Be Yourself - Whodini, Millie Jackson

Grandmaster Dee

If you please

Be yourself

I’m not rocking this jam to insult nobody

This one goes out to the carbon copies

So take a stand, as quick as ya can

If ya plan ain’t working then change that plan

If you wanna be a loser, that’s up to you

Just don’t be a loser ‘round me and my crew

Before you find yourself, picking up ya self

With no one to blame beside yourself

Be yourself

You gotta be yourself

You must think my head screws off and on

But see people like you don’t live too long

You think you’re a ladies man but you’re not

To tell the truth — you’re the joke of the block

Your hair’s fried and dyed, pressed to the side

You think you’re Billy Dee drinking Colt 45

Mimicking and imitating somebody else

If you wanna hang with me, you gotta

Be yourself

I said you’ve got to be yourself

When you were young, you wanted to be president

Sometimes, I wonder where those dreams went

Those thoughts that you had were dreams of the past

Speedballers get a ticket for moving too fast

You’re living the wild life and nothing to gain

Getting busy Lover Lenny was your neighborhood name

You think you’re at the top of every girl’s roster

You’re not Billy Dee

But you’re more like Alfalfa

(You know what I mean)

Be yourself

Fake fingernails, ponytails down to the floor

You said that you bought ‘em so I guess that they’re yours

Grace Jones one minute, Chaka Khan the next

Selling hair everywhere 20 dollars an inch

When I seen you today it was a helluva surprise

Yesterday I didn’t notice that you had green eyes

Everytime I see you you’re face looks strange

You’re like Sybil, everyday your personality change

Be yourself

You got ta be yourself

Hit me

Hit me again

Don’t hit me no damn mo'

You say you got yourself together but I’m calling your bluff

When you gonna learn that enough is enough?

If he jumped off the bridge, would you do that too?

Monkey see, monkey do, why don’t you be you?

You see everybody can’t be in front of the line

So why ya always wanna tag behind

Went to school all ya life and got a W. B

A diploma in school for a wanna be

Be yourself

Be yourself

You got ta got ta be yourself

Got dammit, be yourself