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- Alicia Keys f/ Common, Mos Def, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Love it or Leave it Alone/Welcome to Jamrock Lyrics
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- [Alicia Keys]
- C'mon!
- [music begins]
- [Mos Def]
- Yes yes yes...
- Uh, a yes yes y'all (freak freak y'all)
- A-freak freak y'all!
- Freak freak y'all - fifteen!
- (Ohh!) A yes yes y'all
- [Put them hands in the air, y'all!]
- [Yo, now put them hands in the air y'all]
- Waddup, Brook-LYYYYYYYYYYYYYN!!
- [Common]
- And just clap your hands y'all
- A freak freak y'all - and ya don't stop
- A to the beat y'all - and ya don't stop
- A freak freak y'all - and ya don't stop
- A to the beat (y'alllllllllll!!!)
- [Common]
- Yo, mad love for the culture
- Since the days of Adidas and hip-hop posters
- Now I host with Mos and just to boast to brag
- a bit about it, 'cause I cain't live without it
- Seen her on the streets when I was like ten
- Especially's of a lagged and young black man
- Do backspins in backyards cause we rap harder
- People that lack {?}, now we black stars
- Gift from God - they said we must be crazy
- Now they sayin Common, Nasir, and Jay-Z
- Leaders of tomorrow, follow the steps of
- Africans rap in the ghettos makin it spressed up
- Yo we bring the light, we do it tonight
- Alicia Keys and Mos Def bring it right
- We come down and bam, and rock who I am
- Com Sense, yo; I'm wit the fam, yo
- [Chorus 2X - sung in tune of Brand Nubian's "Love it or Leave It Alone"]
- You gotta love it, or leave it alone
- You gotta love it, or leave it alone
- You gotta love it, or leave it alone
- You gotta love it, or leave it alone
- [Mos Def]
- (Mos Def) Yo, peep it out while I tell you like this
- A fresh to the soil, be sure you don't miss
- It's the, true for ya, true feature
- I could go on for days about it screamin "Alicia!"
- Walkin down the block with brother Com Sense
- Comrade Com Sense, so what the heck so I -
- show this fresh girl that you always sure
- Before and then my heart should be adored and
- cain't front, another ignore
- It's Aquarius love and highly secure
- Daje Mahal, and really gettin in
- and fantasize of my life for a one or two winners
- And my man Com Sense just stopped and said
- "Yo stop frontin' and use your head!"
- A-said "Yo stop frontin' and use your head!"
- A-said "Yo stop frontin' and use your FUCKIN head.." (OHHHHH!!)
- [Chorus 2X with ad-libs]
- [Alicia Keys - interlude]
- Right about now, I wanna thank everybody for comin out
- and rockin with me tonight
- I wanna give a big-up, to my man Mos Def
- My man Common Sense, my man Krucial
- My man Ills, the whole M.B.K. fam
- The whole Krucial Keys fam, and MTV
- And everybody out th-ere say "yeah!!" {*crowd cheers*]
- Yeah!
- Said everybody out th-ere say "yeah!!"
- (YEEEEEAHHH)
- C'mon, and alright
- I need y'all to give it up, for Pablo on percussion
- for Paul John on drums, Onree Gill on M.D.
- Anaysha, Sara, Jermaine, AND, Denise on backgrounds
- Steve on the bass, oh
- Artie on the gee-tar (yaaaay), Jeff's on the horns (oh)
- AYE-YAY-YAY, and the string quartets
- Ray Chew and, the Crunks
- Oh, oh (one-two), you know
- [Chorus 2X with ad-libs and variations]
- Uh, WE WOOOOOOOOON!!
- [music changes to Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's "Welcome to Jamrock"]
- [Alicia Keys - Intro]
- Oh, oh, oh.. I wanna bring Damian Marley to the spot..
- Up in the streets, they call it murrrrrr-derrrr!
- [Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley]
- Welcome to Jamrock, camp where the thugs dem camp at
- Two POUND ah weed inna van back
- It inna your hand bag, your knapsack, it inna your backpack
- The smell ah give your girlfriend con -
- Some bwoy nuh notice, dem only come around like tourist
- on the beach with a few club sodas
- Bedtime stories, pose like dem name Chuck Norris
- Don't know the real hardcore
- Cause Sandals ah nuh Backtoo, the thugs dem will do when dem got to
- And WON'T think twice to shot you
- Don't make dem spot you, unless you carry guns a lot too
- A bare tuff tings come at you
- When, New York man stop laugh and lock-off traffic
- Then dem wheel AND pop off and dem start clap it
- With the pin file dung an it ah beat drop it
- Police come inna Jeep and dem can't stop it
- Some say them ah playboy ah Playboy Rabbit
- ?Socialize? or get dropped like a bad 'abit
- So nuh bodah pose tuff if you don't have it
- Rastafari stands alone!
- [Chorus - with ad-libs]
- Welcome to Jamrock!
- Welcome to Jamrock!
- [Alicia] Up in the streets, they call it murrrrrr-derrrr!
- [Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley]
- Jamaica, Jamaicaaaa, yeah
- Jamaica, Jamaicaaaa, yeah
- Jamaica, Jamaicaaaa, yeah
- Jamaica, Jamaica! (Chi-Town)
- [Common]
- Chi-Town, Chi-Town, and we gets down
- Chi-Town, Chi-Town, and we gets down
- Chi-Town, Chi-Town, and we gets down
- It's Chi-Town, gettin all down c'mon
- [Alicia Keys (Mos Def)]
- New York, New YOOOO-OO-ORK (New York, NEW YOOOORK)
- New York, New YOOOO-OO-ORK (New York, NEW YOOOORK)
- New York, New YOOOO-OO-ORK (New York, NEW Yooork)
- New York, New YOOOO-OO-ORK (Brook-lyn!)
- [Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley with variations]
- Say wel-come to Jamrock...
- A-wel-come to Jamrock...
- Wel-come to Jamrock...
- [Alicia Keys]
- Up in the streets, they call it MURRRRR-DERRRRRRRRRRAH!!
- [crowd cheers loudly]
- [Keys - outro]
- YeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAAhhhhhh!!! (BOK BOK BOK BOK!)
- Damian Marley, ladies and gentlemen
- Common Sense, Mos Def
- WE LOVE YOU, and we thank you, for rockin wit us!
- Much LOOOOVE to the people, eh-haha ha...
- Hahaha...BROOKLYYYYYYYN...
- [crowd cheers wildly as song fades]
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