Respect - Pete Philly, Perquisite

Yeah, Pete Philly and Perquisite

The Mindstate venture

This music aint for everybody

This music is for you

Look out, they’ll take your sh*

Ready to break your sh*

Take to spend more and get some sh*

Move over, another hostile takeover

As the world turns the world turns over

F* ya’ll, me first has become the motto

Whether you’re white, black, Hispanic or mulatto

And it’s only because we follow our leaders

They be hollow and won’t respect us either

It’s really hard to swallow

Though bet you don’t hear me though

Probably even fearing so

You’d do anything to go and buy that new stereo

And ever since the currency has batled all the courtesy of live and let live or

live and let be

We’ve become disconnected, disrespected

And it’s affected our whole state of being now

Take a wrong turn and you’ll get shot

Like we ignorant and forgot that life is all we got man

Chorus:

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like a brother or a marter

If there’s no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like our mother and our father

If there’s no respect, then why even bother?

Every once in a while

I look out of my window and go off to a place that my old folks have showed

I aint never been there before

But they told me enough about it for me not to doubt it

Go back to reality, become a casualty of the ratrace

Everything is a fastpaced

And while the cats chase

The mice they be running around

And the cats they be hunting them down

Gunning them down by law if they find you the enemy

And if they do they’ll fuck you up relentlessly

Endless, the evel goes on

But every trend’s gotta end

So I remain strong and hopeful

Even when the try to keep me in a chokehold, I know my hope groes It’s time for

an intermission from all of these greed

Of all these corporations taking way more than they need

Chorus:

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like a brother or a marter

If there’s no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like our mother and our father

If there’s no respect, then why even bother?

At the end of the day it’s all about what kinda world you wanne live in

What kinda mindstate you wanne be in

See past the bullshh and get into it

Respect, connect, let’s build