The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill?

Lauryn Hill?

Walton Spates (here)

Yo, remember back on the Bully

When cats used to harmonize like (ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh)

Yo, yo, my men and my women

Don't forget about the deen

Sirat al-Mustaqeem

Yo, it's about a thing, uh, yo, yo

If ya feel real good wave your hands in the air

And lick two shots in the atmosphere!

(Put them up, put them up)

(Put them up, put them up)

(Put them up, put them up)

It's been three weeks since you were looking for your friend

The one you let hit it and never called you again

'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamins?

You act like you ain't hear him then give him a little trim

To begin, how you think you're really gon' pretend

Like you wasn't down and you called him again?

Plus, when you give it up so easy you ain't even foolin' him

If you did it then, then you'd probably f- again

Talking out your neck, sayin' you're a Christian

A Muslim, sleeping with the jinn

Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in

Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin?

Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend

Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again

You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem

Baby girl, respect is just a minimum

N- fucked up and you still defending 'em

Now, Lauryn is only human

Don't think I haven't been through the same predicament

Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in

Look at where you be in, hair weaves like Europeans

Fake nails done by Koreans

Come again

A win win, come again

A win win, come again

My friend come again

Guys, you know you'd better watch out

Some girls, some girls are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

That thing, that thing, that thing

The second verse is dedicated to the men

More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women

Him and his men come in the club like hooligans

Don't care who they offend, poppin' yang (like you got yen!)

Let's stop pretend, the ones that pack pistols by they waist men

Cristal by the case men, still in they mother's basement

The pretty face men claiming that they did a bid men

Need to take care of they three or four kids

And they face a court case when the child support late

Money taking and heart breaking, now you wonder why women hate men

The sneaky, silent men

The punk, domestic violence men

Quick to shoot the semen, stop acting like boys and be men

How you gonna win when you ain't right within?

How you gonna win when you ain't right within?

How you gonna win when you ain't right within?

Uh-uh, come again (yeah)

Hey, yo-yo, come again

My French men, come again

My sister, come again

Watch out, watch out

Look out, look out

Watch out, watch out

Look out, look out

Watch out, watch out

Look out, look out

Watch out, watch out

Look out, look out

Girls, you know you'd better watch out

Some guys, some guys are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

That thing, that thing, that thing

Guys, you know you'd better watch out

'Cause girls, some girls are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

That thing, that thing, that thing

Girls, you know you'd better watch out

Some guys, some guys are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

That thing, that thing, that thing

Hey, we've got some very intelligent women here, man

Do you think you're too young to really love somebody?

(No! No, no, I don't think so)

I say it for me, uh, I'm an adult I say, wait

You're too young to be in love, this is silly

You're infatuated or whatever, you got nice jeans

You wear fancy Adidas

I mean, it might be something I don't know

(Is their a difference from loving somebody and being in love with somebody?)

Well, you tell me, what's the difference?

Okay, you can love anybody but when you're in love with somebody

You're looking at it like this

You're taking that person for what

He or she is no matter what he or she look like or no matter what he or she do

(You're crazy! You fall in love, you can fall out of love)

You might stop being in love

With them but you are not gonna stop loving that person

Maybe sometimes they ain't never been loved before

Or they never been in love before, they don't know what the feeling is to be loved

(Class, she poetic)

She killed it, we could end that conversation with that, right?

Yo hip-hop, started out in the heart

Uh-huh, yo

Now everybody tryin' to chart

Say what? Hip-hop, started out in the heart

Yo, now everybody tryin' to chart

C'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon, uhh

C'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon

C'mon baby light my fire(Come on)

Everything you drop is so tired(Everything)

Music is supposed to inspire(Music is supposed to inspire)

How come we ain't gettin' no higher? (How come, how come)

Now tell me your philosophy

On exactly what an artist should be

Should they be someone with prosperity

And no concept of reality?

Now, who you know without any flaws?

That lives above the spiritual laws?

And does anything they feel just because (Just because, just because)

There's always someone there who'll applaud?

C'mon baby light my fire(Come on)

Everything you drop is so tired(Everything you drop is so tired)

Music is supposed to inspire (What are we here for, what are we here for)

How come we ain't gettin' no higher? (Gettin' no higher)

I know you think that you've got it all

And by making other people feel small

Makes you think you're unable to fall

But when you do, who you gonna call?

See what you give is just what you get(What you give is just what you get)

I know it hasn't hit you yet (I know it hasn't hit you yet)

Now I don't mean to get you upset(Get upset, get upset)

But every cause has an effect, uh-huh!

C'mon baby light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired(Yeah)

Music is supposed to inspire(Music is supposed to inspire)

How come we ain't gettin' no higher? (We ain't no higher, we ain't no higher)

I cross sands in distant lands, made plans with the sheiks

Why you beef with freaks as my album sales peak? Uhh

All I wanted was to sell like five hundred

And be a ghetto superstar since my first album, Blunted

I used to work at Foot Locker, they fired me: I fronted

Or I quitted, now I spit it, however do you want it?

Now you get it!

Writing rhymes, in the Range, with the frames lightly tinted

Then send it to your block and have my full name cemented (Lauryn Hill!)

And if your lines sound like mine I'm taking a percentage (ka-ching!)

