Apollo Throwdown - The Go! Team

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It's not up to me, it's not A13
It's not the Circle K at the top of street

I know, it may seem debonair
But there's time on the line that we just can't spare
Hold up everybody, put it all on ice
Gotta feeling on the mic that's twice as nice

Gotta cope with the dope by cutting soap
So turned on livin' out my horoscope

No one can do it like we can
We take the stand with a master plan
We are the educated, motivated
Skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin'
Blood sweatin', hollerin', your world wreckin'

Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece

I said, a panther is what a cougar ain't
What a royal wants to be, what a hustler can't
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

I said now walk like a panther
I said walk like a panther?
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

We got no second chance, we got a soldier's stance
We got the thrills in our skills that you can't advance
Never gonna get ninety nine percent
My get up and go just got up and went

So unrelenting, pay strict attention
My mind is heading in the right direction
More hits than bazooka smooth
Our guarantee is we can move

Our Q and A don't ricochet
We make the play with a double A
We are the educated, motivated
Skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin'
Blood sweatin, hollerin, your world wreckin'

Ladies of eighty three
Ladies you want to be
We're not the first but that matters least
'Cause there's free rough justice for the masterpiece

I said, a panther is what a cougar ain't
What a royal wants to be, what a hustler can't
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

I said now walk like a panther
I said walk like a panther
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

I got, rockets to the left of me, bullets to the right of me
Flames to the back of me, spark the TNT
Cobras to the left of me, vipers to the right of me
We're the G- O T-E-A-M

Oh oh, double O- P
Oh oh, double O- P
We say, you say, you say we fly
You're the ones we notify

I said, a panther is what a cougar ain't
What a royal wants to be, what a hustler can't
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

I said now walk like a panther
I said walk like a panther
What the ladies like, what the fellas love
What U.L.C. can't get enough of

One, nine, one, three
You know you wanna be like me
One, nine, one, three
We gotta life to set free

One, nine, one, three
We gonna shake the AKG
One, nine, one, three
You wanna bring it back like me
Yeah, yeah

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The Go! Team are a Brighton, United Kingdom-based six piece band (with two drummers) whose songs are a mixture of action theme songs, cheerleader chants, noise pop guitars and early hip-hop, with a hint of '70s funk. On record their songs are often pieced together largely from samples, although live the songs are performed mostly with live instruments.

Founder Ian Parton, born in Wales, was previously involved in a band called Dig The Slowness. The band is split 50/50 by gender, with a female frontwoman Ninja, drummer (Chi Fukami Taylor), and multi-instrumentalist (Kaori Tsuchida, who replaced Steidinger in Autumn 2005).

Initially The Go! Team was ostensibly a solo project for documentary film director Ian Parton, whose debut release was the "Get It Together EP", released in 2000 by Leicester-based Pickled Egg Records. This received airplay from legendary DJ John Peel, but following this, legal wrangles meant that it would be another three years before their next release, the "Junior Kickstart" EP in 2003.

Their album "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" was released on the Memphis Industries label in September 2004, and has received widespread critical acclaim. In 2005 it was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, which coincided with the international release of a "legal" version of the album wherein samples which could not be cleared for use had to be removed.

Their song "Bottle Rocket" was used as the theme on an advertising campaign for RTÉ Sport in 2005 on the Irish TV channels RTÉ One and RTÉ Two. Another of their songs, "Huddle Formation" is currently being used in an advertising campaign for the Honda Civic, "We Just Won't Be Defeated" is also being used in current Target commercials, and "Get It Together" is the title song of the official soundtrack for 'LittleBigPlanet' which is a PlayStation 3 game.

Album discography:
* Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004)
* Proof of Youth (2007)
* Rolling Blackouts (2011)

www.thegoteam.co.uk

The Go! Team is not to be confused with Calvin Johnson's (Beat Happening, co-founder of K Records) and Tobi Vail's (Bikini Kill, Spider and the Webs) 1980's band, The Go Team. For information on The Go Team, see the Wikipedia entry. Last.fm currently redirects scrobbled tracks for The Go Team to this page (assuming that users omit the exclamation point by accident). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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