Examination of What

[Intro: Butterfly]
One day, uh, while I was sippin' some groove juice
I realized that in the span of time, we're just babies
It's all relative, time is unreal
We're just babies, we're just babies, man
We're just babies, we're just babies, man
We're just babies, we're just babies, man
We're just babies, we're just babies, man (Check out the, check out the, check out)

[Verse 1: Butterfly]
Every man's a planet and the props are there to get it
Insects roll together with the spirit in our orbit
Life, it comes and goes and you do not punch a clock
I don't take shit for granted, I think of Scott La Rock
Also of Tyrel and the battles at the borders
My cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin' quarters
The forests are all shrinkin', this deepens to my thinkin'
Don't cover up the nappy, be happy what you're kinkin'
Dwellin', yes, you're dwellin' as the norm is itty-bitty
Figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city
In the Serengeti, get ready for a box
But beware of the shanks and the pistols and the Glocks
If your peoples don't get ya, you still ain't off clean
The politicians mask is worse than Halloween
I think the funky scripts so you know I gots to kick 'em
Now tell me who's the vics and tell me who's the victim

[Chorus: Butterfly]
So what is really what
If the funk don't move your butt
And if the box don't make you hot
And if the cats don't dig the raps
If your life ain't got no spice
Or if the guns just wreck your fun
Or if some shouts ain't in the house
Or if your crew ain't down with you

[Bridge: Ladybug, Doodlebug]
Peace, this is Mecca the Ladybug and I'm sayin' though
What is really what if I can't even get comfortable
'Cause the Supreme Court is, like, all in my uterus?
Peace, this is Cee-Know the Doodlebug and I wanna say
What is what if you can't walk through your hood
Without Bert, Ernie, and the Sesame Street mosse
Tryna give the Snuffleupagus?

[Verse 2: Butterfly]
My father taught me jazz, all the peoples and the anthem
Ate peanuts with the Dizz and vibed with Lionel Hampton
Now I'm swimmin' deep in the hip-hop with eclectics
Now do we gots the power or is it gettin' hectic?
Scribble swings the paddle at the mantel where I placed it
Hip-hop grew from roots, but some emcees never traced it
The old-jacks buck wild and some babies bore their fists
But the crew from outer space is here, shit
We grew up diggin' styles of the fabulous fifth Freddy
And scopin' out for days crazy legs and rocksteady
Now bleach is in the laundry, the same old beats is handy
The label may okay it, but radio won't play it
The censors are about, so watch your mouth, close your drapes
The legs that's in the boots is on the corner with your tapes
Makin' papes off the crust, for money and for lust
You're playin' out the planets, get slammed, trust
You think it, see it, run it, and slam it
They peep it, hear it, lynch it, and ban it
It just ain't the haps if they know they can't control it
Your grass be in the joint, but they licked it and rolled it
So what?

[Chorus: Butterfly]
I'm sayin' what is really what
If the funk don't rule your cut
Or if the streets don't dig your beats
Or if my man ain't fifty grand
Or if the hoods don't think you're good
Or if your church don't really work
Or if the pigs wanna knock your wigs
Or if the jeeps don't roll with beats

[Refrain: Butterfly, Doodlebug, Ladybug]
'Cause Butterfly is a baby, I'm just a baby, man
I'm just a baby, I'm just a baby, man
I'm just a baby, I'm just a baby, man
And Mr. Doodle? (I'm just a baby too)
And Miss Mecca (I'm just a baby, man)
And Mister Silk, he's just a baby, too
And 801s, they just babies, man
And Miss Venus, she's just a baby, man
The ac-facts, they just babies, man
And DPS, they just babies, too
Oh, and Dash, she's just a baby, man
Danny and Dani, they are my babies, man
Oh, and Liz, she's just a baby, man
Oh, and Stella, she's just a baby too
Doc Shane, he's just a baby, man
Mike Mann, he's just my main man
And Doctor Timba, he's just a baby, man
And nappy Jackie, she's just a baby, too
Beneficent, he's just a baby, man
Oh, and you, you're just a baby, man

[Outro: Ladybug, Doodlebug, Butterfly]
Ladybug here, y'all, with Silver Tongue, nice cold drums
With eyes open wide and open pride which lies inside
The Digable Planets' eyes
Peace, this is Cee-Know, the notorious Doodlebug
Givin' universal salutations to my peoples
Dwellin' in the seventh dimension
I, uh, Brother Butter, and
Uh, it was really fun, uh, sector six, here I come
Chillin' out, pops and Dani, I'm out, later