Jersey

(Queen Latifah)

Yo what's up this is Queen Latifah in the house

Definetely representin Jersey on the love love

Coolin' out in Cali; shootin' Living Single

But damn I miss home

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I can't.. forget New Jersey

(Verse 1: Queen Latifah)

When I think of home I think of a place where there's love over-flowin'

And all my family and peeps I knew when I was growin

Mommy and daddy made me proud to an Owens

Taught me to keep goin'

Straight up but never knowin'

I would become Her eminence and royal highness

The Queen Latifah; no doubt; one of New Jersey's finest

So, set if off

Get 'em up on my own

Cause Jersey's what I think about when I think of home

Don't let no one get close to you except the chosen few

Stick with the ones who meant the most to you

When you were broke and blue, that's how fam do

That's how you stay true around these snakes

That freakin' smile when they hate you

I'm quick to take the ride down for in-town (?)

(Just another day living on a down)

My experience legit, my rhymes is on hit

It's mad truth to the rumor we the shit; I can't forget

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(Verse 2: Queen Latifah)

I used to work at Burger King but after takin orders

I used to take the path to Latin Quarters across the waters

When I learned to do the Wop, yo, I couldn't stop

I brought it back around the way to show the people on my block

Teacher, teacher, tell me how you do it

It looks so simple like that there is nothin to it

So, we meet at Irvington High halls and after school I'd run

To the Willowbrook mall boostin' with Sulamon

I had a talent for getting 'em for gear

Petty thief, small time crook of the year

But I chilled cause I had bigger dreams than to steal

And Ramsey came for me and Apache to put our voices on a reel

And I could hear myself on the radio

"45 King Special Red Alert Show"

Cause that's what life was all about to me

R-E-P Flavor Unit, representin' Jersey

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(Verse 3: Queen Latifah)

I think about my mom and my brothers when I'm on swoll

Shakim, when I'm on swoll

My baby sister, when I'm on swoll

Hoffstead, when I'm on swoll

Ill-Town, when I on swoll

Jill-Town, J.C, when I'm all swoll

Irvington, Newark and so on, when I'm all swoll

Recognize the home of my soul

We got Naughty

And uh we got Nicky

We got Redman, the Artifacts and Whitney

Bon Jovi them my bogeys

Bruce Springsteen, and Das EFX

Shaquille O'Neal, oh he'll catch wreck

Tisha Campbell, Jerry Lewis, Tony Bennett

Back spin, or spin it

Thursday, Peppermint I'm in it

Shadow's, I knows no foes in the spot

Cause them peeps is my peeps and my back is got

Nuf' respect to your burough, your block

You're black; I love to see us move as a flock

Unstrapped, against each other

No body armor

Nobody harms a hair on a head, everything's calmer

And we cool, the ghetto stars and fools

We paid the dues

We made the blues

So come on with the come on

Get down with the get down

I'm down with my hometown sound

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