VYP: Voice of the Young People

[Random Talking]

Random person: What does the voice of the young people mean?

Lil Mama: "It might not mean something to someone else but it means a lot to me"
"If y'all see eye to eye, you have something to accomplish"
"I don' think that parents should sugar coat information from kids because you're going to get it raw in the streets anyways"
"So VYP, to me is just sharing that voice, that real voice of life experiences, covering the youth and me, and there is a youth in everybody"
"I'm keeping it strictly 100 % real"

[Chorus]
He walking but he wanna swim with me( swim with me)
He walking but he wanna swim with me( swim with me)
Either way there's no way he gon' drown (drown)
Either way there's no way he gon' drown
He wanna swim

[Verse 1]
Straight out of the ocean I was raised in the water
Find my way to swim shore to the boy with two legs me I'm a mermaid
Different lifestyles and?
He wanna swim...
And I don't mind that
But I don't know if can keep up with where I'm at
I'm surrounded by sharks and they all bite
And quick to attack if they sense what they don't like like
He can't swim with me
Cause if I walk with him
He gon' still my speed so I can't talk to him
But if he keep up and fight through the waves
Fight through the pressure and the gust of your days
Test water with toes and dive in brave
You better follow your nose cause I'm so hey hey
Hard to catch up with so he can't fit
Threw his life jacket on and still can't catch this
Girl

[Chorus: x2]

[Verse 2]
In the part of the water that drip drip drip from a piece that boarder
Nates on my wardrobe
Hate wit my wardrobe
Don't match wit my boy oh
He wanna swim

Wit' wit' I
Come and doggy paddle with a girl so fly
Talkin' a boy he ain't never seen a girl like my my ha ha ha
He wanna swim

I know that game
You better off keepin' it real for a change
Makin' things more than I knew they was
And he doin' that just because
He wanna swim

From the pond to the pool to the river to the ocean
Boy I see you
Enter my world you'll see how we do
No stat work work premiere to
Preview oh

[Chorus: x2]

[Bridge: x2]
I know you want to swim boy I know you want to
I know you want to swim boy I know you want to
He wanna swim

Hey you can swim with me break it down do the swim with me oh
It's like that
You can swim with me break it down do the swim with me oh
You like that

You can swim with me break it down do the swim with me hey
It's like that
You can swim with me break it down do the swim with me hey
You got it oh

[Chorus: x2]

He wanna swim (swim)

He wanna swim (swim)

Lil mama
Yeah, it's poppin', it's poppin', it's poppin', it's poppin'
I gotta ask 'em 'cause if I don't
It's poppin', it's poppin', it's poppin', it's poppin'

[Bridge]
What you know 'bout me?
What you
What you
What you know 'bout me?
What you know 'bout me?
What you
What you
What you know?
They say my lip gloss is cool
My lip gloss be popping
I'm standing at my locker
And all the boys keep stopping
What you know 'bout me?
What you
What you
What you know 'bout me?
What you know 'bout me?
What you
What you
What you know?
They say my lip gloss is popping
My lip gloss is cool
All the boys keep jocking
They chase me after school

Mac, mac L'Oreal, yep, 'cause I'm worth it
Love the way I put it on so perfect
Wipe the corners of my mouth so I work it
When I walk down the hallway, they can't say nothing
Oh, oh, oh, my lips so luscious
The way I spice it up with the mac, mac brushes
L'Oreal got the most watermelon crushes
That's probably the reason why these boys got crushes

[Bridge]

When it's time for lunch
My lips still rock
Lil mama melon with the hot pink top
Cherry, vanilla
Flavors is a virtual; they
Loving, lip gloss universal
They boys really like it, the girls don't speak
They rolling they eyes
They lip gloss cheap
It ain't my fault
But I upgrade ya
Show you how to use nice things with nice flavors

[Bridge]

'Cause my lip gloss
Is popping, is popping
Is popping, is popping
'Cause my lip gloss
Is popping, is popping
Is popping, is popping

Sittin' in eighth period
Thought I was in trouble
Dean called me on the loudspeaker on the double
I stepped in her office like
'Yes, Ms. McClarkson?'
'She like, 'girl, ran out of my lip gloss, and
Write down where you get yours from
'Cause I must admit
That bubblegum
Is popping, is popping, is popping.'
She ain't fronting
And, uh
I be loving it
I be, I be loving it, and, uh
I be using it, I be, I be using it, and, uh
I be rubbing it, I be, I be rubbing it on my lips
My lips, my lip gloss

[Bridge]

Why don't you come around,
My way(way) my way
My way(way) my way(way)
Why don't you come around?

Uh, Uh, Uh,
Why don't you come around (way, way, way)
Why don't you come around

Walking down Williams through Mart and Blays (mart and blays)
Call it Big Steps where I used to play (used to play)
The girls in the park gotta lot to say (lot to say)
Them girls over here threw they life away (life away)
Cause they got babies and they just now head (just now head)
They double numbers they mamas promoting this here
The boys on the court playing basketball (basketball)
They baby fathers they rather be boys and that's all

[Chorus]
H dub Stand up! (uh)
BK Stand Up! (uh)
East Coast Stand Up! (uh)
You should
Come around my way

I'm from a place in Harlem
Where the streets they look like Africa
And the trees are in better condition than the homes so abandoned
P S 197
Where I study my academic stare run
And the books so worn and torn I can't think
How they tried to cripple me
Understood the lost side of me
Thank god I had a good teacher on the side of me
Showed me the right things to do
Overcame these obstacles
Haters stand up for the things that we've been through ooh

