De La Soul - Respect lyrics

Hey yo I'm proud to be black y'all
Wish I could bring Jay back
DJ put the needle to the haystack
Pump beats like eighty-six pumped crack
Raise the heat for the summer, we Fahrenheit
Banners like cash on your corner
Papered and OD make your girl wanna shake in
Front of little ol' me
Even when I'm rock bottom
Still the most poppin
Hold crops like John on the farm
Then Johnny your Fox
Boxcutter clean cut stem from the PA
Not your everday outcast, we outlast
Used to bust a tommy gun
Now I blast off with a check
Might as well, I done earned the respect

"So far I've come to find
There's no one here, no life I fear
I came for nothing, they have gone
And nobody's home"

Here to jumpstart the art again
The sparkplug W-O-N
I trouble your whole squad again
In a class by myself, so selfish in my ways
Shave my head bald, I'm too fly for tou-pes
Ain't nuttin sweet yet, never actin bitter
Shut your spitter small fry
You too dry to wet me and if you could
You think I'd really let you?
In and out the hood I get much respect DUE

Got two ? with Supa Dave bandana
Shut your camera lens and use your senses
Recognize it's Pos, Mase and me
Stressin R-E-S-P-E-C T, see?

Best believe it's official y'all
Rap's the new form of
Wrestling on mescaline tabs
And E pills, and y'all came back for refills
Watchin how the drama unfold
As MC's go from hot to cold
Pots of gold they search for
Some find more than others - platinum plaques
But when you act goes active on the radio
You become radioactive, that's a fact'!
De La's got the respect attack
Tactfully weathering the storm in all forms
We born to give you the breaks
Cause just like a fiend y'all came
So y'all can get rid of them shades