I Want It Back

Take this how you have to or don't take it at all Our time is growing small, the writing's on the wall Take this how you have to or don't take it at all Our time is growing small, the writing's on the wall Take this how you have to or don't take it at all Our time is growing small, the writing's on the wall It's the next termination Let's go! Raise the price like petrol Take yo ass back like retro clothes Tag you like Marc Eckos Debut in the game console, but this ain't a game Calm yourself down and honor the motherfucking vet though I been kept low, now I'm out like escrow And y'all don't get jumped, y'all get quantum leaped That's an out of body experience Faking peoples they is not Shape, I am in tip top These phonies, that's what y'all niggas call hip-hop? Then I'm gonna change it to hop hips They hold on the heat hot, and then they get fucked like loose lips That's over and over again, yo f*ck this This shit is played out like some porno shit It's like every other city I go I see some new niggas walk Same nigga Oh on some swishers and the cash flow More blunts, more games, more dames, more dimes More courts than signs, we don't play Get smoked like the chronic, ate from the Cali state of mind Is, I gots to get mines anyway Back down, Oh's background with Madlib The new sound plus Kaliwild and that's it Blaw Please believe me, we do it easy Hip hop it needs me, I want it back (back, back, back, back, back) I want it back (back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back) Please believe me, we do it easy Hip hop it needs me, I want it back (back, back, back, back) I want it back (back, back, back, back) Uh Theoretically speaking It was stoled and duplicated, but the new generations don't know the old Only a few, I raised off the realest They had them chains back then, but didn't talk about it in every sentence And that's when them songs had meaning Either it was that or it was raw ridiculous deliveries that we was all fiending Nowadays, the odds a million to one Still cold chillin' like 88 Fast forward to 91, '92 I learned that it was Hard to Earn So I midnight marauded me some mics til I passed out at my mom's work Mad LPs got jerked But that don't stop the hustle, still got a lot of work to tussle Shows ain't packed for the vets, disgusted Fans mad cause it ain't oacked enough to get more people to bumpin' '96, niggas had started disruption 2006, the world got more corrupted and ain't nobody saying nothing Hook: Oh No Please believe me, we do it easy Hip hop it needs me, I want it back (back, back, back, back, back) I want it back (back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back) Please believe me, we do it easy Hip hop it needs me, I want it back (back, back, back, back) I want it back (back, back, back, back)