What's Real-Sir Mix-A-Lot

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[00:00.00]What's Real - Sir Mix-A-Lot
[00:04.57]The brothers was stuck on Chuck
[00:06.03]Without a mind set
[00:07.39]I got tired of watchin"Good Times"
[00:09.25]Feelin like J J
[00:10.42]I'm standin in the food bank line
[00:12.43]My momma was ridin on the bus
[00:14.24]Tryna get to work
[00:15.23]Early in the morn'
[00:16.35]It's cold and her knees hurt
[00:17.89]She got a 38 sittin in her purse
[00:20.45]Cause my moms was the King
[00:21.86]County Jail nurse
[00:23.23]So how in the hell could you tell Mix
[00:25.15]That I never lived this
[00:26.90]When you was just a snotty nose age six
[00:29.21]Young buck just graduate
[00:31.10]And your lyin when you say
[00:32.61]Your street educated
[00:33.61]Cause I'ma veteran boy
[00:35.14]And you's a new booty
[00:36.44]So stop frontin to your friends
[00:38.09]Like you knew me
[00:39.27]Cause you don't and you never did kid
[00:41.57]So F**K your respect
[00:42.71]And the sh*t you claim ya did
[00:44.46]To all ya real
[00:45.54]When ya claimin ya gang bang
[00:46.99]Doin everythin to gain fame
[00:48.30]And get yourself a name
[00:50.38]But I done seen my homies
[00:51.96]Gettin smoked
[00:52.70]Over dice games
[00:53.63]When you was still
[00:54.55]At home doin nice things
[00:56.07]Back in the days
[00:57.33]Of turtle wax on Cadillacs
[00:58.72]Life to a brother was hoes and macks
[01:01.23]I had to come up some way
[01:03.24]Pimp daddies and ex-Black
[01:05.10]Panthers used to school me
[01:06.86]Why moms was puttin in eight to twelve
[01:09.66]I was in the hood
[01:11.07]Gettin schooled on makin mail
[01:12.19]I can't let my moms die a poor black sister
[01:15.21]Gotta make her richer
[01:16.56]So tell me what's real partner
[01:18.47](Da-da-da-down for mine)
[01:20.07](You gon' buy me a motherf**kin car )
[01:22.33]So what's real fool
[01:23.70](Da-da-da-down for mine)
[01:25.70](You gon' buy me a motherf**kin car )
[01:27.85]Back when MLK Way was Empire Way
[01:30.59]I was stuck on broke
[01:31.89]But I used to hear pimps say
[01:33.63]Better get what you can
[01:35.18]Get before you get got
[01:36.42]Come up and snatch yours
[01:37.65]And buy yourself a nice spot
[01:39.19]And that's stuck
[01:39.80]In my head 'til this day G
[01:42.07]So I apply pimp game to life you see
[01:44.57]But I ain't beatin on
[01:45.88]My sister in the streets
[01:47.38]I'ma focus on my real enemy yeah
[01:49.95]So if I'm pimpin then who's my hoeys
[01:51.83]In D C living in a big white house bro
[01:54.92]Changes his name every four years
[01:57.55]Mr Carter caught me slippin
[01:58.84]But Reagan wasn't gettin his
[02:00.69]I never wanted a hand out young Jake
[02:03.16]I never got jealous over
[02:04.95]How much a brother makes
[02:06.01]So I was on my own
[02:07.19]No love in the school zone
[02:08.67]No blacks in the books so I'm gone
[02:10.55]And now the only color
[02:11.67]That I love is green see
[02:13.63]Cause my history books
[02:14.96]Never taught me about me
[02:16.57]I may not like where I've been
[02:18.55]But I'm lovin where I am
[02:20.05]Prime rib f**k Spam
[02:21.34]So tell me what's real partner
[02:22.69](I fought back then heat check)
[02:24.71](You gon' buy me a motherf**kin car )
[02:26.88]So what's real fool
[02:27.90](I fought back then heat check)
[02:30.44](You gon' buy me a motherf**kin car )
[02:33.42]Yeah I'd much rather be behind the mic
[02:35.57]Then the gat
[02:36.40]But the simple fact that my pockets is fat
[02:38.65]Means I can't relax
[02:39.59]You know what I'm sayin
[02:42.25]Haha
[02:44.17]Criticized by the main stream
[02:46.07]For not bein the house jig
[02:47.72]And keepin things squeaky clean
[02:49.54]But I can't so I ain't
[02:51.05]But I won't play the hard role
[02:52.87]Just because you think
[02:54.16]That is real to say you kill
[02:56.05]When you never held steel
[02:57.44]You try to sing
[02:58.38]When you rollin in cake-ville
[02:59.85]Back in the days you was breakdancin see
[03:02.26]I remember when you had tight pants G
[03:04.94]So Mr Rap Critic when you
[03:06.77]Trys to check me
[03:07.66]About my cars and my girls
[03:09.11]Claimin you never could respect me
[03:10.80]You really think I give a damn partner
[03:13.34]The sh*t I've been through man
[03:15.69]I used to roll with the hoes
[03:17.23]Hit the Caddy slam the doors
[03:18.60]Livin alone cellular phone
[03:19.86]Havin no furniture in my home
[03:21.19]Rollin to Canada makin my mail
[03:23.00]Givin a trick a piece of tail
[03:24.34]Livin it large keepin it hard
[03:25.69]Life was kinda odd
[03:26.67]And rat a tat tat with my gat
[03:28.31]Sat in my lap G
[03:30.11]The Hilton Hotel was my spot
[03:31.43]I'm runnin my things see
[03:32.58]I went from hustlin cheese
[03:33.57]To double platinum LPs
[03:35.20]But you still can't feel me
[03:37.72]Boy the head don't get fat
[03:39.10]If you know where your at
[03:40.39]Instead of ridin my back
[03:41.47]Check your own dat and that's facts
[03:42.83]Now what's real partner
[03:46.92]Haha so what's real
[03:54.42]Yeah and all you
[03:55.41]Clown runnin around town
[03:56.69]Tellin people me and yous was down
[03:59.57]When I was doing
[04:00.36]Parties at the Boy's Club
[04:01.38]You was sellin match books of w**d partner
[04:05.01]I was about handlin my business
[04:06.57]And you was about smokin your gri-nass
[04:10.02]So check yourself
[04:10.67]You wanna see the big head champ
[04:12.95]And that's real to the fullest and I'm out