[Chorus]

Here we got these buildings called projects but they ain't three stories
They fill about ten on the block April flow go up by twenty
Stories I tell be true story kids cut school and watch Maury
Like if they ain't intellect in what's affecting my life I can't respect them
But that's just they way of the ghetto
People who come from where I'm from get it
But we still gotta make a difference
Stand up tall so the world can get it
Teach kids pride instead of "Outside"
Show another side and they show goin' rise
Stop letting responsibility fall
I can tell you ain't been around my way at all

Why don't you come around(way)
So you can see what my(way)
Eyes been seeing why(way)
Why don't you come around
Where we need directions(way)
Respect in every lesson(way)
Way, why don't you come around

My way(way) my way my way(way) my way(way)

[Chorus]

You should come around

Uh, Uh, Uh
Uh, Uh, Uh

[Chorus:]
In the mirror I'm lookin' at the shadow
If I bash her I'll probably would just shatter
Broken pieces that represent my heart
Broken pieces keep fallin' from my heart
In the mirror I'm lookin' at the shadow
If I bash her I'll probably would just shatter
Broken pieces that represent my mind
Broken pieces keep fallin' from my heart
Cause I know what I'm feeling
And I know what is real
Broken pieces that represent my heart
Broken pieces keep fallin' from my heart

[Verse 1:]
Everyday when I wake up
I wanna see yo face and I
Realize that you'll never apologize
For yo lies and all the ways you hurt me
And I know in my mind that you ain't worthy
But when I look in the mirror
I see this girl who keeps cryin' she's cryin'
She still in love with you
But I tell not to cause she's wildin' she's wildin'
I don't know what she's thinkin' about
Get it together or I'm gettin' you out
Of the mirror
I'm gettin' you outta my system
My vision premonition
And I listen to my answers
And free my soul from prison

[Chorus]

[Verse 2:]
My patience a plastic bag
And he kept fillin' it
Carryin' baggage of others
Is where I emptied it
Played the fool before
I'm not about to let you enter
My mind for my heart draws the bigger picture
His presence embrace me
His lovin' so greatly
I miss the way we
Use to sit up all night
And talk about nothin'
On the phone
Please how could you be so weak
When you know you deserve so much better
And rather than settle for less
Just let the best play catch up
When the time is right they'll find you
If you choose to
Do not do
The best I could do
Is warn and inform you
The mirror

[Chorus]

I'm what it is
I'm what it is
I'm what it is
Ha-hah, eh-hah, eh-hah, ha ha

I'm what it is (what it is) what it is (what it is)
What it is (what it is) what it is (what it is)
What it is (what it is) what it is (what it is)
Ha, ha, ha-ha-ha - I'm what it is!

Fresh for the block, Friday nights, party nights
Fresh for the block, 'cause everybody in the party
Straight from the block, but what they gon' stop?
My netti wind is sick, my heel toe with twist-a

360, this is, (non-playwitable!)
My doo-wop is sick, hit that then hit the
360, this is, (five stacks critical!)
And I ain't tryna brag to you (no!)
And I ain't definitely tryna keep up, 'cause I'm ahead of you

Walk, krump, and I murder you
Magic with a verse-a, dude
And that's just somethin that ain't changed yet, straight wreck
On anybody talkin material 'cause I take checks

So let's, make this a foreclosure
Been where you nev-ah, been real and the game's ov-ah!
Y'all mo' the, crust of these rap chicks (yeah!)
Peep what it is, but they not like this - I'm what it is!

[Chorus]
She fine (she fine), she sexy, cool
And don't n'am dudes know what to do with her (know what to do with her)
{I'm what it is!} all these chicks can keep hatin'
But they know that they can't fool with her (they can't fool with her)
{I'm what it is!} she hit the spot and shut it dawn! (down!)
No messin' around, strike a pose, girl
(Aw yeah, aw yeah) strike a pose, girl!
Now get off, get off!

(I'm what it is! - whoa) "she's so aggressive, the girl pressin'"
(I'm what it is! - whoa) "but she's a whack adolescent"
(I'm what it is! - whoa) successin' is my only mission

It's impossible for anybody, come and get it
Definition of raw talent and I write all bars
Flay cars in the hood they call me no holds barred
Born star like my lil' brother on star

And I will, eat you rappers plus the candy's inside
Lil' mama nicka-nicknamed Dharma
I'm a truth in the booth, (shawty gets loose)
And they way I eat guys so mean
"lil' mama, you're so mean! " - so?!

I like to rock the party and I like to rock the show
When they step into my league, I gotta use all force
When you start tryin to play with my brain like I'm crazy
Oh baby! that's when it's rock-a-bye baby!

[Chorus]

Why don't you come around here, dawg?
Look for me, type ease in bees we breeze
Pass your team, 'cause I been to where you sightseen
Nothing that you do or could ever do to excite me

Can't see, like we know maybes or more than likely
She goin' have flow ? , which means I got flow sick disease
Which means I have no sympathies, no antedote, y'all heard of me!
Please, with these cb-4 chicks

Before I get up on some see mo', feed me mo'
This is what I been sayin for some time now (time now)
If anybody got an object-ion, time's now!
Mo' fitted and mo' stroll 'cause she's on

She's on - (wha?) she's on!
Wake up in the mornin, go to sleep at dawn
My mama shoulda named me dawn, ah-uh-uh, onnn!
Either way, I woulda been a trip, the way I flip {yeah!}
The script and switch then get down like this - I'm what it is!

[Chorus]