Welcome Back - XV

I played the back all my life like the lines at lunch

Till the kids at school heard my lines at lunch

Then I moved up front like the spider’s trunk

If I was then what I’m now, shit I might have jumped

Like a broker on the roof and his stocks just slumped

Look out below when that flow comes up

Call me The Good Son

Y’all rappers play Russell if you want

But watch me Rev. Run this year

Catch me standing on stages, I stage the amazing

Rise to the occasion like standing ovations

Rounds of applause and I’m clapping at you all

That ever doubted Hoff, aka Ferris Bueller

The days I’m off is when I drain my thoughts

So I don’t ever overflow

And as long as my train of thought is on track with the raps

Then I’m the little engine that thought he could flow

Oh!

If you got Complex and waited for new shit from your boy X, welcome back

If you thought hip hop was dead till December 19th

Then I can tell y’all welcome back

If you said that boy XV put Kansas on the map

Then I gotta say welcome back

And if you knew or just ain’t new

My name’s XV, good evening for you

Welcome back

Niggas putting my name in their raps

I could have them fucked up, yeah have they ass clapped

But I just ease off, let 'em rap

Cause that’s all they really wanna do, correct?

To make matters worse, I’m seeing all these CB4s

And I put rappers first like a CD out the CD store

So what to blame a label for

For putting bullshit out or causing it to happen like a matador

I ain’t mad at all

I ain’t mad at you

I ain’t mad at y’all

Nah

You condoms, I rip y’all wrappers/rappers

So can it, like sitcom laughter

Nigga, your flow played hide-go-seek

I climb Mt. Everest, you can’t see my peak

Then I answer the phone like I answer the streets

365, 24−7 days a week

Nigga

If you been on Myspace and you seen my face

Then I gotta say welcome back

And if you couldn’t wait, for this mixtape

Then all I can say to you is welcome back

If you pointed at The Source mags saying I’m the next nigga

Then I must say welcome back

And if you knew or just ain’t new

My name’s XV, good evening to you

Welcome back