this is not a love ballad but it is a slow song

(?) tell you 'bout this girl i know well this girl i used to know

her name's

makeba

makeba

sweet makeba

makeba

makeba

yo how you doin' baby it's been a long time

haven't seen you in a couple of years and the last i heard you lost

your mind

well how you been who you been with how's it been goin'

still into hip hop are you still flowin'

oh yeah that's cool

we should kick back maybe have a session

i remember you tellin' me you had to get away couldn't stay another

day

in the life of L.A. in the city

that's peace

yo where you been China Africa Greece

least you coulda dropped me a letter or a phone call

let me know you was all right

your friends and your family and they kept tellin' me

makeba disappeared in the night

now i know that you had big dreams makeba

but i had big dreams too

and all this time you were searchin' makeba

did any your dreams come true

i remember i used to be down for you and you was down for me

i had your back and you had my back makeba

i wanted you to be my g

makeba

yo you know i got another girl after that right

she kinda looked like you too a little bit

sweet makeba

yo why don't you just come to the crib you know

we could listen to some music talk about things

ooh i see you're not a young girl anymore and you're all grown up

and you been around the world

wanna see what life's gonna offer you it's your young world and it's

all for

you

you probably got a man in every country that wants you

like i wanted you but you didn't want that

remember how we used to make love makeba

'member how you loved it when i hit it from the back

makeba

i had love for you

i had wanted you

i had needed you

i remember comin' to your house seven in the morning

ready for school but we didn't even go

it was right back to my house where we kissed liked kids

and we jumped in the bed and you know

i loved makin' love to my makeba

she was like my queen of Sheba

i remember how we used to smoke chiba

oh you don't smoke no more well that's cool

well everybody gotta stop sometime

i remember one time when you hid my stash and saved my ass from the

one time

i remember some fools tried to jump me and you jumped up before

anybody did

we used to say if and when we get married we'll have kid after kid

after kid

after kid

after kid after kid after kid after kid after kid

damn that's a lot of kids

makeba

sweet makeba

i had love for you

i had wanted you

i had needed you

how i loved makin' love to my makeba

well remember how the whole crew used to hang tough

well everybody's doin' they thang and stuff

and everybody's still actin' like they know

and a few more people ain't w/us no mo'

oh me i'm just chillin'

makin' my music livin' and buildin'

tryin' to make a million out this little ol' dime and this nickel

and lickin' lickle shots for the prophets we forgot

but other than that i'm glad you back on deck

i expect to see you in the near future

if you wanna just sit and chat talk about the good old days

good old times what was in style what's goin' on now

cause it has been a while

makeba

honey girlfriend

left in a whirlwind put a brother in a tailspin

just twirlin'

had a few laughs and kicks

but me and my clique don't be trippin' no tricks

i still got a piece of me to give you

you still got a piece of you to give me

you listenin' but you don't hear me

we can pick up right where we left at but

i gotta be me and you gotta accept that

i just wanna be homies

cause i ain't got love like Monie

cause soon as you got close you got ghost

and you tried to leave Acey 'lone-y

so hook up w/me if you can cool

but you know i know what you get loose to

and if you play your cards right get your shit tight

then we might be down like we used to

makeba