I'd like to dedicate this to all of the Creator's righteous children.  I have some food in my bag for you.  Not that edible food -- the food you eat?  No. I have some food for thought.  Since knowledge is infinite it has infinitely fell on me.  So umm...    It was a stormy night  you know the kind where the lightning strike  and I was hangin' out wit some of my "artsy" friends  ooh wee ooh wee oooh  The night was long the night went on  people coolin' out until the break of dawn  incense was burnin' so I'm feelin right -- ah'ight    See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit  & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth  I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not  I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got  I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you  and that's why I do what I do  My soul flies free like a willow tree  doo wee doo wee do wee    And if you don't want to be down with me  You don't want to pick from my appletree  And if you don't want to be down with me  Then you don't want to pick from my appletree  And if you don't want to be down with me  Then you don't want to pick from my appletree  And if you don't want to be down with me  You just don't want to be down    I have a ho  and I take it everywhere I go  Cause I'm planting seeds  so I reaps What I sow -- ya know  Oh on & on & on & on  my cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone  I can't control the soul flowin' in me  ooh wee    See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit  & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth  I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not  I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got  I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you  and that's why I do what I do  My soul flies free like a willow tree  doo wee doo wee do wee    And if you don't want to be down with me,  You don't want to pick from my appletree [x3]  And if you don't want to be down with me  You just don't want to be down    Oh my my my  Oh my my my  Oh my my my ahh  Oh my my my my my my my  Ohh  I picks my friends like I pick my fruit  & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth  I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not  I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got  I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you  and that's why I do what I do  My soul flies free like a willow tree  doo wee doo wee do wee    And if you don't want to be down with me  You don't want to pick from my appletree  And if you don't want to be down with me  You dum dum diddy  And if you don't want to be down with me  You don't want to pick from my appletree  And if you don't want to be down with me  You just don't want to be down  You just don't want to be down  Ohh you just don't want to be down  Down, down, down  You just don't want to be down  Ohh  You just don't want to be down  down [x15]  wanna be down  no oh no  You just don't want to be down  no no no  You just don't want to be down