[Intro: Common]
Yeah, y'all, this is DJ Com
We gonna, uh
Y-y-y-yo, yo, yo, yo, y-yo, and then a
Yo, yo, yo, yo, y-yo, we gonna
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo
[Chorus: Bilal & Jill Scott]
Alright, okay (Ayo)
Alright (Ayo), okay (Ayo)
Alright, okay
Alright, we'll make it funky for you now (Check)
[Verse 1: Common]
I'm a child of the uh, the '87 uh
From the streets, get on a beat and go uh
I could break it down like whatever you uh
On some KRS, be here forever type uh
You, you, you, you know you shouldn't rhyme like uh
Let them pussy niggas get in your mind like uh
Baby boy, you can do it, take your time, do it
If you get the chance
To be a man in a b-boy stance and advance from the go
I'll trace outer space with a uh
The babysitter of styles
I've traveled miles with bitches and I've traveled miles with
I've traveled miles with bitches and brew the ritual of the real, uh
You're platinum, but real uhs don't feel you
You sampled real uhs and then filtered
I'm built to last, at last I'm free
The Roots and SV be the family tree
SV and the Roots be the family tree
The Roots and SV and the tree is uh
Come on
[Chorus: Bilal & Jill Scott]
As long as it's funky, alright, okay (Yeah)
As long as it's funky, alright (Relax, relax)
As long as it's funky, alright, okay
As long as it's funky, funky for you now
[Verse 2: Common]
I style for the ooh, wild for the ooh
Baby girl, let's go half on a child for the ooh
Lick shots, pop, lock, and blaow for the ooh
Like Rak, I'll move a crowd for the ooh
You talkin' loud and ain't sayin' ooh
Trickin' paper on an uh, captain save-a-ooh
I've never been the type of nigga to take a broad to the courts
As a shorty, I was always into sports
Now I talk to drums and walk in slums and thoughts that's ooh
Instinct to hustle, divided by the struggle
Plus a couple of scuffles and up to how I shuffle
Even with the sound muffled, I bust through narrow gates
With king-sized thoughts that's pharaoh shaped
Before I came up, I had to elevate
Let a nigga move where he wanna move up to
You don't like how I'm livin'? Well, fuck ooh
I stuck to what I was on, a star is born on a cusp
Many angels fell to the dust
Leavin' me to trust only in ooh
Leavin' me to trust, y'all, only in ooh
Leavin' me to trust in an uh, uh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
[Chorus: Bilal & Jill Scott]
Yup, as long as it's funky, alright, okay
As long as it's funky, alright
As long as it's funky, alright, okay
As long as it's funky, funky for you now
[Post-Chorus: Common]
Yeah, yo, check
[Verse 3: Common]
Let your imagination
Dance to the, dance to the, dance to the hey
Like nobody's watchin in a b-boy stance to the hey
I'm funky like Africans in France to the hey
Yo, hey, kick in the bass
You chasin' paper like a bitch in a race
Been on the deck, still ain't picked up the ace
The hundred styles I run with thick in the race
So let's ooh, yeah, uh-huh, come on
[Chorus: Bilal & Jill Scott]
Yup, as long as it's funky, alright, okay
As long as it's funky, alright (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
As long as it's funky, alright, okay
Long as it's funky, funky for you now
Long as it's funky, alright, okay
Long as it's funky, alright (Okay)
Long as it's funky, alright, okay
Long as it's funky, funky for you
[Bridge: Jill Scott]
Long as it's funky
Long as it's funky
Long as it's funky, alright, okay
[Outro]
Yeah
You know you don't have to worry no more 'cause, yeah
You got my shoulder to cry on
And, baby, yeah
It's gonna be alright, okay
It's gonna be alright, okay
Everything you need
You can just look to me, baby
'Cause I
Okay, yeah, alright
It's gonna be okay, alright
Aw, you don't have to worry
I'll be there, I'll be there
You just look over your shoulder, baby
I wanna be there for you
Gonna be there for you, woah
Alright, I know
She been eyein'
Yeah, yeah, oh, long as I say
Alright, okay
Oh yeah
Sing it for me