Boom! Shake the Room

Album: Code Red (1993)
Charted: 1 13
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  • Yo back up now and give a brother room
    The fuse is lit and I'm about to go boom
    Mercy mercy mercy me
    My life is a cage but on stage I'm free

    Hyped up syched up ready for wil'in'
    Standing in a crowd of girls like an island
    I see the one I want to sic come here cutie
    I flip 'em around and then I work that booty

    Work the body work work the body
    Slow down girl you're 'bout to hurt somebody
    Oh and yo let's get just one thing clear
    There's only one reason why I came here

    Ya really done want me to tig-a-tig-a-tig-a tell ya wassup (go)
    Ya really done want me to tig-a-tig-a-tig-a tell ya wassup (go)
    Ya really done want me to tig-a-tig-a-tig-a tell ya wassup (go)
    I came here tonight to hear the crowd go

    [Chorus]
    Boom! shake-shake-shake the room
    Boom! shake-shake-shake the room
    Boom! shake-shake-shake the room
    Tic-tic-tic-tic Boom!
    Well yo are y'all ready for me yet
    (pump it up prince)
    Well yo are y'all ready for me yet
    (pump it up prince)
    Well yo are y'all ready for me yet
    (pump it up prince)
    Well here I go here I go here I here I go

    Yo
    Dance in the aisles when the prince steps to it
    The rhyme is a football y'all and I went and threw it
    Out in the crowd and yo it was a good throw

    How do I know? because the crowd went hoooo
    In response to the way that I was kicking it
    Smooth and individual
    Rhymes always original

    Like the Dr. Jekyl man and this is my Hyde side
    I am the driver and you're on a rap ride
    So fellas (yeah)
    Are y'all wit me (yeah)

    I said fellas (yeah)
    Are y'all wit me (yeah)
    Why don't you tell the girls what y'all want to do
    Ya want to ooh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh--ooooh

    That's right yo and I'm in the flow
    So pump up the volume along with the tempo
    I want everybody in the house to know
    I came here tonight to hear the crowd go

    [Chorus]

    Pump it pump it come on now [Repeat: x5]

    Yeah, come on now

    [Chorus]

    Here I go
    The the f-f-f-f-fresh p-p-p-prince is who I am
    So tell my mother that I never wrote a whack jam
    But some times I get n-nervous and start to stutter

    And I f-fumble every word for word I utter
    So I just try to ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chill
    But it gets worse-a but worse-a but-but-but worse still
    I need the see-see-see-crowd to k-k-k-kick into it

    They help me calm down and I can get through it
    So higher higher
    Get ya hands to the ceiling
    Let it go y'all don't fight the feeling

    Mic in a strangle hold sweat pourin'
    And like Jordan yo I'm scoring
    Yeah that's right y'all and I am in the flow
    So pump up the volume along with the tempo

    Many have died tryin' to stop my show
    I came here tonight to here the crowd go

    [Chorus] Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Eric from Beaverton, OrIt says some of the lyrics of this song weren't very believable coming from Will Smith. I think his song "You Saw My Blinker" is worse, and seems too out of character for Will Smith.
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