BACK 2 HIPHOP

[Verse 1: will.i.am]

Ring the alarm, get on the horn and inform

Everyone from Oregon to Melbourne

That the funk phenomenon has been reborn and transformed

You coulda sworn that you wasn't warned 'cause we was

Trapped in the box that rap had spawned

It was a square until we kicked it to an octagon

We gotten strong from the pain it's undergone

Whereupon we kill the beat when the mic ain't on

That's my motherfuckin' procedure

I'm cold with the flow I will freeze ya

I'm the emperor, I'm Caesar

Can somebody tell me where the MCs are?

I violate over guitars, annihilate and operate like I'm on ER

Lyrically gang bang 'cause I'm behind bars

And rearrange DNA, play like God

I bring it back

[Chorus]

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

[Verse 2: apl.de.ap]

It's dang credible, original, strong individual

Send a million decibels of sound through your physical

Alligator ritual turns out it was the visual

Proficient with the lyrical, a vision like a miracle

Damage all you mumblin' MCs rhyming 'bout decimal

Increasing no residual, why you still remain minimal

Maximize, utilize, my plan mineral

Do not try to bite because my shit is not edible

Rhyme unforgettable like Nat King Cole

You can feel it on your neck like you in a chokehold

Unfold the mystery, unload the BEP

Bangin' on your speakers while you haters wait impatiently

What would be the next step? Next move on set?

Betting that it's over, but we haven't even started yet

More shit, raw shit, complex, intricate

Resurrect the bitch and bring it back like this

[Chorus]

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

Back to life, back to life

[Verse 3: Taboo]

One show, Jay go for the gusto

On a boat full of dope, goin' up flow

Ali when I float it's a KO

Face to the flo', gonna hit 'em with the payload

MOAB got 'em runnin' like Usain Bolt

Started lowdown, now I'm in they download

Slice through you slo-mo's like a Lambo

Runnin' through these levels like I'm playing with a cheat code

Left right, left right, BEP mode

Stop, roll back on my dope shit

Pablo, white Esco mine shinin' like I'm Destro

Back to life with this death manifesto

[Bridge]

Yeah, Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas, in your area

Yeah, Nas, Nas, in your area

(Back to life)

[Verse 4: Nas]

Fat boy had a nigga makin' noise 'til midnight

Then that 'gac poison and got us a fist fight

Hat low in a Regal, crack sold in that diesel

Pack corners, gat pointed at people, know how beef do

Can't afford a funeral never

Mortician have your man face lookin' like leather

Have you walkin' out the wake shook and shiverin'

Lookin' so different from when he was just livin' man

Another 40-side killin', man

North side in the sixteenth building and

I'm on the corporate side, still pull off a New York walk by

Keep tryin' talk fly

[Break: will.i.am]

I talk fly, verbalize a pilot

Poetic fertilizer that's lyrical shit

Hip-hop die but we resurrect it

Yeah bring it back, that mystic linguistic

[Bridge]

Bring it back

It's a resur-re-rection bring it back

It's a resur-re-rection bring it back

It's a resur-re-rection bring it back

Bring it back (Back to life)

Bring it back, bring it back

It's a resur-re-rection bring it back

(Back to life) Bring it (Back to life)

Bring it (Back to life)

Bring it (Back to life)

[Verse 5: will.i.am]

Yo, resur-re-rection, yeah

Reassemblin' bringing it back with the pen, yeah

It all depends how I be feelin' when I descend

I'm prolly gonna go Kamikaze like Eminem

Look at them tremblin' when I stomp in Timberlan'

Boots, I come through and scoop you feminine

Vibration, we penetratin' your skeleton

Reanimation we bringin' it back again

[Verse 6: Nas]

Son of a bitch, they wanna take what I made from nothin'

Then the struggle to erase any proof that I came from sufferin'

Now they hate I survived every trick by hustlin'

I stay on my G, we don't cease fire, all die

Get your whole family hogtied

Nigga, you small fries

And you never should have started beef

You know I can't fall back like Ferrari seats

I'm in the mask, all black, black hoodie and gloves

Strap with the fully, dutch full of bud

I'm on that Hpnotiq and Goose

And I ain't gotta shoot

I'll have your ass hangin' high from a noose, yeah