Ask Anyone

[Verse 1: Aesop Rock]

Roses for the OG MF

Where were you when Bob dropped the OG "Dead Bent?"

I was over Tony's on some "Whoa is that? No, is that?

Yes, it's Zev Love X, sounding reckless"

I took it to the head and heart, you were back as Metal Face

And threatening my pearl-white Acura from the second bar

Barfing up a master class in charismatic disrespect

And trash talk, mask on, mac and cheese Timberlands

Sold the first Appleseed CDs at your Brownies show

While you were saying "somеthing to remember likе the Alamo"

I was yelling every word and never late

And when you finally played "Hey!" I felt the venue levitate

Ask anyone, L.I. to upstate

Come to learn it's only phase one of the floodgates

DOOM stay gluing true grit to the bass line

And made himself a hero and a villain at the same time

Back in '94, you had that line about the Nikes on the wire

I'd always see these Nikes on the wire when I was driving through a neighborhood somebody said you stayed in

Convinced I'd found the actual inspiration

For the record I was not even close to the right neighborhood