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You Didn't Know That Though

2,812

Hip-Hop/Rap

You Didn't Know That Though was released on August 30, 1999 by Quannum Projects as a part of the album Nia

Song Details

AlbumNia

Release DateAugust 30, 1999

LabelQuannum Projects

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM99

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Blackalicious

Performer

Tim Parker

Rap

Xavier Mosley

Rap

The Gift of Gab

The Gift of Gab

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Blackalicious

Songwriter

Chief Xcel

Arranger

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Chief Xcel

Producer, Mixing Engineer

James Ward

Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

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Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

[Verse 2]

Here we go again, I lend a vocal to your dome

Help this little MC find his way home

Wake up in the morning with the microphone jones

Step up in the room, puff-puff the homegrown

All up in my zone, prone to stone, the drone's a clone

Television, {old originators of} {???}

Most ill-in-tray, innovative, lo and behold

Penetrating in the Winnebago, going to Rome

Send a tape in when I break it, though I be wrong

Hope this statement make your planet keep flowing along

But you never want to try to challenge for that throne

Make your dome piece shatter, make you go back home

Here to show that, bro

In this world it's disco, sipping on a cup of Cisco

Know that go

To the psyche, make me psycho, then I throw that blow

Lotta killing, lotta dying, and I know that's wrong

Show backbone on rap songs, no wack song

Alimony's tripping, sitting all in the back row

Mack mode style, sizzle hot Tabasco

Slapping up your class ill-y-ask fiasco

Last call for MCs who have souls

Aspiring to elevate 'cause **** is ass-wrong

I passed all my logic in a flow rap mode

I got this whole map sold, you didn't know that though

[Verse 3]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

[Verse 4]

Bomb-diddy put the beat in your head

Watch as it expands and your face turn red

Put lead to me like laps at Club Dread

Ain't a need to bleed, but passports are dead

I'm a rhymer on the rhyme and bring a Armageddon

Wiping out the webs in the heads of my brethren

Exiting to hover over your opinion

Never let another rule inside of my dominion

Center in the middle of my inner with a riddle

Smoke a penner put a little bit of ginger in my dinner meal

Feeling ill, stealing the show like a criminal

Cleaning out the mucus in your grill like Benadryl

Millennium man, lyrically battle any man

Go and get your posse and your crew, I got plenty fam

I roll up in your entourage with a caravan

Thought that I was humble, then I let out the arrogance

Anti-American government crisis

Stare into my eyes, don't you see you can never win?

Hit you like a javelin, severing hell of intelligent MCs

And victory relevant

[Verse 5]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

[Verse 6]

Blast off

Make me look every way that's surrounding me

Break your sound up into rhyme colonies

Reproduce and reduce the economy

Fill your ear with self-sight psychology

In the world, plan with spirituality

On the road sidelines, enough casualties

Mind and body, soul, whole mathematically

Grab the microphone, rock on emphatically

Recruit youth into MC academy

Bring you truth in these lies and these fantasies

Common sense and, to all y'all, the man is me

[Verse 7]

(You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo (You didn't know that though)

Written by: Blackalicious

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