Featuring Easy D Tony Touch       [Carlito Brigante]    "Somebody's pulling me close to ground    I can sense but I can't see    I ain't panicked I've been here before    Same as when I got popped on a Hundred Fourth Street    Oh look at these suckers scrambling around what for?    My Puerto Rican ass ain't supposed to have made it this far    Most of my crew got washed a long time ago    Don't worry....my heart it don't ever quit"       [SonDoobie]    Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down    Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down       [SonDoobie]    The organized, fortified, SonDoob's immortalized    Rap acts borderline, M.C.'s is horrified    All the while glorified, those can't demoralize    My chorus line mesmorized, notify    All my peeps, keep your nose clean    Between you and me, redeem cash for greens    Take care your team, I'll self-esteem    The cream, make sure your world, or so it seems       -"What's going on L?"    -"Yo, what's the deal daddy?"    -"Nothing papi, what's going out there in the East?"    -"Yo maintaining, getting this money    Yo what's the deal up in the West?"    -"Same this papi, not trying to get up"    -"Yo love is love, maintain"    -"It's all family right?"    -"It's all family."       [?]    I be that rifraf lounging on your Ave, scrambling    Getting money gambling, Celo, betting Hamiltons    Everyday, I'm on the money hunt, smoke twenty blunts    Ass out with smoking honeys blunt    Me and my peoples burn to make the ? equal    >From attracting from the way we be acting    They call me derelict and say I roll with spics    In a clique too thick, it makes it hard for them to ride my dick    You don't need to, cuz I don't need you    Just a weed to keep me from flipping, cuz it's lethal       [?]    The industry fears me    I touch a track down with eight bars severly    You know the dealy, for really    I get you open like acts, and worldwide rap tours    Everything I wrote soaked around in black force    Be familiar, thick like we was pasta    La Raza, Ricans and Rastas splashing casas    Who's the imposter, talking beef    I'll cap his teeth like polar    Wisdom to the molars    Spics that real, like solars       Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down    Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down       [Tony Touch]    Ay yo, you know me, Tony, representing cultura    All star like Fania, Johhny Ventura    Ay yo, SonDoobie, papi tengo la cura    Rap over wax, and scratching my aguja    That's how I hold it down, for my corio    P.R, out in the beach, up in luqiyo    Watch out for them sharks, you know, Piyos    Bite on the next mans formats and stilos    But we know, who out there's the bandido    Tainos, like me, remain brown-dido       [Easy D]    Clowns!, I'mma holding down, with the four pound    to the crowd, lying face down, on the ground    Not making a sound, now in case u jump off    Lyrical sawed-off, got you caught off guard    While hard niggas u run with, run off    Ready to flip, fuck up a shit, word to my brother    Hang with a gang, ready to band, regardless of color    I'm color blind, I heat the track like summertime    When is it mine?, in case I got to bust a rhyme    Bait the rhyme, maybe rape the rhyme or fuck the rhyme    Marry the rhyme, cuz Easy D, love the rhyme       Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down    Taking back from that which it came from    Holding it down, now what son, say something    Holding it down, how you holding it down, holding it down