Get funky it
I told you you burn when you play with fire So take off your hats, matter of hail the new Sire You're hungry as hell, so I'm up the chowder laced with ingredients, gon' come on like gunpowder
Pom-pom, lick a shot, then I got the I'm for the border for causin' disorder Pom-pom, a shot, got on my defenses I'm for the fences, of course I'm relentless
The particular name of this Queen is I've often been classified as a teacher capture the heart of a nation Love my culture and appreciation
lookin' for the black influ'? I do want too give it to you What are you Give me some of what you had You can huff-huff, and bluff-bluff But I got of the ruff stuff
Ruff and Ruff and Ruff and And all that
Now of the ruff stuff, that's what I do, and I do it well The proof is in the puddin', I and prove, not show and tell tales, you get caught up in a crossfire Buckshot be what you want and desire
I write concepts, I don't be frontin' or be I write the rhymes for the beats that you be lovin' It's a thang, the Queen doin' her thang If I was a liquid, you would drink me Tang
You think I'm things that I myself don't even heed? I rap not for the love of music, but for "Latifah's booty, yo, she could succeed"
You watch me do it and boom it, the Flavor Unit will snap You a-fi listen a likkle, you fi go buy the You're starvin', you ain't had enough right, nuff' of the ruff stuff
Ruff and Ruff and and tuff And all that
You talk about flavor, I got enough to make a grapefruit sweet Get old ladies jumpin' out of their a peach to a pear to a plum with a little sun 'n rays I got flavor for
Now I'm the type that the call a honey, and From me you know you get a worth for money, and is no meaningless attack, I gave you a chance Matter of fact, yo, I ordered to dance for me
They tried to turn me Out' They felt the 'Wrath Of My Madness', I let them 'Come Into My called 'Latifah's Law', for the criminal to curse And all the gentlemen know its rule, First'
Not the female that tends to Fall victim to the 'Evil Men Do' Small puff, I your bluff I'm not mad, I just had of the ruff stuff
and tuff Ruff and Ruff and And all stuff
Everybody Latifah love positivity Now positivity negativity Mi comin' di dance [Incomprehensible] Me with the Flavor Unit posse
As a black woman mi want Equality, and di to be me Mi a mother Rita, only call her Mommy Likkle brother and sister, Angelo and
A brother in them laws, but mi him Winki Lost mi daddy and our family [Incomprehensible] black [Incomprehensible] black in one God, one tribe, one destiny, cease