TATA YOUNG - I Guess I Never Knew My Ba lyrics
[ahmad’s friends talking]
.. and then he cut it off *laughter*
Hahahaay who next? who next?
Ay ay jamal come up
Somebody else.. aiy who next man?
Calvin you next? (nah nah)
Midget? rascal? (nono no)
It’s mine? on mine? I’m gon’ tell a story man
Aight aightit’s like this..
[ahmad]
Well it was half past eleven o’clockready to rock
I’d been searchin for a spot all weekwhere they be doin the freak
But no one knew I didn’t panicremained calm
Thought"why not just go out on a missionlike james bond? "
Double-oh-sevensince I’m the greatI’ll be double-oh-eight
So I went into the closet and got my gear straight
Jumped in the cardrove for an hourwith no luck
Started havin doubts and that’s about when trouble came up
Twelve thirty at night I’m at a street light and hot
Restin my head back (boom!) I heard a shot
Fired through my back window broke the glass then hit dash metal
No time to look both ways I hit the gas pedal
Now my "mission" is real like special ed
Gettin shot at with a shotty and I wish I had a jet
To hitmaximum thrust ’fore they bust one and hit me
Square in the back cain’t understand I was the wrong man that
They were afterI wish they’d see the lightno joke
But in the meantimeI broke and hit a quick right
Dipped to an alleyturned off my lights and ducked
And I guess none of ’em saw methey kept goin up crenshawgood
Opened my eyes for surprising more
To see the alley I was in lead to the party I’d been lookin for
All out of breath and could hardly speak
But soon as I walked in the doorhoney asked me if I wanted to freak
"she did the freak!" (4x)
{*reggae patois - can’t follow*}
[ahmad]
Well I’m back on the moveyeah back on the mission
Gettin jocked and shit cause my pockets thick
I guess they heard I had a record deal
And I’d expect that would change their views do’s and don’ts
Into they won’t diss and now my mission getsa little bigger
I’m lookin for a freak with soul that’s not a gold digger
YupI want some-bo-dy
And by bein in the bright spotlightyou learn a lot like
If you got endswell then you got friends
If you got doughwell then you got hoes
And that’s how all of that gobut
I’ma still have to give it a try
I saw a girl with no guyssittin in back and I went over to chat
Well we talked and laughed about a half hour then
There was a sudden blurwhen I saw her
The finest girl I’d ever seen her name was tina
Dressed all in red then my mouth said
"sorry I don’t mean to be a dog or a mutt
I’m just a big cool j fan andtina got a +big ol’ butt+
So I’m leavin love" then I went over to tina to speak
And I asked her if she wanted to freak
"she did the freak!" (6x)
{*reggae patois - can’t follow*}
[ahmad]
Dig it now she wanna freakwell here’s my number beep it
Might even lick the cat but if I do I get to keep it
That’s what I told tina then I jettedI said it
Just to make sure we got in bed - it’sall in the mix
To the motel 6because I figure
If bags was bait she bit ’em hook line and sinker
I’m out nowuntil next weekmission complete
Ahmadthe great double-oh-eight niggarole doin the freak
"she did the freak!" (8x)
{*reggae patois - can’t follow*}
"she did the freak!" (16x)
{*reggae patois - can’t follow*}
"she did the freak!"
