Back
Back on the block
Back
Back on the block
Back  on the block  so we can rock
With the soul  rhythm  blues  be bop and hip hop
Back on the block
Back on the block
Ice-T  let me kick my credentials
A young player  bred in South Central
L A   home of the body bag
You wanna die  wear the wrong color rag
I used to walk in stores and yell  "Lay down"
You flinch an inch AK spray down
But I was lucky 'cause I never caught the hard time
I was blessed with the skill to bust a dope rhyme
All my homies died or caught the penzo
Lost their diamonds  cops towed their Benzos
Livin' that life that we thought was it

Fast lanin'  but the car flipped
I'm not gonna lie to ya  'cause I don't lie
I just kick thick game  some people say why
'Cause I'm back on the block  I got my life back
So I school the fools about the fast track
I get static from the style of my technique
Profanity  the blatant way in which I speak
But the Dude knows the streets ain't no kiddie game
You don't know the Dude  Quincy's his first name
He told me  Ice  keep doin' what you're doin'  man
Don't give a damn if the squares don't understand
You let 'em tell you what to say and what to write
Your whole career'll be over by tomorrow night
Rap from your heart  and your heart's with the street
Rap on my record  man  Kimiko  send Ice the beat
The Dude is def no doubt  what can I say
The man can roll with Ice-T or Michael J
Back
Back on the block
Back
Back on the block
Back  on the block  so we can rock
With the soul  rhythm  blues  be bop and hip hop
Back on the block
Back on the block
I'm back  on the block  on the screen
I'm on the wax  I'm on the stage  I'm on the scene
I'm on the case  just like an attorney
The Dude took me on a magic journey
To dance in France  alone in Rome
On the farmlands of Nebraska  the cold of Alaska
The heat of the motherland to be with my brother man
On top of a snowcapped mountain I'm scoutin'
What another man saw in a race of people
To see him give his life for the price of equal
The highest wisdoms  the richest kingdoms
The song of songs we heard David sing them
He showed me me when I was young and hung out
He showed me makin' love  even showed me strung out
He showed me poppin' nines  standin' on a rock
But tears came to my eyes when he showed me my block

Ba-ba-back on the
Ba-back on
Ba-ba-back on the block

Ba-ba-back on
Ba-ba-back on the block
Stokie's just Stokie  mama

Stokie's Stokie

And one by one each woman he kiss
He kiss her and she gon' fall in love
Stokie's just Stokie  you know

Stokie's Stokie

Till someone shows that they care enough

Ain't nothin' gonna bother Stokie much
Some say they can't take it no more
Comin' here  comin' here startin' stuff
But Dude is back on duty fo' sho'

Back on the block to stay
They say he ain't gonna be with it
Comin' back  comin' back to the street
But Dude he know you'll never forget it
Back on the block to stay

Back up and give the brother room
To let poetry bloom to whom it may concern or consume
As I reminisce before this the bliss that exist
But now we brought about a twist
'Cause I remember of my people bleedin'
Put through slavery and killed for bravery
We shoulda got our freedom much sooner
You never seen a Blackman on the honeymooners
But now somehow we've learned to earn  to grow  to show
The elevation of a people built is so
Jesse Jackson  Miss America a black one
No more livin' for just a small fraction
I was once told by the Dude that knowledge is a food
To nourish  so to conclude
This from an Asiatic descendant  Big Daddy is shocked
Yo Q  we back on the block
Back

Back on the block

Back

Back on the block

Back  on the block  so we can rock
With the soul  rhythm  blues  be bop and hip hop
Back on the block

Back on the block

An everlasting omnipresence is my present
State of being  seeing the unpleasant
Sight of righteous souls live like peasants
The mind stunts growth in adolescence
My insight enables me to enlight
The weakest of minds  and I put 'em in flight
As I transcend  a-scend or de-scend
Re-create  re-incarnate and re-send
The powerful spirits of our ancestors
For those that don't know how God blessed us
Because man messed up  the media dressed up
Lies perpetrated as truth  and it left us
Confused  but I've seen it all before
From Babylon to the Third World War
I'm more than a man  I'm more like an entity
Back on the block  and this time my identity is the Dude

Ba-ba-back on the
Ba-back on
Ba-ba-back on the block

Ba-ba-back on
Ba-ba-back on the block
Stoki  ke Stoki  mai-bo

Stoki  Stoki
Wam babma  wam bamb'u mandisa

Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa
Stoki  ke Stoki  mai-bo
Stoki  Stoki

Wam babma  wam bamb'u mandisa
Wahm bamba wahm bamboo mandisa
M'yeke  yeke  yeke  wena

Kha'mye  kha'myeke wena
Yo khala  khala  khala  u mama
Yo khal'u mama khe
M'yeke  yeke  yeke  wena
Kha'mye  kha'myeke  wena
Yo khala  kha  'yok 'shaya u baba
Yok shaya u baba khe
Back on the block
Ba-ba-back on the
Ba-ba-back on the block
Ba-ba-back on
Ba-ba-back on the block
Ba-ba-back on the block
Ba-ba-back on
Now I would  I would contend that ah
The rappers rap is here to stay