[Missy Elliot:]    Check It  As i grab my pad and pen   and begin to talk from within  Oh God how my eyes water   like a preacher who sins  Im only human but,   the world has put me on a platform   since the day i was born,   to only wait for my down falls   but like a brick wall   im too hard to break.   Ok, I do make mistakes but   im the realist from the fake.   Thats why im the hardest to hate.  Aaliyah, babygirl, ive learned to love   those while they still awake,   "Sleep, Sleep".   And prepare a place for those who are good   in the projects and hood.   give to the misunderstood.   I know lisa, pac, and biggie and jay and pun   are still number one.   there will be more of us to come.   high of a leader teach her, i gotta.   Like a single parent provider.   puttin back those hip hop dividers.   like a priest with a back slaughter.   I sin but I win.   and any one we lost in life on 9/11,   we'll be sure to see again    {Mary J. Blidge:}  What you hear is not a test   im rockin to the beat  its just me, and my crew and my friends   we gonna try to move your feet.   See I am MAry Blidge and i'd like to say hello.   to the black the white the red and the brown,   the purple and yellow. so watcha got..   (ohhhh, ohhh, ooooooooo)