Pick up the phone, call up the line

Call up the request line

Call up the line

Call up the request line

na na na na na na na na na na

na na na na

Just call up the line

get down with us



--This is a request, Mr. Radio Man

Just one desire from a Hip-hop fan

Hey, DJ!

--You on the line, girl

--Hey, DJ!

--The request line, girl

--Play a record by my favorite band

--I like to hear my favorite song on the radio

So I call and request it on the radio

Tell the DJ spin on the LATEshow

Make a brother feel like I'm down at the disco

and we're gonna keep it goin like THIS THO

cause the DJ grab the record by the fist-full

by the crate-full and we grateful

when you hear the song from records that are tasteful

--last night a DJ saved my life

--cause that selection of the records he played

to the direction of the record we swayed

and all night thru the SESSION we stayed

cause you know you got me feelin

--all right

--Good God, I be feelin'

--all right

--IT'S SILLY what I'm feelin

--all right, now

--huh! and I be feelin

--all right

--don't stop keep it goin' down, c'mon

--This is a request, Mr. Radio Man

Just one desire from a Hip-hop fan

Hey, DJ!

--You on the line, girl

--Hey, DJ!

--The request line, girl

--Play a record by my favorite band

--turn table has blessed me on my stereo

play my favorite song on my stereo

like Macy Gray, Roots, and D'Angelo

Mos' Def, le Nubiance and De La Soul

I like them CUTS with the soul and original

NEVER afraid to be creative on your radio

spin my jam when I'm crusin' down the BARRIO

turn my audio up CREATE A PARTY-O

--Hey, DJ, won't you play my song

--and get