New Year’s Resolution

By Lootpack

On Soundpieces: Da Antidote!

Released on June 19, 1999

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[Intro: Wildchild, Gang Starr sample]

My New Year's resolution ("Check 1, 2")

This is my New Year's resolution ("Check 1, 2")

Spontaneous freestyles are the solution ("Check 1, 2")

"Crazy Hip-Hop – check 1, 2, and you don't stop"


[Refrain: Wildchild]

Don't believe what you believe or believe what you believe, and

End up being those MC's who be leaving

Don't believe what you believe or believe what you believe, and

End up being those MC's who be leaving


[Chorus: Wildchild]

For the new year I swear, this rhyme be rare

When you hear a Madlib drum, bass kick, snare

Wildchild compiles styles down for your ear

L.P. for you and yours, loud and clear


[Verse 1: Wildchild]

When the first Lootpack era began a demo tape was formed

Unexpectedly, wack A&R's swarmed, started a cosmic storm

Everywhere I turned, got burned, thus learned, I must earn

Full acknowledgement of this whole rap game on my own

Realizing I couldn't get mad at labels, labels weren't able

To see the rhythmic era Wildchild was throwing at the table

I said, "Honestly, I couldn't get mad at a little blind person

Who would sleep on a Lootpack LP and ask me to define versing"

I defy rehearsing, specifically, I defy all those who apply cursing

To the limited freestyles they kick

When it's time to unlock those lyrical God flows, I dip, dip, dive

Madlib rush from the left as we kick ish live


[Pre-Chorus: Wildchild, (Madlib & Wildchild)]

I can rhyme (Oh yes, I can rhyme)

A spontaneous freestylin' rhyme (Spontaneous freestylin' rhyme)

I just concentrate on my ish (Concentrate on my ish)

'Cause I got props to get (Yes, mad props to get)


[Chorus: Wildchild]

For the new year I swear, this rhyme be rare

When you hear a Madlib drum, bass kick, snare

Wildchild compiles styles down for your ear

L.P. for you and yours, loud and clear


[Verse 2: Wildchild]

There's no advantage one gains when sustaining two faces

The disadvantage of being two-faced, you can't be in two places

Who races against the law of physics supplying logic?

You can't avoid being destroyed by Wildchild, so why dodge it?

When it comes to dropping freestyles, Wildchild front and center

Like Jack Nicholson at Laker games, it's time for the Pack to enter

An atmosphere where most record labels be making clones

Pre-programming the artists so it's like – it's all about making bones

I'm the type of MC to drop rhymes with the unexpected

Come with some un-stereotype of rhymes that's mad unpredicted

Type of artist, point out MC's who try to be the hardest

Props to the Jackson family for the influence they've taught us


[Pre-Chorus: Wildchild, (Madlib & Wildchild)]

I can rhyme (Oh yes, I can rhyme)

A spontaneous freestylin' rhyme (Spontaneous freestylin' rhyme)

I just concentrate on my ish (Concentrate on my ish)

'Cause I got props to get (Yes, mad props to get)


[Chorus: Wildchild]

For the new year I swear, this rhyme be rare

When you hear a Madlib drum, bass kick, snare

Wildchild compiles styles down for your ear

L.P. for you and yours, loud and clear


[Refrain: Wildchild]

Don't believe what you believe or believe what you believe, and

End up being those MC's who be leaving (Yeah)

Don't believe what you believe or believe what you believe, and

End up being those MC's who be leaving

[Outro: Wildchild, Gang Starr sample]

Resolution ("Check 1, 2")

This is my New Year's resolution

Spontaneous freestyles are the solution ("Check 1, 2")

Yeah... like that...

"Crazy Hip-Hop – check 1, 2, and you don't stop"


[Scratches: DJ Romes]

"Crazy Hip-Hop"

"Crazy Hip-Hop"

"Crazy Hip-Hop"

"Check 1, 2, and you don't stop"