Dust Off Those Oldies

This post is in response to Rage Against the Drake Machine.

Yearning for the gritty ghetto bards of yore? Grab that box of CDs off the top shelf of your storage closet. Dust them off. Pop in an old favorite. Skim through your favorite tracks, you know, the ones whose track numbers you still remember. Is the nostalgia flowing strong yet?

Head thumping back and forth to that sick beat on Insert Favorite Wu-Tang Song.

Grinning at those so-goddamn-cool-you're-jealous Beastie Boys on the Paul's Botique interlude "5-Piece Chicken Dinner."

Then of course, there is Biggie. sigh.

Follow along, for full effect. Think: drug deal gone wrong. Like the Scarface chainsaw scene.

Today's agenda, got the suitcase up in the Sentra

Go to room 112, tell em Blanco sent ['cha]

...

All they tote is stainless, you just remain as

calm as possible, make the deal go through

If not, here's 12 shots, we know how you do

...

Just bring back the coke or the cream

Or else, ya life is on the shelf, we mean this Frank

Them cats we fuckin wit put bombs in yo moms gas tank

...

Fuck a robbery, I'm the boss

Promise you won't rob em, I promise

But of course you know I had my fingers crossed

And the soldiers have their marching orders. If worse comes to worst they can handle themselves; however, they've been warned that a robbery is out of the question. Well now, when has a warning ever stopped anyone? Time for a plan.

Verse 2:

Since it's on, I call my nigga Arizona Ron

From Tuscon, [push] the black Yukon

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Now he feel he undefeated, he mean it

Nothing to lose, tattooed around his gun wounds

Everything to gain, embedded in his brain

Step one: Get Ron. Step 2: Make a plan. Do some recon.

Verse 3:

We agreed to go ['in'] shootin is silly

Because niggaz could be hidin in showers with Mac [milli's]

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Got shook, thought a nigga was comin for the safe

Now she breakin, shut up, 112, what's shakin

A Jamaican, some bitches I swear, they look gay

In a black Range Rover, been outside all day

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Ron, get the gasoline, this spot, we bout to blow this

get the cash before the cops and Range Rover cats notice

Room 112, right by the staircase, perfect place

When they evacuate, they meet they fate

Good plan. Smoke em out, grab the cash. This is where things get hectic (and violent). Biggie and Ron start a fire. Flush them out and kill them (Ron is a little sadistic, amirite?). Take the cash. Now, how to get away from the backup in the Range Rover outside?

I know them niggaz in the Range is on they way up

Flippin, pistol grippin, I load the clip in

The hallway, got real loud and crowded

They walked right past us, I don't know how they allowed it

The funny thing about it, through all the excitement

They Range got towed, they double parked by a hydrant

So tell me, what old favorite did you rediscover?