Basement Tapes

Intro

Yo

Uh

Yeah

Check it

Verse 1

Basement tapes and busted speakers hum

I sharpen every syllable until the block goes numb

Cold blocks

Crooked cops

Concrete cypher where the hungry kids stomp

I flip a page from a torn notebook

Pen bleeding black ink the city overlooked

Chorus

We run the underground

We run the underground

No suits no shine

Just the grime we found

We run the underground

We run the underground

Turn the volume up

Let it shake the ground

Verse 2

My crew move quiet through the avenue

Every bar a brick we stacked and carried through

Late nights

Stale bread

Still I never fled

From a project hallway to a crowded stage

I been writing since I was a kid my age

Chorus

We run the underground

We run the underground

No suits no shine

Just the grime we found

We run the underground

We run the underground

Turn the volume up

Let it shake the ground

Bridge

Scratch it back

Bring it back

Scratch it back

Bring it back

Yeah

Uh

Verse 3

Tape deck hiss and a dusty sample chop

I could feel the whole borough in a single drop

Hustle hard

Head down

Never slow the sound

From a rooftop cipher to a sold-out crowd

We the rawest thing this city ever found

Chorus

We run the underground

We run the underground

No suits no shine

Just the grime we found

We run the underground

We run the underground

Turn the volume up

Let it shake the ground

Outro

Yeah

Uh-huh

We run it

We run it

Peace