Pharoahe Monch - The Jungle lyrics

Southside, you know we living in the jungle
Brook'nam, you know we living in the jungle

See them gorillas over there in the park
Them my niggas after dark we get sparked
Up and pull triggers
You gotta speak orangutan slang
Or pull capers the cops are the cheetahs and
The trees are the skyscrapers
See in the jungle we often rumble for loot
Some of us just stumble around
High off the booze, shoot
You get shot, shit
Play humble like last year when the
Cheetahs tried to catch my uncle
When you come through
You could get bumped too
If you don't got at least 4
To 5 gorillas amongst you
The bigger tree hit 'em shocked and amazed
41 shots hot, take you out in the blaze


And if not
They ship your ass to the Bronx in a cage
Into the island where you spend
Your time counting the days
But still agriculturally, it's kind of ill
We blow mills they make a killing and build
New lands in the jungle

Shaolin, you know we living in the jungle
Chi-town, you know we living in the jungle
Westside, you know we living in the jungle

I tell these chimpanzees who
Be carrying tools
You don't wanna invest your
Life in a cesspool
Pharmaceutical distributin'
Breaking the rules
You need to take your monkey
Ass off to school
And learn about Botswana, Sudan and Ghana
Mozambique and speak of pride and honor
I understand sometimes we all feel fenced in
But utilize your mind to define dimensions
Just then I lost the
Little monkey's attention
As he stared into the distance
Focusing and squinting at a
Beautiful gazelle that was grazing
In the grass with
Muscular legs and a rhinoceros ass
But in the least case scenario I
Did try to tell him
Hit him with some signs that
Was a little compelling
Little gibbon on a mission
Not unlike Magellan
What you caught was some felons
Crimes and drug selling in the jungle

Yo, Ghana, you know we living in the jungle
Cape Town, you know we living in the jungle
Jo-burg, you know we living in the jungle

I'm talking epileptic episodes
Off that Epinephrine that Albuterol and them
Other prescribed medicines
A zombie in insomnia
Frecking the Amphetamines
My moms had me smoking weed from
The Netherlands at age 13
Broke apart the scene
A lot of moist weed that was sticky and green
See in the 80's it
Was wine-coolers and woolies
The Facts of Life, crack
David Dinkins and toolies
Mike Jack said "kick me, kike me, Jew me"
Now all the white chicks in
The world got booties
He rap by popular demand
And a nigga nosey on some Toucan Sam shit
You not Florida A&M, you not fam, dawg
That would be (Marco) , that's my man
For biceps I isolate with one hand
For triceps I do reps with dip sets
But not Cam
Scandal, governors busted, got damn
Power to the people unite with one plan
I used to write about green eggs and ham
'Til I found out the Food and
Drug Administration was a scam
Now we steam vegetables, brown
Forget the white rice
My life is all I have, studying zeitgeist
Lyrics bang now and again
Sing like the Chi-Lites
It's my right to use my
Power to shine my light
To function, you know the function
Yo, Pharoahe Monch
What's your motherfucking function?
I go to Queens for queens
I eat organic in Brooklyn
Swing on a vine over the
Swine and keep 'em shook
And take the anaconda through the tunnels
Through the Mecca where the piranha try to
Ball and style on the persona
You know I keep it on the low like an iguana
When the monikers never leave the crib
Without the llama in the