My Brother's A Basehead
De La Soul

Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out so clear


This song does not contain explicit lyrics

But what it does contain is an undesired element

This element is known as the Basehead

The lowest of lowest of all elements that exist

And the sad thing is, this particular element is me brudda


Brother, brother oh brother of mine

We used to be down as partners in crime

From our parents our name was forged

I was the Beaver, you Curious George


Wanted to dispose of this and that

But curiosity had killed the cat

At this age no wonder it was read

But this was the fate that you were fed


Throughout high school our minds we'd waste

High off all the cheeba that we could taste

Soon you had converted to nasal sports

Every five minutes cocaine you'd snort


Told me that you needed a stronger fix

Stepped to the crack scene in 86

Unlike the other drugs you had control

This substance had engulfed your body and soul


Now from me you lost all respect

Said you need to put that shit in check

Wanted me to believe that you ain't tried

But your mind and the craving had coincided


Said there was a voice I could've talked

Which said you shouldn't stop but continue to walk

Now the brother who could handle any drug

Had just found the one that could pull his Plug


Yo, bro, got another rock for your hiking boots

Gonna make you scream and loop three loops

Gonna take you far on a freeway, okay

Remember that day? Slipped me a smile for a 20 crack vial


Guess what? Time to collect, correct

Don't have a dime? It's payback time, payback time

Don't cry the blues 'cause I got bad news

Should I stab ya? Should I bite ya? Should I use my tools?

No, I got another way to earn my defeat

(Slam the child on the hard concrete)


Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out, make the bass come out


Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out so clear

Make the bass come out, make the bass come out


Brother, brother, stupid brother of mine

Started getting high at the age of nine

Now at twenty-one you're lower than low

Nowhere to turn, nowhere to go


My dividends and wares started to disappear

Where it ended up, I had an idea

Barking you with the quickness, reversed intent

Instead went to Pop and gave him the print


Now Pop grew tired of being a mouse

Finally told you to get the hell outta the house

From there a mother figure came into play

Claimed for you she saw a better day


Now Mom was a product of Christ's rebirth

Thought the only chance was to go to church

Quitting this stuff you had tried before

This time you claimed you'd really score

Something I had to see to believe

Put on my suit and to church I weaved


My, my, my, what happened to the people?

The people who used to care about what took place in the world today?

I've been summoned here today to reach the people

Who still can be reached, to save the people who still can be saved


Can I get an Amen? Can I get an Amen?

Hit me, forgive us, said it's taking over, taking over the world

All it's doing is taking over, where them crackers at?

Them crackers that they serve, where they at?


Bullshit, didn't believe a lick

Do this fool [Incomprehensible]

Then I gave you the benefit of a doubt

Wanted to see if you will work it out


Soon you reach your front of calm

Walked round by rehearsing psalms

Then you smiled with the funky frown

What do you know, the voice is back in town


Mom would say it would soon go away

You and I knew it was here to stay

But the man helped you when you helped yourself

That meant going to rehab for your health


Finally it went and blew your cork

Heard you moved to the comfortable streets of New York

And when my friends see me and come and ask

Yo, where's your brother at?, I'll be the first to splash

Yo, he's a Basehead


Yo know who that was?

No

The guy from De La Soul, Pos. Posdnuos

Who?


You heard of De La Soul, right?

Right

Well he was the one from De La Soul

The one with the real nappy hair


The one with the dark-skinned one

With the glasses? Yeah

Yeah, the ugly one

Fuck you bitch and kept goin'


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