Back to Basics (feat. Common)

[Kanye West]

Uh, Uh

Lets take it back to basics

When shit gets worse we converse

How we need a New Balance before the lines get crossed like Asics

Just look at what we got, if we don't shoot the Reeboks

This is a beat that no flow can detox

So the respect is due like my Louie back

I don't wanna have to check you

I'm ???? and Pelle Pelle Leathers

Some say, my beats made the Bulls play better

I say, black on black is the hate that hate made

Sara Lee with the dough I'm talkin' bout the cake maid

McDonalds with the flow, served over over a billion

You've seen the video, words over the building

Uh, I wish I could give you this feeling, I wish I could give you this feeling

And when The Workout Plan ain't work out man

Me and Common is back on the corners again

On the corner

[Common]

Uh, yeah

Uh, yeah

I open my eyes

The corner is like African tribes

The black is subsidized

The black enterprize

The passion arise

The youth fantasize, who got some cash in they eyes

If youth dies, mamas askin' rationalize

Tryna' build a spot where ghetto bastards can rise

The ghetto has been bastardized by those who capitalize

Wonder if its a plan that the master devised

To bring his people to a land where the blacks are despised

On the corner