Show Business-A Tribe Called Quest

[ti:Show Business] [ar:A Tribe Called Quest] [al:The Low End Theory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Show Business - A Tribe Called Quest [00:00.25]Written by：Skeff Anselm/D. Murphy/L. Dechalus/Joe Kirkland/Kamaal Fareed/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Malik Taylor [00:00.51]Let me tell you 'bout the snakes the fakes the lies the highs [00:03.45]At all of these industry shing dings [00:05.76]Where you see the pretty girls [00:07.78]In the high animated world [00:10.14]Checking for a rapper with all the dough [00:12.43]If you take a sh*t they want to know [00:14.80]And if you're gonna fall they won't be around y'all [00:17.47]So you still wanna do the show business [00:19.89]And you think that you got what it takes [00:22.22]I mean you really gotta rap and be all that [00:24.59]And prepare yourself for the breaks [00:26.40]Check it out [00:27.05] [00:29.74]Do you wanna be in the business [00:31.47]The business [00:31.99]The ups and downs with the hoes [00:33.54]The business [00:34.05]Always getting fronted on at shows [00:35.84]The business [00:36.69]People gotta stick their nose [00:38.19]In the business [00:39.08]Yo I gotta speak on the cesspool [00:40.62] [00:41.13]It's the rap industry and it ain't that cool [00:43.78]Only if you're on stage or if you're speaking to your people [00:46.51] [00:47.33]Ain't no-one your equal [00:48.37]Especially on the industry side [00:49.87] [00:50.85]Don't let the gains just glide [00:52.61]Right through your fingers you gotta know the deal [00:55.78]So Lord Jamar speak because you're real [00:57.47]They're giving you the business and putting on a show [01:00.17]You're a million dollar man that ain't got no dough [01:02.35]But you got a ho tickets backstage to a show [01:04.81]Sedated and at that fact they elated [01:07.13]Time pass and your a** say [01:08.56]Where's my loot [01:09.53]The reply is a kick in the a** from a leg and a boot [01:12.40]All you wanna do is taste the fruit [01:14.12]But in the back they're making fruit juice [01:15.71] [01:16.54]You ask for slack and wanna get cut loose from the label [01:19.03]Not able cause you signed at the table [01:21.24]For a pretty cash advance now they got a song and dance [01:23.62]That you didn't recoup [01:24.82]More soup with your meal [01:26.03]Cause this is the real when you get a record deal [01:28.37] [01:29.53]And I say [01:30.21]Aw shucks look what the cat hauled in [01:32.97]It's Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest let me begin [01:35.39]Like Chuck D I got so much trouble on my mind [01:37.78]'Bout these no-talent artists getting signed they can't rhyme [01:40.36]And if that ain't bad you got bootleggers [01:42.40]Going out like suckers motherf**kers [01:44.67] [01:45.27]Feel it's time that I let loose the lion [01:47.36]And if not that then I'll commence to head flying [01:49.83]Seems in '91 everybody want a rhyme [01:51.89]And then you go and sell my tape for only $5.99 [01:53.65] [01:54.24]Please ni**a I've worked too hard for this [01:56.83]No more will I take the booty end of the stick [01:59.01]Bogus brothers making albums when they know they can't hack it [02:01.16]Cause they lyrics is played like 8-Ball jackets [02:04.02]Now tell me I can't tear it up [02:05.45] [02:06.09]Go get yourself some toilet paper cause your lyrics is butt [02:08.33] [02:08.85]Do you wanna be in the business [02:10.51]The business [02:10.86]People can't walk a straight line in [02:12.74]The business [02:13.44]Some of these brothers can't rhyme in [02:15.27]The business [02:15.84]A-yo I'm tryna get mine [02:16.97] [02:17.64]The business [02:18.21]The party scene is cool but then again it's all the same [02:20.58]You see the same faces but at different places [02:22.90]When you're up and riding high everything is palsy palsy [02:25.23]Get a million pounds and all the skins give you hugs [02:27.37]Well that's cool I can dig it it really ain't my bag [02:29.85]Prefer to max on the side and let my pants sag [02:32.32]Oh he's a cutie yeah real cute [02:34.49]But I wasn't that cute when I didn't have no loot [02:36.97]Although I hit a pound of herbs I'm still nice with the verbs [02:39.91] [02:40.41]So f**k what you heard [02:41.78]The Born Cipher Cipher Master makes me think much faster [02:44.52] [02:45.06]But critics still continue to plaster [02:46.50]My name and discredit my fame [02:48.46]All that sh*t is game and I don't really give a damn [02:51.08]Eat from the tree of life and throw away the verbal ham [02:53.41] [02:55.97]Well excuse me I gotta add my two cents in [02:58.25]Don't be alarmed the rhyme was condensed in [03:00.61]A matter of minutes so it must be told [03:03.07]All that glitters not gold [03:05.14]Everybody wants a deal help me make a demo [03:07.49]See my name in bright lights ride around in a limo [03:10.06]My moms keeps beefing [03:11.41]Boy get a job [03:12.35]But I wanna make jams damn I know I'll slam [03:15.18]Huh well it's not that easy [03:17.20]You gotta get a label that's willing and able [03:19.44]To market and promote and you better hope [03:21.76]For what [03:22.29] [03:22.97]That the product is d**e [03:24.44]Take it from Diamond it's like mountain climbing [03:26.69]When it comes to rhyming you gotta put your time in [03:29.06]Get a good lawyer so problems won't pile [03:31.50]You don't wanna make a pitch that's wild