WANNA BE IS WANNA OKAY

It’s better out in the open desire hanging like a tongue
Plastic or paper
Regular or decaf
Dish or cable
Baghdad or Simbad
Wanna be is wanna okay
The same difference
On different channels
Cool D Jambo Zee
And mama wants to know:
Wat’s it gon be?

Fortified hip-hop
Stops daily dandruff
Our lives make kat-ching!
While we’re bitching
Rock up some class, girl
And hail His second coming
Be mine
Sweet flame
Don't pass out on me
Register only
If it’s a drawing.

Mr. Jefferson of Monticello
All lanes are open
I’m sure you’ve seen me twice
And I’ve met you once
On MTV
You’re the designer fatha
So let me ask you:
Is it Memorex or Democracy?
Powah mama wants to know:
Wat’s it gon be?

Here’s your life the awards
The bimbos in limos
Sugar with halepenos
Tax and spend
Are we coming
Or are we going?

Night’s a river with rental rubies
Covers ablaze with plastic fire
Divine mutha
Do it half
And you’re still a diva!
An angry sky is just
How we package things.

Gangsta counsel luminous by the pound
Kiss my face I'm a season ticket holder
Love’s huge but don’t paint
Van Gogh near a razor
Life was an interview and we missed.

Exchange rates roll off my lips
Every hit’s a myth live on cable
Indigo nights shimmer
Like a Swiss account
Sudden humility is a fast sale in progress.

Designer glasses look hot on Jefferson
Green is a color but attitude is cash
Protein gel tops the charts
Burns the boxoffice
Killah smile tears at sixty frames a second
Salvation, now on sale, aisle seven.

Squeeze through rainy motels lonely hearts AC drips
Those were the bad old days I respect
The bank vault is now where the hip hop’s hissing
The beast is a late winner I suspect
All the hussin' and dissing is a rhyme.

Local listing’s where history’s kissing
Rent this movie
Sell your eyes
We buy for nothing.
The culture shaggy and drooping for a buck
Went to school to learn to moon at life.

Bling bling joy of insult but write a check gimme
We are the download generation go ahead gimme
Pepsi’s best means you’re in love
Somebody’s faking
And we all look alike pity.
But I'm proud to 'fess
That this hair
Is my destiny.

Got milk pretty nothing? Got me some change?
Plug culture to a router while you’re sleeping
Reality Show is gospel and tight
Rusty virtue is nipped in surgery.

Soul dot com, you hear me?
Soul dot gone already?
Click and pay, puke on tap, contract signed
Cameras popping
Venice Festival
Mega karma, baby!
Citizens spend and wonder:
Wat’s it gon be?

Stay healthy don’t pull no charity
Diversity proud selling like crazy
Tilted hat over eyebrow looks a winner
I’m hanging so funk it up right and remix.

Lord of the diamond cross and His son pass the gold
We loaned these apples from heaven
Juice a dime arms akimbo for full court press
Ready or not here we go:
Wat’s it gon be?

Sweet home girl this ain’t no science
Shake this tree like shaking booty
Download the revolution while supplies last
And if you order now and die
You also get a free CD.

Fo git it, Mr. Jefferson
Fo git the rebate
I am I think somebody
Therefore anybody.

Luck is a broad on broadband
Load, lock, aim at shame.

Go son, go far
Learn wide and whiten your teeth!
But first dial the damn number on your screen.

Mama don't worry wat's it gon be
Wanna be is wanna okay.

(Copyright 2006 karbon)