A Tribe Called Quest Lyrics

Album: Love Movement

Start It Up Lyrics

(quiet eerie voice) Yooooo....Yooooo...I hope ya'll ready... 

Are ya ready? Here we go.... 

[Q-Tip] 

What ya deal with...uhhh... 

What ya deal wit'...what ya deal wit'... 

Turn me up some more? 

Incognito, speakin' to ya 

Feel this, have it, makin' music 

Men and women, boys an' girls an' 

Welcome to the movement, the fifth wit' improvement 

Aristotle, Plato, Freud 

Yeah right, Abstract, never void 

I make it easy for ya'll to boogie down to 

Hard to the ground, ooh the Tribe with the sound boo 

Touch me, tease me, feed me, squeezy 

Take it easy, never sleazy 

Promise that I will not answer 

The phone when it rings love, while we do out thing love 

Never fakin', it's late, spirits 

Through the music is our mission 

Honies who were not cooler than the ghetto rebel risin' 

To overthrow a ruler 

Dearly beloved, dearly departed 

There's a reason why we did it 

Cuz it's inside the body and the hearts 

So here we are fam let's start, c'mon... 

CHORUS: 

Don't beat me in the head with the bullsh*t bat 

C'mon everybody let's start (2x) 

Ummah, Mos, Jane Doe, Willy 

Punchline, Wordsworth, SV, Chrissy 

S.O.S., Tribe Called Quest 

Get it off your chest, say it: "Tribe Called Quest!" 

Can you feel it when it hit right 

Can you feel it when we do it 

Truth, power, taste, devour 

Niggaz in the street here comes the illest beat now 

Move oceans wit' your mental 

Think it, do it, be it, embellish 

Here's another point for everyone to relish 

When Ski busts his tools all ya'll foes will embellish 

For somethin' wicked at ya'll faces 

What I see is longin', needin' 

Hey I got you with that goooooood stuff 

And ya probably won't get enough 

Ay-yo, lyrics I got it, lyrics, cadence 

Do it with fun and patience 

Funky, rhythmic, characteristic 

Ebonically lingustic wit' the ghetto futuristic 

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.... 

CHORUS (2x) 

Beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head 

Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head 

Don't beat me in the head, don't beat me in the head 

Don't beat me in the head, head, head, head... 

So here we are fam let's start, so here we are fam let's start 

So here we are fam let's start, so here we are fam let's start 

To the Ummah family lets start 

A-yo get off your ass and let's start, A-yo, here we are fam let's start 

C'mon, get off your ass and let's start, here we are fam let's start 

Here we is fam let's start, get off your ass and let's start 

Here we are fam let's start, get off your aaaassss-ah-ah-ah-ah 

Ha ha ha ha ha...let's start