Boogie Stop Shuffle - Charles Mingus

Don't change yourself to suit everybody else Don't change yourself to suit everybody else You lay staring at your ceiling through all of the night And out to haunt you come the ghosts of your life You bury your head in a bone colored cradle But do you sleep with a smile upon your face? They say into every life a little rain must fall But your dream cloud has burst And dripped all over your face A sick body forms a sick mind But you're duty bound to do what's right Is that the oasis of light in the darkness of your life? You can't admit, but you can't deny A small heart, a spiteful mind Are you good or bad you ask yourself And do the things you do hurt the ones who care the most for you Are you good or bad you ask yourself And do the things you do hurt the ones who care the most for you Don't change yourself to suit everybody else Don't change yourself to suit everybody else...

Worldwide BDP are the freshest! Worldwide! Worldwide! Worldwide! One two three, the crew is called BDP And if you want to go to the tip top Stop the violence in hip-hop, Y-O Time and time again, as I pick up the pen As my thoughts emerge, these are those words I glance at the paper to know what's going on Someone's doing wrong, the story goes on Mary Lue's had a baby someone else decapitated The drama of the world shouldn't keep us so frustrated I look, but it doesn't coincide with my books Social studies when I speak upon political crooks It's just the presidents, and all the money they spent All the things they invent and how the house is so immaculate They paid missiles, my family's eating gristle Then they get upset when the press blows the whistle Of course the main profiles are kept low You temper with some jobs, now the press is controlled Not only newspapers, but every single station You only get to hear the president is on vacation But ehrm, stay calm, there's no need for alarm You say "go back" to your mom, and you're off to Vietnam You shoot to kill, come back and you're a veteran But how many veterans are out there pedaling? There's no telling, 'cause they continue selling As quiet as it's kept, I won't go into depth You can talk about Nigeria, people used to laugh at ya. Now I take a look, I say "USA for Africa?!" Huh. What's the solution, to stop all this confusion? Rewrite the constitution, change the drug which you're using Rewrite the constitution or the emancipation proclamation We fight inflation, yet the president's still on vacation BDP posse! I say: one two three, the crew is called BDP And if you wanna go to the tip top Stop the violence in the hip-hop, Y-O This might sound a little strange to you Well here's the reason I came to you We gotta put our heads together, and stop the violence Cause real bad boys move in silence When you're in a club, you come to chill out Not watch someones blood just spill out That's what these other people want to see Another race fight endlessly You know we're being watched, you know we're being seen Some wish to destroy this scene called hip-hop But I won't drop Not I or Scott LaRock Now here is the message that we bring today: Hip-hop will surely decay If we as a people don't stand up and say: "Stop the violence!" "Stop the violence!" "Stop the violence!" "Stop the violence!" "Stop the violence!" I say: one two three, the crew is called BDP And if you wanna go to the tip top Stop the violence in the hip-hop, Y-O BDP and me We step into the party top celebrity Say when we're coming to dance, we never have to pay a fee Cause that's where we got R-E-S-P-E-C-T I have this one wife, her name is Miss Melody I know I'm from the Bronx, she from the Brooklyn posse I tell ya look a little like this, then I tell you some that I Sometimes I got my gear on, sometimes I wear a hat Sometimes I'm in a Mercedes and sometimes I'm in a plain Sometimes I find myself upon the number two train Some people look at me and see negativity Some people look at me and see positivity But when I see myself I see creativity So if I can create, well then I make some money Sha man, just put your hands up if you're out here gettin' paid Sha man, just put your hands up if you're out here gettin' paid One two three, the crew is called BDP And if you wanna go to the tip top Stop the violence in the hip-hop, Y-O