Dilated Peoples - The Platform Lyrics
"You've done nothing" [x2]
(Uh-huh, yeah, the Platform sound)
"Dilated" "Mind created minds"
"Dilated expand" "That Platform sound"
[Iriscience]
Aiyyo The Platform, watch the stormtroopers swarm
The Death Star's more than the devilish dawn
It's where Evil and The Force manifest their form
It's no good without bad and no night without morn
It's relativity, balance, stability
It's creativity, talents, ability
Hip hop-up and move to strike like a lawyer
Quick to be like "Fuck a rapper after what I'm after"
Friendly how you front, but behind me talkin backwards
Basically I'm down to build but stay ready for battle
Plus most of you ? oh, I mean cattle
The catalyst, never rock the mic in vain
Energy ain't created or destroyed, it's changed
The Dilated Peoples hit you wit the Big Bang
And theories that the Red Shift couldn't explain
Platform
"You wanna front war" "You've done nothing"
[Chorus: x2]
Aiyyo The Platform, takes respect to perfect the artform
At times a battleground where rappers get their hearts torn
"You wanna front war" "You've done nothing"
[Evidence]
Cuz when I step off, then step back on
Son you'll never catch me preach-ing what I'm not practic-ing
Word War II, Platform the illest flows
I know my hunger's real, I still get nauseous at shows
My motto, I didn't write but this I quote:
"It ain't where you put your words, it's where you don't"
End quote, and wit this in mind
Yo I bring flows more rare than black quarterbacks
I never got sacked, or pushed ten yards back
We could go rhyme for rhyme, line for line or track for track
And after that, the crowd'll react
To the future we are the magnetic attract
Two-thousand twenty, confusin no doubt
I catch the story of your life on VH1 Where Are They Now?
And as for mine, I'll be sixty in my prime
Still science and theories, and droppin rhymes on time
Platform
"You wanna front war"
[Chorus x2]
[Iriscience]
Aiyyo I seen apathy, met love and know hate
I'm heavy on the mic, can you handle the weight?
Either you learn to adapt or you're sealin your fate
Only brave when you get more dusted than home plate
Rockin D&D wit the Alchemist and Babs
And after the lab, we send Ev to catch the cab
Platform troop, make moves and stay true
Rock Steady-Zulu creates a devastate crew
[Evidence]
Yo I Platform my strategy, mix words wit alchemy
Evidence, I won't get caught shot on the balcony
Between you and I, I'll tell you, here's the diff
Gun to your head, your dead, pointblank, I shapeshift
That's right, study Chemistry like Al
Life, use your potential or Steve Howe
I'm about to call it quits, like too much weight'll break your rack mount
The man'll make you move yo, so make your move a backout
"You wanna front war"
[Chorus x2]
"Every word is lethal" "Dilated expand"
"That Platform sound" "You've done nothing"
"That Platform sound"
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Dilated Peoples - Mr. Slow Flow (Remix)
- Dilated Peoples - 20/20
- Dilated Peoples - Firepower (The Tables Have To Turn)
- Dilated Peoples - Satellite Radio
- Dilated Peoples - The Eyes Have It
- Dilated Peoples - Rapid Transit
- Dilated Peoples - Another Sound Mission
- Dilated Peoples - Kindness For Weakness
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- Dilated Peoples - Back Again
- Dilated Peoples - This Way
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Dilated Peoples The Platform Comments
🔥🔥💯 respect the legends .. 83’ baby here
Dilated Peoples Forever🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐐🎧🎤💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹and
This beat is mad fresh. This was real hip hop.
Still bumping 2020
this needs more views
This song shows how much people are stuck
My favorite DP track
I love how most of the fight night games had at least 1 dilated people's tracks
BRING THIS FEELING BACK
Never, were beats made like this anymore,! ....it was just that time, droppin science and theories, at that tiiime!, The Platform. Legendary!😎 Alc and you can feel that's EV on these Beats too!😊👍
Pure HIP HOP ! Rare like hair on my head !
For me one of the best hip hop tracks ever! Hip hop head since 89
back in the days when I was a teenager tf tf
"The Platform Dilated dla mnie jak Pismo Święte"
One of the illest video concepts from Dilated!
This is better than Worst comes to Worst
+1 for Zach De la Rocha +1 for B-Real !!
My model I did not write but this I quote it aint where you put your word its where you don't
🎈🤺 merci magazine groove et son CD
Ah this used to be graff music back in the days when I was coming up
Legendary! A true classic, brings me back to high school days in early 2000s..one of them tracks that made me a hip hop head for life
real hip-hop music
this shit is timeless, still on the playlist.
Will never get old. Only we will.
One of best songs of all time
Babu - so dope
The first time i heard this song i saw it on the tv monitor at Gadzooks in the mall.
That is the 90-ist sentence I've ever written in my life...
dafq so good yo
The most underrated Hip-Hop song.
