The sample comes from a pretty obscure track by Electric Light Orchestra named “Nightrider, off of their 1975 album "Face the Music”.
This track is also the third instalment in a series of tracks named “The Exclusive” in Madlib (or Madlib produced) albums which usually feature another MC that hasn’...
[Intro: M.E.D., Sample]
Exclusive
With MC M.E.D
[?] [?] hours, and was about to go
Until one, motherfucker stepped on my toe
A split second later: "Whip, bam!", it was on
I eased out my gun, the ass [?] (Now)
[Verse: M.E.D., Sample]
If you feel me, they wanna kill me
Then I was born there (They got prices on my head)
But we ain't never scared, nigga we still here
Know what's the bloodshed that (They got prices on my head)
Whether cash or stripes, for either wrong or right
My life, slippin' off the edge (They got prices on my head)
Hope ain't over with [?], politics for the [?] light
Tax from the government means (They got prices on my head)
I'm thoroughbred, you cover streets [?] [?]
Your brothers bled, jealousy defeats another friend
Homie we don't play around, I'll lay you down and stare
The conscious for this [?] of [?] (They got prices on my head)
[Chorus: M.E.D., Jeff Lynne and Sample]
No matter how you play it you ain't safe from
Drugs, label, cops, beef, friends, hate, guns
Baby ma, family, church, jealousy, slugs
With no love, push them niggas to shove (We gots to)
Push em' back, push em' back, push em' back, push em' back
Push em' back, push em' back, push em' back, push em' back
(Rat-tat-tat-tat and that was bad
Three was wack [?]
Kinda gettin' late
As I sit here in my jail cell about to cry
I'm thinkin', thinkin':
"I shot three motherfuckers and I don't know why")
I remember somewhere in the rain
The faces of the passers-by
Staring faces, broken blinds
I remember somewhere in the rain
The faces of the passers-by
Staring faces, broken blinds
[Outro: Sample]
The only plan was money and [?]
School, or what the fuck, that was a thing of the past
Gettin' paid
School and all that other square shit could kiss my ass
Mad at my bun, toy with my gun
Just to have fun
"[?]!" was at full blast, so I "Chop!" ready to kick some ass
Just to get even, so I thought
The Exclusive was written by Jeff Lynne & Madlib & M.E.D..
The Exclusive was produced by Madlib.
Madlib released The Exclusive on Tue Feb 02 2010.