Chino XL, Rakaa Iriscience, Roc Marciano - Take It Back lyrics

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
OG 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)