[Q-Tip]
 Ummah, Ummah, Ummah

 1 - S-double-D-I-Q
 Yo, he wanna get involved with you
 Mr. S-double-D-I-Q
 Yo, he wanna get involved with you
 Mr. S-double-D-I-Q
 Yo, he wanna get involved with you
 Mr. S-double-D-I-Q
 Yo he wanna get involved

 [Raphael Saadiq]
 Met this girl walking in the ghetto
 (Uh huh, uh huh)
 Looking good but looking down
 (What's you [bad word] on by)
 Said she needed inspiration
 (What'd you say)
 I said, 'Get yo [bad word] cause we're goin uptown'
 (Uptown baby, uptown, say what)
 I could tell she was feelin better
 (Yeah, [bad word] on, yeah)
 When she got inside the car
 (When she got inside the car)
 She was a dark-skinned girl with pretty cornrows
 (uh uh)
 She was doin her best to try to hide her scars
 [bad word] on now, what you say now)

 [Raphael Saadiq]
 2 - I don't really care
 About that there, just get involved
 Boy you, makin me feel, uh oh so real
 Just get involved

 [Raphael Saadiq]
 Everytime i take you around friends
 [bad word] on, everytime I take you around friends)
 I catch them looking at you love
 (Lookin' at you love, lookin' at you love like that)
 You know it never ever bothered me
 Because i know that i'm the one you're thinking of

 Repeat 2

 [Q-Tip]
 Word up, word up, word up yo
 Raphael just stopped in his tracks
 Get involved and make it into the pack
 You know the way that you present your thing
 We in the belly so we might as well cling
 The way you shine shorty you da [bad word] 
 The princess in the pauper pit
 We may be poor but we rich in soul
 Just get involved and get in control
 Just get involved and get in control
 You know the way we do it, yo we roll

 Oh, oh, oh, oh

 Repeat 1