A Tribe Called Quest - Hey

The name is q-tipenterin through the middle


From the leftdead all the jokes and the riddles


Comin from the maximum gainthe octane


That’s on the radio it made me feel so low


It seems we gottabrightenthe damp prison


I’m nintendo 64 and you mattel intellivision


Bustin from no mo’ trey-eightsnow papi weight


This joint is like a rugerwatch it roar like a cougar


And we gottamove on the dancefloor


And work it out all night that’s what you came here for


Just chem’I fills it to the rimyour shine is lookin dim


Daddy shine the light on himahem it’s me


Leader of the starfleet force


Guaranteed to knock your joint off coursewe took the loss?


Damn rightsure as tina made ike


We gonna put it in your noggin all nightand all day


The trilateral commision we dissin


Tellin citizens be straightbut like snakes they hissin


I’ll be damned if I let his song fall to the side


Goin piggybackin shitlet’s ridec’mon





I put it downnow what you gonna do (8x)


Heynowwhat you gonna dowith yourselfhah? (4x)





When you hear thisrecognize you hear love


Mc nigga illin over b-boy dubs


Riding through the shit like tron


Doesn’t matter if you onboarddo you wanna get on?


Cause if you dowatch all the moves that we make


Gotta do the things rightain’t no time for mistake


It’s the hip-hop cat that can’tfuck with jake


Just because he wear a badge doesn’tmean he straight so


What you wanna swallow it down or let’s take it


Disregard those who fake ityo it doesn’t matter


About the realmhip-hop is to the helm


It’s divine to hit the mind like slippery elms


So put it down manput it on down


Put it down manput it on down


Put it down womanput it on down


Put it down manput it on down


Put it down manwhatchu gonna do


Put it down womanwhatchu gonna do


A-put it down manwhatchu gonna do


Put it down womanwhatchu gonna do





(’hey’ repeats in background for a bit)