The Alchemist

Released: June 11, 2012

Featuring: ScHoolboy Q Danny Brown

Songwriter: The Alchemist ScHoolboy Q Danny Brown

Producer: The Alchemist

[Verse 1: Danny Brown]
I popped a E pill and it taste like some oil sheen
Flow boiled goya beans, gasoline in saline
Red lining, red beans, phantom, raw OG's who ain't snitched, nigga
Everybody know, you just snitch, nigga
Heart rate Adderall got me on some stargate
Pacing, smoking loosies back to back
Car chase, monopolize, 'bout to take your park place
Shark face bite the style, but these niggas second rate
I cannon balled in the pool of fucking rap
And I splashed on these niggas, head first, no depth, nigga
That's why I'm black, nigga, cause y'all wack, nigga
Met Alchemist '07 in Miami
50K jewels on nigga, ask 'em about Danny
Now I'm on some Bruiser, hair looking Yakuza
Jeans extra tight and ya bitch got a ruler

[Verse 2: Schoolboy Q]
Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yeah, shimmy Q
I guess it's time to kill this shit
Real as this, game fears, put in work
Determined I been the fierce, me getting it up is limitless
Before I started eating pussy, I was hitting licks
211's on bitch niggas, whipping with antennas
Didn't your momma tell your ass not to hang with them gang members?
Didn't listen, head missing, flatlining, Grooveline
Bad twins they too fine, dummy stay on my mind
More shots of Patron, six is my gat drive
Click-click, reload mine, green light, no stop signs
Hey Danny, let's shoot these fucking Xannies
And call that bitch from Kendrick's song, I bet it dub, we fuck on Tammy
Asthma pumper, hand prints all over her bumper
She love me long time, I'm forever that mothafucka

[Outro]
Smoking keeping my cool
Black Hippy the New School Q

The Alchemist is a rapper and DJ on top of being one of the most prolific producers in hip-hop who is known for his eclectic beats. Al’s sample-heavy style has been associated with an East Coast sound even though he reps the West Coast, but he has worked with rappers from every region of America—including Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, and Eminem among others.

At 14 years old, Daniel Alan Maman from Beverly Hills, California entered the rap game as Mudfoot, one-half of The Whooliganz with actor Scott Caan in 1991. He also grew up with Evidence from Dilated Peoples and produced the crew’s debut single “Third Degree” in 1997. Al was mentored by Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs, who taught him production techniques and later introduced him to Mobb Deep. Al’s early productions on Mobb Deep’s Murda Muzik album in 1999 began to grow his profile, which took off after the popularity of his production on the 2001 Jadakiss hit “We Gonna Make It.”

The Alchemist has been involved in many projects over the years. He released two compilations—2004’s 1st Infantry and 2009’s Chemical Warfare—a number of instrumental albums, mixtapes, as well as collaborative albums with Prodigy and Havoc of Mobb Deep, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson, Oh No (as Gangrene), and Evidence (as Step Brothers) to name a few. Al has served as a DJ for Eminem and Action Bronson shows, and Al has also been a frequent guest on Action Bronson’s Viceland food show Fuck, That’s Delicious. Al used vocal samples from the show throughout his 2020 album The Food Villain.

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