Vapors

Radio, TV, and even the press

Know the meaning of V-A-P-O-R-S

The meaning of this word, without no doubt

Means nobody wanna be there when you down and out

Now once you're established and got a lot of money

Everybody wanna be your buddy and honey

Like tall buildings they call skyscrapers

Can you feel it? Nothin' can save ya

For this is the season of catchin' the vapors

And since I got time, what I'm gonna do

Is tell you how they spreaded throughout my crew

Well, you all know TJ Swan, who sang on my records

"Make the Music", "Nobody Beats the Biz", well check it

Back in the days before this began

He used to try to talk to this girl named Fran

The type of female with fly Gucci wear

With big truck jewelry and extensions in her hair

When swan tried to kick it, she always fessed up

Talkin' 'bout "Baby please, you work for UPS"

Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer

My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her

But now he trucks gold and wear fly Bally boots

Rough leather fashion and tough silk suits

Now she stop frontin' and wants to speak

And be comin' to all the shows every single weekend

To get his beeper number, she be beggin' please

Dyin' for the day to get skeezed

She caught the vapors

She caught the vapors

She caught the vapors

She caught the vapors

I got another partner that's calm and plain

He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane

A mellow type of fellow that's laid back

Back in the days, he was nothin' like that

I remember when he used to fight every day

What grown-ups would tell him, he would never obey

He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied

And a rasta-type Kangol tilted to the side

Around his neighborhood, people treated him bad

Said he was the worst thing his moms ever had

They said he would grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum

Or either in jail, or someone would shoot him

But now he's grown up, to their surprise

Big Daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide

Now the same people that didn't like him as a child

Be sayin', "Can I borrow a dollar? Ooh, you're a star now"

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

Now I got a cousin by the name of Vaughn Lee

Better known to y'all as Cutmaster Cool V

He cuts, scratches, transforms with finesse

And all that mess

I remember when he first started to rock

And tried to get this job at a record shop

He was in it to win it, but the boss fronted

Said, "Sorry Mr. Lee, but there's no help wanted"

Now my cuz Vaughan still tried on, and on, and on

Till the like break of dawn

To get this j-o-b in effect

They'd look right past him and be like, "Next"

Now for the year of eight-to-eight

Cool V is makin' dollars, so my cousin's life straight

He walks into the same record shop as before

And the boss be like, "Vaughn, welcome to my store"

Offering him a job, but nah, he don't want it

Damn, it feels good to see people up on it

'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't

Now guess what they caught from my cousin?

The vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

I guess I gotta talk about me, check it out

Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark

I had to work for mine to put your body in park

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be down

With a lot of emcee DJing crews in town

So in school on Nobel Streets, I said, "Can I be down, champ?"

They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp

After gettin' rejected, I was very depressed

Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest

When I used to come to parties, they'd make me pay

Would have to beg to get on the mic and rap that day

I was never into girls, I was just into my music

They acted like I wanted to keep it instead of tryna use it

But now things switched without belief

"Yo Biz, you remember me from Noble Streets, chief?"

We used to be down back in the days

It happens at the time and never cease to amaze

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

They caught the vapors

And you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know

They caught the vapors

You know, I'm not jokin', jokin', jokin', jokin', jokin'

They caught the vapors

My name, my name is Biz Markie