A TRIBE CALLED QUEST – BUGGIN’ OUT

Lyrics

[Phife Dawg]
Yo, microphone check one, two, what is this?
The five foot assassin with the roughneck business
I float like gravity, never had a cavity
Got more rhymes than the Winans got family
No need to sweat Arsenio to gain some type of fame
No shame in my game cause I'll always be the same
Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have
You wanna diss the Phifer but you still don't know the half
I sport New Balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path
Mess around with this you catch a size eight up your ass
I never half step cause I'm not a half stepper
Drink a lot of soda so they call me Dr. Pepper
Refuse to compete with BS competition
Your name ain't Special Ed
So won't you seckle with the mission
I never walk the street thinking it's all about me
Even though deep in my heart, it really could be
I just try my best to like go all out
Some might even say yo shorty black you're buggin' out
[Q-Tip]
Zulu Nation, brothers last creation
Minds get flooded, ejaculation
Right on the two inch tape
The Abstract poet incognito, runs the cape
Not the best not the worst and occasionally I curse
To get my point across, so bust, the floss
As I go in between, the grit and the dirt
Listen to the mission listen Miss as I do work, umm
As I crack the, monotone
Children of the jazz so, get your own
Smokin R&B cause they try to do me
Or the best of the pack but they can't do rap
For it's Abstract, original
You can't get your own and that's, pitiful
I know I'd be the man if I cold yanked the plug
On R&B, but I can't and that's bugged
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
[Phife Dawg]
Yo when you bug out
You usually have a reason for the action
Sometimes you do it just for mere satisfaction
People be hounding, always surrounding
Pulsing, just like a migraine pounding
You don't really fret, you stay in your sense
Camouflage your feeling, of absolute tense
You soar off to another world, deep in your mind
But people seem to take that, as being unkind
"Oh yo he's acting stank," really on a regal?
A man of the fame not a man of the people
Believe that if you wanna but I tell you this much
Riding on the train with no dough, sucks
Once again a case of your feet in my Nike's
If a crowd is in my realm I'm saying -- mic please
Hip-hop is living, can't yank the plug
If you do the result, will end up kind of bugged
[Q-Tip]
Yo, I am not an invalid although
I used to smoke the weed out
Ali Shaheed Muhammad used to say I had to be out
Scheming on the cookies with the crazy booming back buns
Pushing on them real hard just so we can have the big fun
When I left for road, see, I was Boulevard status
Battling a MC was when Tip was at his maddest
It was one MC after one MC
What the world could they be wanting see from little old me
Do I have the formula to save the world?
Or was it just because I used to
Swipe the women and all the girls
I'm the type of brother with the crazy extended hand, kid
Dissed by all my brothers I was all up what my man did
Supposed to be my man
But now I wonder cause you're feeble
I go out with the strongies and I separate the evils
It's your brain against my mind, for those about to boot out
All you nasty critters even though you see I bug out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out
Buggin' out, buggin' out, buggin' out, you're buggin' out

Paroles (Traduction)

[Phife Dawg]
Yo, vérification du microphone un, deux, qu'est-ce que c'est ?
Le rappeur de cinq pieds avec le business de dur à cuire
Je flotte comme la gravité, n'ai jamais eu de carie
J'ai plus de rimes que les Winans ont de membres de la famille
Pas besoin de transpirer chez Arsenio pour gagner une certaine gloire
Pas de honte dans mon jeu car je serai toujours le même
Des styles sur des styles sur des styles, voilà ce que j'ai
Tu veux critiquer Phifer mais tu ne sais toujours pas la moitié
Je porte des baskets New Balance pour éviter un chemin étroit
Si tu t'amuses avec ça, tu te prends un 45 au derrière
Je ne fais jamais les choses à moitié car je ne suis pas un demi-pas
Je bois beaucoup de soda alors on m'appelle Dr. Pepper
Je refuse de rivaliser avec une compétition bidon
Ton nom n'est pas Special Ed
Alors pourquoi ne te mets-tu pas en mission
Je ne marche jamais dans la rue en pensant que tout tourne autour de moi
Même si au fond de mon cœur, c'est peut-être le cas
J'essaie juste de donner le meilleur de moi-même
Certains pourraient même dire, hey petit black, tu déconnes
[Q-Tip]
Nation Zulu, dernière création des frères
Les esprits sont inondés, éjaculation
Direct sur la bande de deux pouces
Le poète abstrait incognito, court sur la cape
Pas le meilleur, pas le pire et occasionnellement je jure
Pour faire passer mon message, alors, en avant, la frime
Alors que je me faufile entre la crasse et la saleté
Écoute la mission, écoute Miss pendant que je travaille, umm
Alors que je casse, la monotonie
Enfants du jazz, alors, trouve le tien
Écoute du R&B car ils essaient de me copier
Ou d'être le meilleur du lot mais ils ne peuvent pas rapper
Car c'est abstrait, original
Tu ne peux pas trouver le tien et

Thématique L'ascension fulgurante d'A Tribe Called Quest

Style Rap

Keywords Reconnaissance internationale, Underground

Entités normées A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip