| I’ll take you back fifteen years, analyze | 
| Every verse is cleaner than a surgeon’s hands when they’ve been sanitized | 
| I’ll take you back to the panic when rap was dangerous | 
| Blasting EPMD out of them classic Jeep Wranglers | 
| I’ll take you back to a different time | 
| Spazzing like River Phoenix outside of the Viper Room the night he died | 
| Back to paying dues spitting lit a fuse | 
| With the mathematical, aeronautical cynic mind of Howard Hughes | 
| Abnormality, I’ll take it back to originality | 
| If I’m insane then rap is my insanity | 
| I’ll take it back like an Indian giver | 
| Yo scratch that term, I’d rather throw a White cowboy in the river | 
| I’ll take it back, full rage | 
| Performing How You Like Me Now with Kool Moe Dee right up on the same stage | 
| Let’s get it back to the basics | 
| Zookeepers need to put a diaper on Chino when he goes ape shit | 
| Hip-Hop is a great ship, let me steer it | 
| My skill level’s so high that when I rhyme only dogs hear it | 
| The ghetto vampire that’s walking in the sunlight | 
| The lyric Christ, I turn entire blocks to mass grave sites | 
| I will brolic Brock Lesnar your career | 
| Chino got more Seoul than the capital of Korea | 
| I’m bringing wind storms, rain, darkness and drear | 
| Puncture heart valves, painting nightmares in blood smears | 
| '98, I’d like to take it back | 
| Still only attract women that think murder’s an aphrodisiac | 
| A lot of cats that just hopped into this artform | 
| Are like photographers that never stepped inside a darkroom | 
| I’ll take it back to when I wanted to be Tito from the Fearless Four | 
| The illest Puerto Rican I had ever saw | 
| Studied Cool J, studied Kool G, studied Ice-T | 
| Now I meet little homies that say they study me | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (What we gonna do right here is go back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Way back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Back in the days when I was a teenager) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (For all the pioneers I’m going way back) | 
| I’ll take it back but still tomorrow for you yesterday cats | 
| Matter fact, seldom took it back, I meant to say that | 
| I take it back to the original, King of style, Kase 2 | 
| Two good letters with one arm and watch them biters waste you | 
| Take it back to unity, rest in peace Bigga B | 
| Rob One, Roc Raida, King Dream, SMD | 
| Take it back to 1580 KDAY for the cuts | 
| Take it back to only leaving Yo in the Toyota trucks | 
| I take it back to fast break, Magic, Worthy, Laker raps | 
| Some silently claim, but some violently bang on wax | 
| Croker sack house shoes, hats with the golf clubs | 
| Back to educated rap, back before we all thugs | 
| Take it back to dignity, I bet it isn’t, promise me | 
| Traced 'em back and watch the crack spread Reganomically | 
| I’m a full time warrior, I’m a war time journalist | 
| Earning hazard pay, Rakka’s live where the Inferno is | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (What we gonna do right here is go back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Way back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Back in the days when I was a teenager) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (For all the pioneers I’m going way back) | 
| Niggas who wore the gazelles had all the females | 
| Beat tell in the Benz, SCL | 
| She smell like TCB gel | 
| Treat a freak well 'cause I pay attention to detail | 
| Pinky ring long fingernail to hit fish scale | 
| But that ain’t how we get down | 
| I’d rather pull a heist, skip town | 
| Up in your wig, I pump six rounds, bg rope, Slick Rick style | 
| Moet rep, '89 Rolex vets | 
| Poets, tecs, I’m the Polo tech’s sweats | 
| Coke heads to Pro Keds steps | 
| While connects role in the LS with leather head rests | 
| My waves laying Indian hemp | 
| O.G. | 
| revolver like Billy The Kids | 
| Squeeze trigs in millennium skid | 
| The condominium was big, that’s that brilliant kid | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (What we gonna do right here is go back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Way back) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (Back in the days when I was a teenager) | 
| (Take it back) | 
| (For all the pioneers I’m going way back) |