[ti:Ladies First (LP Version)] [ar:Queen Latifah] [al:All Hail The Queen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ladies First (LP Version) - Queen Latifah/Monie Love [00:18.35]The ladies will kick it [00:19.16]The rhyme that is wicked [00:20.31]Those that don't know [00:21.28]How to be pros get evicted [00:22.63]A woman can bear you [00:23.64]Break you take you [00:25.13]Now it's time to rhyme [00:26.19]Can you relate to [00:27.13]A sister d**e enough to make [00:28.49]You holler and scream [00:29.92]Ayo let me take it [00:31.08]From here Queen [00:31.72]Excuse me but I think [00:32.61]I'm about do [00:33.39]To get into precisely what [00:34.21]I am about to do [00:35.39]I'm conversating to the [00:36.20]Folks that have no whatsoever clue [00:37.32]So listen very carefully [00:38.22]As I break it down for you [00:39.90]Merrily merrily merrily [00:40.74]Merrily hyper happy overjoyed [00:41.60]Pleased with all the beats [00:42.89]And rhymes my sisters have employed [00:44.03]Slick and smooth throwing [00:44.98]Down the sound totally a yes [00:46.24]Let me state the position [00:47.65]Ladies first yes Yes [00:50.53]Yeah there's going to be [00:51.62]Some changes in here [00:53.99]Believe me when I say being [00:55.04]A woman is great you see [00:56.39]I know all the fellas out [00:57.47]There will agree with me [00:58.57]Not for being one but for [00:59.88]Being with one [01:00.55]Because when it's time for [01:01.53]Loving it's the woman that gets some [01:03.07]Strong stepping [01:04.00]Strutting moving on [01:05.67]Rhyming cutting [01:06.78]And not forgetting [01:07.91]We are the ones that give birth [01:09.67]To the new generation of prophets [01:10.90]Because it's ladies first [01:12.45]I break into a lyrical freestyle [01:14.03]Grab the mic look into [01:15.50]The crowd and see smiles [01:16.50]'Cause they see a woman [01:17.53]Standing up on her own two [01:18.64]Sloppy slouching is something I won't do [01:20.94]Some think that we can't [01:22.85]Flow stereotypes they got to go [01:25.68]I'm a mess around and flip [01:27.25]The scene into reverse [01:27.95]With what With a little [01:29.34]Touch of ladies first [02:05.17]Who said the ladies couldn't make it [02:07.02]You must be blind [02:07.92]If you don't believe [02:08.79]Well here listen to this rhyme [02:10.29]Ladies first there's [02:11.14]No time to rehearse [02:12.09]I'm divine and my mind [02:13.28]Expands throughout the universe [02:14.49]A female rapper with the [02:15.66]Message to send the [02:16.67]Queen Latifah is a perfect specimen [02:18.66]My sister can I get some [02:20.97]Sure Monie Love grab the mic and get dumb [02:23.34]Yo praise me not for [02:24.72]Simply being what I am [02:25.89]Born in L O N D O N [02:27.59]And sound American [02:28.31]You dig exactly where [02:29.05]I'm coming from [02:29.68]You want righteous rhyming [02:31.37]I'm a give you some [02:32.57]To enable you to aid [02:33.67]Yourself and get paid [02:34.51]And the material that [02:35.34]Has no meaning I wish to slay [02:36.68]Pay me every bit of your attention [02:38.06]Like mother like daughter [02:39.00]I would also like to mention [02:40.64]I wish for you to bring me to [02:42.26]Bring me to the rhythm [02:43.26]Of which is now systematically given [02:45.53]Desperately stressing I'm the [02:46.48]Daughter of a sister [02:47.28]Who's the mother of a brother [02:48.48]Who's the brother of another [02:49.45]Plus one more all four have [02:50.82]A job to do we doing it [02:52.70]Respect due [02:53.32]To the mother who's the root of it [02:54.91]And next up is me [02:55.93]The M O N I E L O V E [02:57.71]And I'm first cause [02:58.65]I'm a L A D I E [02:59.60]Contact and in fact [03:00.80]The style it gets harder [03:01.94]Cooling on the scene with [03:02.91]My European partner [03:03.66]Laying down track after [03:04.89]Track waiting for the climax [03:06.60]When I get there [03:07.54]That's when I tax [03:08.44]The next man or the next woman [03:10.22]It doesn't make a difference [03:11.49]Keep the competition coming [03:12.87]And I'll recite the chapter [03:14.14]In verse [03:14.82]The title of this recital [03:15.96]Is"Ladies First"