Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down

Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized
With your black hair and fat-ass thighs
Street poetry is my everyday
But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way
If I was working at the club you would not pay
Ay yo, my man Phife Diggy, he got something to say

I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian (uh)
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation
Told you in the jam that we can get down
Now let's knock the boots like the group H-Town
You got BBD all on your bedroom wall
But I'm above the rim and this is how I ball
A gritty little something on the New York streets
This is how I represent over this here beat
Talking 'bout you

Yo, I took you out
But sex was on my mind for the whole damn route
My mind was in a frenzy and a horny state
But I couldn't drop dimes 'cause you couldn't relate

Relax yourself girl, please settle down (you couldn't relate)
Relax yourself girl, please settle down (you couldn't relate)
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down
Relax yourself girl, please settle down

Stretch out your legs, let me make you bawl
Drive you insane, drive you up the wall
Staring at your dome-piece, very strong
Stronger than pride, stronger than Teflon
Take you on the ave and you buy me links
Now I wanna pound the putang until it stinks
You can be my mama and I'll be your boy

Original rude bwoy, never am I coy
You can be a shorty in my ill convoy
Not to come across as a thug or a hood (what?)
But hon', you got the goods, like Madelyne Woods
By the way, my name's Malik, The Five-Foot Freak
Let's say we get together by the end of the week
She simply said, "No," labeled me a hoe
I said, "How you figure?" "My friends told me so"
I hate when silly groupies wanna run they yap
Word to God, hon', I don't get down like that

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak
Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep
Keep it on the down, yo, we keep it discrete
See, I'm not the type of kid to have my biz in the streets

If my mom don't approve, then I'll just elope
Let me save the little man from inside the boat
Let me hit it from the back, girl I won't catch a hernia
Bust off on your couch, now you got Seamen's Furniture

Shaheed, Phife and the Extra P
Stacy Beadle, PJ and my man LG
They know the Abstract is really soul on ice
The character is of men, never ever of mice
Shorty let me tell you about my only vice
It has to do with lots of loving and it ain't nothing nice

Relax yourself, girl, please settle down (it ain't nothing nice)
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down (it ain't nothing nice)
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down

Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down
Relax yourself, girl, please settle down

(Keep bouncing, keep bouncing)


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Electric Relaxation Lyrics as written by Kamaal Ibn John Fareed Ali Shaheed Jones-muhammad

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    The really hysterical thing is that on "Scrubs" Turk operates to this song (also "I get around" by Tupac). I'm an MD NEVER saw a doc black or white (or brown or yellow..LOL) use anything but classical music.

    drpoundsignon March 31, 2008   Link
  • +1
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    But agreed with Edowin 503. It's like the classier sex jam-- dirty, but dignified and completely irresistible. Damn.

    feel me loudon October 11, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    I think it goes like "relaxe yourself girl... be set clear"... I cant here the settle down part. I dig the "its got to do with lots of loving and it aint nuthing nice", lol this is obviously about sex and not that gentle stuff either...

    REDorbon November 25, 2009   Link
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    This is my All Time Favorite Song by the Tribe!!!! Electric Relaxation is exactly what the song is singing about!!! And the beat just feeds you the lyrics! It's like this mello, New-York, sweet up-beat, hip-hop s--t that is so hard to come by these days. The words are like a long, phat-ass mack to a girl. You want to get some 101 Macking Skills... find this song, and study it. I love it!! (i wish I was the girl in that video; which was black-and-white. Find that, too!!!)

    Lyrical816on August 13, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    This song is also my fave!!!

    I love how Tip can be so classy when he's macking.

    Yo, I took you out But sex was on my mind for the whole damn route My mind was in a frenzy and a horny state But I couldn't drop dimes cause you couldn't relate

    ...is my fave Tribe lines eva!

    Personally I found a lot of thugsta rap now makes the guy look really carnal...but Q-Tip represents us other classy guys so well, even though we all want the same thing. :)

    Don't entirely get this tho:

    Shorty let me tell you about my only vice It has to do with lots of lovin and it ain't nuthin nice

    Edowin 503on December 03, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    my favorite TCQ song. i love the little beat.

    EndlessSummeron December 18, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    Q-tip on this song is just unbelievable, the way he bounces off phife and I think the lyric "I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak" is one of the grooviest in all hip hop/

    ordinaryboyon January 29, 2006   Link
  • 0
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    SO HOT.

    feel me loudon October 11, 2008   Link
  • 0
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    lovelovelove the beat and the instrumental version.

    politicson May 09, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    This song is soo smooth and amazing. Just my opinion though, during the chorus it sounds absolutely nothing like "...please set-tle down" it sound like "...piece of the clan" to me. I keep listening to it and cannot hear "set-tle down" whatsoever no matter how I think about it.

    Who cares I guess ha. F#*king great song. I wish hip hop sounded like this today, can't get enough of ATCQ.

    reflex1989on October 13, 2009   Link

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