God Made Me Funky - Def Jef.mp3

[00:00.33]One time for your mind
[00:01.74](Hey everybody)
[00:15.84][VERSE 1]
[00:32.61]You know it's gots to be funky if I'ma rhyme to it
[00:35.67]Pick up where the others left off, and I do it
[00:38.07]With so much soul, and so much self control
[00:40.53]I'm a smooth operator puttin rappers on hold
[00:43.26]Flowin like a stream, the rhyme scheme seems to gleam
[00:46.11]Like a flashlight beam, but it's no dream
[00:48.63]It's a real type thing. and it's happenin
[00:50.64]Caused by applause, and I'm forced to get rappin
[00:52.89]I'm rearrangin the lines, so I can change with the times
[00:55.38]Cockin rhymes like nines and blowin minds
[00:58.05]I glow and shine like a beacon when I'm speakin
[01:00.75]Skin is light, but I'm not white or Puertorican
[01:03.09]I'm an African descendant, very independent
[01:05.76]I make my own money§ so don't worry how I spend it
[01:08.22]Rappers follow me, but I don't need another shadow
[01:10.71]Hollow MC's, don't even think about a battle
[01:13.11]Cause if you got the mic, and you ain't rockin it right
[01:15.63]I'll grab it, and drop the rhyme like a bad habit
[01:18.21]Hey, I wouldn't have it any other way
[01:20.49]So believe a brother when I say
[01:22.23]God made me funky
[01:23.79][VERSE 2]
[01:32.97]Now the way I kick a lyric you would think I play soccer
[01:35.76]Rhyme stays proper, get ill, I be a doctor
[01:38.28]Operate, like a well trained surgeon
[01:40.83]Take the competition, bust em out like virgins
[01:43.53]They get strung out, high dry, and hung out
[01:45.78]Without a word like a cat took their tongue out
[01:48.21]Their rhymes were frail, pale, weak, and stale
[01:50.46]But I'm deliverin a brand-new style like a mail
[01:52.89]Man, rain and hail, and sleet or snow
[01:55.41]No need to worry, cause I'm guaranteed to show
[01:57.93]Up, right on time with the rhyme to entertain ya
[02:00.87]On the microphone, and leave like the lone ranger
[02:03.30]'Who was that stranger?' Shoulders be shruggin
[02:06.36]Everybody's buggin
[02:08.13]Rhymes are funky shit and keep the crowd want more
[02:10.68]Like a junkie hopin to make that score
[02:13.11]I'm a true soul brother, cause that's the way to be
[02:15.51]And only true soul brothers can dance for me
[02:18.06]Hey, I wouldn't have it any other way
[02:20.52]So believe a brother when I say
[02:22.26]God made me funky
[02:23.85][VERSE 3]
[02:33.03]You hear the rhymes on the radio, in the a.m.
[02:35.61]On the am, then in the p.m., on the fm
[02:38.49]Def Jef, and my rhymes'll stick witcha
[02:40.74]Verses say a thousand words, just like a picture
[02:43.26]And since I'm an artist, and my pen's a paintbrush
[02:45.51]When they admire and inquire, I say, "It ain't much"
[02:48.33]Rhymes flow natural like a second nature
[02:50.79]And if you wanna get on the mic, you gotta await your
[02:53.22]Turn, learn the fundamentals
[02:55.23]Grab some instrumentals
[02:56.37]Practice makes perfect, so rehearsing can pay off
[02:59.01]But for now lay off the mic
[03:00.57]And let a real pro show you how it's supposed to go
[03:03.09]But hold up, let me hang my coat up
[03:05.22]Let me clear my throat up
[03:06.90]Hm-hm, now turn my mic up
[03:08.28]Step right up, hurry, hurry, don't miss this
[03:10.92]Watch me light up the mic like a Christmas
[03:13.29]Tree, see, I mean business, I ain't effin around
[03:16.20]Put the needle on the record by Jef, and you found
[03:18.69]A new sound and you like the way the name sound
[03:20.91]Plus it ain't the same sound, cause it ain't James Brown
[03:23.58]No corny lyrics, I don't rhyme like that
[03:25.53]But when you think about comin correct - I'm like that
[03:28.62]I wouldn't have it any other way
[03:30.60]So believe a brother when I say
[03:32.31]God made me funky
[03:34.02](Got to be) (so funky)
[03:34.62](Got to be)
[03:34.86](Get down to the funky beat)