Patti Dooke
De La Soul

Why do we have to cross over?

Why are niggas always crossing over somethin'?

And what's the matter?

They accept our music as long

As they can't see our faces?

One, two, one, two, you got it


Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches

It's the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti what?

Runnin' through the trenches, oh

Runnin' through the trenches, it's the Patti's Dooke


Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches

It's the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti what?

Runnin' through the trenches, oh

Runnin' through the trenches, it's the Patti's Dooke


Just the other day I got a starter kit

An M is a terrible thing to waste

Caught the face from the backs of the border of the mind state

I play control to a fraud


Nah, it ain't happenin', nada to make it even

Robbin' and theivin' is one who infiltrates with a Colgate frown

And all remember my nasal for I sniff frequencies

Well, it started in the year of '78


But it's '93 or should I say '94?

For my style is much more

I said, Come in, come in

Come on, come out into my reservoir


As I macks a man, your bastard style has just been stuck

By a sticker with a 'Frigerator Lickin''

What if, how's about, why would?

Never thought that the napalm would bust the jeans


Mash it up, the one with the beard

Mega mustache the beat, hide it

Deep under sheets, cover this hint

Hostin' all threats but watch out Mr. Jarbage


Jimmy and the Jet, standin' on the pier

I'm known as the farmer

Cultivatin' mate without mendin', bendin'

Compromising any of my styles to gain a smile


Listen while you hear it, there's no pink in my slip

I reckon that the rhythm and the blues and the rap got me red

While the boys from Tommy plant bridge crossin' to a larger community

Yet they're soon to see I have a brother named Luck


A nigga named Dres

A groupie named Cassandra caught bobbin' on the head

Of a baby named Chris, I missed a kid who caught wreck when sayin'

Afrika and I when Sammy B's on the set


Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches

It's the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti what?

Runnin' through the trenches, oh

Runnin' through the trenches, it's the Patti's Dooke


Prevention against sucka M.C.'s

Prevention against sucka M.C.'s

Prevention against sucka M.C.'s

And now, prevention against sucka M.C.'s


We decided to change the cover a little bit

Because we see the big picture

Negroes and white folks buyin' this album


Negroes and white folks buyin' this album

Everybody's gonna know who this group is

We just felt that the picture wasn't as important

As it was that we succeed in crossing over


Cross over ain't nuthin' but a double cross

Once you lose our audience

We never gon' get them back

He may even try to change our sound


Let no man put asunder

Severin' the groups I never blunder

Cashin' all the checks on the mic

I might cherry to the bush, brand Plug Wonder


Funk to the fame against hoods

Bridges saggin' to woods down under

They can't be raised with the feminine praise

In conjunction with no chocolate in the mix


White boy, Roy, cannot feel it

But the first to try and steal it

Dilute it, pollute it, kill it

I see him infiltratin' to the masses

And when the leechin' I'ma shoot 'em all in they asses


Runnin' through the trenches, what?

Runnin' through the trenches, yeah

Runnin' through the trenches

It's the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti what?

Runnin' through the trenches, oh

Runnin' through the trenches, it's the Patti's Dooke


It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop


It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop

It might blow up but it won't go pop


I shed light and not skin, I ain't from Europe

Afro connects at the root of the retina of the third

Mums the word when ya blind, baby, blind to the fact


Don't rest the Compton so I don't own a gat

But respect is clear crystal 'cause Millie got a pistol

And she's down with me, wild, of most wild

Born child to the old school legitimate soul


Talker of the many paragraphs ago

Walker of the plenty broken calves ago

Phantom of the phrase, black in many ways

'Cause I see her runnin' through the trenches

Comin' into rent my style


I'm not the one to fuck with

I'm lockin' you out

I'm just not the one to fuck wit so check it


Y'all, y'all know who I am, listen up, son

Peace to my man, Premier

And y'all better guard your trenches

'Cause we runnin' through 'em


Do it, fluid, mess up my mind

Do it, fluid, mess up my mind

Do it, fluid, mess up my mind

Do it, fluid, mess up my mind

Do it, fluid, mess up my mind


Tell me somethin'?

How come they never cross over to us?

I never seen five niggas on Elvis Presley album cover


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