<a href="http://oublierleracisme.skyblog.com">http://oublierleracisme.skyblog.com</a> <br /> <br />Biz Markie <br />Vapors <br /> <br /> <br />Can you feel it <br />Nothin' can save ya <br />For this is the seaon of catchin' the vpors <br />And since I got time, what I'm gonna do <br />Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew <br />Wel you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records <br />Made the music, "Nobody Beats the Biz" <br />Well, check it <br />Back in the days before this began <br />He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran <br />The type of female with fly Gucci wear <br />With big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair <br />When Swan tried to kick it, she always fessed <br />Talkin' about "Nigger, please, you work for UPS" <br />Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer <br />My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her <br />But now he trucks gold and wears fly Valley boots <br />Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits <br />Now she stop frontin' an' wants to speak <br />And be comin' to all the shows <br />Every single weekend <br />To get his beeper number, she'd be beggin' please <br />Dyin' for the day to get skeezed <br /> <br />She caught the vapors [x4] <br /> <br />I got another partner that's calm and plain <br />He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane <br />A mellow type of fellow that's laid back <br />Back in the days, he was nothin' like that <br />I remember when he used to fight every day <br />What grown-ups would tell him he would never obey <br />He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied <br />And a rasta-type Kango tilted to the side <br />Around his neighborhood, people treated him bad <br />And said he was the worst thing his mom's ever had <br />They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum <br />Or either injail or someone would shoot him <br />But now he's grown up, to their surprise <br />Big Daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide <br />Now the same people that didn't like him as a child be sayin' <br />Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, you're a star now <br /> <br />They caught the vapors [x4] <br /> <br />Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee <br />Better known to y'all as Cutmaster Cool V <br />He cuts scratch, transform with finesse <br />...(cuts and scratches)...and all that mess <br />Well I remember when he first started to rock <br />And tried to get his job in a record shop <br />He was in it to win it but the boss fronted <br />Said, "Sorry Mr. Lee, but there's no help wanted" <br />Now my cousin Von still tried on and on and on <br />'Til the like break of dawn <br />To put this j-o-b in effect <br />But they'd look right past him and be like "next" <br />Now for the year of '88 <br />Cool V is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight <br />He walks into the same record shop as before <br />And the boss'll be like, "Von, welcome to my store" <br />Offerin' him a job but naw, he don't want it <br />Damn it feels goo to see people up on it <br />'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't <br />Now guess what they caught from my cousin <br />The vapors <br /> <br />They caught the vapors [x4] <br /> <br />Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark <br />I had to work for mine to put your body in park <br />When I was a teenager, I wanted to be down <br />With a lot of M.C.-deejayin' crews in town <br />So in school on Nobel Street, I say "Can I be down, champ" <br />They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp <br />After gettin' rejected, I was very depressed <br />Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest <br />When I used to come to parties they'd make me pay <br />I'd have to beg to get on the mike and rap that day <br />I was never into girls, I was just into my music <br />They acted like I wanted to keep it <br />Instead of tryin' to use it <br />But now things switched without belief <br />"Yo, Biz, do you remember me from Nober Street, chief? <br />We used to be down back in the days" <br />It happens all the time and never ceases to amaze <br /> <br />They caught the vapors [x4]
