Artist: Focus... f/ Chaundon, Tanya Morgan Album: Pay Homage Song: Homage to Ali Shaheed Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com [Intro] {in style of "Midnight Marauders Tour Guide"} Wel-come to.. the "Homage" for Ali Shaheed Muhammad Remember... sound with-out Focus... is just.. noise. Keep bouncin! [Von Pea] Yeah... Ay Focus... man It's what it is man... ye-yeah! TM... Aiyyo, listen... I be hatin sucka emcees, and sucka producers I never tried to make a beat until I heard The Ummah Five mics twice and that wasn't even they best +Midnight Marauderin+ women wear painted breast Every rapper at the time came through for the cover And the music was tougher, it influenced none other than brothers that wasn't into hearin coke and Colombians or the rage, Ali was a legend by my age Was awoken out of my sleep the day Tribe called quits Yeah, it was heartbreaking, but I knew it was more shit When Phife wanted to bone Dawn from En Vouge Sha did something iller, started a group with her Yeah before Ms. Morgan, there was a Ms. Pearl And then he started rappin, son is out of this world A creator on the boards or the fader It's him like ?Betsy Boggs?, let me tell you who's the raw, it's Shaheed [Chorus: cuts and scratches] "The rave of the town to your foes and your friends" <- Q-Tip [Donwill] +Oh My God+, yes, +Oh My God+! Every time the Tribe dropped, that shit was so damn hard Ali Shaheed, on the beat, on repeat, in my iPod It's all Tribe everything, all I'd ever need Whole damn discography is shittin on anything The fact he fuckin with us still is hard to believe It ain't alleged he a legend, check the back of your records (Take a second, read the credits) Yeah yeah, but check his method Find the dope loop, flip it, bass line filtered Kick drum kickin and he cuttin to the rhythm My +Peoples+ is +Instinctive+, so my +Movement+ is +Love+ And we don't loot for loot, it's the ears we +Maraud+ Socially I'm not a name, Don-Don got game Said we need to do a jam and Focus... got bangs So it bump like a tumor, and shout out to The Ummah Thank you Jay Dee, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed [Chorus] [Chaundon] On 11/9/93, that's when I decided that I would MC +Maraudin+ EVERY ear I see in front of me (Chaun', you got fat!) Yeah, I know it look pathetic Ali Shaheed Muhammad got me doin calisthenics And he said it ain't genetics, so I gotta put in work If I'ma be on +Award Tours+ abroad goin berzerk Aiyyo I ain't +Buggin' Out+, I'm payin' homage to a legend Who set the tone of every +Rhime+ that Tip and Phife was +Checkin+ My turn to +Kick It+, where the I-T at? Like an oversize man, P, my rhyme be fat Thank Allah for Shaheed droppin needles on the record Makin nothin but the classics, every night I would request it A Tribe Called Quest paved the way for me to rock I can be who I am and don't pretend who I'm not While he could still smell the roses I'ma keep payin homage Can I get whatever from +Mr. Muhammad+? [Chorus]