“Silent Treatment,” Do You Want More?!!!??!, The Roots (1995)
Black Thought gives an account, unlike any other, of a woman named Queen Amina. A woman, he raps, is so self-aware of who she is in the world that she would forego sexual contact or even settle for the sake of being in a relationship with a “star” because she understands her value. The first of these types of songs for the group, it still is an example of how baddest chics in the game are not all out here wielding.
“Yo, I had a queen named Amina, height 5’7”. Caramel-complected, body like heaven,
Met her through the sister of my man, Big Vince, Like something from out the flicks we been in love ever since.
She called me her chocolate brother, I call her my sugar sister. Knew Shorty could work it since before I ever kissed her.
I never dissed her, painted my picture to hit, but because sex she wasn’t with, she started flipping and shit
Like, “Listen man, I’m Queen Amina, Amina’s not no freak and That game is weak and keep trying to hit I could quit speaking.
Tariq in fact, you bein Black Thought don’t get you closer, I dig ya but won’t bone ya because I’m so-called supposed to.
Most o’ them would, but that couldn’t be me, that’s not my flavor. Go home and think about that, maybe, later on, I’ll page ya”