Dilated people's for life💯💯💯
been listening this for years never watched the clip :p
iS ALMOST 2020
Confusing no doubt.
ese mini grafo me dio pena ajena
Babu is the man
I'll be sixty in my prime. That's about the song 🎶🎤
Every Song on this Album ist dope...one of the best ever 😍
Long live to 90's classic hip hop.
Ayyyyyy
Dilated Peoples are hands down the most underrated group in hip hop history
essence of hiphop :)
Dope lyrics to a dope beats = Classic!!!
Dope song. Pure hip hop.
I always felt Babu should scratch Ev saying "I'll be 60 in my prime" on a track
🎄November 1999 I was still living in Bakersfield California
Not a single Dilated Peoples Track sounds "old" or dusty... With other Artists, Crews & Groups like ATCQ, The Liks, Defari, J5, Gang Starr, Mobb Deep, DITC, PUTS and many others, they represent HipHop's finest. Intelligent, conscious lyrics spitted on dope instrumentals served by some of the best DJs and Beatmakers.
Time is one of, when not the hardest judge. If an Artist's MuZiK still sounds fresh 10, 20, 30 years later, if his tracks still break your HipHop head, then it's more than a classic... It's History!!! Support Underground & Independent MuZiK and don't forget your Local Artists!!! #Peace
One of the best Hip hop Songs ever made
ALL these years of enjoying Dilated Peoples and in I've NEVER knew it was a video for this!
HERMOSO SIMPLEMENTE HIP HOP DEL BUENO
Great Cover in the CD ...
THE RED LINE From Union Station to NH.........😎💪👌BTW I got that CD ...1st. Week. .
fucking classy!!!x
Dilated people's Forever 💯
Probably one of the most insane beat ever seen. And the flow of Rakka man ....
ALC Genius
Big up to Jeru ........
why is this video not available anymore
Dilated Peoples Forever
I forgot how good this song is... Even 11 years later too. Dafari is so sick.
dope shit respeto de argentina
Dilated people's Forever
Yo that was sick af
this shit is weak
+Brooklyn Finest How could anybody think that is beyond my comprehension
go listen to your lil Wayne there buddy
This could easily have been made at anypoint from 96 onwards still sounds fresh as fuck.
dat vergil doe * real talk
Yo I bring flows more rare than black quarterbacks!
13 when this shits came out.... miss the days when mtv base played underground shits!
ALC went in when he produced this beat damn.... Miss this era of hip hop.
agree!!!!!!
amen bro.
New generation New flavor, people may think it lost the flavor but it can never really lose that deep flavor, just harder to find
Fooda dmsss!!!!
It was nice time to hip hop
This was a nice time for Hip hop!
My childhood right there...
Yooooo I spot Zack de la Rocha at 3:28 !
4:17 one of the best covers ever for me, personally
PLATFORMA OBYWATELSKA
@Leśny Jebacz lol
Just a thank you to Dilated for being you, respect. Some of the best to ever do it come on people how do you not hear this. Wake up people you won't understand how ridiculous these Artists are
re re mostros
good memories man !!! <3 :3
My childhood days oh I miss this music
If you consider you like or love Hip-Hop, if you practise Hip-Hop and consider you ARE alive,
HIP - HOP is ALIVE !
Peace
Music was so so good when hip hop was still alive
That's why if you want to find good rappers you need to look into underground. No need to act fake, because they do Hip-Hop from soul.
Ooh i know that well man , but from our underground only shit comes, rappers with always the same flow and horrible nonsense verses
@Pete Smooth you, sir, got to stop saying that... for real though. I can't stand reading this over and over again... That's SO SO SO WRONG! Just got to go deeper, dig a bit... and you'll find the real hip hop you and we all loved so much back in the days. No doubt!
@Pete Smooth oj we alive just struggling but we will provide
+Double S "Rap is alive, Hip Hop has died a long time ago" Men, its looks like you dont have any clue of what you are talking abuot.
Good memories to good music... life's soundtrack....
Magellano .
just awsome
legit as fuck
viajemmm
seeing them live at warped tour in like 99 or 00 and this whole album is one of the albums that turned me onto fresh underground hip hop.
Evidence from Dilated Peoples dropped some major wisdom in the books *HOW TO RAP* & the second part, *HOW TO RAP 2*.
This is a comment from Ev in the books-
"If I like a take I did and I’m like, “Damn, the emotion was
there but the pocket wasn’t,” then I’ll just go in and move
one part a little bit here and keep the take, because I like the
way I did it. It’s more about emotion than it is anything else."
HOW TO RAP 1 & 2
.got both books
one of best track's in hip-hop history !!!
Can someone explain why this beat is so fucking amazing???
Babs and Alchemist dude, their kick fucking asses.
Ask Babu.
it's like Mozart bro
One of my favorite beats of all time. So legendary and perfect. 100 out of 100.
always damn dope, Hip-Hop certified!
This is Beautiful music. Pure Hip-Hop
good shit