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Artist: Missy Elliott
Canonical path: /missy-elliott/don-t-be-cruel
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Don't Be Cruel
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Don't Be Cruel
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Beenie Man: Zaga! Zaga Naga! You hear she moans? Boom!
Missy: (Moaning) Hey yo Monica, won't you help me
and Tim change this shit up again. Yeah! Hit em!
Monica: Yeah! Oh you turn me on, so boy don't lie.
I will never share you with no otha' bitches do don't try.
You all I want, like when Prince made "Doves Cry".
And all i'm sayin' to you is Don't Be Cruel!
Missy: (chorus) Yo baby pop, yeah you, come and give me a kiss.
Betta make it fast or else i'm gonna get pissed.
Don't you hear the music pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it, awwww, push it, push it real good!
Monica: No, dont get me wrong, that's just me.
I just want you to be all you can be like in the army.
Don't try to play me boy cuz i'm nobody's fool.
And all i'm sayin to you is Don't Be Cruel.
(Chorus)
Missy: Now, now now wait a minute ya'll.
(Awww, Push It)
This is for all the fly, sexy people.
(Awww, Push It)
So when I say get out on the floor, go to the floor.
(Aww, Push It)
Dance I said.
(Jamaican Beat Style Music Starts)
Beenie Man: GALA!
Run to me one and only bed.
Run man run catch ya red.
Girls, if ya holla, gimme head,
Call 9-1-1 cuz one more dead now!
Run to me one and only bed.
Run man run catch ya red.
I never knew ya love me like that,
Call 9-1-1 cuz one more dead now!
Drop them strings and lets get busy gal.
Hold on tight and don't get dizzy gal.
Sorry if you feel dizzy cuz i'm on me fizzy
and just woke up in a bedroom wizzy.
Oh you a rum rid bang the kitty yeah!
Like a magic like a third leg a pear.
Ready to explode ya front chair
Cuz I get my rep as the poonani engineer.
See you know you cant hold it off,
Early mornin' me knockin wit' cha!
Don't let me knock ya block wit' cha!
Cuz you just learned your lesson,
I'm no walk in the park yo...
The next time girl we drop them off,
Max em' out like me credit card.
You know that you take me a fraud,
Run wit me all the way to the Fitty Yard!
Run to me one and only bed.
Run man run catch ya red.
Girls, if ya holla, gimme head,
Call 9-1-1 cuz one more dead now!
Run to me one and only bed.
Run man run catch ya red.
I never knew you loved me like that,
Call 9-1-1 cuz one more dead now!
Missy: (chorus)
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