Borough Check
Digable Planets"Borough Check" is a song by Digable Planets, released in 1994 in the Pop genre. The song is 6:52 long and contains 218 lines and 1164 words.
Lyrics
0:00Ladybug
0:01Space I got round to
0:02Acted when I fee it
0:04In how I see it
0:04You be it if you be it
0:06Started out in crooklyn
0:07Butters word
0:08Butterfly
0:08Chill chill chill chill chill chill
0:09Hold up
0:10Aww s**t oh s**t
0:12Guy look who that is
0:14Look who rolled up in this piece
0:15Guru
0:15Peace y all
0:15Butterfly
0:16Word up brooklyn everyday
0:17Hey yo yo let's do that brooklyn s**t
0:18It s the day
0:19Guru
0:19Yeah we gonna da that s**t
0:19We gonna give it to them in style right
0:20Yeah yeah
0:21Butterfly
0:21China who we rock one for
0:22Who we rock one for
0:23Crooklyn everday
0:24Guru
0:24Brooklyn is up in here
0:25Ladybug &Butterrfly
0:25Uhh block party corner store
0:28The downtown the projects
0:30Borough shots
0:31My clique is so tight
0:33The mix tapes yeah forever
0:35Butterfly
0:35Yo word
0:36Yo one fro the trouble
0:37Two for the time
0:38Three fro the rumble
0:39Four for the rhyme
0:41Do that crooklyn s**t style all the time
0:42Guru
0:42Yeah yeah what
0:42Who want it yeah yeah kid
0:43Butterfly
0:43One two uh
0:45All
0:45Brooklyn brooklyn big borough with t
0:48But everything in ain t always what it seems
0:51You might get hurt if you come from out of town
0:53But down by lord that s word
0:55Butterfly
0:56Fantastic
0:56Ladybug
0:57Show stoppin emcees
0:58Guru
0:58Yeah here streets is move by glocks in whos pocket
1:00Ladybug
1:00But if your down come around check the super rhyme
1:03Butterfly
1:03We don t drop dimes
1:05Ladybug
1:05Come and have a funky time
1:06Butterfly
1:06Well it s the 718 and everything is straight
1:09All
1:11We live in brooklyn
1:13Butterfly
1:13With the type street curb hangers and the beat don t
1:15Shtop
1:16All
1:16We live in brooklyn
1:18Doodlebug
1:18It s no lie do or die in the land of showin proof
1:20All
1:21We live in brooklyn
1:23Ladybug
1:23Well keith cee know my fist in butters fro
1:26All
1:26We live in brooklyn
1:28Guru
1:28The fly clothes cash flow and crazy hells to spark
1:31Ladybug
1:31It s crowded plus they jerkin my space
1:33Shouted cause they chase when I strut out
1:35Sift through my block I m c cool
1:38She s my mood to brace
1:39Stole my mind back black
1:40So what you play the boards
1:41Skimmer we got butter so surfaces out
1:44Clever and I fix it for you funk time is monk time
1:47Slackers hit the bat blackest fit my pack
1:49And we for whatever
1:50We get down in this pleasure heavy
1:52And we are measured by the tens degrees of math
1:54In a puzzle hand locked clocked in struggle
1:57Can t keep the three foot three above mec
1:59In so depth I defect
2:00Ladybug &Doodlebug
2:01With my vanguard squad the gods in brooklyn
2:03Doodlebug
2:03And we troopin throught the fulton forkways
2:05The eastern parkways
2:07I m broader than broadway nothing more than morays
2:09I sways why cause I m a brooklyn stroller
2:12No ones cooler pigs on my boulder
2:14So I switch my pitch as I stretch down atlantic
2:17Strictly slickly with my fork mean tactic
2:19In fact it s really on the daily
2:22Kids with guns and herbs look for herbs
2:23Now I think you feel me
2:24I freaks it cause yo like my pimp stroll is cool
2:27When I creeps up the sweet and jeeps blast
2:29Tools rule the area yo these fool don t play
2:32I got the comrades of love so the g stays
2:34Brooklyn side with the crooklyn slide
2:36All
2:38We live in brooklyn
2:39Ladybug
2:40Out on fulton ave where the honeys be at
2:42All
2:43We live in brooklyn
2:44Guru
2:45Type slick keep it movin when it s after dark
2:48All
2:48We live in brooklyn
2:50Butterfly
2:50Uh huh uh huh uh huh
2:54Doodlebug
2:55No lies do or die in the land of showin proof
2:57Guru
2:58The place where I dwell is where the warriors dwell
3:00Too many stories to tell
3:01So on the block we don t talk
3:03Stack of loot takin propers
3:05Might get a serious offer from a corrupt a*s copper
3:08So um stop the nonsense
3:09Brooklyn is the illest the realest
3:11Observe these words as I reveal this
3:13Man my peoples out here they get down for this
3:16Each one s a one man gang with a crown for this
