Focus…, Donwill, Von Pea - Homage to Ali Shaheed lyrics

Welcome to the "Homage" for
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Remember sound with-out Focus is just noise
Keep bouncin!

I be hatin sucka emcees, and sucka producers
I never tried to make a beat
Until I heard The Ummah
Five mics twice and that
Wasn't even they best
Midnight maraudering women wear
Painted breast every rapper at the time came
Through for the cover
And the music was tougher
It influenced none other than
Brothers that wasn't into hearing
Coke and Colombians
Or the rage, Ali was a legend by my age
Was awoken out of my sleep
The day Tribe called quit's
Yeah, it was heartbreaking
But I knew it was more shit
When Phife wanted to bone Dawn from En Vouge
Sha did something iller
Started a group with her
Yeah before Ms morgan, there was a Ms pearl
And then he started rappin
Son is out of this world
A creator on the boards or the fader
It's him like Betsy Boggs, let me
Tell you who's the raw, it's Shaheed

"The rave of the town to
Your foes and your friends"

Oh my god, yes, oh my god
Every time the Tribe dropped
That shit was so damn hard
Ali Shaheed, on the beat, on repeat
In my iPod
It's all Tribe everything, all I'd ever need
Whole damn discography is
Shitting on anything
The fact he fuckin with us
Still is hard to believe
It ain't alleged he a legend
Check the back of your records
(Take a second, read the
Credit's) yeah, yeah, but check his method
Find the dope loop, flip it
Bass line filtered
Kick drum kickin and he cuttin to the rhythm
My peoples is instinctive
So my movement is love
And we don't loot for loot
It's the ears we maraud
Socially I'm not a name, Don-Don got game
Said we need to do a jam and Focus got bangs
So it bump like a tumor
And shout out to The Ummah
Thank you Jay Dee, Q Tip, and Ali Shaheed

On 11 9
93, that's when I decided that I would MC
Marauding every ear I see in front of me
(Chaun', you got fat) yeah
I know it look pathetic
Ali Shaheed Muhammad got me doin calisthenics
And he said it ain't genetics
So I gotta put in work if I'mma be on award
Tours abroad going berzerk
Ayo I ain't buggin' out
I'm payin' homage to a legend
Who set the tone of every rhyme
That Tip and Phife was checking
My turn to kick it, where the I T at?
Like an oversize man, P, my rhyme be fat
Thank Allah for Shaheed droppin
Needles on the record
Makin nothin but the classics
Every night I would request it
A Tribe Called Quest paved the
Way for me to rock i can be who I am and
Don't pretend who I'm not
While he could still smell the
Roses I'mma keep payin homage
Can I get whatever from Mr muhammad?