Back 2 Basics

[Verse 1: Oddisee] Living in tenements, fat raps, living in Trying to get in a Benz, fat raps, dipping in Linens in Finn's lot, King's life, dapper Rapper might get cash after mic spitting and After lights dimming and women in place Sing tight, get it in, capture, audience's captor Vated all the way, before the greatest In the latest pair of jeans like bastards It seems like after us, crashed in, shit you spin, stop Style been around like promiscuous pot This is that knot, that guap music In this rap, even the cops lose it, loose it, choose shit New shit, that's what they yelling man Judas, cruc-shit, that's what I'm selling man Choose it, better out the speaker out the box Like a pair of sneakers that I never wear, I get the cheddar man [Verse 2: Uptown XO] I Stay Rolling up smoking the drow, I'm writing, perfecting the flow You know 'bout the X and the O, the one that be sexing your ho Oddisee probably gotta be one of the hottest, see While you, listen religiously like its prophesy YU, dapping my nigga, we like a '93 Version of de la, day hive commodities You futuristic, beefing the district, pay us a visit Kick it with us, you see why they relate, Atlantic to Pacific Being specific, we rhyme's only trinity Divinity, still enough plans to get plenty T's That nigga saying, "when you blow up, remember me" If not, they'll assassinate your ass like Kennedy Three's a crowd, eat your sprouts, every one What he says, we own the store, faking like we just browsed They watching for us in the morning like we Regis now My Kathy Lee is glad to eat, and sit your weak ass down [Verse 3: yU] Yeah As soon as you Push the button, you done lit the - And I ain't scared of nothing With my talking, inside my rhymes busting Like a specialist, never miss, definitely dropping 'em Target, we boggarting, incompetence got a problem Neck breaks sounds placed, beside 'em old cassette tapes Gritty, capital city of death, we doing it that way(That way) Exactly how I'm supposed to sound, vent his funky ass Hold your nose when you pass, we foul with it like uhh Trifling, excuse me, shit on loosely Profusely use sweets like an Uzi, I broom sweep Unique, you weak, seek help or sweep quick Attempt your whip, shit, over diam(ond) you get bent In half, I laugh, in rappers faces, stacked papers Just to make end's meet, working that grave shift This back in the day shit, inspired by the great ones And we just on the way in, yeah back 2 basics [Verse 4: Oddisee] See hip hop fit me like a glove That I put on for my city, on for the love On for the gritty for the polish, with me It's a whole team full of artists above The subparness of what really Should be regarded as garbage and tossed in a shrub But yet, I'm lost in the will, and bewildered By who got the clout in the game and who willed it Greedy niggas shilled it, smart ones revealed it Some kin of me, go become enemies and steal it Real shit, maybe because I live on a hill that My politics, trill, and the real niggas feel it And this is absurd, a nigga from the 'burbs Got nerve, saying bringing rap back to the curb Its not about nerve, but words The minds, and the action, in the racks, and I'm so verb