3:18Man burners to handle any business
3:20And mad sneaky ways so ain t leavin any witness
3:23Got way more drama the theatrical lessons
3:25So my suggestion you come correct no question
3:28Cause if you comin with that funny hot dog style
3:31You might get looted executed black mob style
3:34From east new york back to ft green
3:36Brooklyns classic mystical magic scene
3:38Butterfly
3:38We are plush like a millian bucks
3:41Down every ave for like a zillion blocks
3:43Blowin out
3:44With my nappy hoods down fulton
3:46Blessin guess style limpin past the walt whitman
3:49Steelo s changed on the corners we hang
3:51The crime stoppers get mad with poppers and tens
3:53And my scrambles ample kid no part timin just rhymin
3:56In other words I play these curbs with j u ice
3:58When they say you nice I say son a little somethin
4:01Brooklyn s asphalt rolls like a syl keith rodeo
4:04We big sound down and gritty
4:06Record and mic checkin no question this section of
4:08New york city
4:09Where the crooks lounge out block powers found
4:11Butterfly ground the sky favorite package of pound
4:14It s like th that the beats know we be strappin em out
4:16Mad moneys wish they g like us clout
4:18When I made the boogie I m imported I study chairman
4:21Mao
4:21Ain t nothin but crooklyn in my plasma now
4:24I got my g s behind the tongue of my gold high classics
4:26I m all city when I m dip if you want us you can find
4:29Us
4:29All
4:30We live in brooklyn
4:31Doodlebug
4:31Coney island s buck whiling and we b boy stylin
4:34All
4:35We live in brooklyn
4:36Butterfly
4:37Yeah on the spot we hustle cause like th that
4:40Guru
4:42Mad game takin wins the s**t is real son
4:45All
4:45We live in brooklyn
4:46Ladybug
4:47With my girls and marissa now you re up in cambridge
5:12Butterfly &Ladybug
5:12Fly s**t
5:16And every spot we hit is gettin blown
5:21That s just how we do it baby
5:26Out here in brooklyn baby
5:31Slick move
5:36Cause can t nothin stop up but us
5:41So we gettin ours baby
5:46Nothin but brooklyn baby
5:51Butterfly
5:52Ft green the sty queensburg coney I
5:57All
6:00It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn
6:01Butterfly
6:02Red hook crown heights it s tight
6:03All
6:03It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn
6:06Butterfly
6:07Bushes wigs flat it s east new york brownsville
6:21All
6:22It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn
6:23Butterfly
6:24Sights everywhere brooklyn style everywhere
6:25All
6:25It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn
6:42Butterfly
6:45Brooklyn style
6:47Scratching
6:52Y all the hippest people in the world
Ladybug Space I got round to Acted when I fee it In how I see it You be it if you be it Started out in crooklyn Butters word Butterfly Chill chill chill chill chill chill Hold up Aww s**t oh s**t Guy look who that is Look who rolled up in this piece Guru Peace y all Butterfly Word up brooklyn everyday Hey yo yo let's do that brooklyn s**t It s the day Guru Yeah we gonna da that s**t We gonna give it to them in style right Yeah yeah Butterfly China who we rock one for Who we rock one for Crooklyn everday Guru Brooklyn is up in here Ladybug &Butterrfly Uhh block party corner store The downtown the projects Borough shots My clique is so tight The mix tapes yeah forever Butterfly Yo word Yo one fro the trouble Two for the time Three fro the rumble Four for the rhyme Do that crooklyn s**t style all the time Guru Yeah yeah what Who want it yeah yeah kid Butterfly One two uh All Brooklyn brooklyn big borough with t But everything in ain t always what it seems You might get hurt if you come from out of town But down by lord that s word Butterfly Fantastic Ladybug Show stoppin emcees Guru Yeah here streets is move by glocks in whos pocket Ladybug But if your down come around check the super rhyme Butterfly We don t drop dimes Ladybug Come and have a funky time Butterfly Well it s the 718 and everything is straight All We live in brooklyn Butterfly With the type street curb hangers and the beat don t Shtop All We live in brooklyn Doodlebug It s no lie do or die in the land of showin proof All We live in brooklyn Ladybug Well keith cee know my fist in butters fro All We live in brooklyn Guru The fly clothes