Unprecedented, and still respected when it's vintage

I'm serious, I'm takin' over areas in Aquarius

Runnin' red lights with my ten thousand chariots

Just as Christ was a Superstar, you stupid, star!

They'll hail you then nail you, no matter who you are

They'll make you now then take you down, and make you face it

If you slit the bag open, put your pinky in it and taste it

C'mon baby light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired(Everything you drop, everything you drop)

Music is supposed to inspire(Oh yeah)

How come we ain't gettin no higher? (We ain't getting no higher, getting no higher)

C'mon baby light my fire(C'mon baby light my fire)

Everything you drop is so tired(Everything you drop is so tired)

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't gettin no higher? (How come we ain't gettin no higher?)

C'mon baby light my fire(Come on baby)

Everything you drop is so tired (Everything you drop is so tired)

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't gettin no higher? (We aint no higher)

I treat this like my thesis

Well written topic

Broken down into pieces

I introduce then produce

Words so profuse

It's abuse how I juice up this beat

Like I'm deuce

Two people both equal

Like I'm Gemini

Rather simeon

If I Jimmy on this lock I could pop it

You can't stop it

Drop it

Your whole crew's microscopic

Like particles while I make international articles

And on the cover

Don't discuss the baby mother business

I been in this third LP you can't tell me, I witness

First handed I'm candid

You can't stand it

Respect demanded

And get flown around the planet

Rock Hard like granite or steel

People feel Lauryn Hill from New-Ark to Israel

And this is real

So I keep makin' the street's ballads

While you lookin' for dressin' to go with your tossed salad

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

I'm about to change the focus

From the richest to the brokest

I wrote this opus

To reverse the hypnosis

Whoever's closest

To the line's gonna win it

You gonna fall tryin to ball

While my team win the pennant

I'm about to be in it

For a minute

Then run for senate

Make a slum lord be the tenant

Give his money to kids to spend it

And then amend it

Every law that ever prevented

Our survival since our arrival

Documented in the bible

Like Moses and Aaron

Things gon change, it's apparent

And all the transparent gonna

Be seen through

Let God redeem you

Keep your deen true

Watch out what you cling to

You can get the green too

Observe how a queen do

And I remain calm readin' the 73 Psalm

'Cause wit' all this on I got the world in palm

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

Now I be breaking bread sipping Manischewitz wine

Pay no mind party like it's 1999

But when it comes down to ground beef like Palestine

Say your rhymes, let's see if that get you out your bind

Now I'm a get the mozzarella like a Rockafeller

Still be in the church of Lalibela, singing hymns a cappella

Whether posed in Mirabella in Couture

Or collecting residuals from off The Score

I'm making sure I'm with the 144

I've been here before this ain't a battle, this is war

Word to Boonie, I make salat like a Sunni

Get diplomatic immunity in every ghetto community

Had opportunity went from Hoodshock to Hood-chic

But it ain't what you cop, it's about what you keep

And even if there are leaks, you can't capsize this ship

'Cause I baptize my lips every time I take a sip

You can get the money, you can get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

You can get the money, you can get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

You can get the money, you can get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

You can get the money, you can get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

Ho, oh woah

Mmmh, yeah

Oh woah

Uh oh, uh

Oh yeah (ho ho woah)

(Oh, ho)

Yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah)

Oh oh oh

Now the skies could fall

Not even if my boss should call

The world it seems so very small

Cause nothing even matters, at all

See nothing even matters

See nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

(Nothing even matters at all) See I don't need no alcohol

Your love makes me feel ten feet tall

Without it I'd go through withdrawal

Cause nothing even matters, at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

(No-thing matters at all) These buildings could drift out to sea

Some natural catastrophe

Still there's no place I'd rather be

Cause nothing even matters to me

See nothing even matters

See nothing even matters to meee

Nothing even matters

(Nothing even matters to me) You're part of my identity

I sometimes have a tendency

To look at you religiously (baby)

Cause nothing even matters, to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Said it don't matter, baby baby

(Don't matter) Now you won't find me at no store

I have no time for manicures

With you it's never either or

Cause nothing even matters, no more

See nothing it don't matter

See nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

(Nothing even matters no more) Now my team could score

And make it to the Final Four

Just repossessed my four by four

Cause nothing even matters, no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Oh no more

To me, to me, to me, to me (oh nothing matters)

To me, to me, to me, to me, to me to me to me (one time)

(It don't matter, it don't matter)

(It don't matter)

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters matters matters matters

Oh!

(Nothing but you)

Nothing even ma-tters no more (but you)

Darling baby, darling baby, darling baby, darling you

But you, but you

But you, you, you, you (you, you, you, you)

(Yeah yeah yeah)

Nothing but you, nothing but you

Nothing but you, nothing but you (nothing but you)

Nothing but you, nothing but you

Nothing but you, nothing but you

No- but you, nothing but you

Nothing you, ah you you

Nothing but you, nothing but you (darling but you)

Nothing but you, oh you (nothing but you)

(No, nothing)

You you, oh-oh

Nothing but you, nothing but you (nothing but you)

Nothing but you, nothing but you (nothing but you)

Nothing you, nothing you (nothing but you)

Nothing you, (nothing nothing baby)

Nothing but you, nothing but you

Nothing but you, nothing but you

Nothing you, nothing but you (please)

Nothing but you, nothing but you