Back On The Block

Song Back On The Block
Artist Quincy Jones
Album Back On The Block

Lyrics

[00:04.480] Back
[00:06.210] Back on the block
[00:09.030] Back
[00:10.790] Back on the block
[00:13.570] Back on the block so we can rock
[00:15.630] With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop
[00:18.150] Back on the block
[00:19.930] Back on the block
[00:22.480] Ice-T let me kick my credentials
[00:25.180] A young player bred in South Central
[00:27.380] L A home of the body bag
[00:29.780] You wanna die wear the wrong color rag
[00:32.040] I used to walk in stores and yell "Lay down"
[00:34.350] You flinch an inch AK spray down
[00:36.480] But I was lucky 'cause I never caught the hard time
[00:38.900] I was blessed with the skill to bust a dope rhyme
[00:41.450] All my homies died or caught the penzo
[00:43.430] Lost their diamonds cops towed their Benzos
[00:45.530] Livin' that life that we thought was it
[00:47.440]
[00:48.080] Fast lanin' but the car flipped
[00:50.210] I'm not gonna lie to ya 'cause I don't lie
[00:52.410] I just kick thick game some people say why
[00:54.900] 'Cause I'm back on the block I got my life back
[00:57.340] So I school the fools about the fast track
[00:59.500] I get static from the style of my technique
[01:01.800] Profanity the blatant way in which I speak
[01:04.090] But the Dude knows the streets ain't no kiddie game
[01:06.310] You don't know the Dude Quincy's his first name
[01:08.500] He told me Ice keep doin' what you're doin' man
[01:10.750] Don't give a damn if the squares don't understand
[01:13.080] You let 'em tell you what to say and what to write
[01:15.330] Your whole career'll be over by tomorrow night
[01:17.600] Rap from your heart and your heart's with the street
[01:19.900] Rap on my record man Kimiko send Ice the beat
[01:22.300] The Dude is def no doubt what can I say
[01:24.550] The man can roll with Ice-T or Michael J
[01:26.810] Back
[01:28.510] Back on the block
[01:31.380] Back
[01:33.060] Back on the block
[01:35.820] Back on the block so we can rock
[01:37.970] With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop
[01:40.480] Back on the block
[01:42.260] Back on the block
[01:44.810] I'm back on the block on the screen
[01:47.100] I'm on the wax I'm on the stage I'm on the scene
[01:49.560] I'm on the case just like an attorney
[01:51.810] The Dude took me on a magic journey
[01:53.960] To dance in France alone in Rome
[01:55.960] On the farmlands of Nebraska the cold of Alaska
[01:58.530] The heat of the motherland to be with my brother man
[02:00.800] On top of a snowcapped mountain I'm scoutin'
[02:03.000] What another man saw in a race of people
[02:05.400] To see him give his life for the price of equal
[02:07.640] The highest wisdoms the richest kingdoms
[02:09.950] The song of songs we heard David sing them
[02:12.340] He showed me me when I was young and hung out
[02:14.620] He showed me makin' love even showed me strung out
[02:16.740] He showed me poppin' nines standin' on a rock
[02:18.970] But tears came to my eyes when he showed me my block
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[02:22.570] Ba-ba-back on the
[02:24.370] Ba-back on
[02:25.450] Ba-ba-back on the block
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[02:27.740] Ba-ba-back on
[02:28.980] Ba-ba-back on the block
[02:30.900] Stokie's just Stokie mama
[02:32.730]
[02:33.890] Stokie's Stokie
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[02:35.320] And one by one each woman he kiss
[02:38.090] He kiss her and she gon' fall in love
[02:40.160] Stokie's just Stokie you know
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[02:42.820] Stokie's Stokie
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[02:44.440] Till someone shows that they care enough
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[02:47.270] Ain't nothin' gonna bother Stokie much
[02:49.210] Some say they can't take it no more
[02:51.740] Comin' here comin' here startin' stuff
[02:53.820] But Dude is back on duty fo' sho'
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[02:56.290] Back on the block to stay
[02:58.280] They say he ain't gonna be with it
[03:00.910] Comin' back comin' back to the street
[03:02.990] But Dude he know you'll never forget it
[03:05.200] Back on the block to stay
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[03:12.090] Back up and give the brother room
[03:13.390] To let poetry bloom to whom it may concern or consume
[03:16.400] As I reminisce before this the bliss that exist
[03:19.100] But now we brought about a twist
[03:20.880] 'Cause I remember of my people bleedin'
[03:23.190] Put through slavery and killed for bravery
[03:25.790] We shoulda got our freedom much sooner
[03:27.660] You never seen a Blackman on the honeymooners
[03:30.100] But now somehow we've learned to earn to grow to show
[03:32.740] The elevation of a people built is so
[03:34.810] Jesse Jackson Miss America a black one
[03:37.240] No more livin' for just a small fraction
[03:39.310] I was once told by the Dude that knowledge is a food
[03:42.090] To nourish so to conclude
[03:43.950] This from an Asiatic descendant Big Daddy is shocked
[03:46.900] Yo Q we back on the block
[03:48.620] Back
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[03:50.290] Back on the block
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[03:53.210] Back
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[03:54.910] Back on the block
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[03:57.590] Back on the block so we can rock
[03:59.600] With the soul rhythm blues be bop and hip hop
[04:02.210] Back on the block
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[04:04.070] Back on the block
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[04:06.590] An everlasting omnipresence is my present
[04:09.050] State of being seeing the unpleasant
[04:11.310] Sight of righteous souls live like peasants
[04:13.630] The mind stunts growth in adolescence
[04:16.000] My insight enables me to enlight
[04:18.090] The weakest of minds and I put 'em in flight
[04:20.350] As I transcend a-scend or de-scend
[04:22.780] Re-create re-incarnate and re-send
[04:25.100] The powerful spirits of our ancestors
[04:27.130] For those that don't know how God blessed us
[04:29.690] Because man messed up the media dressed up
[04:31.790] Lies perpetrated as truth and it left us
[04:34.090] Confused but I've seen it all before
[04:36.290] From Babylon to the Third World War
[04:38.650] I'm more than a man I'm more like an entity
[04:40.920] Back on the block and this time my identity is the Dude
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[04:44.420] Ba-ba-back on the
[04:46.180] Ba-back on
[04:47.220] Ba-ba-back on the block
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[04:49.530] Ba-ba-back on
[04:50.680] Ba-ba-back on the block
[04:52.580] Stoki ke Stoki mai-bo
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[04:55.460] Stoki Stoki
[04:57.030] Wam babma wam bamb'u mandisa
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[04:59.890] Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa
[05:01.940] Stoki ke Stoki mai-bo
[05:04.470] Stoki Stoki
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[05:06.180] Wam babma wam bamb'u mandisa
[05:09.030] Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa
[05:11.120] M'yeke yeke yeke wena
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[05:13.610] Kha'mye kha'myeke wena
[05:15.620] Yo khala khala khala u mama
[05:18.310] Yo khal'u mama khe
[05:20.090] M'yeke yeke yeke wena
[05:22.730] Kha'mye kha'myeke wena
[05:24.710] Yo khala kha 'yok 'shaya u baba
[05:27.480] Yok shaya u baba khe
[06:05.910] Back on the block
[06:07.340] Ba-ba-back on the
[06:08.510] Ba-ba-back on the block
[06:13.000] Ba-ba-back on
[06:16.510] Ba-ba-back on the block
[06:19.120] Ba-ba-back on the block
[06:21.130] Ba-ba-back on
[06:23.340] Now I would I would contend that ah
[06:27.920] The rappers rap is here to stay