Madlib
Escape From SF
[Intro: Sample]
You’re not just anyone, Clark, and I have to believe that you were…that you were sent here for a reason. And even if it takes you the rest of your life, you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is

[Verse 1]
I see the golden gate with my cellmate all the way from Alcatraz
I’m an old school kingpin, a daredevil with devilish schemes up my sleeves, break legs like Chris Reeves, wreak havoc like pet Chi’s
Latins stay colonizing in the golden city
Borrow cultures like neighbors borrow sugar
Grab mics like Rooker, they try to pick us apart like kid’s picking at boogers
Now San Fran was fraulein for long time, good taste in good race of brown rind
Celebrate dead familia in May on the 5th day
I can see a skull face while we chew on Asada
Saturdays is for playing Jacks and betting stacks
While me and my cousin come out here to film a rap
Alcatraz represents my current mind status
So while I look at my home like little prison bars
Just know that Frank Lee Morris escaped far

[Chorus 1]
Lost into us
Shake that body, party that body
Shake that body, party that body
Shake that body, party that body
Shake that body, party that body

[Verse 2]
Just for a chance to be a star we light it up
TikTok’s spread and twitter threads to make some bread
Traffic jams get out of hand for minute dances
Trends that lend group of men a prison pen
Quilling my address to the people of my hood
Just to let them know I’ll make a mess like rappers should
Immature activity is what they want to see
I’ll use the power of my bloodline to plant seeds
See, I’m Nicaraguense but speak no Spanish
My culture vanishes when I tell other hispanics
Now how could I influence if I’m just a no sabo
While I try to find out who I am like who is Pablo? huh
I may not speak the dialect but lived the stereotypes
Who is this hype-man?
Tryna fight for life, man?
Found a passion for writing poems for trife, man
I see no benefit outside of profit for the hell of it
I grew up ok but never bills with current presidents
My home is the bay and I done transformed to an Optimus
[Chorus 2: Samples]
Can you dig it?
Maximum volume
If you want to vibe and ride then you know it’s me
Motherfucker!
As I live and breathe
If you want to feel the breeze then you know it’s me

[Verse 3]
Education is important but so is tax
I cannot be a janitor sweeping floors like I’m Dax
What is an income, does it equal an outcome?
If I cum in her will I even have an amount, mun?
Young daddies who saw the fattie and risked it all
But now they got a newborn baby to love crazy
With no love from the shady, dreams of Mercedes and that job
Is out the window like Blanket Jackson, leave you appalled
Working hard is what got Doc Dre in high authority
While bitches wanna take the easy way like teen majority
I’ve had a couple a downs while staring at the crescent in the sky
That guy is smart, he’s fishing for a lifetime
Makes the dream work ignoring hittas on the side
Cause he know we all have a time limit and we will die
I want a living of the rap game and fans ref
But first I got to escape SF
[Chorus 2: Samples]
Can you dig it?
Maximum volume
If you want to vibe and ride then you know it’s me
Motherfucker!
As I live and breathe
If you want to feel the breeze then you know it’s me
Lost into us
Shake that body, party that body
Shake that body, party that body

[Outro]
When did you get out of Alcatraz?
Ooh, ahhh that was nearly ten years ago
Well it’s wonderful to have you back in the neighborhood, son