arrested development
the gettin
Aw yeah What I like the brothers and sisters In the audience to do right about now Including y'all in the back I want you to snap your fingers like this, c'mon, c'mon Aw, c'mon, I know y'all got rhythm, c'mon Everybody snap your fingers like this Every single soul, c'mon Aw, what's goin' on right about here is center stage It's about a brotha, it's what a brotha does When he's gettin' ready for a date, ha ha, yeah My mom likes to call it 'The Gettin'' She calls it 'the getting'' because the brotha's gettin' slick Gettin' ready, gettin' snazzy Gettin' prepared for a dinner And gettin' prepared for an even mo' betta dessert If you understand what I'm talking about? I think this sista and brotha know What I'm talking about, check this out Gettin' jazzy, gettin' snazzy, alright But you probably ain't gettin' it on, oh yeah Brotha man, brotha man Brotha man thinks he's gonna knock boots tonight You know what I'm talkin' about? I think brotha man think he's gonna Do the nasty tonight, alright? I think brotha man thinks he's gonna Umm, hit the skins tonight If you know what I'm talking about, alright I said, "Yo baby, yo baby, yo baby, yo uh", yeah Ah, but the sistas ain't down With that type of stuff no mo', you see They decided, yo We ain't gotta have materialism type of stuff We want somethin' mo' than that Am I right sistas? Ah yeah, so you know, um Brotha man is wearing the most expensive clothes The most expensive watch The most expensive Calvin Klein jeans And all those type of thang But the sistas don't give a dang Because a sista's got her own thang goin' on She wants a real man, you know what I'm talking about, yeah Well, I tried to tell the brotha I said, "Brotha man, sistas don't want that type Of thang in the black community anymore" We lookin' for somethin' a little bit deeper Gettin' jazzy, gettin' snazzy But you probably ain't gettin' it on Oh, gettin' jazzy, gettin' snazzy But you probably ain't gettin' it on And all the brotha had to really do was to be upset