Back, back on the blockBack, back on the blockBack on the blockSo we can rock it with the soul, rhythm and blueHip hop and hip hop back on the blockBack on the blockIce tea, let me kick my credentialsA young player bred in South Central, L.A.Home of the body bagYou wanna die, wear the wrong color ragI used to walk in stores and yell lay downYou flinch your inch, A.K. spray downBut I was lucky cause I never caught the hard timeI was left with the skill to bust the dope rhymeAll my homies died and caught the pen soLost the diamonds, cops told the bensosLiving that life that we thought was itFast laning, but the car flippedI'm not gonna lie to you cause I don't lieI just kick thick games, some people say whyCause I'm back on the block, I got my life backSo I school the fools about the fast trackI get stacked from a style, my techniqueProfanity, the blatant 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 doing what you're doing, manDon't give a damn if the squares don't understandYou let him tell you what to say and what to writeYour whole career will be over by tomorrow nightRap from your heart and your heart's with the streetRap on my record, man, Kimiko sent Ice the beatThe dude is deaf from the back, what can I say?The man can roll with Ice to your mic, he saidBack on the blockBack, back on the blockBack, back on the blockBack on the blockSo we can rock it with the soul, rhythm, blueRebop and hip-hopBack 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 don't need RomeI'm on the farm, I'm on the farmTo Nebraska, the cold of AlaskaThe heat of the motherlandTo be with my brother, man, on top of a snow-capped mountainAnd I'm scouting what another man saw in the race of peopleTo see him give his life for the price of equalThe highest wisdom, the richest kingdomsThe song of songs we heard David sing themHe showed me me when I was young and hung outHe showed me making love, even showed me strung outHe showed me pumping nine standing on the rockBut tears came to my eyes when he showed me my blockBack, back, back, back on the blockBack, back, back, back on the blockBack, back, back, back on, back, back, back on the blockStokey, just stokey, my momStokey, stokeyAnd one by one, it's one by one, he can'tHe can't surrender, she's my father-in-lawStokey, just stokey, you knowStokey, stokeyTill someone shows that they care enoughHe's nothing but a part of stokey loveSome say they can't take it no moreCome in here, come in here, start to stokePut it back on, do it for sureBack, back, back, back onthe block to stokeOh baby, he ain't gonna be wayComing back, coming back to the streetDude, he know you'll never forgetBack on the block to stokeBack up and give the brother room to let poetry bloom to homeIt may concern or consumeAs I reminisce before this, the bliss that existsBut now we brought about the twistCause I remember reading of my people bleedingPut through slavery and killed for braveryWe should have got ourfreedom much soonerYou never seen a black man on the honeymoonersBut now somehow we've learned to earn to grow the showThe elevation of our people built this soJesse Jackson, Miss America, a black oneNo more living for just a small fractionI was once told by the dude that knowledge is a foodTo nourish, so took a clueThis from an Asiatic descendant, Big Daddy is shockedYo Q, we back on the blockBack, back on the blockBack, back on the blockSo we can rock it with the soul, rhythm and bluesWe are the hip hop back on the blockBack on the blockBack on the blockAn everlasting omnipresence is my present state of beingSeeing the unpleasant sight of righteous souls live like peasantsThe mind stunts growth and adolescenceMy insight enables me to enlighten the weakest of mindsAnd I put them in flight as I transcend the ace and the descentRecreate, reincarnate, and resent the powerful spirits of our ancestorsThe powerful spirits of our ancestorsFor those that don't know how God blessed usBecause men messed up, the media dressed upLies perpetrated as truths and it left us confusedBut 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 and this time my identity is the dudeBack, back, back, back on theBack, back on theBack, back, back, back on the blockBack, back, back onBack, back, back on the blockStokey, k-stokey mamaStokey, stokey mamaWampambo wampambo maja saStoke stoke mamboWampambo wampambo maja saYeke yeke yeke wenongMkawa kawa kawa umamaYeke yeke yeke wenongTRADAbodyTOKTUNUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaUanoomaWe'll be right back.I would contend that the rap is here to stay.