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] (defari)
Uh-hum (ah yeah)
(killin niggas, what)
Dilated, we rock, cmon
Hurry hurry and step right up [erick sermon]
Hurry hurry and step right up
And ima tear shit up [rakim]
[defari] the greatest show on earth...
[evidence]
You better step up, you lookin kinda lost
Claimin two ghetto streets that dont even cross
If you didnt know, Im a true arti-st
Who drops gems like on the run from police
Alias evidence, intensified when live
I understand pace, I understand strive
The only thing worse than lose your title, have it stolen
I treat beats like video games that Im controllin
My knots get blown at vinyl spots
Wise investment, create tracks that triple my stacks
Most kids got wack songs but hi-tech videos (fresh!)
They know that aint right, thats why the screens turn left
Flow goes backward please, evidence here to seize
All assets, bout to bounce from bmi to ascap
And ask them cats if them checks aint paid
Fuck the rain, evidence I spray raid on your parade
[chorus]
Hurry hurry and step right up
And ima tear shit up
Hurry hurry and step right up
The greatest show on earth is evidence
Hurry hurry and step right up
And ima tear shit up
Hurry hurry and step right up
The greatest show on earth is evidence
[evidence]
Evs solution will mold to different forms
I be a double-edged sword, I be thorns
Or I transform to horns on the cattlefield
Im always open like norms, equipped wit battle skills
Two times I mold to the shape of a pentagon
Dilated times five is ill, ring the intercom
Evidence or iristyle, got your file, run
Global detonation is my shape of drums
Under the sun nothin changes
Dedicated beats and lyric pages
Dilated peoples, all ages
Suckas dressin flashy, thinkin then can you defeat us
Nah, take em out, wash your nike wit adidas
Hurry hurry and step right up
We got defari in the house no doubt [krs-one]
My mind is like an icon, focusin on shows that Ive wrecked
My fast shudder speeds will freeze the movin objects
Chorus
*change last line to pull up a chair word up*