Artist: A Tribe Called Quest f/ Anderson .Paak
Album:  We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your service
Song:   Movin Backwards
Typed by: Cedmaster3K
 
[Jarobi]
I hope my legendary style of rap lives on
A-fixed to the Earth like my feet, they got cleats on
Movin' backwards, never that was never the plan
Pushin' shit along, render stillness in the quicksand
Asphalt jumpin' junkie, lyrical concrete
My Jedi mind be movin' me throughout the many dark streets
Backwoods, boondocks, whatever terrain
Auf wiedersehen, aloha, man our feet ain't the same
I won't abuse these shoes, these shoes ain't made for reversin'
Then trudgin' through these motherfuckers' first album, foot printin'
Never ever ghostwritten, yo' shit free-bitten
Grab my shit with both hands, iron grip, steel mitten
Bloviated, Jarobi ate it and now it's gone
Closed mouths don't get fed or move ahead
To my hustlers with customers
Scam my chicks just bein' petty, trap lords with the fetty
Don't be no backwards, no, no backward ass nigga
Don't be no backwards, no, no backward ass nigga
Don't be no backwards, no, don't do it nigga
 
[Interlude: Anderson .Paak]
I spun around without a care, when I stopped, I felt lost
I'm two heels from the top tier, really want to be boooss
I figured it out, figured it out somewhere
Maybe the answer's not up there
Maybe it's on the ground somewhere...
When I stopped, I felt loooost...
Do you ever feel loooost?
 
[Anderson .Paak]
They wanna see my downfall
Turn a good day into a downpour
Thorns in the crown, hit the cross I bear
Why they wanna see me hangin' like a towel somewhere?
One eye, two bills
Three tears, a heart still
How I'm feelin' in my mind right here
I think I'm movin', I ain't goin' nowhere, nowhere...
Maybe why I feel lost, yeah
How I'm 'posed to know how home feels?
I ain't even on my home field
And again I feel lost, huh
Was not a cruise that brought us here
Again I feel looost
And I refuse to be stuck right here, yeah
 
[Chorus: Anderson .Paak + Q-Tip]
I don't want to move backwaaaards, no
Can somebody just give me
Can somebody just give me, can somebody just give me direction?
I don't want to move backwaaaards, no
Can somebody just give me
Can somebody just give me, can somebody just give me direction? (Can't go back, yeah)
I don't want to move backwaaaards, no
 
[Q-Tip]
Uhh..
Movin' backwards, never, that was never the plan
Can I vent? I was content bein' my own man
Up until that night ill-fated, walkin' home, I was faded
Po puts braces on my wrist like he was clappin' his hands
How demeanin' y'all, who could be blind to racism?
Bring bro-bro to me for the brotherly baptism
Instead of slaps, give him the dose of Ab' wisdom
He'll make it out of the jungle some way, hey
It's figurative, not a real place you stay, ay
It's mind state filled with muck and malaise, uhh
I got direction without usin' Waze, mm
Submittin' myself to prayin' these days, yeah
Moonwalkin' backwards, it's only for sta-a-a-a-age
 
[Anderson .Paak + Q-Tip]
Feds linin' up, in riot gear
And everybody's hands in the air
 
[Anderson .Paak] + (Q-Tip) + {both}
Fo'-five's'll get your ass found somewhere
Caught between hope and despair - say it loud
What it take to make my niggas listen? (Somebody just give me)
(Somebody just give me, somebody just give me)
Cool out, chill {out nigga, I'm cool}
Cool out nigga {nah nigga, I'm through}
Head down, ain't no tellin' what you gon' do (somebody just give me)
(Somebody just give me, somebody just give me direction)
{I don't want to move backwaaaards, no}
 
[Anderson .Paak]
Cops, killin' us niggas everywhere
Maybe we should get some guns too
She come around every now and a few
Man, I hope she really loves you
Livin' high ain't hard to do
She'll be in the clouds somewhere
Feelin' fresh, I snatch your bitches out of here
Might even take your broad too
Oops, I'm 'bout to get kicked outta here
Tell momma I'ma slide through, yeah
Stealer, I'm tryin' to get out of here
But stuck up in the same room
Too many open miles in here
Sick of eatin' out of drive-through
 
[Outro]
Hahahahah! (look at this motherfucker)