Common - Medley (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005) lyrics

A freak freak y'all, and you don't stop
A-to the beat y'all, and you don't stop
A freak freak y'all, and you don't stop
A-to the beat y'all, and you don't stop
Come on
Freak freak y'all, and you don't stop
A-to the beat y'all, and you don't stop
A freak freak y'all, and you don't stop
I wanna see if y'all up
On this hip-hop right here

Two years ago, a friend of mine
Asked me to say some MC rhymes
I said this rhyme I'm about to say
The rhyme was def but then it went this way
Took a test to become an MC
And Orange Krush became amazed at me
Derek put me inside the Cadillac
The chauffeur drove off, where
We take 'em to, dummy?

Uh, where we goin' y'all? We go ooh ooh ooh
Sing it with us y'all, over here
Where we goin'?
Uh, over here, go ooh ooh ooh
Alright, see if y'all know this

Now there she goes again
The dopest Ethiopian
Now the world around me keeps
On movin' in slow motion
Whenever she happens to walk by
Why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no
Matter how much I try? Wait, no
Why didn't I pursue my
Little princess with persistence
Was so low key that she's
Unaware of my existence
From a distance I desired her
Secretly admired her
Wired her a letter, and it went:
My dear, my dear, my dear, you do not know me
But I know you very well
Now let me tell you about the
Feelings I have for you
When I try or make some sort of attempt
I simp damn, I wish I wasn't such a wimp

But I'ma take y'all
Uh, yeah, where goin' y'all? Where goin'
Come on we go
I can't hear y'all, sing it with me Den Haag
Uh, yeah, uh, it go ooh ooh ooh
Alright, see, y'all gotta know this

Y'all know how I met her
We broke up and got back together
To get her back, I had to sweat her
Thought she roll with bad boys
Forever in many ways
Boys made her better, to grow
I had to let her, let her
She needed cheddar, I understood that
Lookin' for cheese
That don't make her a hood rat
In fact she's a queen to me
Her light beams on me
I love it when she sings to me it's like

Love of my life
Ooh, you know you rock my world and
Love of my life you b-boy and I b-girl and
Love of my life
We don't stop until the break of dawn, ooh

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