The Jungle - Pharoahe Monch

Southside, you know we living in the jungle

Brook’nam, you know we living in the jungle

See them gorillas over there in the park, them my niggas

After dark we get sparked up and pull triggers

You gotta speak orangutan slang or pull capers

The cops are the cheetahs and the trees are the skyscrapers

See in the jungle we often rumble for loot

Some of us just stumble around high off the booze, shoot

You get shot, shit

Play humble like last year when the cheetahs tried to catch my uncle

When you come through, you could get bumped too

If you don’t got at least 4 to 5 gorillas amongst you

The bigger tree hit 'em shocked and amazed

41 shots hot, take you out in the blaze

And if not, they ship your ass to the Bronx in a cage

Into the island where you spend your time counting the days

But still agriculturally, it’s kind of ill, we blow mills

They make a killing and build new lands in the jungle

Shaolin, you know we living in the jungle

Chi-town, you know we living in the jungle

Westside, you know we living in the jungle

I tell these chimpanzees who be carrying tools

You don’t wanna invest your life in a cesspool

Pharmaceutical distributin', breaking the rules

You need to take your monkey ass off to school

And learn about Botswana, Sudan and Ghana

Mozambique and speak of pride and honor

I understand sometimes we all feel fenced in

But utilize your mind to define dimensions

Just then I lost the little monkey’s attention

As he stared into the distance focusing and squinting at a

Beautiful gazelle that was grazing in the grass with

Muscular legs and a rhinoceros ass

But in the least case scenario I did try to tell him

Hit him with some signs that was a little compelling

Little gibbon on a mission, not unlike Magellan

What you caught was some felons, crimes and drug selling in the jungle

Yo, Ghana, you know we living in the jungle

Cape Town, you know we living in the jungle

Jo-burg, you know we living in the jungle

I’m talking epileptic episodes off that Epinephrine

That Albuterol and them other prescribed medicines

A zombie in insomnia frecking the Amphetamines

My moms had me smoking weed from the Netherlands at age 13

Broke apart the scene, a lot of moist weed that was sticky and green

See in the 80's it was wine-coolers and woolies

The Facts of Life, crack, David Dinkins and toolies

Mike Jack said «kick me, kike me, Jew me»

Now all the white chicks in the world got booties

He rap by popular demand

And a nigga nosey on some Toucan Sam shit

You not Florida A&M, you not fam, dawg

That would be (Marco), that’s my man

For biceps I isolate with one hand

For triceps I do reps with dip sets, but not Cam

Scandal, governors busted, got damn

Power to the people unite with one plan

I used to write about green eggs and ham

'Til I found out the Food and Drug Administration was a scam

Now we steam vegetables, brown, forget the white rice

My life is all I have, studying zeitgeist

Lyrics bang now and again, sing like the Chi-Lites

It’s my right to use my power to shine my light

To function, you know the function

Yo, Pharoahe Monch, what’s your motherfucking function?

I go to Queens for queens, I eat organic in Brooklyn

Swing on a vine over the swine and keep 'em shook

And take the anaconda through the tunnels

Through the Mecca where the piranha try to ball and style on the persona

You know I keep it on the low like an iguana

When the monikers never leave the crib without the llama in the.