This is not a love ballad but it is a slow song 
(?) tell you 'bout this girl i know well this girl i used to know 
her name's 
makeba 
makeba 
sweet makeba 
makeba 
makeba 
yo how you doin' baby it's been a long time 
haven't seen you in a couple of years and the last i heard you lost 
your mind 
well how you been who you been with how's it been goin' 
still into hip hop are you still flowin' 
oh yeah that's cool 
we should kick back maybe have a session 
i remember you tellin' me you had to get away couldn't stay another 
day 
in the life of l.a. in the city 
that's peace 
yo where you been china africa greece 
least you coulda dropped me a letter or a phone call 
let me know you was all right 
your friends and your family and they kept tellin' me 
makeba disappeared in the night 
now i know that you had big dreams makeba 
but i had big dreams too 
and all this time you were searchin' makeba 
did any your dreams come true 
i remember i used to be down for you and you was down for me 
i had your back and you had my back makeba 
i wanted you to be my g 
makeba 
yo you know i got another girl after that right 
she kinda looked like you too a little bit 
sweet makeba 
yo why don't you just come to the crib you know 
we could listen to some music talk about things 
ooh i see you're not a young girl anymore and you're all grown up 
and you been around the world 
wanna see what life's gonna offer you it's your young world and it's 
all for 
you 
you probably got a man in every country that wants you 
like i wanted you but you didn't want that 
remember how we used to make love makeba 
'member how you loved it when i hit it from the back 
makeba 
i had love for you 
i had wanted you 
i had needed you 
i remember comin' to your house seven in the morning 
ready for school but we didn't even go 
it was right back to my house where we kissed liked kids 
and we jumped in the bed and you know 
i loved makin' love to my makeba 
she was like my queen of sheba 
i remember how we used to smoke chiba 
oh you don't smoke no more well that's cool 
well everybody gotta stop sometime 
i remember one time when you hid my stash and saved my ass from the 
one time 
i remember some fools tried to jump me and you jumped up before 
anybody did 
we used to say if and when we get married we'll have kid after kid 
after kid 
after kid 
after kid after kid after kid after kid after kid 
damn that's a lot of kids 
makeba 
sweet makeba 
i had love for you 
i had wanted you 
i had needed you 
how i loved makin' love to my makeba 
well remember how the whole crew used to hang tough 
well everybody's doin' they thang and stuff 
and everybody's still actin' like they know 
and a few more people ain't w/us no mo' 
oh me i'm just chillin' 
makin' my music livin' and buildin' 
tryin' to make a million out this little ol' dime and this nickel 
and lickin' lickle shots for the prophets we forgot 
but other than that i'm glad you back on deck 
i expect to see you in the near future 
if you wanna just sit and chat talk about the good old days 
good old times what was in style what's goin' on now 
cause it has been a while 
makeba 
honey girlfriend 
left in a whirlwind put a brother in a tailspin 
just twirlin' 
had a few laughs and kicks 
but me and my clique don't be trippin' no tricks 
i still got a piece of me to give you 
you still got a piece of you to give me 
you listenin' but you don't hear me 
we can pick up right where we left at but 
i gotta be me and you gotta accept that 
i just wanna be homies 
cause i ain't got love like monie 
cause soon as you got close you got ghost 
and you tried to leave acey 'lone-y 
so hook up w/me if you can cool 
but you know i know what you get loose to 
and if you play your cards right get your shit tight 
then we might be down like we used to 
makeba