Dilated Peoples are a hip hop group who have achieved great fame in the underground hip hop community, although their only real mainstream success was the song This Way, a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West. DJ Babu (from the DJ crew Beat Junkies), Evidence, and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released Third Degree and Work the Angles, which were quickly established as favorites in the underground scene and among rap critics. They eventually signed to Capitol Records and in 2000 released The Platform, to more critical acclaim. Their sophomore set Expansion Team was released in 2001, led by the Alchemist-produced single Worst Comes To Worst, which sampled from Mobb Deep's Survival Of The Fittest. Their third album, Neighborhood Watch, was released in 2004 and debuted at #55 on USA's Billboard 200 Albums Chart.
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Dilated Peoples
[Evidence]
I push my levels to zero with distortin
Boost two compression enhancers the message I'm recordin
Live from California, warnin night to mornin
The illest squad this side of Earth is now formin
itself into a whirlwind, spin pattern the outcome
be tragic, tell me what you want I still doubt them
I hit up the beat unique
For seven-eighths I levitate, hit save not delete
You could get in the game, but who's ahead in the race?
To a duststorm, when it clears there's no trace
of where I was, was not, or how I got there
The image you recall so clear has disappeared
[Rakaa]
Yeah.. since most kids are spoiled these days, we let 'em have it..
[Rakaa Iriscience]
Yo.. yo I make moves and get my passport decorated
I keep my business and my personal seperated
From Cali to Philly to the Circus of Picadilly
This verse is soundkillin - rehearsed - do your research
Walk 'til my feet hurt, smoke 'til the weed hurt
Challenge this, you know the Alchemist make the beat work
Send a hot flash of fever through your speaker
Then after the heat bring chills like deep freezers
Live or TV, whether tape or CD
Twelve inch, Liquid Audio or MP3
Fuck the format, they askin where the