The Ladies

(album: My Own Thing - 2003)

What's up, girls?
Don't act like I ain't seen you
This goes out to all the ladies
Manafest
Strictly love, though, love, yeah

All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Respect yourself, and you know
All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Use your stuff, beautiful

Ayy yo, the ladies got us tripping, right?
Messing with the moms, I'm looking in the wrong place, the wrong time
I close my eyes, turn and walk right by
This is one inch thick with a six inch thigh
Yo, hold on, Calvin Klein
Your sexy designs don't make the women shine
You got beauty on the inside, girl, that's class
You're a star, you don't need to flash that
Back in the day your dad would have collapsed
Accepted by your culture now, guess that's a fact
I'ma move my way, say what I gotta
Respect the ladies, put some clothes on her
How can I pretend to not notice when
Your skin's hanging out, men are dropping their mouths
Get out your district, your chicks and your booties
Come back rocking baggy jeans and a hoodie

All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Respect yourself, and you know
All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Use your stuff, beautiful

Yeah, you can't frown with a woman like that, word
Can't complain when your woman's full stats, huh?
When she come, where she go? Yo, I don't know
All I'm asking is she put on some clothes
You ever see the side chick you want to talk with?
Everything was cool until she started talking
You know what I'm saying, don't you, it's so true
Too wild our conversations got to go, dude
You know the answer's still no, it ain't happening
What your imagining and dressed like Mary Magdalene
Smelling like jazz make a man wanna repent
Too lust for ravish, and you was past tense
You know guys don't dig you for the size of your chest
They're walking an obsession with sex, and what's more
Is the real you, he won't take interesting
Your heart and soul is worthless, you're gold without the flesh
Society's perception, would you expect to always be reflecting in how you dress, no exceptions
I won't dish it out, but I know some who'll rip your heart out
Quicker than certain pictures in the nudie books
On your outer beauty, girl, I judge none
Temptation is as bad as falling into one

All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Respect yourself, and you know
All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Use your stuff, beautiful

Yeah, I see you vibe in your Steelo
'Cause on the real low you out for lack material
Use a 2003 version of Madonna
These guys are tripping on you? Call the stylist
Get a doctor, we need to cover up not your face can though
Your typical tight clothes visuals
Minimal dress codes affecting my mental
But on my head bone it says 'Yeah, I got to go'
Believe me, it ain't easy being a man
Just seeing my wife can spark a light in my glance
Girls, listen up, I won't call your name out
To all the ladies who came in, invaded my town
You don't know what we go through, do you?
You don't need to dress freak to be beautiful
God loves you the way you are, not your image
Stop listening, you're caught up, you need to switch up your thinking

All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Respect yourself, and you know
All the ladies in the place, can you hear me now?
All the women dressing wild, can you hold it down?
You need to switch up your style, girl
Use your stuff, beautiful