The Art of Easing Lyrics

[Butterfly & Ladybug]
If your beats is phatty

[Butterfly]
And it's on
Then I'm gone
Hey, hey, hey

[Sulaiman & Ladybug]
Easin in as slick as I can

[Butterfly]
You know my motions, slimmer with no limo
I ride the c local, and tilt my army brimmer

Milt bless the vibes, pro symbolize
Built with the fives, my clique then amplified
Sounds as we ease, beneath the New York moon
Pounds as we dip, increase these New York tunes
It's the universe I have
Nappy and happy, June 12th, I self don't say that exists
Imported on the ships, with irons around the fist
Gradual to afros, black cats, and fist picks
Still creating boogies, and the styles they want
Now they try to move us, for the styles we flaunt

But I, seen it sunny, plus seen rain
Plus seen my moneys getting smoked for change
I face left in the round up
Pound up the god
When the devil give stresses
Blow to the essence
Sinks deep down into the blue train cover
The real got surreal cause we feel you ain't a gangster
When I was a youngster ate jazz and black
Freedom had a pistol it was just like that
Old Earth gave me kisses to her Culture Power records
Pumas, Lee flavors, Busy Bee mic checkin's
The crown says I'm down, from the ground up
[Sulaiman]
But what if emcee comes

[Butterfly]
Come on, emcee go

[Sulaiman & Ladybug]
Easin in as slick as I can

[Doodlebug]
The feelings right
The music's tight
Departing out of Crooklyn, type Saturday night
The gear the god was rocking type way out of sight
Limping past the projects
See my man, a'ight

[Butterfly]
When the mic check counts
My amounts is cash
I don't shoot out
I get that loot out cause I'm fresh

Hit you with the gold front grin, with diamond look
Muhammad made em, Nikki paid him
I was shook
I tell an emcee in a eye blink
That you wack as crack
Cee-know got my back
And we both can laugh
[Ladybug]
And for example, we swift this
Lifted up on luck
And for complexing, like brass and brown skin

We of this, built this with south boogie down

[All]
Bronx

[Ladybug]
Outs the clowns, in the suits
With the cash

[Butterfly]
I tell' em
Pass the ruck, or get stuck by my comrade's badge
Just like my mom and dad had it
And did it

[Sulaiman & Ladybug]
Easin in as slick as I can

[Butterfly]
Quiet please, quiet please
Welcome to this class
Black studies 700 the art of easing
I'm your conductor instructor Mr. Castro
Take a look at your syllabus
You are required to be plushed out, and dipped daily
Guess, army suits, Timbs, Lo, whatever
Quiet please in the back, quiet please
You will have two texts
And finally, we are taking a field trip
To the Ingersoll Houses
Projects speak perfect slang
Black Caesar, Superfly, Goldie
These are the images we want you portrayed in

Please, could you be quiet Mr. Simmons
Thank you

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Genius Annotation

This was one of the slower, downbeat tracks off Digable Planets' second album ‘Blowout Comb’.

Like much of their subject matter, it related tales of walking around the Brooklyn neighborhoods and projects, meeting friends and taking the subway, buying drugs and getting lost in music as a way of overcoming the frustrations of ghetto life.

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Recorded At
Bass Hits Recording Studio (NYC)
Release Date
October 18, 1994
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