[Verse 1: Loer Velocity]
Sirens and lights flare when we’re right there
Causing conditions critical. Not the typical
Something more like the average around-the-way reciprocal
Hardcore rugged remains the Loer principle
My individual cell splits out the physical
Get you for residuals, type indivisible
Pushing the issue through the ceiling’s floor above
When seeing this painting from the remains of slugs
I’m an emcee’s drug, restrained, and gagged
Hostage-style, getting clubbed and dragged
Half-in stays the sagging jeans when I walk
Gangster but still use Langston with the talk
What? Close, shut. Extremely the emcee
Antagonistic with my usual tendency
To anoint the pen and pad and exploit in misery
You don’t want the repercussions of us in this industry
[Bridge 1: Loer Velocity]
Fall back, fall back, fall back, fall back
[Verse 2: L.I.F.E. Long]
The suspect seen trooping through the urban
Attire. Whatever I feel to enhance my person
In the city. Rotten where we working
While villains play the corner, murking
Some got slug reports for earning
Ways of survival for disappearing rivals
Medals for codes of honor
Toolsmiths with bangers ready to bang out with ka-bangers
Anger strikes the air. Hear the war cry
New York City the place where shells fly
See from a glance. What you looking at?
Got a problem, son? You don’t know me
Ain’t a game. Now I’m sizing frames, see?
It’s crazy you holding, so I’m dirty too
Plus .45 seems bigger that your .22
You looking for trouble? Things about to bubble
Now the situation’s deep. What? Cock back, fall back
[Hook: Samples with DJ Emmo Scratches]
“When they wanna act up, yo” - Sample from [?]
“[?] sunk in the jump” - Sample from [?]
“We’re coming at you” - Sample from [?]
“Niggas won’t be laughing long” - Sample from [?]
“So let the drama fly” - Sample from [?]
“When they wanna act up, yo” - Sample from [?]
“You better stand clear” - Sample from PMD on EPMD - "It's My Thing"
"Punks, take a sip and test. Who splits your vest?" - Sample from Redman on Method Man & Redman's "How High"
“What you want to do? What you want to do?” - Sample from [?]
[Verse 3: Loer Velocity and L.I.F.E. Long]
[Loer Velocity]
Holist turn you whole list into pieces
Sold separately. “Don’t want to wreck with me” the thesis
But, to his own, each is ignorant
Mr. Hardheaded don’t get it
[L.I.F.E. Long]
We sing what’s belligerent
[Loer Velocity]
Tend innocence
[L.I.F.E. Long]
In a sequence
We present-day past tense
Day before, we the future ones smacking brows
Exchange hands with the fisticuff and Long
You bound to catch lumps. Now it’s on
[Loer Velocity]
It’s like: when we spit, get your shit tarred, feathered, and scorned
Or weather from the downpour ripped, shredded, and torn
Temperature raised. Under the collar, warm
Embedded frustration, we the swarm, intimidation
[L.I.F.E. Long]
Never know what you might be facing
Embracing jaws, leaving grills tapped
You don’t want to be in the crossfire, smacked
We come on the mic blasting, bodying tracks
[Loer Velocity]
Co-smashing on the mic, lobbying an act of war
Right in front of the bodega corner store
[L.I.F.E. Long]
Explore the picture to capture the moment
Got the block locked, making opponents stop for atonement
[Bridge 2: Samples with DJ Emmo Scratches]
“When they wanna act up, yo” - Sample from [?]
[Outro: Sample from [?]]
Somebody’s got to go back and get the truth. And they’ve got to get it in spite of the consequences of being called names. Because, otherwise, if George Bush is talking about fighting a ten-to-fifteen-year war, then you know we’re gonna go back to a draft. And if you’ve got an eight- or a ten-year old child sitting with you tonight, in ten years, they’re gonna be in military fatigues, so even if it doesn’t directly affect you tonight, have a vision. Have a vision for the next ten years and say, “Unless I clearly under-the-stand this thing and ask the right questions now, then my baby sitting next to me is gonna be in fatigues and I’m not going to be able to explain how they got there”