7L & Esoteric - Retrospects lyrics

[Into] Yo give it up to 7L & Esoteric. Show ‘em some love, show ‘em some love. Yo it's crazy ‘cos when I was listening to them beats, I released that hip hop is a really big building right now like a sky scraper, and if you take those two cat's contributions out, the building wouldn't be standing ya'll recognise the real [Verse 1: Esoteric] Thinking it back it's like, check it Every year I thought I came back harder Thought I came back smarter Dealt with mad drama Yo 'Strontium 90' First verse iron man's armour I was putting that sh** on, you can ask 'Karma' Drop order call 'em brickabang Then Australia 'Be Alert', deffrons far from a failure Made an EP friend, 90 somethin' BPM Sampling "Can -tee- Ems" yes even back then yo 'Soul Purpose' had me going out my mind matter The boom, the bap, the think back mic master Basically it focused on me as a fly rapper Next album had me as a 9/11 hijacker Wrote a song about a patient called it ‘Word Association' '7L' on production Crushing MPC and SP12 hundred bu*tons Vinyl thugging, with 'Beyonder' Yo' 7' bring the cuts in [Verse 2: Esoteric] Listen '7LES' yes starting fresh It was war cousin, yes we wrote 'Bars of d**h' (Eh Yo) I thought I was the one I made a song about the US flag and disguised it as gun but No one got it they missed it and the ma**acre that I did not as a rapper but as a character(tell ‘em) In 'Graphic Violence' they were like "Go back to science" So I did a joint with a 'New Black Panther' in defiance Time pa**ed rapping became boring and stressful Came with 'A New Dope' devil did electro This is way before everybody went retro And 'Kanye West' sampled that punk like a klepto' The haters said "Yes that'll be the d**h blow" Until I dropped 'Egoclapper' succsesful - ly A real MC Got it fast son, I took 'Gary Newman's' keyboard made an album 'Fly Casual', 'The 'Purpose and Plan' Came back with 'Esoteric vs Japan' And man, 'k** Bill O'Reily' made people nervous B they had 'ECA' up on MSNBC But hey, I kept on moving got the phone calls and d**h threats Next step, had to keep my rep, make a concept album 60 minutes plus About euthanizing a dog and an imaginary friend's trust 1 2 1 2 this is '1212' now '7LES' back to give ‘em hell now Yeah, I wanna send a shout out; to '7L' he got my back 'Beyonder', 'Truth Elemental' 'Papa D' Of course my man 'Karma', 'Fly Casual' And to my man 'Real C' And everybody in the 'AOTP' 'Trademarc' and 'DC' You know the deal uh El Recko what up uh uh My man ‘Jawn P' If I forgot ya, it ain't like I shot ya, you know what I'm sayin'?