Intro
Yo, yo, yo
Hello, mic check, one, two
One, one, one, one, two (is it working?)
What up? What up?
What up, y'all? What up, y'all? (Yo)
Good evening, everybody (good evening, everybody)
What's up? If y'all don't know who we are (what up?)
We are De La Soul (De La's in the spot, what's up, y'all?)
From the area of the 516 (word up)
Word up
Who's in the house tonight?
I don't know, bro, who in the house?
It's looking good over there
Brooklyn's in the house (word up)
Brooklyn's always in the house tonight (Queens in the house)
De La is in the house (word up)
Uptown is in the house
Word up, but, uh
Check it out, y'all, we gon' start the show tonight
Wait, yo, yo, yo
Let 'em know where we are, man
We at the legendary Lyricist Lounge, baby (come on)
We are gon' just do it right tonight on the lyric tip (alright, alright)
This ain't about being flashy tonight
What you about to see on stage here is gon' be
Sure nuff funky
What up, cats? What up, man? What up? What up? What up?
What up, yall?
De la up in here of course (word, word)
Like I said we at the Lyricist Lounge doing it right tonight
We gon' have a couple of folks on stage doing it right
Yo, let the folks know who you are, bruh, what's up, man?
Yo, my name is Wonder Why (and I'm the-)
They call me Mercenary De La (alright)
They call me Kelvin Mercer
But, whatever, you know I'm sayin', ha
Nah, I'm Plug One, what up, y'all? What up?
Check it out, it's Plug Two, y'all can call me Dave
My man Maseo running around here somewhere
He probably getting drinks or something like that (word up)
But, check it out, we gon' start the show off right
Gon' do it with real love, I think we, we might as well set it off with
Cypher Complete, y'all
Cypher Complete, it's Cypher Complete
Outta New Jersey, give it up for Cypher Complete, y'all (word up)
Word up