Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Bonita Applebum”

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[Intro: Q-Tip]

Do I love you?
Do I lust for you?
Am I a sinner cuz I do the two?
Could you let me know
Right now, please
Bonita Applebum

[Chorus:]

Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on [x4]

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Electric Relaxation”

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1993, 1994, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Alternative, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, conscious hip hop, East Coast Hip-Hop, Electric Relaxation, Five Foot Assassin, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, Malik Isaac Taylor, Malik Taylor, MC Love Child, Midnight Marauders, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, Phife Dawg, Phife Diggy, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, The Abstract Poetic, The Five Footer, Underground hip hop

Relax yourself girl, please set-tle down [4X]

[Verse One: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg]

Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized
With your black hair and fat-a-s thighs
Street poetry is my everyday
But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way
If I was working at the club you would not pay
Ayo, my man Phife Diggy, he got something to say

I like em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation
Told you in the jam that We Can Get Down
Now let’s Knock the Boots like the group H-Town
You got BBD all on your bedroom wall
But I’m Above the Rim and this is how I ball
A pretty little something on the New York street
This is how I represent over this here beat
Talking bout you

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It?”

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A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, ATCQ, Atlanta Braves, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Can I Kick It, Dumb D.J. Towha's DewDrop Inn, Golden age hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, If the Papes Come, jazz-rap, Jive/RCA Records, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, Malik Isaac Taylor, MC Love Child, Mr. Muhammad, New York, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Phife Diggy, Q-Tip, Queens, St. Albans, The Abstract Poetic, The Five Footer, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hey y’all, we is havin’ a ball
And you know they ask me to get on the MIC
And they ask me
Can I kick it? Word yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Well I’m gone, gone
Can I kick it?
To all the people who can Quest like a Tribe does
Before this did you really know what life was
Comprehend to the track for its wide ‘cos
Gettin’ mentions on the tip of the vibe buzz

Hip Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It”

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1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Abstract, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, American hip hop, ATCQ, bass, Battery Studios, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Calliope Studios, Can I Kick It, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Dance of the Knights, David Porter, DJ Pete Tong, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Dr. Lonnie Smith, drums, Dumb D.J. Towha's DewDrop Inn, East Coast Hip-Hop, Five Foot Assassin, Fried Okra, Garden Seeker Productions, Golden age hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hot Chocolate, Ian Dury, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive, Jive/RCA Records, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Lou Reed, Malik Isaac Taylor, MC Love Child, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Piano/keyboards, Q-Tip, Queens, R&B, sampler, Sergei Prokofiev, Soul, Soul Con-certo, Spinning Wheel, St. Albans, Sunshower, The Way You Do the Things You Do, Turntables, U.S., United States, USA, Vocal, Vocals, Walk on the Wild Side, What a Waste, You Sexy Thing, Zomba

[Q-Tip]
Can I kick it? (Yes, you can!) *7X*
Well, I’m gone (Go on then!)

Can I kick it? To all the people who can Quest like A Tribe does
Before this, did you really know what live was?
Comprehend to the track, for its why cuz
Gettin measures on the tip of the vibers
Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug
Afrocentric living is a big shrug
A life filled with *HORN* that’s what I love
A lower plateau is what we’re above
If you diss us, we won’t even think of
Will Nipper the doggy give a big shove?
This rhythm really fits like a snug glove
Like a box of positives is a plus, love
As the Tribe flies high like a dove