Released on March 8, 2005

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[Intro]

Yo, let's take it back to the Maritimes, man

You can't take yourself too serious

Do that thing you guys were doing


[Chorus]

Fill your cup up and chug

Roll a joint up and get fucked

Ready for a kitchen party

Welcome to the Maritimes

Fill your cup up and chug

Roll a joint up and get fucked

Ready for a kitchen party

Welcome to the Maritimes


[Verse]

I'm from the East Coast of Canada, home of the bagpipe

Known for the fiddle players, beer and our keg price

Known for Alexander Keiths and the donair

Home of the Mooseheads, but I don't really go there

We pay a buck for a litre of gas (And)

Smokes cost ten dollars a pack (Damn)

We always mix our tobacco with weed

It's just the way it's always done it, shit is natural to me

So let me tackle the beat, and unravel the scene

Let you people know what you never travel to see

We got battle MCs, we got storytellers

And we got awful MCs and corny motherfuckers

We got everything you wanna hear

Conscious to backpack

Commercial to gangsta

R&B to abstract

Grunge to rock

Classical to country

So many artists workin' but no one makin' money

Welcome to the East Coast, home of the innocents

Still pigeonholed as a farmer or a fisherman

No major league teams, baseball or hockey

No urban radio, just country and pop beats

I'm tryna shake these stereotypes

So give me space, please, let me air out my life

I don't even eat fish, shit, I never tried lobster

Can't play the fiddle, and never was a logger

(But I swam in clean lakes) Yeah, and enjoyed cool breezes

But Halifax Harbour's like swimming in diseases

We only known for Anne of Green Gables

Coal mines, the Bluenose, and P.E.I. potatoes

The Maritimes, it's better then that

We livin' in another time, so dead it with that

We got Universal Soul (And)

Buck 65 (And)

The whole UCG (And)

Of course Classified

We got Backburner, Goo Night, Alpha Flight, Lock Down

Mic Boyd, First Words, Trobiz and Helltown

And a million other artists, tryna get their flow heard

And let you know that we still workin' on these outskirts

We trying to blow like Halifax Explosion

Or maybe Anne Murray, I know she's Nova Scotian

Or Hurricane Juan blowing from the ocean

Either way it goes I'm still repping for my coast, man


[Chorus]

Fill your cup up and chug

Roll a joint up and get fucked (That's how we do it down here)

Ready for a kitchen party (Least that's how you think we do it down here)

Welcome to the Maritimes (We all pile in the kitchen)

Fill your cup up and chug (Do it like this)

Roll a joint up and get fucked

Ready for a kitchen party

Welcome to the Maritimes


[Outro]

Welcome to the Maritimes