Story By Common

Yeah, what up? It's Common right here Y'all know where I come from and, uh, shoot, I used to go to the D I used to go to Detroit, like, every two weeks to record with J Dilla I'd be stayin' at the Athenium And then I, you know, he'd come scoop me up He had a Range We either eat, we'd eat at a Coney Island close to his crib He stay around Mac Nick We go down in his basement and stuff And JD would dig through the records and then he'd make a beat And then once he make a beat, I'd be like, "Yo That beat cold." And then I'd just sit there And Frank, Frank would be around And, you know, and we'd just be kickin' it I'd be gettin' some Heinekens and stuff And then, uh, they'd go to the Chocolate City, to the strip club and I wa- I wasn't all into the strip clubs at the time, so I'm like, yo I- I'd just be like, I'd, I'd sit there and be like, " I'm about to write this rap." Then one time, I was like "Man, I'm goin' to the strip club with y'all." I went To the club and, man, they had some good chicken wings Man, some- some good, good thick girls And it was, it was right Anyway, I love the D, man We used to kick it off in the D That was like all day That's what we'd do