[ INTRO ]

Excuse me

Due to the fact you spend sleepless nights in the company of no one

Holding on to a pillow, waiting for a phone call from your man

Saying he'll be late again

The question is:

Is he out there working to make himself a better brother?



[ Yo-Yo ]

Ah-ah, I tell you what it is:

Girl, you're gettin played like a sucker!



(Don't be)



This is for the men who like to dog women

And this is for the women who like to get dogged by men

And this is for Ice Cube and Jinx

Because those brothers know they some dogs

Ha!



Here's a message to the ladies

Married, single and even the ones with babies

Listen to YoYo once again

As I conversate about ways of men

In your life, girl, keep an open mind

And you'll find a lie in each and every line

They say, "Hah, sure we're from the new school"

What I'm tryin to say is, girl, don't be no fool



(Don't be)

(Don't be)(3x)



(Stand up and fight

for your rights)



Girl, you're gettin played like a sucker

I know it's none of my business

But what the hell is this?

Lettin a guy get the best of you?

But here we go, YoYo is to the rescue

Cause you see, I'm more than a softie

I'm here to open your eyes, so you can smell the coffee

Guys ain't nothin but dirt

And they'll flirt with anything dressed in a mini-skirt

You know your man's cheatin while you're sleepin

He's leavin your side to start creepin

But you pretend like you don't see the man

I heard love is blind - but damn..

You can read it in brailles and still tell without a bright light

That somethin ain't right

You kow that he's sleepin with this girl and that girl

I even saw your man with a fat girl

But you know, two can play at that game

He's got another on the side, do the same

Bein in love is cool (true)

But I'ma tell you like this: girl, don't be no fool



(Don't be)

(Don't be)(3x)



(Stand up and fight

for your rights)



Hey Denise, girl, how you doin, how you - wait

Wait a minute -

Homegirl, what's up with the black eye?

(Ehm - I fell) Hah, now that's a damn lie

The man you got is just bad for your health

You can lie to me, but not to yourself

So when you gonna leave him?

(But he says that he loves me) Hah, and you believe him?

(Yeah) And then you let him sock you? (hm-hm)

And after he says I'm sorry you let him knock you?

Get rid of that sucker, girl, pick a winner

Instead of gettin beat by a chicken dinner

You ain't supposed to be hit (you're right)

And any man that hits a girl ain't shit

I'm tryin to tell you, but I thought you knew it

Cause right about now you're goin stupid for cupid

But cupid ain't the ones gettin knocked around

Socked around by a low-down clown from uptown

So what you're gonna do to the creep?

If I was you, I would wait until he fall asleep

And I'd show him what time it is

Tie him down and his behind is mine

Show him he can get beat before you beat it

Tell him to treat you the way you wanna be treated

If that don't work, break out of your door

But don't certainly let him hit you, girl, don't be no fool



(Yeah, the IBWC is like in here!

But YoYo got somethin else to say)



Nowadays I guess men just think they can take advantage of a woman

But that's when you have to come in and show the man

If he can't get none of you

You're just a woman just like he a man



Here's a message to the ladies

Married, single and even the ones with babies

Listen to YoYo once again

As I conversate about ways of men

In your life, girl, keep an open mind

And you'll find a lie in each and every line

They say, "Hah, sure we're from the new school"

What I'm tryin to say is, girl, don't be no fool



(Don't be)

(Don't be)(3x)

Don't be no fool



(Don't be)

(Don't be)(3x)

Girl... don't be no fool



Brother, you have to protect and respect the black woman

(On a serious tip)



(Everybody plays the fool)