Sojourn, Ras Kass - Basement Boogie lyrics

Walk in the dark club down
The flight of steps
To the place where the music takes you
And faces you in a space
You've yet to explore
Open the door, greetings from the gutter
Gully, grand, godly, gorgeous
And beautifully ugly!
Simultaneously winding to the
Bassline and beat
The time keeper sees it all
Some move gracefully while
Others fall out of the pocket
Sloppily slurred steps speak volumes telling
Us to "Get Down!" it’s crept into the
Crowds collective consciousness
Nobody's anonymous or even autonomous
Is it too deep yet? Well
Then respond to this: Hands up!
It's just a random command
So that you can handle the jam
Cause I figure then if you can’t
Then what's the use for the music
If you never can understand it?
I'll meet you half way so if
You listen and think while
The music bumps there's no excuse
In these last days

Hook

All rise, Sojourn has arrived
Shock to the rhythm while I
Rock for your lives it's a call and response
So whatever your replies
Be they "yes yes y'alls"
Or tears falling from your eyes
- hands to the skies!
Get em wavin' in agreement
With the way that I'm emceein’
What I’m sayin's for a reason
Steadily slayin’ while you're grieving
Thus I'm stayin and believin'
These days are deceiving
So I’m takin a knee and
I'm praying for freedom y'all!
All walks of life take
Strides towards altered
States of being but being human
Beings get halted
When we falter at the altar of self
- sacrifice - minus the wrist shaving
It's a blind bravery
When we willfully and skillfully
Build the chains to our own slavery
There's an irony to self captivation
So I bang bars to the
Break to bring y'all liberation!

Hook

They put a battery in my back
Forcing me to shout a rhyme
(Preoccupied with alkaline) and that's what
Coming out my spine
Emperor Palpatine, dark Sith Lordess
These shackled headed nias don't
Want it with Horus
16 bars to sing the chorus out a Ford Taurus
With a blond bih eatin all the
Gddamn porridgecall it barely legal
So let me make a point like
I'm shooting a free throw
Religious Right? Nothing close to
The teachings of Christ
They protect the interests of rich old
Men who racist and white
Tea Party? Just in the closet tea baggers
More reverends and Republicans get exposed
For being f gs
Yeah, but back to this rhyme spitter
Call me Spiderman the way I
Dine on y'all "fly" nias!
Hannibal Lecter, fava beans
Quionte and a lecture
Holy Ghost, this Gucci on a specter!