Madlib - I Want It Back lyrics

[Intro-Sample ?] Take this how you have to Or don't take it at all Our time is growing small The writings on the wall Take this how you have to Or don't take it at all Our time is growing small The writings on the wall Take this how you have to Or don't take it at all Our time is growing small The writings on the wall [Verse 1-The Professionals-?] It's the next termination Let's go Raise the price like petrol Take you down, 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 motherf**ing vet though I been kept low But now I'm out like escrow And yall don't get jumped Yall 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 yall n***as call hip-hop? Then I'm gonna change it to hop hips They hold on the heat hot And then they get f**ed like loose lips That's over and over again, yo f** this This sh** is played out like some p**no sh** Its like every other city I go I see some new n***as walking (?) 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 I gots to get mines anyway Back down, has background with Madlib The new sound plus Cali wild and that's it Blaw [Hook-The Professionals-?] Please believe me We do it easy Hip hop it needs me I want it back (back, back, back, back) I want it 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 [Verse 2-The Professionals-?] Uh Theoretically speaking It was stoled and duplicated But the new generations don't know the old Only a few of us raised by the realness They had the change back then But didn't talk about it in every sentence And that's when them songs had meaning And it was that Or it was raw ridiculous deliveries that would resolve 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 pa**ed 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 Packed enough to get more people to bumpin' '96 again we started disruption 2006 the world got more corrupted And ain't nobody saying nothing [Hook] Please believe me We do it easy Hip hop it needs me I want it back (back, back, back, back) I want it 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