De la Soul, Nas - Run It Back!!

Yo, yo, yo, yo Report, report, everyone report in That's right, it's magic It's magic like the three But, yo, don't ever get it misconstrued When you see us coming through with them Day-Glo colors Lyrically, we run it all down So if you throw it towards us, we gon' run it back (yeah, let's go) (Ay, ay, what we doin'?) (Long Island) Long Island (Long Island) yeah, Long Island (Long Island) It's the birth of a team here to clean up the turf (yeah, what?) And the worth of the dream is to change the regime (what?) And the lean that we lay with the words that we spray With the way that we teach y'all to act (run it back) With the poems, with the dice, and the songs that we slice for the plate (Long Island) Earn the weight and the height, and the pawns with the price (yeah) With the men, never mice when we on The device of the mic, never that (run it back) Pop a rap on the line and the math of the signs that we make Be the cake that we stack on my grind I'm a one of a kind and the one from the vine of the grape (yeah) Where you heard I'ma cap (run it back) Man, it's the thing that we hang 'round our neck like a chain It's the piece of the pain At the least, it's the lane that my flow travel down And the sound be the rock (Long Island) Cocaine to the brain on the track (run it back) Overdue with the new and you beg for the brew that we stirred And we heard that you don't have a clue how it's made It's the boom to the bap Like the full in the paid that put Ra on the map (ayo, my nigga, run it back) We the sons of the beat and we stay on our toes (keep going, yeah) With our feet exposed to the con to the crete (Long Island, what?) 'Cause our ears in the street and our minds in the stars (yeah) Man, y'all know who we are, Tucks and Pat (run it back) That's what I'm talking about Nassau and Suffolk County, we up in here (gimme the rock, gimme the rock) But we gon' take it on over to Queens To my brothers in the Bridge Who's about to run it back (Back up, back up, back up) (Whoa, there go De La) And there go Nas right there, ayo (who that over there? Who that?) Ayo, there go Jungle right there (Bravehearts) Ayo, everybody get back, everybody look out (Bravehearts) Look at the god, let the god through Let my brother through (Bravehearts) Unsmackable, half of you laughable You won't be photographable if I have to run through half of your crew I'm only tryna get smarter Like Five Percenters at parliament, Harlem, rep the bottom (run it back) Not the bottom like the bottle of snake wine with a snake still in it We sip and see if it takes time to fill it I'm speaking to buildings, ghetto tenements, the militants No suburbia privileges (run it back) From the rap, it's no wonder that three's the magic number Add me to that number, that's four The fourth Bee Gee, the fourth ZZ Top member, the fourth Fugee, who me? I fantasize musically when it's suiting me As wild as the '80s, '90s and '00s, how it was sick How did it slip? Now it's just Doechii, Dot and SZA with most powerful hits Leon Thomas, Shaboozey with the country rap Only Black artists on top of the charts, something's wack (run it back) Not only love and only Black, don't start with that The problem hatched, probably with Napster back in '99, in fact Was Nas deprived from getting diamond plaques? He cries inside about it, never, he just runs it back Okay, everyone, I know your heartbeat is running fast After running it back, so let's slow it down Take a deep breath in Now, take a deep breath out Is that (what is that?) Weed smoke I'm smelling? (Yeah, yeah) (Damn, that smells good) uh Anyway, let's prepare to take our mind to the next song Salute, salutery, and salutations And don't forget the vocalization