[Mic Stylz]

We bringin it back to shells and toes

Back when rappers had no choice but to self-promote

Back to that classic age, where the media

Really only recognized rap as a phase

And nowadays you can't even imagine

Cause every part of pop culture's hopped on the bandwagon

And I ain't braggin when I say I was ahead of the curve

Cause when I started hardly anybody rhymed in the burbs

It's hard to find the words of how disturbin it is

To hear suburban kids talkin 'bout murderin shit

They hop online and log into some hip-hop site

Post some battles now they think they know what hip-hop's like

They talkin 'bout ice when they ain't even own a diamond

And swearin to life they 'bout to be known from rhymin

Me and Eso been climbin, foot to the dirt, puttin in work

It's like birth, you gotta push 'til it hurt

[Esoteric]

I spit it from the soul, it's no thing to flow king

Bringin it back that ol' Beantown rap

The whole thing is so close, peep the photos

Three-fingered rings with Adidas logos

Old school, say no to ProTools

Unless the throat lose a flow that's so smooth

These folks have no clue how to keep it afloat

Well I rode the boat, provin that I mean what I wrote

Hypocritical how pitiful these imbeciles

They claimin political when they spit but they don't even vote

Before every verse vocals focused on coke folks

For showin me the ropes like fiends hopin for dope

I've been doin this since LL made my "Radio"

You've been doin this since Macy's carried Kangols

Y'all know, today they play brave beats at the Gap

But we ain't concerned with that cause we bringin it back