The Breakdown - People Under The Stairs

They say tap the bottle and twist the cap off

In your nugget it’s the rugged book report slanger

I’m a banger, the kind you keep in your disc changer

The best five for your greenbacks we make em ease back

Push that album release back and re-think

While I remax in one of them hot air joints

Floatin over the city like the Goodyear pimp

Fuckin' up your ballgame with my fame you’re lame

The frequencies get tweaked capacities get pushed

To the limit tell em I did it just to stay up in it

I play to win at all costs and I stay in the way of danger

To bein' real I’m a relative, never been a stranger

So when you see me walk by nigga speak up

I’m a fan of hip-hop since EU and Da Butt was in

And my nigga Doug Fresh ran the show

Three Times was Dope and MTV was yo

But now they’re slow and guaranteed to show

Some extra’d out rap niggas braggin big about figures

Never spit about an Escalade if you ain’t rollin

Don’t spit about no weapons if you know you ain’t holdin

I’m only breakin' it down cuz fools be breakin' the rules

Yo, I love P Funk I’m from the old school

Serious it’s steady bill, bringin the raw deal

Straight from the west compound bringing you the break down

The break down

Thes One representin Lima Peru

Mi barrio suco my Los Angeles crew

For unity heads that I met chillin in 92

Here’s another album we found em go pound em with the new

Lyrical blue light night special the waterloo

World-travelin have a new Fat Larry-style crew

Havin to move place to place with a smile face

Cookin down the vinyl to finally make bass

Something for sophisticated 8th-grade hip hop taste

For heads that remember the breakup of 3rd Bass

Tribe, EPMD, Pete Rock and C. L Smooth

Hear immense influence that congruent in my groove

It’s a tribute, a syllophantic, god damnit

That my loops and breaks I excavate second-handed

I’m just bein me and doin my best with what I’m blessed with

Influence of the west that frontier fresh shit

The sunset jetset where kids catch wreck

It’s no thing to see my on Venice bumping Reign of the Tec

And fellow shit, my mellow pick em up in Crescent Heights

We dip to the hype club and rock it all night Gs

The people under the limelight are like you

Drama with our ladies and can’t afford a Mercedes

But been in it to win it since the 80s so play these

Tracks with a heart and an infinite sound break it down

The break down