[ti:Youthful Expression]
[ar:A Tribe Called Quest]
[al:Peoples' Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Youthful Expression - A Tribe Called Quest
[00:18.57]The taste of nuthin' this does somethin'
[00:20.74]Moms that knows that says I'm frontin'
[00:23.15]Call me Smiley 'cuz I'm wiley
[00:24.89]Livin' life like the life of Riley
[00:27.12]Smokin' blunts with a boy named Bud
[00:29.36]We cough up your lungs cough up your cud
[00:31.78]Put out fires with a 40 ounce of water
[00:34.77]You know you oughta
[00:36.16]Dance to this your girl you kiss
[00:38.26]I like fried foods especially fish
[00:40.70]Afrocentric I'm electric
[00:42.68]Socialistic and eccentric
[00:44.92]Body's healthy mind is wealthy
[00:47.09]Thoughts they flow that will prepare me
[00:49.34]To be a Native get creative
[00:51.38]Original and designative
[00:52.46]Listen to the line that's playin'
[00:53.89]Listen hard to what Q's sayin'
[00:55.80]Politicians are magicians
[00:57.92]Make your vote they hope your wishin'
[01:00.58]Ambiguous words senseless verbs
[01:04.68]They all amount to crap that's heard
[01:06.92]Violent hip hop money flip flops
[01:09.07]Promoters won't book but it still rocks
[01:11.46]I'm a Zulu yes a true blue
[01:13.43]Red Alert is with the poo-poo
[01:15.65]Ozone layer loses flava
[01:18.26]Here's the edge that you will savor
[01:20.25]With expressions and I'm guessin'
[01:57.81]19 years is a youthful lesson
[01:59.81]Fallin' skies babe open eyes babe
[02:01.94]Can't you see what lays inside babe
[02:04.44]Makin' mentions on this tension
[02:06.36]Rhythmic lovin' my profession
[02:08.58]Hips they gyrate scripts I narrate
[02:10.79]No banana I ain't a primate
[02:13.21]Ain't no soul glo just an Afro
[02:15.21]The head is bred to let the thoughts grow
[02:17.63]Quest together to lands of never
[02:19.63]Sleet and snow and storms can't sever
[02:21.71]Tribe is growin' never know when
[02:24.03]For this time six necks may show in
[02:26.29]Dialogues have been accepted
[02:27.65]Negatives have been rejected
[02:30.60]That's the music Negro music
[02:32.80]Is here for all so you must choose it
[02:35.22]Phonies fondle watch it throttle
[02:37.25]3-6-5 straight out the bottle
[02:39.52]Bustin' caps finger snaps
[02:41.70]I prefer the second for ghetto tracks
[02:43.88]Phife Jacobi Ali told me
[02:46.05]Get the force like Wan Kenobi
[02:48.50]Force his teachin' beats are screechin'
[02:50.60]Poly plateaus we aim for reachin'
[02:52.78]Trialization freaks the nation
[02:55.06]A mass of peers in celebration
[02:57.19]Hopes been real high since the knee high
[02:59.60]Days of youth feelin' good and real spry
[03:01.85]Avid combos hear those bongos
[03:03.81]Boom cacka boom that's how they go
[03:06.08]We ain't nomads but we real glad
[03:08.33]Hip hop slams through the nineties no fad
[03:10.69]As a rhythm have been given
[03:12.58]Hurry up become we breakin' out out
[03:15.45]With a rhythmic instinction to be able to travel
[03:18.22]Beyond existing forces of life
[03:19.85]Basically that Tribal
[03:21.12]And if you wanna get the rhythm
[03:23.97]Then you have to join a Tribe
[03:26.44]Word peace