Take It Back - Chino XL

I’ll take you back fifteen years, analyze

Every verse is cleaner than a surgeon’s hands when they’ve been sanitized

I’ll take you back to the panic when rap was dangerous

Blasting EPMD out of them classic Jeep Wranglers

I’ll take you back to a different time

Spazzing like River Phoenix outside of the Viper Room the night he died

Back to paying dues spitting lit a fuse

With the mathematical, aeronautical cynic mind of Howard Hughes

Abnormality, I’ll take it back to originality

If I’m insane then rap is my insanity

I’ll take it back like an Indian giver

Yo scratch that term, I’d rather throw a White cowboy in the river

I’ll take it back, full rage

Performing How You Like Me Now with Kool Moe Dee right up on the same stage

Let’s get it back to the basics

Zookeepers need to put a diaper on Chino when he goes ape shit

Hip-Hop is a great ship, let me steer it

My skill level’s so high that when I rhyme only dogs hear it

The ghetto vampire that’s walking in the sunlight

The lyric Christ, I turn entire blocks to mass grave sites

I will brolic Brock Lesnar your career

Chino got more Seoul than the capital of Korea

I’m bringing wind storms, rain, darkness and drear

Puncture heart valves, painting nightmares in blood smears

'98, I’d like to take it back

Still only attract women that think murder’s an aphrodisiac

A lot of cats that just hopped into this artform

Are like photographers that never stepped inside a darkroom

I’ll take it back to when I wanted to be Tito from the Fearless Four

The illest Puerto Rican I had ever saw

Studied Cool J, studied Kool G, studied Ice-T

Now I meet little homies that say they study me

(Take it back)

(What we gonna do right here is go back)

(Take it back)

(Way back)

(Take it back)

(Back in the days when I was a teenager)

(Take it back)

(For all the pioneers I’m going way back)

I’ll take it back but still tomorrow for you yesterday cats

Matter fact, seldom took it back, I meant to say that

I take it back to the original, King of style, Kase 2

Two good letters with one arm and watch them biters waste you

Take it back to unity, rest in peace Bigga B

Rob One, Roc Raida, King Dream, SMD

Take it back to 1580 KDAY for the cuts

Take it back to only leaving Yo in the Toyota trucks

I take it back to fast break, Magic, Worthy, Laker raps

Some silently claim, but some violently bang on wax

Croker sack house shoes, hats with the golf clubs

Back to educated rap, back before we all thugs

Take it back to dignity, I bet it isn’t, promise me

Traced 'em back and watch the crack spread Reganomically

I’m a full time warrior, I’m a war time journalist

Earning hazard pay, Rakka’s live where the Inferno is

(Take it back)

(What we gonna do right here is go back)

(Take it back)

(Way back)

(Take it back)

(Back in the days when I was a teenager)

(Take it back)

(For all the pioneers I’m going way back)

Niggas who wore the gazelles had all the females

Beat tell in the Benz, SCL

She smell like TCB gel

Treat a freak well 'cause I pay attention to detail

Pinky ring long fingernail to hit fish scale

But that ain’t how we get down

I’d rather pull a heist, skip town

Up in your wig, I pump six rounds, bg rope, Slick Rick style

Moet rep, '89 Rolex vets

Poets, tecs, I’m the Polo tech’s sweats

Coke heads to Pro Keds steps

While connects role in the LS with leather head rests

My waves laying Indian hemp

O.G.

revolver like Billy The Kids

Squeeze trigs in millennium skid

The condominium was big, that’s that brilliant kid

(Take it back)

(What we gonna do right here is go back)

(Take it back)

(Way back)

(Take it back)

(Back in the days when I was a teenager)

(Take it back)

(For all the pioneers I’m going way back)