Tribe Called Quest, A - Butter Lyrics
[Verse One: Phife Dawg]
1988 Senior Year, Garvey High
Where all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly
Loungin with the Tipster, Coolin with Sha
I was the b-ball playin fly rhyme sayin
Fly girl gettin but never was I sweatin
Cause when it came to honeys I would go on a stroll
Until I met my match - her name was Flo
Yeah - I messed around with the one called Flo
All the troopers round the way used to call her a ho
But deep down in my heart I knew that Flo was good to go
Cause I thought it was me - like Bell Biv Devoe
But little did I know that she was playin' with my mind
The only thing I learned is, good girls are hard to find
Not someone who's mind is blank and tryin' to juice me for my bank
Swingin' with my main man Lucky behind my back
What type of crap is that - yo, hows about a smack?
Word life, I can't front - thought I was all that
But now it seems, I met my match
Was a stone cold lover, you couldn't tell me jack
Settlin' down with one girl, wasn't tryin' to hear that
I had Tonya, Tamika, Sharon, Karen
Tina, Stacy, Julie, Tracy
Used ta love 'em, leave 'em, skeeze 'em, tease 'em
Find 'em, lose 'em - also abuse 'em
My whole attitude was new day, next hon
And believe it or not, they all got done
Well here comes Flo, with the crazy whip appeal
And I'm all true man, like Alexander O'Neal
Is this really love, then again, how would I know
After all this time tryin' to be a superhoe
She finally played me, but yo, I'd find another
Cause I got the crazy game and yo, I'm smooth like butter
[Chorus: Q-Tip]
Butter, like butter baby . . . [x2]
Not no Parkay, not no margarine,
Strickly butter baby, strictly butter
[Verse Two: Phife Dawg]
I remember when,
Girls were goodie two shoes, but now they turned to freaks
Allofasudden "We love you Phife" - ease of ho, my name's Malik
Phife this, Phife that, where you goin', where you at
These girls don't know me from jack, yet I feel like the Mack
You didn't want me then, so hon, don't want me now
Here, Here - take the towel, wipe off your brow
And take the Ccontact out your eye, you're far from lookin' fly
You get an E for effort, and T for nice try
Now tell me what's the reason, for dyin' your hair
Slum village gold still danglin in your ear
You barely have a neck but still sportin' a rope
Four-finger ring just so Phifer can scope
You looked in the mirror, didn't know what to do
Yesterday your eyes were brown but today they are blue
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true
And if you really loved yourself then you would try and be you
If your hair and eyes were real, I wouldn't have dissed ya
But since it was bought, I had to dismiss ya
If you can't achieve it, then why not try and weave it
If you can't extend it then you might as well suspend it
If you can't braid it, best thing to do is fade it
I asked who did your hair and you tell me "Diane made it"
If you were you and just you, talk to you, maybe
But I can't stand, no bionic lady
Tryin' hard to look fly, but yo, you're lookin' dumber
If I wanted someone like you I woulda swung with Jamie Summers
You wanna be treated right, see Father MC
Or check Ralph Tresvant, for sens-a-tiv-i-ty
See I am not the one, I got more game than Parker Brothers
Phife Dog is on the mic and I'm smooth like Butter . . .
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Tribe Called Quest, A Butter Comments
Back then my co worker used to always ask me to recite the last 4 bars of this song. He just like the way the song flowed he was white dude cool as shit tho RIP phife!!
Best shit ever so hard man
I in the Capital Center Dc 91 freaken shorty when this dropped 50 now damn still crank Don Zaccuri!
1988 high school ✂️📓✏️
running through this whole album and Q-Tip's production is mesmerizing so far
DmX got what these bitches want from the great phifDog an I see where kanye West gets his productions from wordLife
This new world is full of bionic ladies
According to that last verse, if Phife was still around he would have loved a woman like me. I suspended my hair, my eyes are natural and I don't do makeup. I'm no bionic lady!
It's like Butter!!!
The best forgotten song about tribe called...
This sample Growing Up was a blessing. I still Remember how proud I was when I found the root of this beat...not having the proper words for it, I always wanted to say it was like something else, but nah I knew them what I know now, “its was like Butter.”
If I’m being honest I haven’t listened to tribe in an amount of time that I shouldn’t have, I must come back to these Jazz originators that opened up a path in Hip Hop that would help me love growing up
More thn 2 decades later and still sounds just as amazing as it was in the 90s
Damnn that instrumental at 3:18 tho
I'm also an all true man like Alexander o'neal.
Wheather Report Fine and Young brought me here...great sample
The production!!!!
not no parkay not no margarine strictly butter
was this the first song where the MC went down a laundry list of girls names? I think so .. of course, we also can't forget DMX's list of names on What They Really Want ft. Sisquo
No Too Short Freaky Tales much longer list of names
Dedicated to all them Snap Chat filter using sluts.
