Dilated Peoples Years In The Making Lyrics

Years In The Making Lyrics

[Iriscience]

 Aiyyo Ev (Whattup Rak?)

 There's a lot of cats didn't see this one comin

 Lotta cats not gon' understand

 Never saw the path that we walked

 You run that joint you did on the radio that night

 (Oh) Let people know, do this one for the interviews

 Do it for the people, Years In The Making

 

 [Evidence]

 Yo, my first verse, from '90 to '94

 Mostly peepin cats' styles out and hittin the floor

 A little bit, in '91 that's when we got down

 Different sides of town, on the bus I made rounds

 I was involved in graffiti heavily

 My people were Self, Tau and Freck RIP

 At night I heard beats next door by QD III

 Inspiration, destiny, Ev producer/MC

 Now at this point, my face wasn't known and unfamilar

 And when you look how I do, most cats won't say they feel ya

 So I was mostly, humbled by rejection

 But in my heart, I knew my shit would always pass inspection

 Correction, travel east and hit the inner section

 Hip hop shop to rock, blow the spot wit Hex and Pen One

 Also Iristyle, a cat who worked there

 I said "I wanna bust first" he said "It's all fair"

 I went, he went, you can't beat em, join em

 I said "As a team in the game, we'll leave em maimed"

 He agreed, so we did till '94

 Till we had to change our name from the one we had before

 Now at this point, we were five years in the making

 Previously vain, graffiti oriented, breakin

 From cops to shop owners, rack and paint, stealin sketch books

 Mad vinyl, designs in corridors

 Then it was mics, mixers, tracks, and greenbacks

 Kingston, 12 gear and equipment on racks

 Imagery Battlehymns

 Whattup to Kendall, Swift, and Redman

 Everyone who helped bounce checks, but not my plan (Sorry)

 Business and friends, this was my first introduction

 How foul it is when it comes to this biz

 Of music, 1995 was mad confusin

 '6 it cleared up, independent geared up

 Peace to Ben, 'Fari, and Alchemist

 Third Degree type heat, brought on Babu to complete the list

 Dis the doors, more red but on tours

 The territories come, blunts burn our damn floors

 Since '98, shit's been lookin more bright

 Work The Angles round the globe from Main Events at night

 '99 approach millennium, The Platform will drop

 Evidence, Iriscience, Babu, the world gets shocked!

 

 [Iriscience] (Evidence)

 Haha! Yeah!

 We sendin this out to every obstacle that made us stronger

 (That's right) Uh-huh

 Sendin this out to the poison that made the antidote

 Dilated Wild Style

 Evidence, that's all you need to know

 Years in the making,

 (What's goin on, ten years in the making)

 Years in the making, how many? (Ten)

 (Almost) Ten years in the making

 Shit, it's overnight right? (Not really) We'll see

 

 *Babu cutting up sample*