Story Behind the Song
Heard the beat, grabbed a pen and wrote down the lyrics in 15 minutes. Headed to Bruces studio, laid down the track in about 20 minutes and he mixed it then added the breaks and a few little things here and there. Presto, magic.
It's a song about getting to the good life and raising up your cup for love and love lost to the homies that were there for you through it all and know what you went through.
Lyrics
It seems like yesterday, all fades away
Bomb tracks we laid, made wet jeans for DJ’s
Sending chills down vertebrae, chipping thick cuts and Chardonnay
Slipping fine tones to thick bass, damn if those weren’t the days
Hands raised and shake pants on thins waists that give chase
This grace, I’ve been placed, as the deffest, MC in the whole place
Don’t waste no time don’t find me (stood) up in lines
Dining’s fine with wine, baby you’re mine and I’m-a
Meet ya here at nine, take you back to my – phat
Crystal hillside, pad in candle lights,
And dim Sylvania whites “Tight”
Let the music play, Marvin Gaye
Heat wave, Sade, (grooves) on the CD Tray
Take it away, cool breeze, trees, kicked up like Pele’
Do you feel me? Let’s just kick it…..
In the warm suds…..
By the dropped sun….
Under the raised moon….
Sipping cold bubbly, by the tele……
And you can tell me…
That this is for the homies.
Verse 2
I’d say, no fibs, my crib’s been all tabs and ribs
Dripped in sauces while I sip and toss this
To my kids, bids of Benjamin’s under locked lids
While I lounge down in my garden surrounded by roses and orchids
Come and sport this, new trix, I stretched this (shit) like elastics
And I stressed it, while I passed it,
Let the lease run on the casket, don’t bust a gasket
I raised and massed it, Fast, last (blasted) and cashed it
Hashed and re-hashed it, re-fashioned, I Mark Mashed it
Made something new that would last it
First time I crashed it for you dumb asses and fat bastards
But now I’ll be back like Cashcious
Coming out stronger and much faster, cleaning up that last disaster
Baby it ain’t me so we can be,
Set nicely in Heavens rafters, with much laughter
Just you and this white rapper
We can grow old, fat and feeble, and share clappers
Rock on the porch and take naps and tell knee slappers
Verse 3
Last time I checked, I checked out like 12 steps
I crept in to get swept in 3 Please,
Just my breath on the back of your nibbled and beautiful neck, gets it wet
Placed my bet before we left that you and I would get,
“Quiet on the set” Just a kiss or squeeze and baby just let…
Me dribble down to half court, sort, while I like and kiss –
This is my first wish; this bliss sets to accompany my accomplice
Slipped in while I whisper, “Damn baby it’s good”
And I skip-step walking through the neighborhood
Everyone like “Damn look at that hood, getting it good”
Wishing they could, saying they would…
Be ruling the world, if they could have my girl…
While all the while I stood –
Right there, up to know good
Now I’m gonna make it up
I’m –a- make it understood
This is for the homies.
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