Queen Latifah - Jersey lyrics
[Queen Latifah - Jersey lyrics]
Yo what's up this is Queen
Latifah in the house
Definetely representin Jersey on
The love love
Coolin' out in Cali shootin' Living Single
But damn I miss home
I can't forget New Jersey
When I think of home I think of
A place where there's love over-flowin'
And all my family and peeps I
Knew when I was growin
Mommy and daddy made me proud to an Owens
Taught me to keep goin'
Straight up but never knowin'
I would become Her eminence
And royal highness
The Queen Latifah no doubt one
Of New Jersey's finest so, set if off
Get 'em up on my own
Cause Jersey's what I think about
When I think of home
Don't let no one get close to
You except the chosen few
Stick with the ones who meant the most to you
When you were broke and blue
That's how fam do
That's how you stay true around these snakes
That freakin' smile when they hate you
I'm quick to take the ride down for in-town
(Just another day living on a down)
My experience legit, my rhymes is on hit
It's mad truth to the rumor we
The shit I can't forget
I used to work at Burger
King but after takin orders
I used to take the path to
Latin Quarters across the waters
When I learned to do the Wop, yo
I couldn't stop
I brought it back around the way to
Show the people on my block
Teacher, teacher, tell me how you do it
It looks so simple like that
There is nothin to it
So, we meet at Irvington High halls
And after school I'd run
To the Willowbrook mall
Boostin' with Sulamon
I had a talent for getting 'em for gear
Petty thief, small time crook of the year
But I chilled cause I had
Bigger dreams than to steal
And Ramsey came for me and Apache to
Put our voices on a reel
And I could hear myself on the radio
"45 King Special Red Alert Show"
Cause that's what life was all about to me
R-E-P Flavor Unit, representin' Jersey
I think about my mom and my
Brothers when I'm on swoll
Shakim, when I'm on swoll
My baby sister, when I'm on swoll
Hoffstead, when I'm on swoll
Ill Town, when I on swoll
Jill Town, JC, when I'm all swoll
Irvington, Newark and so on
When I'm all swoll
Recognize the home of my soul we got Naughty
And uh we got Nicky
We got Redman, the Artifacts and Whitney
Bon Jovi them my bogeys
Bruce Springsteen, and Das EFX
Shaquille O'Neal, oh he'll catch wreck
Tisha Campbell, Jerry Lewis, Tony Bennett
Back spin, or spin it
Thursday, Peppermint I'm in it
Shadow's, I knows no foes in the spot
Cause them peeps is my peeps
And my back is got
Nuf' respect to your burough, your block
You're black I love to see
Us move as a flock
Unstrapped, against each other no body armor
Nobody harms a hair on a head
Everything's calmer
And we cool, the ghetto stars and fools
We paid the dues we made the blues
So come on with the come on
Get down with the get down
I'm down with my hometown sound
Latifah in the house
Definetely representin Jersey on
The love love
Coolin' out in Cali shootin' Living Single
But damn I miss home
I can't forget New Jersey
When I think of home I think of
A place where there's love over-flowin'
And all my family and peeps I
Knew when I was growin
Mommy and daddy made me proud to an Owens
Taught me to keep goin'
Straight up but never knowin'
I would become Her eminence
And royal highness
The Queen Latifah no doubt one
Of New Jersey's finest so, set if off
Get 'em up on my own
Cause Jersey's what I think about
When I think of home
Don't let no one get close to
You except the chosen few
Stick with the ones who meant the most to you
When you were broke and blue
That's how fam do
That's how you stay true around these snakes
That freakin' smile when they hate you
I'm quick to take the ride down for in-town
(Just another day living on a down)
My experience legit, my rhymes is on hit
It's mad truth to the rumor we
The shit I can't forget
I used to work at Burger
King but after takin orders
I used to take the path to
Latin Quarters across the waters
When I learned to do the Wop, yo
I couldn't stop
I brought it back around the way to
Show the people on my block
Teacher, teacher, tell me how you do it
It looks so simple like that
There is nothin to it
So, we meet at Irvington High halls
And after school I'd run
To the Willowbrook mall
Boostin' with Sulamon
I had a talent for getting 'em for gear
Petty thief, small time crook of the year
But I chilled cause I had
Bigger dreams than to steal
And Ramsey came for me and Apache to
Put our voices on a reel
And I could hear myself on the radio
"45 King Special Red Alert Show"
Cause that's what life was all about to me
R-E-P Flavor Unit, representin' Jersey
I think about my mom and my
Brothers when I'm on swoll
Shakim, when I'm on swoll
My baby sister, when I'm on swoll
Hoffstead, when I'm on swoll
Ill Town, when I on swoll
Jill Town, JC, when I'm all swoll
Irvington, Newark and so on
When I'm all swoll
Recognize the home of my soul we got Naughty
And uh we got Nicky
We got Redman, the Artifacts and Whitney
Bon Jovi them my bogeys
Bruce Springsteen, and Das EFX
Shaquille O'Neal, oh he'll catch wreck
Tisha Campbell, Jerry Lewis, Tony Bennett
Back spin, or spin it
Thursday, Peppermint I'm in it
Shadow's, I knows no foes in the spot
Cause them peeps is my peeps
And my back is got
Nuf' respect to your burough, your block
You're black I love to see
Us move as a flock
Unstrapped, against each other no body armor
Nobody harms a hair on a head
Everything's calmer
And we cool, the ghetto stars and fools
We paid the dues we made the blues
So come on with the come on
Get down with the get down
I'm down with my hometown sound