Ladies First (LP Version) - Queen Latifah/Monie Love

The ladies will kick it

The rhyme that is wicked

Those that don't know

How to be pros get evicted

A woman can bear you

Break you take you

Now it's time to rhyme

Can you relate to

A sister d**e enough to make

You holler and scream

Ayo let me take it

From here Queen

Excuse me but I think

I'm about do

To get into precisely what

I am about to do

I'm conversating to the

Folks that have no whatsoever clue

So listen very carefully

As I break it down for you

Merrily merrily merrily

Merrily hyper happy overjoyed

Pleased with all the beats

And rhymes my sisters have employed

Slick and smooth throwing

Down the sound totally a yes

Let me state the position

Ladies first yes Yes

Yeah there's going to be

Some changes in here

Believe me when I say being

A woman is great you see

I know all the fellas out

There will agree with me

Not for being one but for

Being with one

Because when it's time for

Loving it's the woman that gets some

Strong stepping

Strutting moving on

Rhyming cutting

And not forgetting

We are the ones that give birth

To the new generation of prophets

Because it's ladies first

I break into a lyrical freestyle

Grab the mic look into

The crowd and see smiles

'Cause they see a woman

Standing up on her own two

Sloppy slouching is something I won't do

Some think that we can't

Flow stereotypes they got to go

I'm a mess around and flip

The scene into reverse

With what With a little

Touch of ladies first

Who said the ladies couldn't make it

You must be blind

If you don't believe

Well here listen to this rhyme

Ladies first there's

No time to rehearse

I'm divine and my mind

Expands throughout the universe

A female rapper with the

Message to send the

Queen Latifah is a perfect specimen

My sister can I get some

Sure Monie Love grab the mic and get dumb

Yo praise me not for

Simply being what I am

Born in L O N D O N

And sound American

You dig exactly where

I'm coming from

You want righteous rhyming

I'm a give you some

To enable you to aid

Yourself and get paid

And the material that

Has no meaning I wish to slay

Pay me every bit of your attention

Like mother like daughter

I would also like to mention

I wish for you to bring me to

Bring me to the rhythm

Of which is now systematically given

Desperately stressing I'm the

Daughter of a sister

Who's the mother of a brother

Who's the brother of another

Plus one more all four have

A job to do we doing it

Respect due

To the mother who's the root of it

And next up is me

The M O N I E L O V E

And I'm first cause

I'm a L A D I E

Contact and in fact

The style it gets harder

Cooling on the scene with

My European partner

Laying down track after

Track waiting for the climax

When I get there

That's when I tax

The next man or the next woman

It doesn't make a difference

Keep the competition coming

And I'll recite the chapter

In verse

The title of this recital

Is "Ladies First"