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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The Platform Remix Lyrics
Dilated Peoples
[iriscience]
This is where we stand (memorize your charts, kid)
Aiyyo the platform, now prepare yourself for invasion
Space station earth, we have a base of operation
Crosstrain for pros combat in ? ?
This is verbal animate, graphic animation
Relativity, balanced stability
Its flexibility, talent agility
Rakka shift modes, thats word to mode 2
Hot like code red or cold as code blue
Quick to be like somebody pass me a mic
Watch my back, cats will hit you wit spikes
Still down to build, battle ready to rock
But since most are cattle, I brand em like livestock
These strange days, I rock the mic insane
Energy aint created or destroyed, its changed
The dilated peoples hit you wit the big bang
And theories that the red shift couldnt explain
The platfrom
The dilated platform the freshest [iriscience]
[chorus]
Aiyyo the platform takes respect to perfect the artform
At times a battleground where rappers get their hearts torn
*dj babu cutting* the dilated platform the freshest (yes it is)
The platform takes respect to perfect the artfrom
At times a battleground where rappers get their hearts torn
[evidence]
Cuz when I step on, I step off to bounce
My last impression left (bounce), crowd reaction counts
(word war ii) platform the nicest flows
I know my hungers real, one more time *backspin* yo
My motto, I didnt write wit this, I quote:
It aint where you put your words, its where you dont
End quote, and wit this on track
I bring flows more rare than black hockey cats
I never got checked due to lack of respect
When you go hit for hit to one of us, hit the deck
And after that, the crowdll react
To the future we are the magnetic attract
Two-thousand twenty, confusin new laws
See me on my vh1 before they were stars
That was the time, my life in my prime
Science and theories of droppin rhymes on time
The platform
I proclaim the dilated platform the freshest
*cut and scratched* the dilated platform the freshest 4x
(where rappers get their hearts torn)