the basement
And you see you wanna party like that
So you ready to get open in the basement
That's how we gon' do in
The basement tonight, y'all, yeah
My name is Common
I'm your host for tonight's basement party
Coming to you from Philadelphia
PA, on the keys, mister Omar Edwards
In the lab, on percussion, MPC and all
Mister Karriem Riggins
Your DJ for tonight, from
The planet of Brooklyn, dJ Dummy
So I want y'all to feel free, man
Just for being where you are
This the beauty of music
Common Sense is at the
North Sea Jazz Festival
To share the music, that's just
How beautiful hip-hop could be, yeah
So I want you to free and just
You could get high off the music
You can get high off some of that
Stuff they got out here in Holland
Or you might just wanna go get
A drink at the bar but whatever you do
I want you to be who you are
I said you could get high off the music
You could get high off some of that
Bubble gum they got out here
Or you might wanna go get a drink at the bar
But whatever you do
I want you to listen to this guitar