[ti:Cure （feat. Erykah Badu）] [ar:Papoose] [al:The Nacirema Dream] [offset:0] [00:00.47]Papoose - Cure feat. Erykah Badu [00:14.74]I was born in a human body, I'm deadly and dangerous [00:17.12]The way I decrease life quality is outrageous [00:20.08]But you don't gotta worry, I'm not contagious [00:22.77]I'm genetic, I travel through your family for ages [00:26.69]I could live in yo daughter, I could live in yo son [00:28.37]If you smoke cigarettes, I could live in yo lungs [00:31.11]I can develop in yo stomach and be that small [00:33.88]But I grow to the size of a basketball [00:36.52]Now you can ignore me and try to pass it on [00:39.51]You'll be a statistic, in the casket gone [00:42.12]I could be a sharp pain that you feel in yo spine [00:44.96]I can be a brain tumor on the back of yo mind [00:47.47]I'll even be in yo food if you eatin that swine [00:50.48]Don't go to the doctor so you never catch me in time [00:53.17]I done cause some strong men to lose they strength [00:55.80]Even cause some pretty women to lose they breaths [00:58.77]Only God know the cure and to whom he bless [01:01.90]Is the chosen, he choose the best [01:03.46]I'm a physical enemy, here to bring miserable treachery [01:04.97]I can affect him, her, they, you or them and me [01:09.77]But one small woman gotta checkup randomly [01:12.53]They burn me out of her body with chemo therapy [01:15.39]If you come late I'll deflate your energy [01:18.20]Take all of your hairt and erase your memory [01:20.87]I can shorten your life if you livin it long [01:23.18]Even took a black queen named Vivian Strong [01:25.18]If you don't go to the doctor that mean you support me [01:28.99]The only way to stop me is to catch me early [01:31.93]And gangstas who think I can't get in yo body [01:35.62]I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti [01:37.37]Have you had a checkup? If no is your answer [01:39.93]Them let me introduce myself, my name is cancer [01:42.99]He rides to it [01:46.81]Don't stress a lot [01:50.06]Put protection on [01:52.12]If he's in your home [01:54.06]He rides to it [01:57.81]Don't stress a lot [02:00.43]Put protection on [02:01.87]If he's in your home [02:04.87]The prettiest woman out here blows long in the wind [02:07.50]Even sip when she wasn't soft as her skin [02:10.56]Teeth look like ivory, pleasant as a beach [02:13.42]Breasts like 2 watermelons, ripe like a peach [02:15.93]On the outside, sexy as can be [02:18.75]But on the inside she's infected with me [02:21.75]She be up in every neighborhood, dead on the street [02:24.43]Give you her phone number, give you head in the V [02:27.12]And she don't like condom, she sex it for free [02:29.87]So if you ever met er get tested for me [02:32.49]Every single day I add names to my dying list [02:35.31]My epidemic is strong as an iron fist [02:37.94]You should check your body fluids, that's where I exist [02:40.56]Can travel through saliva, I hope you like to kiss [02:43.37]You can't get rid of me, you can cry and wish [02:46.12]It's no denying this, science says [02:48.31]He says I was born in Africa, but he's a lying bitch [02:51.06]I was born in the laboratory, my father's a scientist [02:54.25]You can't contact me if you walk in a bathroom [02:57.13]Or if you talk to your classmate in your classroom [03:00.00]You never see me coming, I'm smooth as a jazz tune [03:02.75]Not airborne, I pass moves [03:05.31]But you should make sure they clean the needle when you getting them tattoos [03:08.12]I'm the reason the word positive means bad news [03:10.88]Idiotic if you don't believe in me [03:13.25]Even took a great rapper named Easy E [03:16.63]If you have a lot of sex you should have some condoms [03:19.38]Cuz you could live with me, ask Magic Johnson [03:21.94]I enter your body with only one assumed mission [03:24.69]That's only to break down your immune system [03:27.69]Become sick easy cuz you not immune [03:30.38]And I can pass over through every open wound [03:33.07]So make sure you put a Band-Aid on your cut [03:35.57]Before you shake another man's hands sayin wussup [03:38.13]I'm physical and visible, you can't feel me [03:41.13]Medicine, I'm invincible, you can't kill me [03:44.19]AIDS is my name, don't get it wrong [03:46.38]It stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome [03:50.57]Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, [03:52.94]Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome [03:54.50]He rides to it [03:59.55]Don't stress a lot [04:01.93]Put protection on [04:02.49]If he's in your home [04:06.67]He rides to it [04:09.96]Don't stress a lot [04:12.85]Put protection on [04:14.69]If he's in your home [04:18.10]This drug addict named Raj is infected with my evil [04:19.98]Got some new dope he wanna try with his people [04:22.79]He said go ahead and try it, it's some brand new diesel [04:25.29]That's when I found myself travelling through a needle [04:28.29]Don't even know what he getting into is a shame [04:31.43]Tied his arm up and pump me right in his vein [04:33.55]He had a lot of women, was living to play his life [04:36.37]But he was married, he took me home to his wife [04:39.37]Now she's a carrier who carries on with me [04:42.05]His wife had a baby, the baby was born with me [04:44.81]And I hope that you wouldn't take this song silly [04:47.74]A lot of people infected, it's a strong pity [04:50.31]You got a jimmy hat? Then you should put on jimmy [04:52.87]Let's protect ourselves, we should all, really [04:55.81]I'm tryna live long, won't you live long with me? [04:58.56]Suburbs to the city, sing this song with me [05:01.30]He rides to it [05:05.37]Don't stress a lot [05:08.87]Put protection on [05:10.12]If he's in your home [05:12.30]He rides to it [05:17.68]Don't stress a lot [05:18.80]Put protection on [05:21.31]If he's in your home [05:23.62]He rides to it [05:27.31]Don't stress a lot [05:29.99]Put protection on [05:32.12]If he's in your home