Rosetta Stone Groove (Universal Language)

[Intro - adlibs by Rakaa]

(Percussion - I feel that, Let’s move...

Bongos -- Let’s go -- see Bobo’s ready!

Rhettmatic -- you ready!

Ladies -- Let’s move!)

Peace king, peace ahki / Peace queen, peace ahki

Better shoot me down to fly, better bring me down to rise

Better cut me down to climb, but they want to see eye to eye

Great nation, shift to plantation

Music in the warrior’s heart, kept safe in the dark

Middle passage, not Noah’s ark

But the church did get the soul and the spark

Blues was the flip-side, floating with sharks

Then came jazz ripped open the arts

Same blues morphed into rock

Invaded pop - then the Bronx created hip-hop

(DJ...Rhettmatic...Let’s go!

Bobo, break it down like this!

Yeah, Universal Language

Been all over the world...matter a fact it feel like:

Johannesburg! (That’s what it feel like!)

Cuba! (That’s what it feel like!)

P.R.! (That’s what it feel like!)

D.R.! (That’s what it feel like!)

Kingston! (That’s what it feel like!)

New Orleans! (That’s what it feel like!)

Haiti! (That’s what it feel like!)

???? (That’s what it feel like!)

Oooh...(Miss Noelle Scaggs)

Bobo meets Rhettmatic...Rakaa

Peace king, peace ahki / Peace queen, peace ahki