- Song Name: Ladies First
- Artist Name: Queen Latifah
- Album: All Hail the Queen
- Songwriters: Anthony Peaks, Antoinett Johnson Simone, Dana Owens, Mark Howard James, Shane Harbin Faber
- Release Date: 1989.11.01
- Label: Tommy Boy
LYRICS FOR "Ladies First"
The ladies will kick it the rhyme that is wicked
Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted
A woman can bear you break you take you
Now it's time to rhyme can you relate to
A sister dope enough to make you holler and scream
Ayo let me take it from here Queen excuse me but I think I'm about do
To get into precisely what I am about to do
I'm conversating to the folks that have no whatsoever clue
So listen very carefully as I break it down for you
Merrily
Pleased with all the beats and rhymes my sisters have employed
Slick and smooth throwing down the sound totally a yes
Let me state the position
Yeah
Believe me when I say being a woman is great
I know all the fellas out there will agree with me
Not for being one but for being with one
Because when it's time for loving it's the woman that gets some
Strong
Rhyming
We are the ones that give birth
To the new generation of prophets because it's ladies first
I break into a lyrical freestyle
Grab the mic
'Cause they see a woman standing up on her own two
Sloppy slouching is something I won't do
Some think that we can't flow stereotypes
I'm a mess around and flip the scene into reverse
With what? With a little touch of ladies first
Who said the ladies couldn't make it
If you don't believe
Ladies first
I'm divine and my mind expands throughout the universe
A female rapper with the message to send the
Queen Latifah is a perfect specimen
My sister
Sure
Yo
Born in L O N D O N and sound American
You dig exactly where I'm coming from
You want righteous rhyming
To enable you to aid yourself and get paid
And the material that has no meaning I wish to slay
Pay me every bit of your attention
Like mother
I wish for you to bring me to
Of which is now systematically given
Desperately stressing I'm the daughter of a sister
Who's the mother of a brother who's the brother of another
Plus one more
Respect due
And next up is me
And I'm first cause I'm a L A D I E
Contact and in fact
Cooling on the scene with my European partner
Laying down track after track
When I get there
The next man
It doesn't make a difference
And I'll recite the chapter in verse
The title of this recital is "Ladies First"
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