Desi Shoegaze Taiko

[Verse 1: Heems] Back in the day when pagers was the rage I was see-through, I was paging all the babes It must've been like 1995 They rocked the door knockers Looking mighty fine The 143 my code 76 I was dreaming and scheming of getting rich Because Renee used this code too When ? Ay yo, music gets me high Before the days of email and press "reply' Down like that Brown like that Who you know make a sound like that I was with Mike when the towers came down Now we make the powerful sound I used to do the powder in pounds Now I'm all grown-up, showering down I smell like money Aha, my money smell funny A ha ha hee hee, yo I keep it one hundred My folks had the candy shop on Queens Boulevard Same as back then, the people gotta hustle hard Mom said bogeys used to cost a buck fifty Now they cost enough to cost a dude a buck fifty You ain't 'bout that life You ain't even gotta worry, dog New York native, always in a hurry yo Burning loosies in my room my ? kinda blurry yo I'm riding on that DQ with hot nine on my stereo Remember when the other kids in Queens called me Gandhi Shivani watching MTV Madonna and some Blondie ? watching ? looking cool as Fonzie I was watching ? Fab 5 Freddy, Rocksteady Crew, Cold Crush Brothers, only 92 I was only seven trying to ride my bike to cousins' Used to talk about whips, now my cousins all stunting Rock the flyest shit cause it never cost me nothing And these other weirdo rappers ain't weird, now they fronting Now let me show you something [Verse 2: Heems] Bad with expressions, child of immigrants They say I'm white, invisible melanin Melanoma, Medellin, Melatonin Acetylene? Drowning out everything Many things better than Money things, funny things, many things venison Jameson, Hennessy, kick it like soccer Swinging like tennis shit, make you feel proper Kick it real proper Shannen Doherty, Pete Doherty, cute shorty in Prada She think I got paper, she don't know that I got nada Amway, Shamwow, Man Ray, Dada Guap from her pop, she get it from her father Mary J., Avon, Avant, Akon Akron, Magnums, action shake on Snakes on plates on tables of mahogany Ebony, ivory Everyone be jocking me They wanna be my friend again And again at Bennigan's, and then again It's just limerick shenanigans Lamping on a couch at Raymour and Flanigan Ethan Allen, Ethan Hawke, Ethan Coen, Joel too I be in bodegas, I don't go to Whole Foods