Back, back on the blockBack, back on the blockBack on the blockBack on the blocksongIce-T, let me kick my credentialsA young player bred in South Central LAHome of the body bagYou wanna dive, where are all the color pencil先生I used to walk in stores and yell lay downYou'd flinch an inch, a.k.a. spray downBut I was lucky cause I never caught the hard timeI was lucky to skill the buzzer, don't rhymeAll my homies died and caught the pencilLost to diamonds, copsCops told that Benzo was livin' that life that we thought was itFast lanin', but the car flippedI'm not gonna lie to you, cause I don't lieI just kick thick games, some people say, why?Cause I'm back on the block, I got my life backSo I school the fools about the fast trackI get stacked on my style, my techniqueProfanity, the blake way in which I speakBut the dude knows the streets ain't no kiddie gameYou don't know the dude, Quincy's his first nameHe told me, Ice, keep doin' what you're doin', manDon't give a damn if the square don't understandYou let him tell you what to say and what to writeYour whole career will be over by tomorrow nightBack on the block, so we can rock with the soulRhythm and blue, we love it hereBack on the block, back on the blockI'm back on the block, on the screenI'm on the wax, I'm on the stage, I'm on the sceneI'm on the case just like an attorneyThe dude took me on a magic journeyTo dance in France, I roamed and roamedOn the farmlands of Nebraska, the core of AlaskaThe heat of the motherland, to be with my brotherMan, I'm back on the block, I'm on the stageOn top of a snow-capped mountain, I'm scoutin'What another man saw in the race of peopleTo see him give his life for the price of peopleThe highest wisdom, the richest kingdomThe song of songs we heard David say themStokey, just stokey, my momStokey, stokeyAnd one by one, it won't endHe's the man, she's the fatherStokey, just stokey, you knowStokey, stokeyHe's the man, she's the fatherHe's the man, she's the fatherBack up and give the brother from the left forgeryBloom to home, it may concern or consumeAs I reminisce before this, the bliss that existsBut now we brought about a twistCause I remember readin' of my people bleedin'Put through slavery and killed for braveryWe should've got our freedom much soonerYou never seen a black man on the honeymoonersBut now somehow we've learned to earn the growthThis show is about to end, it's about to endThis show is about to end, it's about to endThe elevation of our people built this soJesse Jackson, Miss America, a black oneNo more livin' for just a small fractionI was once told by the dude that knowledge is a foodTo nourish, so took a clueJust from an Asian at the Senate, Big Daddy is shockedBut can we back on the block, back on the blockSo we can rock it with the soul, rhythm and blueWe got it, so we hop back on the block, back on the blockAn everlasting omnipresence is my presentState of being, seeing the unpleasantSight of being, seeing the unpleasantSight of righteous souls live like peasantsThe mind stunts growth and adolescenceMy insight enables me to enlightenThe weakest of minds and I put them in flightAs I transcend, ace and a decentRecreate, reincarnate and resetThe powerful spirit of our ancestorsFor those that don't know how God blessed usBecause man messed up, media dressed upLies perpetrated as truths and it left usConfused, but I've seen it all beforeFrom Babylon to the third world warI'm more than a man, I'm more like an entityBack on the block, back on the block, back on the blockIn the time my identity is dueBack, back, back, back, back, back, back on the blockSome say they can't take it no moreTell me they're coming, it's gonna stopBut who did back on duty for sure?That's on the block to stayOh, they say he ain't gonna be wellComing back, coming back to the streetBut dude, he know you'll never forgetThat's on the block to stayThat's on the block to stay