Chorus: Bilal, Jill Scott      Alright.....Okay [4X']   Alright......We'll make it funky for you now      [Common]   I'm a child of the ahh - The 87 ahh   From the streets - Get on a beat and go ahh   I could break it down like whatever ya ahh   On some K-R-S be here forever type unh   You-you-you-you know you shouldn't rhyme like unh   Let them pussy niggas get in your mind like unh   Baby boy you could do it take your time do it....   If you get the chance   To be a man in a b-boy stance and advanced from the go   I'll trace outer space with a unh   The baby-sitter of styles - I've traveled miles with   bitches and....I've traveled miles with.....   I've traveled miles with bitches and brew the ritual   of the real unh   Your platinum but real unh's don't feel you   You sampled real unh's and then filtered   I'm built to last - at last I'm free   The Roots and SV be the family tree   SV and the Roots be the family tree   The Roots and SV and the tree is unh   Come on      Chorus;   As long as it's funky....alright..okay [yeah]   As long as it's funky...alright    As long as it's funky...alright...okay   As long as it's funky...funky for you now      I style for the ohhh - wild for the ohhh   Baby girl let's go half on a child for the ohhh   Lick shot's pop lock and blaow for the oohh   Like Ra-I'll move a crowd for the ohhh   You talkin' loud but ain't sayin' ohhh   Trickin' paper on a unh... Captain Save-a-ohhh   I've never been.. the type of nigga..   to take.. a broad to the courts   As a shorty I was always into sports   Now I talk to drums and walk in slums and thoughts that's ohhh   Instinct to hustle-divided by the struggle   Plus a couple of scuffle's and up to high shuffle   Even when it sound muffled..   I bust through.. narrow gates..   with king-sized thoughts that's sparrow shaped   Before I came up I had to elevate    Let a nigga move where he wanna move up to   You don't like how I'm livin... well fuck ohhh   I stuck to what I was on... a star is born on a cusp   Many angel's fell to the dust    Leavin' me to trust... only a ohhh   Leavin' me to trust y'all only a ohhh   Leavin' me to trust in a - ahh ohhh ohhh ohhh   ohhh   Yo      Chorus: repeat 4X   As long as it's funky [yeah]   alright..okay      Let your.. imagination.. dance to the..   Dance to the.. dance to the hey   Like nobody's watchin in a b-boy stance to the hey   I'm funky like Africans in France to the hey   Yo hey.. kick in the bass you..   Chasin paper like a bitch in a race    Spit on or death, I still ain't picked up the ace    The hundred.. styles I run with thick in the race   So let's ohhh.. yeah unh hunh      Chorus