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Artist: De La Soul
Canonical path: /de-la-soul/skit-1
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Skit 1
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Skit 1
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INTRO
Hello boys and girls. Welcome to your De La Soul readalong storybook!
When you hear this sound... * ...that means turn the page.
And now we begin our exciting adventure of... De La Soul is Dead.
*
PLAYGROUND HONEYS:
Oh my God Vanilla Ice...
He's so fly!
The boy is so good.
Did you see his body?
He could dance too.
He could.
He's better than any rapper I ever seen!
And plus his dancers!
- He's so jammin'!
*
JEFF: Yo, what's up?
HONEYS: Yo, Jeff, where you been, man?
JEFF: Guess what I just found, I just found a De La Soul tape in the
garbage.
HONEYS: For real? Let's hear it!
JEFF: No!
HONEYS: Aww, be like that!
*
MISTA LAWNGE: What's up, cocksnot? How ya doing, buddy?
HONEYS: Cocksnot? You gonna let him call you that? Sucker!
JEFF: Leave me alone!
LAWNGE: What do we have here?
JEFF: Nothing!
LAWNGE: Listen, you little Arsenio Hall gum having punk!
HONEYS: Oooh! You let him call you Arsenio! Oooh!
LAWNGE: I want the tape!
JEFF: It's mine!
HONEYS: Oh, he played you! Jeff's getting played! Jeff! Jeff! Bodyslam
him, Jeff!
*
LAWNGE: Now! I've got the new De La Soul tape! Hey dicksnot,
buttcrust, get over here!
D.J. AUB: What's up baby?
MASE: Coolin'!
LAWNGE: I just got this De La Soul tape, man, slamming. Where's the
box? The box!
MASE: So, yo, let's get with the shilsnihilsnobilsno!
AUB: I got the bidox, let's do this like Brutus!
*
...28. For those who have all four answers correct, you will recieve
a specially selected Grand Prize. Thanks, and goodnight, for Three
Feet
High and Rising, this is Don Newkirk.
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De La Soul performs "Skit 1", and this lyric page sits inside the De La Soul catalog on LyroVerse.
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