[ti:Ladies First] [ar:Queen Latifah] [al:Hip-Hop - The Old Skool Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ladies First (Remastered Single/LP Version) - Queen Latifah (奎因·拉蒂法)/Monie Love [00:18.29]The ladies will kick it the rhyme that is wicked [00:20.16]Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted [00:22.52]A woman can bear you break you take you [00:24.80]Now it's time to rhyme can you relate to [00:26.93]A sister d**e enough to make you holler and scream [00:29.89]Ayo let me take it from here [00:31.33]Queen excuse me but I think I'm about do [00:32.95]To get into precisely what I am about to do [00:35.26]I'm conversating to the folks that have no whatsoever clue [00:37.50]So listen very carefully as I break it down for you [00:39.74]Merrily merrily merrily merrily hyper happy overjoyed [00:42.17]Pleased with all the beats and rhymes my sisters have employed [00:44.45]Slick and smooth throwing down the sound totally a yes [00:46.54]Let me state the position ladies first yes Yes [00:49.17] [00:50.43]Yeah there's going to be some changes in here [00:52.67] [00:53.85]Believe me when I say being a woman is great you see [00:56.19]I know all the fellas out there will agree with me [00:58.57]Not for being one but for being with one [01:00.47]Because when it's time for loving it's the woman that gets some [01:02.91]Strong stepping strutting moving on [01:05.60]Rhyming cutting and not forgetting [01:07.85]We are the ones that give birth [01:09.47]To the new generation of prophets because it's ladies first [01:12.21]I break into a lyrical freestyle [01:13.17] [01:14.08]Grab the mic look into the crowd and see smiles [01:16.20]'Cause they see a woman standing up on her own two [01:18.74]Sloppy slouching is something I won't do [01:21.07]Some think that we can't flow stereotypes they got to go [01:24.92] [01:25.45]I'm a mess around and flip the scene into reverse [01:27.97]With what With a little touch of ladies first [01:30.23] [02:05.25]Who said the ladies couldn't make it you must be blind [02:07.82]If you don't believe well here listen to this rhyme [02:10.03]Ladies first there's no time to rehearse [02:12.01]I'm divine and my mind expands throughout the universe [02:14.38]A female rapper with the message to send the [02:16.79]Queen Latifah is a perfect specimen [02:18.68]My sister can I get some [02:20.79]Sure Monie Love grab the mic and get dumb [02:23.24]Yo praise me not for simply being what I am [02:26.01]Born in L O N D O N and sound American [02:27.96]You dig exactly where I'm coming from [02:29.89]You want righteous rhyming I'm a give you some [02:32.07]To enable you to aid yourself and get paid [02:34.46]And the material that has no meaning I wish to slay [02:36.83]Pay me every bit of your attention [02:38.36]Like mother like daughter I would also like to mention [02:40.41]I wish for you to bring me to bring me to the rhythm [02:42.95]Of which is now systematically given [02:45.32]Desperately stressing I'm the daughter of a sister [02:47.47]Who's the mother of a brother who's the brother of another [02:49.68]Plus one more all four have a job to do we doing it [02:52.58]Respect due to the mother who's the root of it [02:54.73]And next up is me the M O N I E L O V E [02:57.09]And I'm first cause I'm a L A D I E [02:59.08]Contact and in fact the style it gets harder [03:01.33]Cooling on the scene with my European partner [03:03.56]Laying down track after track waiting for the climax [03:06.19]When I get there that's when I tax [03:07.99]The next man or the next woman [03:10.11]It doesn't make a difference keep the competition coming [03:12.84]And I'll recite the chapter in verse [03:14.78]The title of this recital is"Ladies First"