Kanye West, Common - Back to Basics lyrics

Uh, uh, let's take it back to basics
When shit gets worse, we converse
How we need a new balance
Before the lines get crossed like Asics
Just look at what we got
If we don't shoot the Reeboks
This is a beat that no flow can detox
So the respect is due like my Louie bag
I don't wanna have to check you
I'm Chi as Buck-Fiftys and
Pelle Pelle leathers
Some say my beats made the Bulls play better
I say
Black on black is the hate that hate made
Sara Lee with the dough
I'm talkin' bout the cake maid
McDonald's with the flow
Served over a billion
You've seen the video
Words over the building
Uh, I wish I could give you this feeling
I wish I could give you this feeling
And when the Workout Plan ain't work out
Man
Me and Common is back on the corners again
On the corner

Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh uh, uh uh
I open my eyes
The corner is like African tribes
The black is subsidized
The black enterprise, the passion arise
The youth fantasize
Who got some cash in they eyes
If youth dies, mamas askin' rationalize
Tryna build a spot where
Ghetto bastards could rise
The ghetto has been bastardized
By those that capitalize
Wonder if it's a plan
That the master devised
To bring his people to a land
Where the blacks are despised? On the corner