[ti:Examination Of What] [ar:Digable Planets] [al:Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Examination Of What - Digable Planets [00:00.67]One day while I was sipping some groove juice I realized that in the [00:05.91]Span of time we're just babies it's all relative time is unreal [00:10.38]We're just babies we're just babies man [00:12.91]We're just babies we're just babies man [00:15.36]We're just babies we're just babies man [00:17.84]We're just babies we're just babies man [00:20.86]Every man's a planet and the props are there to get it [00:23.37]Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit [00:26.00]Life it comes goes and you do not punch a clock [00:28.44]I don't take sh*t for granted I think of Scott la rock [00:31.26]Also of tyrel and battles at the borders [00:33.64]My cousins in the joint and the homeless gripping quarters [00:36.24]The forests are all shrinking this deepens to my thinking [00:38.78]Don't cover up the nappy be happy witcha kinking [00:41.41]Dwelling yes you're Dwelling as the norm is itty bitty [00:44.01]Figure eighty fifty for a smidgen of the city [00:46.60]In the serengetti be ready for a box [00:49.09]But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks [00:51.53]If your peoples don't getcha you still ain't off clean [00:54.19]The politicians' mask is worse than hallowe'en [00:56.71]I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick 'em [00:59.46]Now tell me who's the vices and tell me who's the victim [01:01.95]So what is really what is really what [01:04.59]If the funk don't move your butt [01:06.92]And if the box don't make you hot [01:09.21]And if the cats don't dig the raps [01:12.05]If your life ain't got no spice [01:14.35]Or if the guns just wreck your fun [01:17.17]Or if some shouts ain't in the house [01:19.42]Or if your crew ain't down with you [01:21.64]Ladybug [01:23.16]Peace this is mecca the ladybug and I'm saying though what is really [01:27.08]What if I can't even get comfortable because the supreme court is [01:30.31]Like all in my uterus [01:32.00]Peace this is see know the doodlebug and I want to say what is what if [01:36.52]You can't walk through your hood with Bert Ernie and sesame street [01:40.74]Mossier trying to give the snuffleupagus [01:43.29]My father taught me jazz all the peoples and the anthems [01:45.84]Ate peanuts with the dizz and vibed with Lionel Hampton [01:48.30]Now I'm swimming deep in the hip hop with eclectics [01:50.92]Now do we gots the power or is it getting hectic [01:53.45]Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it [01:56.35]Hip hop grew from roots but some emcees never traced it [01:58.66]The old jacks buck wild and some babies bore their fists [02:01.10]But the crew from outer space is here sh*t [02:03.83]We grew up digging styles of the fabulous fifth Freddy [02:06.38]And scoping out for days crazy legs and rocksteady [02:08.87]Now bleach is in the laundry same old beats is handy [02:11.38]The label may okay it but radio won't play it [02:14.05]The censors are about so watch your mouth close your drapes [02:16.53]The legs that's in the boots is on the corner watch your tape [02:19.04]Making papes off the crust for money and for lust [02:21.70]You're playing out the planets get slammed trust [02:24.38]You think it see it run it and slam it [02:26.77]They peep it hear it lynch it and ban it [02:29.44]It just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it [02:32.01]Your grass be in the joint but they licked it and rolled it [02:34.62]So what I'm saying what [02:37.86]What is really what is really what is really what [02:40.19]If the funk don't rule your cut [02:41.85]Or if the streets don't dig your beats [02:44.36]Or if my man ain't fifty grand [02:47.32]Or if the hoods don't think you're good [02:49.48]Or if your church don't really work [02:52.49]Or if the pigs want to knock your wigs [02:54.63]Or if the jeeps don't roll with beats [02:56.72]Cause butterfly is baby I'm just a baby man [03:00.18]I'm just a baby I'm just a baby man [03:02.69]I'm just a baby I'm just a baby man [03:05.18]And mister doodle I'm just a baby too [03:07.74]And miss mecca I'm just a baby man [03:10.37]And mister silk he's just a baby too [03:13.00]And 801 s they just babies man [03:15.56]And miss Venus she's just a baby man [03:18.03]The ac facts they just a babies man [03:20.54]And dps they just a babies too [03:23.23]Oh and dash she's just a baby man [03:25.76]Danny and dani they are my babies man [03:28.46]Oh and Liz she's just a baby man [03:30.89]Oh and Stella she's just a baby man [03:33.47]Doc Shane he's just a baby man [03:36.11]Mike Mann he's just my main man [03:38.64]And doctor timba he's just a baby man [03:41.22]And nappy Jackie she's just a baby too [03:43.97]Benefice cent he's just a baby man [03:46.38]Oh and you you're just a baby man