Movin Backwards (Explicit)

Movin Backwards (Explicit) - A Tribe Called Quest/Anderson .Paak

Written by：Kamaal Fareed

I hope my legendary style of rap lives on

A-fixed to the earth like my feet they got cleats on

I'm moving backwards never that was never the plan

Pushing sh*t along render stillness in the quick sand

Asphalt jumpin' junkie lyrical concrete

My Jedi mind be moving me

Throughout the many dark streets

Backwoods boondocks whatever terrain

Auf Wiedersehen Aloha man our feet ain't the same

I won't abuse these shoes these shoes ain't made for reversing

Then trudging through these motherf**kers' first album

Footprinting never ever ghostwritten yo' sh*t free bitten

Grab my sh*t with both hands iron grip steel mitten

Bloviated Jarobi ate it and now it's gone

Closed mouths don't get fed or move ahead

To my hustlers with customers scam my chicks just being petty

Trap lords with the fetty don't be no backwards no

No backward a** ni**a don't be no backwards no

No backward a** ni**a don't be no backwards no

Don't do it ni**a

I spun around without a care

When I stopped I felt lost

I'm two heels from the top tier

Really want to be boss

I figured it out figured it out somewhere

Maybe the answer's not out there

Maybe it's on the ground somewhere

When I stopped I felt lost

Do you ever feel lost

They wanna see my downfall

Turn a good day into a downpour

Thorns in the crown hit the cross I bear

Why they wanna see me hangin' like a towel somewhere

One eye two bills three tears a heart still

How I'm feelin' in my mind right here

Think I'm moving I ain't going nowhere nowhere

Maybe why I feel lost yeah

How I'm posed to know how home feels

I ain't even on my home field

And again I feel lost

Was not a cruise that brought us here again I feel lost

And I refuse to be stuck right here yeah

I don't want to move backwards no

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me direction

I don't want to move backwards no

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me directions

I don't want to move backwards

Moving backwards never that was never the plan

Can I vent I was content being my own man

Up until that night ill-fated walking home I was faded

Po puts braces on my wrist like he was clapping his hands

How demeaning y'all

Who could be blind to racism

Bring bro bro to me for the brotherly baptism

Instead of slaps give him the dose of Ab wisdom

He'll make it out of the jungle some way

Hey it's figurative not a real place you stay

Ay it's mind state filled with muck and malaise

Uh I got direction without using Waze

Submitting myself to praying these days

Yeah moonwalking backwards it's only for stage

Feds lining up we're right here

And everybody's hands in the air

Four-five so get your a** found somewhere

Caught between hope and despair

Say it loud what it take to make my n***as listen

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me

Cool out chill out ni**a I'm cool

Cool out ni**a nah ni**a I'm through

Head down ain't no tellin' what you gon' do

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me

Somebody just give me direction

I don't want to move backwards no

Cops killing us n***as everywhere

Maybe we should get some guns too

She come around every now and a few

Man I hope she really loves you

Living high ain't hard to do

She'll be in the clouds somewhere

Feeling fresh I strut your b**ches out of here

Might even take your broad too

Oops I'm 'bout to get kicked out here

Tell mama I'mma slide through

Stealer I'm trying to make out of here

But stuck up in the same room

Too many open miles in here

Sick of eating out at drive through

Hahaha look at this motherf**ker