This is when Tribe and Phife got all the way 100 rounded and made me want more Phife centric joints even though Tip is an underappreciated genius for making all those timeless beats...
Psychedelic Funky Hip Hop
The beat is smoth like butter
Tun- tun -tuuuun
Tonia
Tameka
Sharron
Karen
Tina
Stacy
Julie
Tracy
“Believe it or not, they all got done”
LOVE IT TOO DEATH.
Man man man.....the sample! Classic cut
The Bass line is fucking crazy. Perhaps my favourite beat of all time. Q-Tip and Ali are crazy good
Classic album indeed!
RIP Phife Dawg
STUCK IN 90'S AND 80'S ALWAYS
STILL PLAY IT TILL THIS DAY,BANGING IT RIGHT NOW
I forgot how great butter was
Real hip hop
Damn fall of 2008 Long Beach nights with my boy crusing
I had Tanya,Tameeka,Sharon,Karen,Tina,Stacey,Julie,Tracey, used to love em,leave em,skeez em,tease em,find em,lose em,also abuse em. 😎
One of the most original groups in hip hop. Everything they make is classic material. When you wanna just chill and vibe and leave out all of the negative shit, throw in some quest music.
I wish I can rap like this😣
That beat has always got me whilst listening to this Gem....Rest in peace Phife Dawg you are missed!
R.I.P. PHIFE DOG AND R.I.P HIP HOP
HIP-HOP JAZZ
One of my fav songs by ATCQ
Classic!!!!
Its 2017, but I will always continue to listen to A tribe Called Quest. A ll of there songs are classic. They are legends in the music industry. Long live the Quest!!!
True life,,
A Tribe Called Quest's Butter song is a classic. Phife Dawg is funny dissing black women LOL. The Low End Theory album is a classic. Album cover sucks LOL. I like the album pictures inside the cd. RIP Phife Dawg. I miss you. I love A Tribe Called Quest.
Keith Witcher funny, it's consider the greatest hip hop album cover of all time.
HATE the album cover?? Buggin out
That's funny because the album cover is terrible LOL.
I'm not bugging out. The Low End Theory album cover sucks LOL.
Best cover NAS 1st
BUTTER BABY! My favorite Phife track, this was my go to right here!
MATPAT: like butta ronnie, like butta!
Which video is that
You DID it WALTER
It sucks nobody can make music like this anymore
What happened to rap?
Phife became OFFICIAL with this cut!!
HeruOfKemet
That's crzy talk, cussz your mental!
#CHURCH
The first ATCQ song I ever got into! R.I.P. Phifey!
Yooo Me too. I just got put on a couple days ago
this whole album bleeds hip hop the real hip hop aka rap
That's truth too my bad
Chase Blackman please don't pay people like that any mind, of course it's a hip hop album.
Black Messiah It's not though.
Yeah sure John Currence, A Tribe Called Quest isn't a hip hop group either right? Lmfao get outta here!
John Currence Lmao on what planet, is Any of Tribe’s album
that album Where The Five foot assassin is born
You know it
classic
The chorus is what the NBA should play when they show slow-mo 3 pointers before going to commercials
delaronpal why was I thinking this same thing!?
Or for a Lexus LS460 driving commercial.
I knew I recognized this tune from somewhere 😂😅
The nba is over zone no punctuation needed
delaronpal I can picture that
this nigga raekwon parker lmao
levi taylor I swear he comments like 4 times on each song in this album
RIP PHIFE DIGGGTY
a tribe called quest butter is a good song
Raekwon Parker WTF is wrong with u 7 comments on one vid
no shit genius
a tribe called quest butter Baby
a tribe called quest butter by q tip
a tribe called quest butter is a rap song
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh really? I thought it was country, thanks for telling me this
i feel like there's a reason this comment has a lot of likes.......
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I agree
Raekwon Parker it’s actually a Jazz/hip hop song haha
a tribe called quest butter
a tribe called quest butter is a great song
a tribe called quest butter baby
a tribe called quest butter is a good song
a tribe called quest butter
She finally played me but yo I'd another,
Cause I got the crazy game and I'm smooth like butter👌🏾🔥 favorite tribe song 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
R.I.P. Phyfe Dawg 2016
Rip Phife
R.I.P phife dawg
JASON VALENTINE phife dawg vs grand puba? Who was the best NY MC?
RIP Phife You had the Crazy Game you were Smooth as Butter
Lighters in the air for Phife. R.I.P.
Rip Phife Dog
the hook is hypnotic
Beats x Rhymes x Life on my life !
Beats x Rhymes x Life i was about to write that about the beat
Tun tun tuuum
Dope
One of the best in hip-hop history ; it kills me that the loop is so short both times we hear it
favorite song of all time