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"Rewind that one time, please" |
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Should it be, can it be simple? |
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Life is like the tempo of a No I' instrumental |
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Things that we been through define who we are now |
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Since "Can I Borrow a Dollar?", ooh, I'm a star now |
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Comin from Chi-town, we was the first to do it |
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Me, No I.D., Twilite Tone on the music |
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The city on our back, we was the opening act |
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Throw our tapes in the crowd, they throw 'em right back |
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But we stayed on track, they stayed on the tracks |
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I stayed on the raps 'til we made it on the map |
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By then, No I' was my main guy |
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He and I was like Chi-Town's GangStarr |
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We had came far together, with (ALONGWAYTOGO) |
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Seein a bigger picture, but now from different angles |
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Tangle of the hustling, survival in the game |
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Felt I had to leave home to be a household name |
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Show money low, needin to stack fast |
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City did have my back, now it's a backlash |
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Was I a slave to the cash and wantin it so bad? |
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I just became a dad, rap is all I had |
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So I moved to New York, to make it pop |
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Did "Like Water for Choc", that album changed a lot |
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But my man who I started with, wasn't a part of it |
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And his presence, I didn't even acknowledge it |
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Knew I was wrong, he shoulda at least had a song |
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It wouldn't be me without No I.D., and Twilite Tone |
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Wi*****n' I could get that time back |
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Oh I can, yo man, rewind that |
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Me and Dion back in the zone, I'm doin shows with Tone |
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For the future of the Chi, we gon' bring it back home |
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Rewind that and we can do it again |
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No I.D., Twilite Tone, where the story begin |
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"Rewind that one time, please" |
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This one's for my man J Dilla |
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As I say these words, my eyes fill up |
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Cause wasn't none realer than James Dewitt Yancey |
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So I'ma dedicate this to Dilla and his family |
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In Q-Tip's ba*****t, I first met Jay Dee |
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I still remember the first beat he played me |
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He came to the Chi late three that was crazy |
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Didn't even know me and gave 'em to me for free |
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I go the the D, he show big love |
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Cook up some hot *****t, then go to the strip club |
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Then we made "The Light" and times got brighter |
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I said "Turn it up!" Jay'll take it +Higher+ |
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One day, I noticed he was tired quick |
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That's when I found out, Jay Dee was real sick |
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Things got worse before they got better |
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I said, "Come to L.A. for peace and good weather" |
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We got an apar**ent just so we can spark it |
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MP in the front room, records in the closet |
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The beats got iller, but the sickness was still there |
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I'm wi*****n, I could will him out of his wheelchair |
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It was hard for me to come home every day |
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And see my homie Jay's life fade away |
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I stayed away some times, in other words I ran |
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'Til one day J brought me this TV stand |
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It was a gift so I couldn't refuse it |
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It came from his heart, I regret I didn't use it |
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The lupus got worse and, for what it's worth |
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I wanted him to have a Grammy before he left this earth |
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Wi*****n we could have that time back |
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Oh we can, yo man, rewind that |
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You never gone, you live forever through song |
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I feel it when I see 'em with them Dilla *****rts on |
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I know you still +*****ning+, from heaven you watch me |
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Watch me put this Grammy on the stand you got me |
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"That's an um..infinite.. an infinite um.. team right there |
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Man Jay Dee, I'd work with him whenever I can |
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Cause he's like, constantly progresssing and growing |
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He's one of the greatest producers.. yo, greatest musicians of our time |
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F'real, I really know that.. (Aight!) Yeaaaah... yeah, yeah |
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Like I used to be able to wake up in the morning and hear J Dilla beats... being made |
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Y'know I mean.. really, used to walk by me like.. damn, I'm blessed |
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Like I really felt that, like during the time where he was making it match |
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Like, I don't look back and say I was blessed, I know I was blessed during that time |
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I look and say.. 'Man! I'm gettin to see Jay make them beats.. everyday!' |
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Y'know..." |
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[J Dilla:] |
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"Common, okay for me it's definitely not a common out |
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But... it's Common" |
