Released: April 2, 2021

Producer: DJ Premier

[Intro: Papoose (& Scratches by DJ Premier)]
Yeah
Premier on the track
Ayo, shout out to the NBA
What’s your favorite team?
I’ma break down all the teams and show you how I flip it into a rhyme scheme
(“Take your time”)
Pay close attention
(“Write it down”)

[Verse: Papoose]
I’m in Atlanta with the hawk, I poked him, but he fell quick
I used to be a scalper, like Boston, I sell ticks
Cuban link chain so heavy, my neck hurt
Call me the Brooklyn Nets, in Brooklyn, I network
Get fly in Charlotte, spread my wings like a hornet
Every time I hear your music, I fast-forward
If I was bipolar, I’ll kill you soon as my mood switch
Something like Chicago, ‘cause I’m back on my bullshit
In the gym working on my Cleveland calves
I’ll be running like the horse on the Dallas Mavs
Hungry, so I got to put some food in my stomach
I need some sweet and sour sauce for my Denver nuggets
Now my wife got a gold toilet bowl
Something like Detroit, she pissed in a cup when she was on parole
These rappers is my kids, call Maury up
I’m in a golden state of mind, a warrior
Rock it like Houston, I don’t give a damn
I don’t rap for free, I sell verses, Swizz Beats and Timbaland
Indiana Pacers jacket with the zipper
I just got a hair cut with some LA clippers
Like the Lakers, bring the ship to my city
Shoutout to my nigga Bleek, ask Memphis, I be on my grizzly
Heat like Miami, push your head back
Give bucks like Milwaukee, Jadakiss already said that
Shooting like the Timberwolves, I ain’t missing, fam
Timber knock the trees down on your Timberlands
Move birds, call them pelicans
Sold knicks in the rain, lightning and thunder, I’m a hustling veteran
I’m a survivor like Magic Johnson
But gangsters respect me from Brooklyn to Compton
I was born in ’78, never been a quitter
Two years ahead of my time, I’m a 76er
They’re my sons, we’re some trailblazers, you heard
A bunch of kings floating in them Bentley Spurs
Papoose, way more than just a rapper
Swoop down and snatch my prey like a raptor
Used to shop at Jimmy Jazz, I’m different
Y’all some cowardly lions eager to meet the wizard

[Scratches by DJ Premier]
“Playing basketball”
“Playing basketball”
“Playing-playing-playing, playing-playing-playing
Playing-playing-playing basketball”
“Basket-basket-basket
Basketball”

Papoose

Shamele Mackie, or Papoose is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He is of Liberian and Native American descent. He was given his name by his grandma Vivian because of his childhood resemblance to a Native American child.

After an early record deal failed, he decided to produce and sell his own mixtapes, one of which he presented to DJ Kay Slay outside the offices of New York’s Hot 97 after the latter’s radio show there. This led to Kay Slay inviting Papoose onto the air, and, impressed by his rendition of “Alphabetical Slaughter”, signing him to his Streetsweepers Entertainment label. He continued to release mixtapes at a prolific rate – over a dozen between 2004 and 2006 – and won the Justo Mixtape Award for Best Underground Artist in 2005.