original text pronunciation

[Intro]

[Verse 1-1: Phife Dawg]

  • [00:08.98] microphone check one, two, what is this?
  • [00:11.48] The five foot assassin with the roughneck business
    • roughneck = 乱暴者
  • [00:13.97] I float like gravity, never had a cavity
    • cavity = 虫歯、空洞
  • [00:16.47] Got more rhymes than the Winans got family

[Verse 1-2: Phife Dawg]

  • [00:18.96] No need to sweat Arsenio to gain some type of fame
    • sweat = 汗をかかせる？
  • [00:21.46] No shame in my game cause I’ll always be the same
  • [00:23.95] Styles upon styles upon styles is what I have
  • [00:26.45] You wanna diss the Phifer but you still don’t know the half / I

[Verse 1-3: Phife Dawg]

[Verse 1-4: Phife Dawg]

[Verse 1-5: Phife Dawg]

  • [00:48.9] just try my best to like go all out
  • [00:51.4] Some might even say yo shorty black you’re buggin’ out

[Verse 2-1: Q-Tip]

  • [00:53.89] Zulu Nation, brothers last creation
    • Zulu Nation = Africa Bambaataa が作ったレーベル (?) で ATCQ もその一員
  • [00:56.39] Minds get flooded, ejaculation
    • ejaculation = 射精
  • [00:58.88] Right on the two inch tape / The Abstract
  • [01:01.38] poet incognito, runs the cape / No the
    • incognito =〈イタリア語〉匿名者、Mr. Incognito が Q-Tip のあだ名の 1 つ
    • cape = 頭や首の皮を剥ぐためのナイフ (cape knife) のこと？

[Verse 2-2: Q-Tip]

  • [01:03.87] best not the worst and occasionally I curse / To get my
    • get one’s point across to = ポイント［自分の言いたいこと］を（人）に分からせる［よく分かってもらう］
  • [01:06.37] point across, so bust, the floss / As I
  • [01:08.86] go in between, the grit and the dirt
  • [01:11.35] Listen to the mission listen Miss as I do work,

[Verse 2-3: Q-Tip]

  • [01:13.85] umm / As I crack the, monotone
  • [01:16.34] Children of the jazz so, get your own
  • [01:18.84] Smokin R&B cause they try to do me / Or the
  • [01:21.33] best of the pack but they can’t do rap / For it’s

[Verse 2-4: Q-Tip]

  • [01:23.83] Abstract, original / You
  • [01:26.32] can’t get your own and that’s, pitiful
  • [01:28.82] I know I’d be the man if I cold yanked the plug / On
    • yank = ぐいっと引っ張る
  • [01:31.31] R&B, but I can’t and that’s bugged

[Hook 1]

  • [01:33.81] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:36.3] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:38.8] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:41.29] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:43.79] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:46.28] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:48.78] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [01:51.27] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out / Yo when you

[Verse 3-1: Phife Dawg]

  • [01:53.77] bug out, you usually have a reason for the action
  • [01:56.26] Sometimes you do it just for mere satisfaction
  • [01:58.76] People be hounding, always surrounding
  • [02:01.25] Pulsing, just like a migraine pounding / You

[Verse 3-2: Phife Dawg]

  • [02:03.75] don’t really fret, you stay in your sense / Camou-
  • [02:06.24] flage your feeling, of absolute tense / You
  • [02:08.74] soar off to another world, deep in your mind / But
  • [02:11.23] people seem to take that, as being unkind

[Verse 3-3: Phife Dawg]

  • [02:13.72] “Oh yo he’s acting stank,” really on a regal?
  • [02:16.22] A man of the fame not a man of the people
  • [02:18.71] Believe that if you wanna but I tell you this much
  • [02:21.21] Riding on the train with no dough, sucks

[Verse 3-4: Phife Dawg]

  • [02:23.7] Once again a case of your feet in my Nike’s / If a
  • [02:26.2] crowd is in my realm I’m saying – mic please
  • [02:28.69] Hip-hop is living, can’t yank the plug / If you
  • [02:31.19] do the result, will end up kind of bugged / Yo, I am

[Verse 4-1: Q-Tip]

  • [02:33.68] not an invalid although I used to smoke the weed out
  • [02:36.18] Ali Shaheed Muhammad used to say I had to be out
  • [02:38.67] Scheming on the cookies with the crazy booming back buns
  • [02:41.17] Pushing on them real hard just so we can have the big fun

[Verse 4-2: Q-Tip]

  • [02:43.66] When I left for Rosie I was Boulevard status
  • [02:46.16] Battling a MC was when Tip was at his maddest / It was
  • [02:48.65] one MC after one MC / What the
  • [02:51.15] world could they be wanting see from little old me / Do I

[Verse 4-3: Q-Tip]

  • [02:53.64] have the formula to save the world? / Or was it just
  • [02:56.14] because I used to swipe the women and all the girls
  • [02:58.63] I’m the type of brother with the crazy extended hand, kid
  • [03:01.13] Dissed by all my brothers I was all up what my man did

[Verse 4-4: Q-Tip]

  • [03:03.62] Supposed to be my man but now I wonder cause you’re feeble
  • [03:06.12] I go out with the strongies and I separate the evils / It’s your
  • [03:08.61] brain against my mind, for those about to boot out
  • [03:11.11] All you nasty critters even though you see I bug out

[Hook 2]

  • [03:13.6] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:16.09] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:18.59] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:21.08] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:23.58] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:26.07] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:28.57] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out
  • [03:31.06] Buggin’ out, buggin’ out, buggin’ out you’re buggin’ out