Long Time Coming

It's been a long time coming
It's been a long time coming

So everybody wanna rap now
Get in the studio and try to lay a track down
Get on the stage and perform for a packed crowd
But how you plan to get fans with your wack sound?
Let's lay these cats down
It's been a long time coming
Everybody rapping, but they not saying nothing
Say they love music, but they keep bluffing
Instead of being real, they just keep fronting

Yo, picture me on an acid trip
Trying to get plastered quick like a heathen
Out looking for some hash to hit
Biting my nails down past the tip, dog, I'm fiending
Acting all little rash and shit
I didn't even have an ass to kiss or a pot to piss
Couldn't even see past a bitch
To watch rise and it's cash to get, dog, I mean it
Got off them drugs and picked up weight
Quit the stick ups, a quick update
All you dicks wanna step on stage like you spit stuff great
But so sweet that you hiccup cake
I been waiting for way too long just to get booed and shooed on
My crew's paid its dues, hope you fools will move on
Real recognize real now that you gone
Stayed in a short while, keep them shoes on
We rapped on the same streets you used to cruise on
You sound a little off, how you gon' put your dudes on?
Y'all niggas lames undercover (That's right)
They call me Orville Redenbacher 'cause I'm popping corn motherfuckers

So everybody wanna rap now
Get in the studio and try to lay a track down
Get on the stage and perform for a packed crowd
But how you plan to get fans with your wack sound?
Let's lay these cats down

Check the six passenger van, it's wrapped in graphics
No baggage, travel light, clothes wrapped in plastic
We like B Street, and Rainbow made us matching jackets
One side got a name, we don't practice backflips
Or up rocking the streets for change
But we got some real fancy footwork that'll freeze the game
It's been a bitter cold winter, dog, but seasons change
So they got the rap game under siege again
It's been a shift in the paradigm, man
We going back to the golden era, so we steady walking a narrow line
I'm living proof that it can and it will happen
I been could've quit, but damn it, I'm still rapping
I'm stuck in the here and now
But I'm a product of a different place and time, it's realer now
My whole state of mind different, a little more pressure
The gear and style lifted, a little more fresher
Young bucks tried to tear me down
And the game tried for twenty years now, but couldn't wear me down
On some Verizon Wireless, you hear me now?
We all been through so much, but we still riding tireless
And even though the whole entire ville might admire us
I can't quit, this shit is in my blood like a virus
It's been a long time coming and we want our payment
Since forever, 'til forever, that's an understatement