Back On The Block-Quincy Jones

[00:04.480]Back [00:06.210]Back on the block [00:09.030]Back [00:10.790]Back on the block [00:13.570]Back on the block so we can rock [00:15.630]With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop [00:18.150]Back on the block [00:19.930]Back on the block [00:22.480]Ice-T let me kick my credentials [00:25.180]A young player bred in South Central [00:27.380]L A home of the body bag [00:29.780]You wanna die wear the wrong color rag [00:32.040]I used to walk in stores and yell "Lay down" [00:34.350]You flinch an inch AK spray down [00:36.480]But I was lucky 'cause I never caught the hard time [00:38.900]I was blessed with the skill to bust a **** rhyme [00:41.450]All my homies died or caught the penzo [00:43.430]Lost their diamonds cops towed their Benzos [00:45.530]Livin' that life that we thought was it [00:47.440] [00:48.080]Fast lanin' but the car flipped [00:50.210]I'm not gonna lie to ya 'cause I don't lie [00:52.410]I just kick thick game some people say why [00:54.900]'Cause I'm back on the block I got my life back [00:57.340]So I school the fools about the fast track [00:59.500]I get static from the style of my technique [01:01.800]Profanity the blatant way in which I speak [01:04.090]But the Dude knows the streets ain't no kiddie game [01:06.310]You don't know the Dude Quincy's his first name [01:08.500]He told me Ice keep doin' what you're doin' man [01:10.750]Don't give a damn if the squares don't understand [01:13.080]You let 'em tell you what to say and what to write [01:15.330]Your whole career'll be over by tomorrow night [01:17.600]Rap from your heart and your heart's with the street [01:19.900]Rap on my record man Kimiko send Ice the beat [01:22.300]The Dude is def no doubt what can I say [01:24.550]The man can roll with Ice-T or Michael J [01:26.810]Back [01:28.510]Back on the block [01:31.380]Back [01:33.060]Back on the block [01:35.820]Back on the block so we can rock [01:37.970]With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop [01:40.480]Back on the block [01:42.260]Back on the block [01:44.810]I'm back on the block on the screen [01:47.100]I'm on the wax I'm on the stage I'm on the scene [01:49.560]I'm on the case just like an attorney [01:51.810]The Dude took me on a magic journey [01:53.960]To dance in France alone in Rome [01:55.960]On the farmlands of Nebraska the cold of Alaska [01:58.530]The heat of the motherland to be with my brother man [02:00.800]On top of a snowcapped mountain I'm scoutin' [02:03.000]What another man saw in a race of people [02:05.400]To see him give his life for the price of equal [02:07.640]The highest wisdoms the richest kingdoms [02:09.950]The song of songs we heard David sing them [02:12.340]He showed me me when I was young and hung out [02:14.620]He showed me makin' love even showed me strung out [02:16.740]He showed me poppin' nines standin' on a rock [02:18.970]But tears came to my eyes when he showed me my block [02:21.870] [02:22.570]Ba-ba-back on the [02:24.370]Ba-back on [02:25.450]Ba-ba-back on the block [02:27.160] [02:27.740]Ba-ba-back on [02:28.980]Ba-ba-back on the block [02:30.900]Stokie's just Stokie mama [02:32.730] [02:33.890]Stokie's Stokie [02:34.800] [02:35.320]And one by one each woman he kiss [02:38.090]He kiss her and she gon' fall in love [02:40.160]Stokie's just Stokie you know [02:42.020] [02:42.820]Stokie's Stokie [02:43.890] [02:44.440]Till someone shows that they care enough [02:46.720] [02:47.270]Ain't nothin' gonna bother Stokie much [02:49.210]Some say they can't take it no more [02:51.740]Comin' here comin' here startin' stuff [02:53.820]But Dude is back on duty fo' sho' [02:55.780] [02:56.290]Back on the block to stay [02:58.280]They say he ain't gonna be with it [03:00.910]Comin' back comin' back to the street [03:02.990]But Dude he know you'll never forget it [03:05.200]Back on the block to stay [03:07.000] [03:12.090]Back up and give the brother room [03:13.390]To let poetry bloom to whom it may concern or consume [03:16.400]As I reminisce before this the bliss that exist [03:19.100]But now we brought about a twist [03:20.880]'Cause I remember of my people bleedin' [03:23.190]Put through slavery and killed for bravery [03:25.790]We shoulda got our freedom much sooner [03:27.660]You never seen a Blackman on the honeymooners [03:30.100]But now somehow we've learned to earn to grow to show [03:32.740]The elevation of a people built is so [03:34.810]Jesse Jackson Miss America a black one [03:37.240]No more livin' for just a small fraction [03:39.310]I was once told by the Dude that knowledge is a food [03:42.090]To nourish so to conclude [03:43.950]This from an Asiatic descendant Big Daddy is shocked [03:46.900]Yo Q we back on the block [03:48.620]Back [03:48.870] [03:50.290]Back on the block [03:51.190] [03:53.210]Back [03:53.520] [03:54.910]Back on the block [03:55.760] [03:57.590]Back on the block so we can rock [03:59.600]With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop [04:02.210]Back on the block [04:03.360] [04:04.070]Back on the block [04:04.950] [04:06.590]An everlasting omnipresence is my present [04:09.050]State of being seeing the unpleasant [04:11.310]Sight of righteous souls live like peasants [04:13.630]The mind stunts growth in adolescence [04:16.000]My insight enables me to enlight [04:18.090]The weakest of minds and I put 'em in flight [04:20.350]As I transcend a-scend or de-scend [04:22.780]Re-create re-incarnate and re-send [04:25.100]The powerful spirits of our ancestors [04:27.130]For those that don't know how God blessed us [04:29.690]Because man messed up the media dressed up [04:31.790]Lies perpetrated as truth and it left us [04:34.090]Confused but I've seen it all before [04:36.290]From Babylon to the Third World War [04:38.650]I'm more than a man I'm more like an entity [04:40.920]Back on the block and this time my identity is the Dude [04:43.720] [04:44.420]Ba-ba-back on the [04:46.180]Ba-back on [04:47.220]Ba-ba-back on the block [04:48.870] [04:49.530]Ba-ba-back on [04:50.680]Ba-ba-back on the block [04:52.580]Stoki ke Stoki mai-bo [04:54.950] [04:55.460]Stoki Stoki [04:57.030]Wam babma wam bamb'u mandisa [04:59.350] [04:59.890]Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa [05:01.940]Stoki ke Stoki mai-bo [05:04.470]Stoki Stoki [05:05.660] [05:06.180]Wam babma wam bamb'u mandisa [05:09.030]Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa [05:11.120]M'yeke yeke yeke wena [05:13.040] [05:13.610]Kha'mye kha'myeke wena [05:15.620]Yo khala khala khala u mama [05:18.310]Yo khal'u mama khe [05:20.090]M'yeke yeke yeke wena [05:22.730]Kha'mye kha'myeke wena [05:24.710]Yo khala kha 'yok 'shaya u baba [05:27.480]Yok shaya u baba khe [06:05.910]Back on the block [06:07.340]Ba-ba-back on the [06:08.510]Ba-ba-back on the block [06:13.000]Ba-ba-back on [06:16.510]Ba-ba-back on the block [06:19.120]Ba-ba-back on the block [06:21.130]Ba-ba-back on [06:23.340]Now I would I would contend that ah [06:27.920]The rappers rap is here to stay