The Basement (Vocal) - Pete Rock/C.L. Smooth

Ahh yeahh Feel the funk bay-beeee

That's right this is called The Basement

And my man CL Smooth kick it for you like this

From the Heights not what am I write

Simple I can do this

Like Popeye to Brutus I'm your host like a stewardess

Fly with the neighborhood hi-jackin fella

So prepare for landing and crash into a cellar

Bodies in the buddha cloud misty in the tune

Like a show all nights a figure eight in a lagoon

With Pete Rock the complete lock and beat stop

Now all the horny heffers wanna dangle on my *errr *

Down by the dungeon with the cracks on the wall

Buffoon I'm like a mink

While you're soon to pimp a raccoon stole

Vocal arrangement ready set to hit the pavement

But not before the kid leave The Basement

The Basement put the Funk in Grand

Here comes my man

My brother Grap Lover get wreck cousin c'mon

Call me the Grap Lover yes the younger Soul Brother

Keep your eyes on the prize cause you won't find another

When the funk is played the rhyme I display

Quick to bust a ditz so don't slip in the way

Of the kid with the flavor the party people saviour

Clockin all the honies eyes sharp like a razor

I kick a dance step you're soon to discover

Yo that's the kid from "Mecca and the Soul Brother"

Yeah once in a while I be with CL on the DL

Or I flow with Pete

And find my placement in the Basement

The Basement yes where the beats and the rhymes flow

Peace I gotta go Grapster's out the door of The Basement

Of the Basement Next we got a special guest

I ain't gonna tell you who it is

C'mon rap along

Tick tock tick things are getting thick

Here comes the Heavster and I know it makes ya - sick

To see a black man gettin paid on the regular

Car with the cellular fellas I'm telling ya

I got plots and plans pots and pans

Stocks and grands so make room for the big man

I walk the streets in peace and I'm never strapped

But I know a crew of Young Gunz that'll send you back

So easy does it on the DL

Peace to Pete Rock and the Mecca Don CL

Heavy D's on this track

Letting you know there's no replacement

Peace signin off

Check one two straight from The Basement

Straight from The Basement

I'm telling you now kid

It's crazy fat

I wonder who this is coming up

Fourth but not least the backbone of the Wig Out

Freestyle crazy hardcore no sellout

Speaking upon where I dwell from the dungeon

All over the U S states even London

Pasttime present black to the future

Swimmin in beats like a Dolphin so call me Don Shula

A Raider well like Art Shell crazy defense

A Pro Bowl with soul for local events

The crew name is CL Smooth and Pete Rock

Here to sail when I prevail and stare into the dock

The Pimp Daddy of the funk flavor catch you later

Clever like a secret agent coming from The Basement

That's right crazy funky

Aww my man

He's crazy funky his name is Rob-O check him out

Ali-kazaam you'll never guess what I am

Motto is that nothing ever changes but haircuts and kicks

To stacks of vocal breaks life pays when

Kid said "Pete makes beats in The Basement"

Cold hit the pavement over to the chill side

The real side the 7-7 hillside

I thought I'd just chill take a breath

Straight up Columbus Hill make a left

And get fixed plus the ghetto chicks got flicks

Of me stacks of kicks my joint's bumpin lovely

Walking down the street much props on the centeryell

I hear voices saying

"That's Rob-O'Dingo in The Basement"

Ahh ha ha ha Hah yeah This is funky

I can feel it

My man from the Vernon his name is Di-da make it raw

Fly like an eagle a seagull

Always into something like Snoopy the Beagle

People grab a tight hold of the sound

Hard snatching raw papes off the shelves

Blowing up spots from state to state

I'm coming to town but you just can't wait

Check the station for conversation at six-block

Uno here to put suckers in the mix

I get deeper than oceanography

Thinking of crazy sh*t like psychology

So speak the piece then slide like grease

The beat is fat but the rhyme is obese in The Basement

In The Basement is where I dwell

Check the MC's swell

Cause I am crazy funky with CL Smooth

My man Rob-O G-R baby pah

The Heavster my brother Grap Lover

Everybody