Released: September 25, 2001

Featuring: Mendoughza

Songwriter: Gang Starr Mendoughza

Producer: DJ Premier

{*scratching*}
"Collaborate with live niggas"
"Ill Kid ready to wreck like.."
"Back to.. back.. back to.. back"

[Hook: Both]
Y'all cats don't want war with us
That's why y'all won't be on tour with us
Multiply then we come back with more of us
Back to back, reppin on this Primo track

[Mendoughza]
Uh, yo I, rep to death, hold the tec
With the left hand, wristband, shit man
Bout 26 grand, Brook to the L-Y-N
Duke you can, smell my scent, be holdin five percent
Home with niggas that do old shit, always throw shit
Always bought and sold shit, dirty down low shit
Cock back and throw shit, kick down ya do' shit
Since ya never sold shit, real .44 shit

[Guru]
Pure kid, rock the sneaks with the Valor kid
The suit shit shit, with the girlies that be cute kid
Real life (?), emcees cry all the while
We street scholars, for every dollar we do or die
Line ya eyesight, explode like dynamite
More than kinda tight, we thugs that you love
Fuck the ones you kinda like
Put the tec to the exec, and get the contract signed tonight
We shinin bright

[Mendoughza]
I recall up in Canada, remember me my manager? (Yeah)
Flossin in that spot that featured Joe the Amateur (Uh-huh)
Niggas jellin, bitches yellin (Yeah)
Hot enough to get a nigga cock swellin, weed was sellin
The dude was cross the room with the Rollie started flashin
Pointin at a nigga and his mans was crazy laughin
Lookin at Da Click in a cowardly fashion
Not knowin that we bout to start the rowdy blastin

[Guru]
Niggas came with ski-mask and, tried to shake me up
But I ain't gon' let up till god Allah take me up
Chicks tried to throw hints, clean ya breath with no mints
Teach you bout the real nigga, cuz you punks got no sense
It's me, Baldhead and Mendough on the low
Used to carry lessons with the Smith and Wesson ya'know
Wanna act dumb, the outcome, will be drastic
Leave you spastic on CD, online, and on plastic

[Hook] - 2X

{*scratching*}
"Collaborate with live niggas"
"Ill Kid ready to wreck like.."
"Back to.. back.. back to.. back"
"Back to.. back"
"Collaborate with live niggas"
"Ill Kid ready to wreck like.."
"Back to.. back.. back to.. back"

Guru

Keith Elam, known as the Guru, is best known as the rapping half of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr alongside producer DJ Premier. His name is a backronym which stands for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal, a reference to The Nation of Gods and Earths (Five Percent Nation) and the Supreme Alphabet.

Guru hails from Boston but settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he and Texas-born DJ Premier set the foundation for Gang Starr. The duo released six albums together between 1989 and 2003. The monotone MC also released solo albums during and after his run with Gang Starr, most notably the four volumes of his Jazzmatazz series, featuring live jazz musicians on a number of the songs.

On April 19, 2010, Guru died from cancer after having been in a coma for almost two months. He was 48 years old.