The Move Lyrics

[Intro]
Yo...yo...yo...he-hello...he-hello...yo...hello
He-hello...he-hello...yo...hello
He-hello...he-hello...yo...

[Verse 1]
Time, time, time, time
It's times like this when I just can't stop
Can't wind your body without the body rock
Got schemes, schematics, blue prints on file
You got to have dreams to make it all worthwhile
So as I take my time and realign
I wonder what it is I hope to find
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast
But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast

Adrock--woo!--with the New Edition
Gettin' on down for the year 2000
A slight distraction can get you paid
And when it comes to that type shit, I paved the way

[Hook]
BBoys to the early morn
BGirls be rockin' on and on
BGirls to the break of dawn
BBoys be rockin' on and on

Hey...hey

[Verse 2]
Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable
I bet you never knew, I got the ill peripheral
In your home, I'm cloned, I'm on your headphones
I love it when you spazz out all alone

Cause I'm that fool that broke the key
I'm unlockable so don't check me
I got weight on my shoulders and things on my mind
The sky is falling and I'm fallin' behind
So I synthesize sounds as I patch my brain
Insane mind games move quick like flames
So now I wonder how sometimes you never know
Who be rockin y'all in stere-ereo
In stere-ereo, in stere-ereo, in stereo

[Verse 3]
Ladies and gentlemen
A no time like the present to work shit out
That's what we're going on and on and on about
I'm not fakin', just makin' beats in the Dungeon
Keep that shit funky cause the odor is pungent

No shame in my game just par for the path
I try to hone my craft because at hand's the task
But I find I'm not playing with a full deck
I'm up to my neck like Toulouse Lautrec
All I want to know is when is checkout time
So I could be in heaven with the rhythm rock rhyme

And when I'm with my man, Shadi Rock, at the gates
We'll be rockin' rhythms over disco breaks
[Hook]
BBoys to the early morn
BGirls be rockin' on and on
BGirls to the break of dawn
BBoys be rockin' on and on, on and on, on and on, on and on...

[Samples]
Hubo una vez un gran rey que tenía muchas tierras, un castillo y también un amor
Hubo una vez un gran rey que tenía muchas tierras, un castillo y también un amor
Hubo una vez un gran rey que tenía muchas tierras, un castillo y también un amor
Hubo una vez un gran rey que tenía muchas tierras, un castillo y también un amor

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Genius Annotation

“The Move" is track #2 on Beastie Boys 5th (full-length) studio album, Hello Nasty, released 7.14.1998.

Samples include:

  • El Rey Y Yo“ by Los Angeles Negros, from the album, Y Volvere (1970)
  • “WKCR ‘Stretch’ Bobitto Lord Sear” radio program (Bobbito’s voice and Lord Sear’s human beat box)
  • Get Out of My Life, Woman“ by Iron Butterfly, from the album, Heavy (1968)
  • Gula Matari“ by Quincy Jones, from the album, Gula Matari (1970)

The Move” has been performed in 70 known concerts…

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