Neighbourhood Hit

(album: Inside Story - 2009)

[Solo & Just Enuf:]
Yes, yes
Solo MC, Nick Lupi
Just Enuf, ha
"There goes the neighbourhood"
One-two, one-two
One Day Crew coming through
To a neighbourhood near you (Well, all right)
Jimmy Nice, let 'em know 'bout (All right, all right)

[Just Enuf:]
Well, I'ma take 'em home past memory lane
Going 80 miles while I blow the dust off it, let me explain
I'ma tell it how it was said to me same
Saturday in September, forget the weather but remember the train
A dead grey ghost embedded with flames, I didn't get it
Hype mag, my man's room, I went and read it
Said, "You wanna bomb the lines? ", replied as if my shit ain't stank
"Bank on it, I'ma get my credit"
Every tag on the wall's like a line from the credits (Yes)
Just because you seen it ain't mean that you read it (No)
Mic's, markers, douse the flame
Embrace darkness, grant your wish life after
Self doubt, guess I got that from my father (That's right)
But my drive outweighed it by far
To the real fans get 'em up, KBM the stadium we getting up
Whoever get there first, hit us up (What? What? What? What?)

[Solo, Just Enuf & Nick Lupi:]
One day is what we chase, but now
We out for much more than fame, I guess some things change
We used to try to keep the neighbourhood hit
Now the same dudes is tryna write the neighbourhood hit
Went from backlanes to backstage and now
We spray words without paint, time waits for no man
And so we got no time to waste
It's just me and my brothers, you chilling with none other

[Solo:]
Step up in the place with the swagger of a genuine pride
It's the return of the kids bombing mainline
Spitting rhymes written by the same drive that
Had us out till daybreak hitting the train line (Yep, yep, uh-huh)
Laces strapped, tins tucked in your backpack
Chasing dreams that we traced out of graff mags (Yeah)
We studied lessons from a culture of kings
Who could'a known what tomorrow would bring? ([?])
See there are walls in the streets round my neighbourhood that read like photo albums (Uh-huh)
Moments in time, frozen for those who know about 'em
Snapshots of kids growing up staking their claim
And now the very same kids is tryna blow it up ([?])
And there's been some stormy weather but whatever (Whatever)
Believe that me and my brothers we weather it together (Yeah)
Till I'm old and grey and my words fade away (Yeah)
Like plum purple in the sun's rays, I'ma rep the One Day

[Solo, Just Enuf & Nick Lupi:]
One day is what we chase, but now
We out for much more than fame, I guess some things change
We used to try to keep the neighbourhood hit
Now the same dudes is tryna write the neighbourhood hit
Went from backlanes to backstage and now
We spray words without paint, time waits for no man
And so we got no time to waste
It's just me and my brothers, you chilling with none other

[Nick Lupi:]
Two hands
Are what we made it with', a labour of love and long days with' it
Writing the score and setting the stage
Product of the very same pavement that plotted the gradient
If I could get a taste of it I could run away with it
I recall vividly the infamy attained
The names that rang out through the halls that lifted me
Same imagery of fame, long reins had little me
Tryna write my timpani's into the same symphony
Footsteps of kings in my neighbourhood streets
The legendary crews and the fabled old beefs
We're coming up quick tryna figure our piece
My best friends and I, no limit to the reach (Nah)
Can see it in my eyes, I can't hide the pride and
Privilege I feel standing right beside 'em
Theme music to the dream, the One Day team
And it won't stop till that one days' seen, ya mean?

[Solo, Just Enuf & Nick Lupi:]
One day is what we chase, but now
We out for much more than fame, I guess some things change
We used to try to keep the neighbourhood hit
Now the same dudes is tryna write the neighbourhood hit
Went from backlanes to backstage and now
We spray words without paint, time waits for no man
And so we got no time to waste
It's just me and my brothers, you chilling with none other

[Scratches:]
"I be in class dreaming 'bout
50, 000 fans up in the stands screaming out"