WYCLEF JEAN - Da Cypha lyrics

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Intro:<br>Yo 1, 2, 1, 2<br>The clef is back with some adjustments<br>Refugee camp<br>[turn it up! turn it up! turn it up!]<br>Yo, you see them refugees right there, they goin in the car<br><br>Hook:<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Keys they goin in the trunk<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Fiends they don't give a uh<br><br>[marie antoinette]<br>And flex couldn't save you even if he dropped a bomb in this<br>You still gon be found in a ditch<br>My name should be robin banks the way I be robbin banks<br>I'm a fiend for the s-500 I want it<br>Used to stay high and blunted, but all that had to stop<br>Chick like me be chasin after cops<br>And they don't stop at my block after the diallo shootin<br>Soldiers in waitin, marksmen recruitin<br>Salutin, thug confederates, rhyme and reason<br>Time and treatin, air force one we leavin<br>Panama red, holdin 52 hands for ransom<br>My man johnny handsome, itchin to cancel 'em<br>I'm like hold up, wait a minute, let's get down to buisness<br>We could shoot up everything soon as the deal is finished<br>Blah, blah, I got two hours to kill<br>We want like 5 mil in a private jet so peel<br><br>[supreme c]<br>Supreme c been after mean figures, ask my lil nigga<br>Since back in the days, before he was raised<br>Aint nobody puttin fear in my heart, who need a jumpstart<br>My art sharp, shoot your posse apart<br>Nigga take you on one by one, gun by gun<br>Son by son, done by done<br>Whoever come murder fest, one of the best<br>I'm gettin assets, collect ass bets, squat by your address<br>I come to kick it wit you, walk beans stickin wit you<br>Why try to hide from accomplice vibe<br>Yo we break bread, break heads, my people shake feds<br>Gamble and scramble, f what your man do<br>It's all about this husltin game, muscle and fame<br>Tussels in rain, take aim, blush you with game<br>My language is unexplainable, switch, changeable<br>And I stay remaindable, with bigger guns aimed at you<br><br>Hook<br><br>[hope]<br>I run up in da cypha heavily armed with endless bars of metaphoric harm<br>A python with poisonous charm, extending my arm<br>Pushing figures way to the back<br>Out of your reach, excessive like fatal attract<br>Freeze, a renegade bar stroke, an ace of spades<br>I'll kiss you wit a blade when I think I'm gettin played<br>Made woman, you never in bed with the same woman<br>You say you want it, you don't wanna see the omen<br>When my sixth sense start flowin I bless like holy water<br>I don't wanna die cuz I'm my daddy's only daughter<br>But yo, sometimes I see the writin on the wall<br>You know the ghetto testaments, the shootouts, the brawls<br>Close frames in the hall, will you stand or will you fall<br>Your whole click is on the run now would you tell it all<br>About the night shifters, me, i'ma cypher drifter<br>My sixteen bars is up so peace to the mixes<br><br>Hook 2x<br><br>[wyclef]<br>October 31st I was standing by the sour<br>These thugs don't wanna talk they want these pumas I just bought<br>Fresh outta school, picked on cuz I'm bilingual<br>I barely spoke english but the gun language was universal<br>Ran in the grocery store, spoke to gabriel<br>He said, you have problems, here's a feezy from israel<br>Ran back outside, just before I could say... another homicide<br>Threw the biscuit in the bushes runnin like jesse owens<br>Police showed up, but I was nowhere in existence<br>Back in the crib thinkin bout what I just did<br>I'ma police of defense but I'm bound to catch this bid<br>My hypothesis was right, they knocked the door, homie<br>Like a super in the projects wantin rent money<br>Just when I thought I get my life straight in the states<br>Is when I found myself climbin down the fire escape<br>Bodies found in virginia under the dumpsters, no<br>18 shell cases in front of the grocery sto'<br>Flee the scene of the crime before y'all kick the door<br>No your honor that must be some old rhyme that I wrote<br>And lyrics sometime man they misinterpretate it<br>For example when I say gun I mean my pen and paper<br>And everytime I wave and spit the crowd jump<br>Cuz I'm still digital underground like humpty hump<br>Feel the funk comin through your elephant trunks<br>I ain't even *kriss kross* my clothes yet<br>And yet y'all wanna jump, jump in da cypha, jump, jump<br>You in da cypha<br><br>Hook<br><br>Outro:<br>Stay in the house when you hear<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>It means the murder's outside you hear<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Where the real killers at you hear<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Honey who chill with the gats you hear<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Yo don't talk crap man<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Just cuz your girl's wit you man<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Cuz both o y'all gon go man<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>To a place where no man knows man<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Femme fatale, hope<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Supreme c, kinda dope<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Marie antoinette in the back with the techs<br>Woowoowoowoowoo<br>Y'all know the flavor refugee camp...<br>Woowoowoowoowoo...