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

Even when the heart is pure, the brain is mush

Thank you for the stories, and a fuck you to the normies

Brewin said we lost our Jordan, I would sprinkle in some Voorhees and agree

Breeze, I have this memory of me and you

Rapping "Meat Grinder" to each other at a BBQ in BK

Got the same memory with a couple other people too

Trading DOOM lines, that's what people do

You were always kind to me in person

I tried to play it cool, but I was always kinda nervous

Thirty Summers, a guide in the muddy waters

To the man with many names, I hope you're somewhere with your brother, yeah

[Verse 2: Homeboy Sandman]

Supervillain, though, illin', though

Chopping records that my parents listened to

DOOM was on a mission to remind you that the magic is what matters

But where'd he find that banter?

Where'd he find them patterns?

He ain't had no manners

My favorite villain is "The Drop" off Viktor Vaughn

But every time I hear the "Great Day" intro, I'ma sing along

And cats be sleeping on the GMO's them lessons on point

We share a brother in Kuri from the "Question Mark" joint

Supervillain in the function then his peoples never far

Thanks for introducing us to John Robinson and Stahhr

And a era full of rarified jewels

And making use of airtime for making bad hairlines cool

Yo, being crazy takes guts

Monsta Island Czars had a rep for being nuts

Extra special words, scent of special herbs still lingers

My pantheon is Bird and Mingus, Prince and Metal Fingers

Larger than life, he had his own Nikes

I'm a Clearweather brand dude but dag, DOOM

MM FOOD was the anagram

Fresh put me on I proceed to put on anyone that was famalam

And every particle, genuine article

Okay, you stiffed a few promoters who thought they booked the man under the mask, but they could never tell for certain

Walking the walk while talking in third person

He wore a mask so the charge won't grab

On a rooftop with a large stone slab

Seen where the industry was going and

Had the gonads to go "nah"

Thanks, a bar is not a measure

Of music DOOM was doing it's a unit of buried treasure

No one ever done it better

So I'ma keep my computer on caps lock forever

[Outro: Homeboy Sandman]

Long live