Anderson .Paak, A Tribe Called Quest - Movin Backwards lyrics

I hope my legendary style of rap lives on
A-fixed to the Earth like my feet
They got cleats on i'm moving backwards
Never that was never the plan
Pushing shit along
Render stillness in the quick sand
Asphalt jumpin', junkie lyrical, concrete
My Jedi mind be moving me
Throughout the many dark streets
Backwoods, boondocks, whatever terrain
Auf Wiedersehen, Aloha
Man our feet ain't the same
I won't abuse these shoes
These shoes ain't made for reversing
Then trudging through these motherfuckers'
First album Footprinting
Never ever ghostwritten, yo' shit free
Bitten
Grab my shit with both hands, iron grip
Steel mitten
Bloviated, Jarobi ate it and now it's gone


Closed mouths don't get fed or move ahead
To my hustlers with customers
Scam my chicks just being petty
Trap lords with the fetty
Don't be no backwards, no
No backward ass nigga, don't
Be no backwards, no
No backward ass nigga, don't
Be no backwards, no
No backward ass nigga, don't
Be no backwards, no
Don't do it, nigga

I spun around without a care
When I stopped, I felt lost
I'm two heels from the top tier
Really want to be boss
I figured it out, figured it out somewhere
Maybe the answer's not out there
Maybe it's on the ground somewhere
When I stopped, I felt lost
Do you ever feel lost?

They wanna see my downfall
Turn a good day into a downpour
Thorns in the crown hit the cross I bear
Why they wanna see me hangin'
Like a towel somewhere
One eye, two bills, three tears
A heart still
How I'm feelin' in my mind right here
Think I'm moving, I ain't going nowhere
Nowhere maybe why I feel lost, yeah
How I'm 'posed to know how home feels?
I ain’t even on my home field
And again I feel lost
Was not a cruise that brought us here
Again I feel lost
And I refuse to be stuck right here, yeah
I don't want to move backwards, no
Somebody just give me somebody just give me
Somebody just give me direction?
I don't want to move backwards, no
Somebody just give me somebody just give me
Somebody just give me directions?
I don't want to move backwards, no

Moving backwards never
That was never the plan
Can I vent? I was content being my own man
Up until that night ill-fated
Walking home I was faded
Po puts braces on my wrist like
He was clapping his hands how demeaning
Y'all? Who could be blind to racism?
Bring bro bro to me for the brotherly baptism
Instead of slaps
Give him the dose of Ab wisdom
He'll make it out of the jungle some way
Hey, it's figurative
Not a real place you stay
Ay, it's mind state filled
With muck and malaise
Uh, I got direction without using Waze
Submitting myself to praying these days
Yeah, moonwalking backwards
It's only for stage

Feds lining up, in riot gear
And everybody's hands in the air
Four-five so get your ass found somewhere
Caught between hope and despair say it loud
What it take to make my niggas listen
Somebody just give me somebody just give me
Somebody just give me
Cool out, chill out nigga, I'm cool
Cool out nigga, nah, nigga I'm through
Head down
Ain't no tellin' what you gon' do
(Somebody just give me somebody just give me
Somebody just give me direction
I don't want to move backwards, no
Cops killing us niggas everywhere
Maybe we should get some guns too)
She come around every now and a few
(Man, I hope she really loves you)
Living high ain't hard to do
(She'll be in the clouds somewhere
Feeling fresh
I strut your bitches out of here
Might even take your broad too
Oops, I'm 'bout to get kicked out here
Tell mama I'mma slide through)
Stealer, I'm trying to get out of here
But stuck up in the same room
(Too many open miles in here
Sick of eating out at drive through)

Hahaha, look at this motherfucker