The Basement

Aw yeah, feel the funk baby

That's right, this is called the basement

And my man CL kick it for you like this

From the heights not what I would write, simple I can do this

Like Popeye to Brutus, I'm your host like a stewardess

Fly with the neighborhood high jackin' fella

So prepare for landing and crash into a cellar

Bodies in the Buddha cloud, misty in the tune

Like a show all nights, a figure eight in the lagoon

With Pete Rock, the complete lock and beat stop

Now all the horny heifers wanna dangle on my

Down by the dungeon with the cracks on the wall

Buffoon, I'm like a mink while you're soon to pimp a raccoon

Stole vocal arrangement, ready set to hit the pavement

But not before the kid leaves the basement

The basement, put the funk around

Here comes my man

My brother, grap lover, get wreck cousin, come on

Call me grap lover, yes, the younger soul brother

Keep your eyes on the prize 'cause you won't find another

When the funk is played, the rhyme I display

Quick to bust a ditz, so don't slip in the way

Of the kid with the flavor, the party people savior

Clocking all the homies, eyes sharp like a razor

I kick a dance step, you're soon to discover

Yo that's the kid form the mecca and the soul brother

Yeah, once in awhile I be with CL on the DL

Or I flow with Pete and find my placement in the basement

The basement, yes, where the beats and the rhymes flow

Peace, I gotta go, grapster's out the door of the basement

Next, we got a special guest

I ain't gon' tell you who it is

Come on, rap along

Tick tock, things are getting thick

Here comes the heavster and I know it makes you sick

Too see a black man gettin' paid on the regular

Car with the cellular, fellas I'm tellin' ya

I got plots and plans, pots and pans

Stocks and grands, so make room for the big man

I walk the streets in peace, and I'm never strapped

But I know a crew of young guns that'll send you back

So easy does it on the DL

Peace to Pete Rock and the mecca Don CL

Heavy D's on this track lettin' ya know there's no replacement

Peace, signing off, check one two, straight from the basement

I'm telling you now, kid

It's crazy fat

I wonder who this is, comin' up?

Fourth but not least, the backbone of the wig out

Freestyle, crazy, hardcore, no sellout

Speakin' upon where I dwell from the dungeon

All over the US states, even London

Past time present, black to the future

Swimmin' in beats like a dolphin, so call me Don Shula

A raider well like art shell, crazy defense

A pro bowl with soul for local defense

The crew name is CL smooth and Pete Rock

Here to sail when I prevail and stare into the dock

The pimp daddy of the funk flavor, catch you later

Clever like a secret agent comin' from the basement

That's right

Aw my man

He's crazy funky, his name is Rob O, check him out

Ali- kazaam, you'll never guess what I am

Motto is that nothing ever changes but haircuts and kicks

To stacks of vocal breaks, life pays when kid said

Pete makes beats in the basement

Cold hit the pavement, over to the chill side

The real side, the 7-7 hill side

I thought I'd just chill, take a breath

Straight up Columbus hill, make a left

And get fixed, plus the ghetto chicks got flicks

Of me stacks and kicks, my joint's bumpin' lovely

Walkin' down the streets, much props on the city, yo

I hear voices sayin' that's Rob O dingo in the basement

Ah, ha ha ha, yeah this is funky

I can feel it

My man from the Vernon, his name is Di-Da make it raw

Fly like an eagle, a seagull

Always into somethin', like Snoopy the beagle

People, grab a tight hold of the sound

Hard, snatchin' raw pipes off the shelves

Blowin' up spots from state to state

I'm comin' to town, but you just can't wait

Check the station for conversation at six block

Uno here to put suckas in the mix

I get deeper than oceanography

Thinkin' of crazy shit, like psychology

So speak the peace, then slide like grease

The beat is fat, but the rhyme is obese in the basement

In the basement is where I dwell

Check the MC's fell

'Cause I am crazy funky

CL smooth