I Am I Be Lyrics - Buhloone Mindstate - De La Soul

Verse 1 

I am Posdnous 

I be the new generation of slaves 

here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes 

the pile of revenue I create 

But I guess I don't get a cut cuz my rent's a month late 

Product of a North Carolina cat 

who scratched the back of a pretty woman named Hattie 

Who departed life just a little too soon 

and didn't see me grab the Plug Tune fame 

As we go a little somethin' like this 

look ma, no protection 

Now I got a daughter named Ayana Monay 

And I can play the cowboy to rustle in the dough 

so the scenery is healthy where her eyes lay 

I am an early bird but the feathers are black 

so the apples that I catch are usually all worms 

But it's a must to decipher one's queen 

from a worm who plays groupie and spread around the bad germ 

I cherish the twilight 

I maximize, my soul is the right size 

I watch for the power to run out on the moon 

(And that'll be sometime soon) 

Faker than a fist of kids 

speakin that they're black 

When they're just niggas trying to be Greek 

Or some tongues who lied 

and said "We'll be natives to the end" 

Nowadays we don't even speak 

I guess we got our own life to live 

Or is it because we want our own kingdom to rule? 

Every now and then I step to the now 

for now I see back then I might have acted like a fool 

Now I won't apologize for it 

This is not a bunch of Bradys 

but a bunch of black man's pride 

Yet I can safely say 

I've never played a sister by touching where her private parts reside 

I've always walked the right side of the road 

If I wasn't making song I wouldn't be a thug selling drugs 

But a man with a plan 

and if I was a rug cleaner 

betcha Pos'd have the cleanest rugs I am. 

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Verse 2 

The Plug Two brand with the flavour 

in the flute watch the sniffin' 

so a sack of shows in demand 

I read the diction from the second page 

I got the one-two gauge 

baritone to the izm fan 

Trees fall so I can play ground with my ink 

So let me need ya to my ems go 

I push the infinite and carry it 

My carrier's the three over one 

so my pluggins already know 

Lick shots with moo 

catch the boo 

from a ghost in the heckling crowd 

if I give a foot 

Jack Ville caught a spill 

when a still came from my mouth 

I brought a head down south 

I don't check for the noose and the neck 

So I never tell my ems 

that finesse is knocking at my door 

I choose to run from the rays of the burning sun 

and dodge a needle washing up upon a sandy shore 

I bring the element H with the 2 

so ya owe me what's coming when I'm raining on your new parade 

It's just mind over matter 

and what matters is 

that the mind isn't guided by the punished shade 

I keep the walking on the right side 

but I won't judge the next who handles walking on the wrong 

Cuz that's how he wants to be 

No difference, see 

I wanna be like the name of this song I am 

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Verse 3 

I am Posdnous 

I be the new generation of slaves 

Here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes 

the pile of revenue I create 

but I guess I don't get a cut cuz my rent's a month late 

The deeds of a natural 

are seeds that are no longer planted 

so the famine in the mind is strong 

Tactics of another plane is now proven sane 

Sane enough to let you know from within this song 

I stabilize many cableized viewers 

So my occupation's known 

But not why I occupy 

And that is to bring the peace 

not in the flower but the As-Salaam Alaikum in the third I am