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Donwill: when von heard this song he pretty much told me he was on it and wasn't taking no for an answer. I think he literally sent me his verse in the same day as he got the demo. I consider this song the title track of the album. It's kinda like those songs that people used to do dedicated to their dj and it sports that cool ass trademark suhBURB watermark that he puts on all his beat tapes. God I love watermarks...
SuhBURB: Good God, I love this song. If this albums production ethic could be summed up in one track it'd be this one. Everything's wrong: the drums are enormous, to the point that they're getting compressed. The sample is split between the two channels and distorted to hell. That fucks the vocal up. Don't Don and Von sound like they're stuck in the middle of the beat, rapping to you from a distance? And hell, at least Don is rapping at full volume. Von's quietly dishing out some of the meanest shit I've ever heard in a verse; "you such a cool brother to know, but so other than dope."
For a genre that's got such a diverse sonic palette as hip-hop (regardless of what's said over them, beats are made from ANYTHING, as long as it's dope), there's a real monotony that has sway over the way songs are mixed. It makes sense, if you're listening to rap music, you probably want to clearly hear rappers, not have their part subservient to the track. I guess I just have a disdain for convention.
lyrics
VERSE 1: i gets busy and then keep puttin work in/ you tried to apply but didnt get the position/ ditched the pot to piss in, for one to bed a bitch in/ just understand when this ends we make our own pensions/ its the chairman of the boards ((SUHBURB))/ say word, and the team is lessondary so you know its superb/ yall sprawled out zonin, im appalled yall dont know him/ off the wall nigga go in! "yall some chiropractors holdin/ back catalog" know in fact, data logs showin that/ im involved so it got kinda bogged under stacks/ but its back now/ and as long as im in town with down time im jottin down rhymes/ plottin soundwise on how to stop them frown lines/ i let yall tell lies, you the hottest yeah right/ just get in line behind, we redesign the grind/ see in due time ill be reapin whats mine
CHORUS: yall sprawled out sleepin we so sub urban (repeat x 2)/ yall sprawled out sleepin but he's suburb/ fly me!
VERSE 2: i cant feel ya, and id kill to/ ya such a cool brother to know, but so other than dope/ i tried i really did, mc get busy did/ the same jam it was just as lame damn/ link with me im tryna break the chain fam/ we wont shake the industry up but we can shake hands/ make plans ????? but black dont make up a fan base/ they aint sleepin you need to wake up/ no doze wont help no flows ya posin shows/ ya no pro, but ill get you in the show/ only to come and watch not to come and try to flow/ bring some mixtapes to throw... word/ ill be over here with the talented, maybe try the clarinet/ go and be an engineer or something more challengin than this/ this is easy but you, you make it seem to be/ the hardest thing in the world, i aint tryna be evil b/ im just sayin
