Stop Shammin'

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Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968) better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip hop. Regarding the name Big Daddy Kane, he said: "The Big Daddy part and the Kane part came from two different things. The Kane part came from my fascination with the martial arts flicks when I was young." The Big Daddy part came from the name of a character Vincent Price played in the film Beach Party. more »


Year:
1993
3:56
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#6

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One-fifty-eight Lewis Avenue 
Between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back during 
The days of hangin on my Bed-Stuy block 
With Spence and Mitch, followin my cousin Murdoch 

All the brothers were real, goin for what they feel 
By the way, peace to my man Sha and Big Neal 
Now in ninety-three I'm still bein me 
You think my 'fridgerator ain't full of Olde E? Huh 

A lot of times I get fly with a suit and a tie 
Yeah I went from rags to riches but I still rock the saggy britches 
And I don't try to act brand new 
Eatin escargots and usin words like "rendezvous" 

The ghetto life I've seen a lot overcome 
Make a little money and then forget where they came from 
Livin a plastic lifestyle, you're more false than dentures 
Don't make me pull your file -- stop shammin! 

[Chorus: x3]
"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait" 
"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait" 
Stop shammin! 

Stop, hold-up, pause, wait"  
"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait" 

So why you want to be what you're not? 
And claim to have things that you know you ain't got 
You're just a fantasizer -- spendin all your money 
On lustrous pink oil moisturizer 

Just to make your hair curly and thin 
You say, "Black is beautiful," but then you go and bleach your skin 
Money you're worse than Yacub 
'Cause their are eight stages of graft and you broke down to two 

Plus you got a bad case of jungle fever 
And nmmana-nah-nah I just can't believe ya 
It's quite obvious you don't want to be a black man 
So what's next - you're gonna join the Klu Klux Klan? 

You sold out to your race and it's a big disgrace 
You can't look your own people in the face 
You wonder why it ain't no black schools or hospitals 
You're makin millions of dollars and it's pitiful 

That you can donate to leukemia all the time 
But you can't give the Nation of Islam a dime 
They mention Muslims, you change the subject 
You can't even shake Farrakhan hand in public 

That whole busy attitude is a sham 
Umm bro, umm brother, umm.. Brougham, stop shammin! 

[Chorus: x3]

"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait"  
"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait" 

"Change the groove and funk it up a little bit" 

I look in the mirror, at times I say, "Damn Black Caesar; 
How'd you get to be the woman pleaser?" 
'Cause I remember when girls didn't notice me 
And now they want to Come and Talk To Me like Jodeci 

It's strange, how back in the days I couldn't get with em 
Now all of a sudden the honies they want to give me rhythm 
Well I'm a hit it, but still I show no pity 
So I hope you don't think you gonna be in my next video 

And many brothers I never even ran with 
Be actin like they been hangin with me since I was a kid 
I mean just to get a piece of the action 
Man they start rememberin more times than Michael Jackson 

But I can't fade to the tag-alongs 
That want me to drag em on 
Frontin like a friend just so I can put em in 
But you cuttin yourself paper thin - stop shammin! 

"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait"  
"Stop, hold-up, pause, wait" 

And I'm out

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Written by: JAMES BAKER, MELVIN LEE WILSON, MIKE VERNON, DELISLE HARPER, GLEN LEFLEUR, JOE JAMMEN, PETER WINGFIELD, ANTONIO (BIG DADDY KANE) HARDY, OSTIN HARVEY

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