00:00The cast of, if not for my girls, Amber Riley and Raina Roberts and Lady London.
00:09Make some noise for them, y'all.
00:13What's up, what's up, y'all?
00:15Essence, how y'all feeling?
00:16Make some noise.
00:18How y'all doing?
00:20It's 30 years of Essence, and you know what that means?
00:22It's 30 years of culture.
00:24Amber, I want to try something real quick to see if they know the classics.
00:28Let's see what they know.
00:31I'm singing along.
00:32When I stop the track, everyone, you guys got to finish the lyrics, okay?
00:35Let's see how much y'all know about the classics.
00:37Y'all ready?
00:40Come on.
00:40I want to hear y'all.
00:44I don't know what it is that you're doing to me.
00:49Y'all can be louder than that, come on.
00:51I'm talking and acting in such a crazy way.
00:57Uh-huh.
00:58Whatever it is that you're doing to me, what you're doing to me.
01:04I hear y'all!
01:07It's a feeling that I want to stay.
01:14As my heart starts beating each triple time, with all the loving you on my mind.
01:21I can't figure out just what to do when the loving you on is you.
01:28I get so weak in the knees.
01:34I can hardly speak.
01:36I lose all control and something takes over me in a daze.
01:42Your love's so amazing, it's not a phase.
01:46I want you to stay with me by my side.
01:51I swallow my pride.
01:53I can't explain why your love is so sweet.
01:54Come on, y'all.
01:55Knocks me right off of my feet.
01:58I can't explain why your love makes me weak.
02:02I can't explain why your love makes me weak.
02:06All right, all right, all right, all right.
02:08Give it up for what's up!
02:10Yeah!
02:11We just getting started, y'all.
02:13I want to see where everyone is from.
02:15I'm from all the way from the West Coast.
02:17Amber, where are you from?
02:18I'm from Compton, baby!
02:20Let's do it, come on.
02:41I need so many auctions.
02:42I'm finna pass on the body.
02:43I'm John Stockton.
02:44Meet your *** out the Bible, if I'm watching.
02:49Sometimes you gotta pop out and ***.
02:51Certified buggy man.
02:52I'm the one that up the score with him.
02:54Walking down whole time.
02:55I know he got *** on him, poor on him, extors, bullied that throwing him.
02:58Say, Drake, I hear you like I'm young.
03:01You better not ever go to cell block one.
03:03To any *** to talk to him and they in love.
03:05Just make sure you hide your little sister from him.
03:08They tell me Chub's the only one that get your hand-medowns
03:10Downs and party at the party plan with his nose now and baca got a weird case where I see around
03:14certified lover boy certified pedophiles
03:17What that
03:19I'm gonna do my stuff
03:22Why you chilling like a
03:23Trying to strike a chord and it's probably a
03:26Oh, y'all really got it, y'all really got it
03:32Y'all went crazy
03:33Energy, energy, energy
03:36London, lady London
03:38Yeah, what's going on?
03:39Where are you representing?
03:41Let's go New York City, what's going on East Coast?
03:44If you're from New York, make some noise right now, come on
03:46Yeah
03:46This album is dedicated
03:48Let's see if y'all know your clients, come on, New York
03:51To all the people that live above the buildings that I was hustling from
03:54They called the police on me when I was just trying to make some money to feed my daughter
03:57Let's go
03:58And all the niggas in the struggle, you know what I'm saying?
04:00What you saying?
04:01It's all good, baby, baby
04:02Yo, what?
04:03New York, what up?
04:04It was all a dream
04:05I used to read Word Up magazine
04:07So I'm having heavy D up in a limousine
04:10Hangin' pictures on my wall
04:11Every Saturday, rap attack Mr. Magamorley Moore
04:14I let my tape rock till my tape pop
04:16Smokin' weed and bamboo, sippin' on private stock
04:19Way back when I had the red and black lumberjacks
04:22With the hats and masks
04:23Remember rapping D?
04:25The hard, the hard
04:26You never thought they hip-hop
04:27You make it this far
04:29Now I'm in the limelight cause I rhyme tight
04:31Time to get paid
04:32Blow up like the world train
04:34Born sinner
04:35The opposite of a winner
04:36Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner
04:38He's the broad G, Brucey B, kick it free
04:41Funk master flex like buck star skis
04:43I'm blown up like you thought I would
04:45Call a crib, same number, same hood
04:47It's all good
04:48Come on, let me hear y'all
04:50If you don't know, now you know
04:53What you saying?
04:54You know very well
04:56Who you are
04:58Don't let them hold you down
05:01Hey, hey
05:02Let them hold you down
05:03Come on
05:04Reach for the start
05:06Okay, the west
05:09The east coast is representing
05:10The west coast is representing
05:11We need to do down south
05:13Come on
05:14If you're from the south, make some noise right now
05:17Come on, y'all
05:19Y'all can be loud
05:20Raina
05:22Let's show them how we doing in the south
05:24Let's go
05:25I've been drinking
05:25I've been drinking
05:27Hey, if y'all know this song, y'all gotta sing
05:29I get filthy when I look, I get it to me
05:31I've been drinking
05:32Come on, let me hear her
05:33I've been drinking
05:34Why can't I keep my fingers off it, baby, I want to
05:39Nah, nah
05:41I've been drinking
05:42Hey
05:43Why can't I keep my fingers off it, baby, I want to
05:47Nah, nah
05:49Keep it going
05:50Keep it going
05:51Cigars on ice
05:54Cigars on ice
05:56Cigars on ice
05:56Come on
05:58Like an animal
05:59These cameras all in my grill
06:00Flashing lights
06:01Flashing lights
06:03What you say?
06:05You got me
06:05Fade it, fade it, fade it
06:07Baby, I want you
06:09Right now
06:11Hey
06:12Baby, I want you
06:16Nah, nah
06:17Oh, okay
06:22Y'all know the classics
06:24Y'all know the classics
06:25I love it
06:26Woke up in the kitchen
06:27Saying how the head did this shit happen
06:30Oh, baby
06:31Oh, baby
06:32I know
06:34We be all night
06:39Yeah
06:39Last thing I remember
06:42Is our beautiful bodies
06:44Grinding off in that club
06:45Yeah
06:46And drunk in love
06:49What you say?
06:50We be all night
06:53Love
06:54Yeah
06:56Love
06:58We be all night
07:00Love
07:01Hey
07:03Essence fans
07:07Y'all brought that energy tonight
07:09Give it up for the cast
07:11For if not my girls
07:13Lady London, Raina, and Amber
07:15Y'all
07:16Who's ready to see Usher tonight?
07:19Okay, okay
07:20Again, I come by the name of DJ Jada Boom
07:23We're here with Coke Studios
07:24Bringing the magic
07:25You guys have a good rest of your night
07:27And be safe, y'all
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