Intro Songtext
von De La Soul

Yo yo yo yo

Hello, mic check 1-2

1-1-1-1-2, What up, what up
What up y′all, what up y'all

Good evening everybody

Good evening everybody

What′s up, y'all don't know who we are

What up

We are De La Soul

De La′s in the spot, what′s up y'all

From the area of the 5-1-6

Word up

Word up

Who′s in the house tonight?

I don't know, but we′re in the house
It's lookin good over there

Brooklyn′s in the house

Word up

Brooklyn's always in the house tonight


Queens in the house
L.I. is in the house

Word up

Uptown is in the house
Word up, word up
Check it out y'all, we gonna start the show tonight

Wait, yo yo yo, let ′em know where we are, man

We at the legendary

Lyricist′s

Lounge, baby

Come on

We all gonna just do it right tonight on the lyric tip

Alright, alright

Save about bein flashy tonight
What you about to see on stage here
Is gonna be shooooort 'nough, ohh gah

What up cats, what up man, what up what up what up

What up y′all
De La up in here of course

Word


Like I said we at the Lyricist Lounge doin it right
Tonight we gonna have a couple of folks on stage doin it right
Yo let the folks know who you are, bro

Yo my name is Wonder Why
They call me Mercenary De La
They call me Kelvin Mercer
But whatever, you know what I'm sayin?
Nah I′m Plug One, what up y'all, what up

Check it out, it′s Plug Two, y'all can call me Dave
My man Maseo runnin around here somewhere
He probably gettin drinks or somethin like that
But check it out, we gonna start the show off right
Gonna do it real love
I think we, we might go set it off with

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It′s Cipher Complete

Out of New Jersey, give it up for Cipher Complete, y′all
Word up

Word up