Digable Planets — Its Good to be Here

[Intro] Here they are [Verse 1: Butterfly] The ticky-ticky buzz, the sun wakes the sky I fumble through my fuzz and buzz Mister I Tell him scoop the beats in the flying saucer kit Meet me at the port with the nickel bags and shit Told my pops I'm out, earthbound with the crew He said, "Butterfly, may the boogie be with you" Left my moms a note with these quotes on the trunk It says, "I split to Earth to resurrect the funk" A dozen Snapple pops and a little box of eats Travellin' through space with the funky, funky beats Stopped at Pluto to cop some petrol Met some Klingons and got our things on Cruising Warp Six with Mister Wiggles in the mix Hendrix passin' P, Star Child get the fix The saucer shook the heavens with the blooms and the blams Because when we hit New York, shazam We droppin' like a comet and this Vulcan tried to Spock it These Martians tried to do it, but knew they couldn't cop it The others from our brother planet lands in the flesh From up in Sector Six, yes, y'all [Verse 2: Doodlebug, Ladybug, & Both] And it's good to be here when we landed up on Lex Stirrin' up the ground with the sound of Doug E. Fresh And the hard rocking kids that did it for the black With the Pumas on their feet and the bombers on their back We learned it and we earned it, so you know you got to hand it We planned it when we left, how to freak it and to slam it Add a Ladybug, transformation is complete For the metamorphosis from the box to the Jeep And it's good to be here, gettin' fly with the raps We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at Bumpin' out with somethin' that pops and transcends DPs, baby, it's slim, but not thin In amongst the pebbles, we rocks on your blocks Soakin' in the ghetto for kids that have not Slappin' on some skin, when we slam, check the cheers So we greet their virgin ears with a kiss It's so good to be here [Bridge: All] We jazz up the streets to prove we have beats Fat jazz, fat styles, and the sound so sweet And there ain't no doubt that you got to check Doodle, Silk, Butter, Mecc It's so good to be here [Verse 4: Butterfly] Yeah, baby, that's the style The jazz can fill a club or papers by the pile Just ask toy soldier, toy soldier could have told you At the boomin' funk hut, it was the afro with the butt So to the flam lovers that crowd in dark spots To see 'em kick that lingo and grip that little crotch Now we have arrived with crazy boogie sounds Get yourself a mate, today's to boogie down This is all we know, you feel it when we slams You can hear the love, it comes out in our jams The hip-hop digging cats just delivering the words From the ghetto-dwelling youth, to the bourgies in the burbs [Outro: All] And it's good to be here, it's good to be here It's good to be here, yeah, it's good to be here It's good to be here, it's good to be here It's good to be here, yeah, it's good [Skit: Butterfly, Ladybug] Good evening, insects Humans too The Cocoon Club is pleased to present to you tonight, a new band Straight from Sector Six And the colorful ghettos of outer space They're some weird motherfuckers, but they do jazz it up So let's bring 'em out here, yeah Uh, thank you, thank you, word, cross Ever since I was a caterpillar I dreamed of, you know, slamming up Earth, so we're gonna try to do it tonight Let me introduce you to the insects, the players to you On life, my main man, this cat is bad, check him out C-Know, the Doodlebug, alright On wide grooves, Silkworm On vibes— What? What? Yo, chill, man I don't even know you, man, what you talking about? Yo, bring it back, bring it back, right now Yeah, as I was saying, on vibes, waves, and feelings, the Ladybug, Miss Mecc, yeah Yeah, on P's and pleasing poetry And on thoughts and tongue, and a little bit of actions, yours truly, Mister Butterfly The mind is time, the mind is space A horn rush, a bass flush, for minds to taste So sit back, enjoy the set Yeah The mind is time, the mind is space A horn rush, a bass flush, for minds to taste The mind is time, the mind is space A horn rush, a bass flush—