Artist: Salt ‘N Pepa
Title: None Of Your Business
Theme: Gossip
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mtiecwd4ic
Assignment: gap / spelling / grammar / chunking / BEV [Black English Vernacular]
Students need markers [red and green] and a pen
- Fill in the gaps. [marked in red]
- Also, mind the spelling: there are at least … spelling mistakes in the songtext. Circle those.
- Chunks: after the gaps are filled we will try to describe what certain expressions mean.
- BEV: do you think you can identify typical BEV [slang = spreektaal]?
Songtext
What’s the [1] _______________ with your life?
Why you [2] _______________ mes with myne?
Don’t keep [3] _______________ what I do
‘Cause I’m gonna be just [4] _______________ check it out
Chorus
If I want to take a [5] _______________ home with me tonight
It’s none of your business
And she want to be a [6] _______________ and [7] _______________ it on the weekend
It’s none of your business
Now you shouldn’t even get into who I’m givin’ [8]_______________ to ……………………………..
It’s none of your business
So don’t try to change my mind, I’ll tell you one more time …………………………………………….
It’s none of your business
Now who do you think you are
Puttin’ your [9] _______________ two cents in? ……………………………………………………….. Don’t you got nothin’ to do ………………………………………………………………………………….
[10] _______________ worry ’bout my friends? Check it
I can’t do nothin’, girl, without somebody [11] _______________
I used to think that it was me, but now I see it wasn’t
They told me to [12] _______________, they called me names, and so I popped one _______________ _______________
Opinions are like [13] _______________ and everybody’s got one
I never put my nose where I’m not [14] _______________ to
Believe me, if he’s [15] _______________ that I want, I’m steppin’ closer
I’m not one for playing high-pole _______________
Like the house of ditty-nine-oh-two-one-oh type of _______________
I treat a man like he treats me
The difference between a [16] _______________ and a ho ain’t nothin’ but a [17] _______________
So hold your [18] _______________ tightly, wish you could be like me _______________
You’re poppin’ all that mess only to stress and to _______________ me _______________
Now you can get with that or you can get with this
But I don’t give a [19] _______________ ’cause really it’s none of your business
1993, S and P, packin’ and mackin’ _______________
Bamboozlin’ and smackin’ suckers with this track
Throw the beat back in
Chorus
How many rules am I to [20] ________________________before you understand
That your double-standards don’t mean shit to me? ____________________________________
I know exactly what you say when I turn and walk away ________________________________
But that’s ok ’cause I don’t let it get it to me __________________________________________
Now every [21] _______________ I make somebody’s [22] _______________
Don’t ask me [23] _______________, will you just leave me alone?
Never [24] _______________ who’s the guy that I took home, to [25] _______________
Ok, Miss Thing never givin’ up skins
If you don’t like him or his friends what about that [26] _______________?
Your Pep-Pep’s got an ill [27] _______________ _______________
With all that [28] _______________ trap for rap you better step
Or better yet get your head [29] _______________
‘Cause I refuse to be [30] _______________ like a penny cent trick deck of cards _______________
No, I ain’t [31] _______________ like the [32] _______________ on a boulevard
My face ain’t [33] _______________, and I don’t [34] _______________ in bars
You can call me a [35] _______________ if you want to
But I remember the [36] _______________ who just humped and dumped you _______________
Or you can [37] _______________ if you have to
But everybody gets [38] _______________ just like you
So, yo, so, yo, ho – check it, double deck it on a record _______________
Pep’s ass gets respect, and this [39] _______________ is none of your business _______________
Chorus
So the [40] _______________ of this story is, who are you to [41] _______________?
There’s only one [42] _______________ judge, and that’s God
So [43] _______________, and let my Father do His job
‘Cause Salt and Pepa’s got it swingin’ again 4 x