De La Soul Respect song lyrics

[Dave:]

Hey yo I'm proud to be black y'all, wish I could bring Jay back

DJ put the needle to the haystack

Pump beats like eighty-six pumped crack

Raise the heat for the summer, we Fahrenheit

Banners like cash on your corner, papered and OD

Make your girl wanna shake in front of little ol' me

Even when I'm rock bottom still the most poppin

Hold crops like John on the farm, then Johnny your Fox

Boxcutter clean cut stem from the PA

Not your everday outcast, we outlast

Used to bust a tommy gun, now I blast off with a check

Might as well, I done earned the respect

[Chorus]

[Pos:]

Here to jumpstart the art again, the sparkplug W-O-N

I trouble your whole squad again

In a class by myself, so selfish in my ways

Shave my head bald, I'm too fly for tou-pes

Ain't nuttin sweet yet, never actin bitter

Shut your spitter small fry, you too dry to wet me

And if you could, you think I'd really let you?

In and out the hood I get much respect DUE

[Dave:]

Got two [?] with Supa Dave bandana

Shut your camera lens and use your senses

Recognize it's Pos, Mase and me

Stressin R-E-S-P-E-C-T, see?

[Chorus]

[Pos:]

Best believe it's official y'all

Rap's the new form of wrestling on mescaline tabs

And E pills, and y'all came back for refills

Watchin how the drama unfold

As MC's go from hot to cold

Pots of gold they search for

Some find more than others - platinum plaques

But when you act goes active on the radio

You become radioactive, that's a fact~!

De La's got the respect attack

Tactfully weathering the storm in all forms

We born to give you the breaks

Cause just like a fiend y'all came

So y'all can get rid of them shades

[Chorus]