2 Steps Forward-B.Reith

[ti:2 Steps Forward] [ar:B.Reith] [al:How The Story Ends] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]2 Steps Forward - B.Reith [00:05.02]I take 2 steps forward 5 steps back [00:07.76]Lately I've been lazy like the way Mase rapped [00:10.25]Or lazy like the way Johnny Cash used to sing [00:12.60]Maybe lately that's the reason cash ain't been comin' in [00:15.42]No excuses I'm learnin' how to lose 'cause [00:17.98]That's the only way to fine tune and make improvements [00:20.34]Critics keep on chippin' in their two cents [00:22.93]But they got their record for free shoot [00:25.09]Nowadays music's like sewage nasty and polluted [00:27.41]Over saturated I don't want nothin' to do with it [00:30.86]So when they ask the question who my influence is [00:32.80]I go back to the 90s and tell 'em Brand Nubian [00:35.86]Gave radio a shot but got fooled again [00:38.04]All it is is a bunch of hootin' hollerin' hooligans [00:40.37]Cryin' like babies actin' like they two again [00:42.97]Pardon my rudeness but ya ruined my mood I don't just [00:45.76]Do this for food there's more to it than the music [00:48.07]So I got be intuitive to use this [00:50.48]Gift it's like fluid when it oozes [00:52.96]But writers block will gridblock and leave you clueless [00:55.51]My ambition's to use and not abuse it [00:57.95]Me without grooves is like mechanics without their toolkits [01:00.35] [01:02.07]Can't work without my tools man [01:05.07]I take 2 steps forward 5 steps back [01:07.06]Lately I've been lazy like the way Mase rapped [01:10.24]Or lazy like the way Johnny Cash used to sing [01:12.73]Maybe lately that's the reason cash ain't been comin' in [01:14.88]Industry tried to play me left me with some bruises [01:17.97]Must have thought I was stupider than the Three Stooges [01:20.61]They tried to hang me I slipped out of their nooses [01:22.95]So I pulled a Chris Brown I'm throwin' up my deuces [01:25.79]Downsized like rice to couscous [01:27.14]Spit that lightweight bullet-proof truth in the booth [01:29.71]Cooped up for months tryin' to spit fiyah they can ride to [01:32.95]Pull up to that drive thru tell 'e this dat new dude! [01:36.28]True can I really get more clear [01:37.76]Make it boom so loud shake your rearview mirror [01:40.19]Unless you got car speakers like the ones I owned [01:42.70]Had to pain it to left 'cause the right one was blown [01:45.47]You ridin on chrome I was ridin' on plastic [01:47.83]Two of 'em were cracked 'cause I hit a curb distracted [01:50.58]Yea but it ain't no big deal [01:52.63]I may not have a nice whip but I still have whip appeal [01:55.27]I take 2 steps forward 5 steps back [01:57.37]Lately I've been lazy like the way Mase rapped [02:00.26]Or lazy like the way Johnny Cash used to sing [02:02.59]Maybe lately that's the reason cash ain't been comin' in [02:05.95] [02:15.54]2 steps forward 5 steps back [02:17.99]2 steps forward 5 steps back [02:20.59]2 steps forward 5 steps back [02:22.78]5 steps back 5 steps back [02:25.18]Alright alright I write raps for a livin' perhaps I've been given [02:27.38]A gift that is envied by mathematicians [02:29.29] [02:30.40]But are we that different [02:31.59]We both work in labs [02:32.81]While they dissect formulas I dissect rhythms [02:35.21]But I don't get paid much and that'll keep you humble son [02:37.87]Radio won't play me much that's causin' me trouble some [02:40.38]People wanna nay-say play me like a dumby-dumb [02:42.79]Tried to shut me down so I Dikembe Mutumbo'd 'em [02:45.24]Backhand it right back at 'em like Wimbledon [02:47.88]That's for trying to tell me what I shouldn't have [02:50.11]Or should have done [02:50.97]Anyway my time it will come I can smell it from a mile away [02:54.22]Like Cinnabon