- Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Rapsody and Monie Love.
- [singing] Hail, hail to the queen
- [singing] L-A-T-I-F-A-H, you come in
- Yeah, yeah, BET, tell me how you feel.
What's up? We're here to celebrate the legend,
one of the illest to do it.
- [singing] Ladies first - The Queen.
- [singing] Ooh
- Yeah, it's the L-A-T-I-F-A-H - Ooh
- How you feeling?
- [singing] Ladies first Ladies first
- Ladies, can we go up tonight one time?
[singing] The ladies will kick it
The rhyme, it is wicked
Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted
A woman can bear you, break you, take you
Now it's time to rhyme Can you relate to
A sister dope enough to make you holler and scream
- Ayo, let me take it from here, Queen
- Give it to me
- Excuse me, but I think about due
To get into precisely what I am about to do
I'm conversating to the folks that have no whatsoever clue
So listen very carefully as I break it down for you
- Come on
- Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
hyper, happy, overjoyed Pleased with all the beats,
rhymes and sisters have employed
Slick and smooth throwing down the sound totally a yes
Let me state the position
Ladies first, yes
- Yes
- Ooh - Jump on it
- Ladies first Ladies first
- Come on, Monie
Believe me when I say being a woman is great
You see
I know all the fellas out there will agree with me
- Come on
- Not for being one but for being with one
- Yeah - When it's time for loving
It's the woman that gets some
Strong, stepping, strutting, moving on
Rhyming, cutting and not forgetting
We are the ones that give birth
To the new generation of prophets
because it's ladies first
- Break into a lyrical freestyle
Grab the mic
Look in the crowd and see smiles
Because they see a woman standing up on her own two
Sloppy slouching I something I don't do
Some think that we can't flow - Can't flow
- Stereotypes, they got to go
- Got to go
- I'm a mess around and flip the scene into reverse
With what
With a little touch of ladies first
- Give it up for the iconic Lil' Kim, y'all!
- [singing] U.N.I.T.Y.
U.N.I.T.Y. That's the illest
U.N.I.T.Y.
I love a Black man from infinity to infinity
U.N.I.T.Y.
That's a unity
U.N.I.T.Y. Another Black man
Instinct leads me to another flow
Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule
Now don't be getting mad
When we playing, it's cool
But don't you be calling me out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That's why I'm talking
One day I was walking down the block
I had my cut-off shorts on right
It was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes
When they passed me
One of them felt my booty
He was nasty I turned around red
Somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said
- "Bitch," and laughed
- Since he was with his boys, he tried to break fly
I punched him dead in his eye
Said, "Who you calling a"
U.N.I.T.Y. - Here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. That's a unity
- You got to let him know - U.N.I.T.Y.
Another Black man from infinity to infinity
- Oh, here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. - Oh, here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. That's a unity
- You got to let him know
- Ladies and gentlemen, my big sister from Brooklyn,
MC Lyte!
- [singing] What's going on in your mind is what I ask you
But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though
You wear a rag around your head
And you a gangster bitch
Now that you saw Apache's video
I see you wilding Acting like a fool
- I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school
- After school
- But where did all of this come from
A minute ago,
you was a nerd, and nobody ever heard of you
Now you want to be hard
You barely know your ABCs
Please
There's plenty of people out there
with triggers ready to pull it
Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet
Young lady Uh
And real bad girls are the silent type
Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced
- Because that's what happened
- To your homegirl, right
She got to wear that for life
Who you calling a bitch
- U.N.I.T.Y.
- Come on Here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. - You got to let him know
- U.N.I.T.Y. Another Black man from
- You ain't a bitch or a ho
Here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. - You got to let him know
- U.N.I.T.Y.
- Come on Here we go
- U.N.I.T.Y. - Another Black man
from
- You ain't a bitch or a ho
- U.N.I.T.Y. - Yeah
- U.N.I.T.Y. U.N.I.T.Y.
Is what it's about
Queen Latifah, we are here today to give you your flowers,
your so-deserved flowers, long overdue flowers.
You are the first Queen, the Queen ...
- [Indistinct]! - ... my Queen!
Thanks for paving the way for us. Thank you.