cash flow and crazy hells to spark Ladybug It s crowded plus they jerkin my space Shouted cause they chase when I strut out Sift through my block I m c cool She s my mood to brace Stole my mind back black So what you play the boards Skimmer we got butter so surfaces out Clever and I fix it for you funk time is monk time Slackers hit the bat blackest fit my pack And we for whatever We get down in this pleasure heavy And we are measured by the tens degrees of math In a puzzle hand locked clocked in struggle Can t keep the three foot three above mec In so depth I defect Ladybug &Doodlebug With my vanguard squad the gods in brooklyn Doodlebug And we troopin throught the fulton forkways The eastern parkways I m broader than broadway nothing more than morays I sways why cause I m a brooklyn stroller No ones cooler pigs on my boulder So I switch my pitch as I stretch down atlantic Strictly slickly with my fork mean tactic In fact it s really on the daily Kids with guns and herbs look for herbs Now I think you feel me I freaks it cause yo like my pimp stroll is cool When I creeps up the sweet and jeeps blast Tools rule the area yo these fool don t play I got the comrades of love so the g stays Brooklyn side with the crooklyn slide All We live in brooklyn Ladybug Out on fulton ave where the honeys be at All We live in brooklyn Guru Type slick keep it movin when it s after dark All We live in brooklyn Butterfly Uh huh uh huh uh huh Doodlebug No lies do or die in the land of showin proof Guru The place where I dwell is where the warriors dwell Too many stories to tell So on the block we don t talk Stack of loot takin propers Might get a serious offer from a corrupt a*s copper So um stop the nonsense Brooklyn is the illest the realest Observe these words as I reveal this Man my peoples out here they get down for this Each one s a one man gang with a crown for this Man burners to handle any business And mad sneaky ways so ain t leavin any witness Got way more drama the theatrical lessons So my suggestion you come correct no question Cause if you comin with that funny hot dog style You might get looted executed black mob style From east new york back to ft green Brooklyns classic mystical magic scene Butterfly We are plush like a millian bucks Down every ave for like a zillion blocks Blowin out With my nappy hoods down fulton Blessin guess style limpin past the walt whitman Steelo s changed on the corners we hang The crime stoppers get mad with poppers and tens And my scrambles ample kid no part timin just rhymin In other words I play these curbs with j u ice When they say you nice I say son a little somethin Brooklyn s asphalt rolls like a syl keith rodeo We big sound down and gritty Record and mic checkin no question this section of New york city Where the crooks lounge out block powers found Butterfly ground the sky favorite package of pound It s like th that the beats know we be strappin em out Mad moneys wish they g like us clout When I made the boogie I m imported I study chairman Mao Ain t nothin but crooklyn in my plasma now I got my g s behind the tongue of my gold high classics I m all city when I m dip if you want us you can find Us All We live in brooklyn Doodlebug Coney island s buck whiling and we b boy stylin All We live in brooklyn Butterfly Yeah on the spot we hustle cause like th that Guru Mad game takin wins the s**t is real son All We live in brooklyn Ladybug With my girls and marissa now you re up in cambridge Butterfly &Ladybug Fly s**t And every spot we hit is gettin blown That s just how we do it baby Out here in brooklyn baby Slick move Cause can t nothin stop up but us So we gettin ours baby Nothin but brooklyn baby Butterfly Ft green the sty queensburg coney I All It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn Butterfly Red hook crown heights it s tight All It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn Butterfly Bushes wigs flat it s east new york brownsville All It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn Butterfly Sights everywhere brooklyn style everywhere All It s like that it s fat where we be at brooklyn Butterfly Brooklyn style Scratching Y all the hippest people in the world
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