For The People Lyrics - The Black Eyed Peas

1 Hello,

2 I'd like to make a special, special dedication

3 To all them special, special people

4 That did all them special, special thanks

5 Especially the Native Tongues and KRS

6 Can't forget Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh

7 A big shout-out to Freestyle Fellowship

8 Let me do this

9 CHORUS (x2):

10 Let's do this for the people

11 Let's make our mommas proud

12 Let's do this for the people

13 Let's do, let's do it now

14 Back in the day when I was a teenager

15 Before I had status and a two way pager

16 You could find Will listening to A Tribe Called Quest

17 Their Low End Theory made me wanna do this

18 You see you gotta understand that things go in cycles

19 Justin Timberlake is just a new form of Michael

20 It's called inspiration

21 That's the way it be

22 Without the Jay Dees there probably wouldn't be no Peas

23 So I'm a do this for those that inspired me to be

24 And motivated me to start my legacy

25 I give a shout-out to my man Eazy-E

26 A big R.I.P., 'cause he believed in me (yeah)

27 He put me down back in 1993

28 And now I grab the mic and rock the party

29 I got Joints and Jams for peabodies

30 And peabodies is short for family

31 They're my people

32 CHORUS (x2)

33 Raise up the heat

34 Let me blow up this track

35 I gotta pay homage to my peeps way back

36 Had a little dream hungry run rap game

37 And now the dreams are same but the game is changed

38 Back in '88 before I was great

39 I used to battle on the block as a b-boy & break (yeah)

40 Heavy while of course I used to water the bush

41 Used to leave fools' crews down and black & blue

42 Hip hop kept on at the Kiba Lawn

43 Ballistics and unity it all was the bomb

44 Blew up the spot when my mic was on

45 It was a good life, foundation, feelin' was strong

46 I kept on (so I don't get left behind)

47 I kept on (so I don't get forgotten with time)

48 I kept on (so I could just bless your mind)

49 I kept on (for the people bustin' my rhymes)

50 CHORUS (x2)

51 Getting 'bout it in my room

52 Back in '89

53 Freestylin in the cipher exercisin the mind

54 Just coolin with my grim Brand Nubian rhymes

55 B-boyin and breakin, Tribe behind the nation

56 Diggin in the place with DJ Motivation

57 Live and direct on your radio station

58 Rockin' with the band, doin shows for fans, mic in my hand

59 Standing in my b-boy stance

60 Whoever thought that the Peas would spread like a disease

61 And infect the whole globe with hip hop and soul

62 This is for the people that love the Peas' sound

63 We still makin' music, we holdin it down

64 This is dedicated to the Cold Crush

65 If it wasn't for y'all, there wouldn't be us

66 This is dedicated to UTFO

67 Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow

68 CHORUS (x4)