>it was a hokey soul chop and 2 standard "reminisce when the
>times were simpler" verses

Except Ras' verse isn't a "standard" verse about "reminisc(ing) when times were simpler." You surely did NOT listen to this song in any way that the word "listen" is used in the English language. You skimmed through it. That's not *listening*. I did a quick transcription of the lyrics for you, since you couldn't be bothered to actually listen to them closely.

Ras' verse

Archeological logic
Discover in (gold?) fossils
to paint a perfect picture
12 years a slave
20 years a spitter
37 years a n----r
Hoping to see 90
being a strong black figure
Stand and deliver
Breath fire in Japan
Godzilla
By popular demand of the fans
See the god got iller
I'm like Cornel West
with scales on my chest
You Superman thugs
catch Kryptonite to the flesh
See the hood got me stressed
take ??? to the neck
I discovered KRS
Let us begin
what, when, how and why
will all will be explained
If not, fam will die
Losing Granny was the hardest
Good women, I f--ked
left broken-hearted
Turned up, being retarded
Transformation
an activist, from an artist
A young (mulatto?)
whom the Taliban would target
sex traffic was free
Turn down for what?
Cuz b----s turn themselves nowadays
filming on Vine
and wonder why crime don't pay
??? outlandish
Dirty pistol I brandish
Glad they didn't have cameraphones
when I was young doing bad sh-t
Yeah, I just dated myself
I'm no spring chicken
but why you hate on yourself
For five minutes of fame
Find yourself like Katt Stacks
Knocked out of the frame
Locked in a cage
??? it's true
You backwards hustling, homie
you snitching on you
I'm on my (game card?) b-boy
bebop Aristotle
Prehistoric talent
twist the top off the bottle
My elders clash
Tyrannosaurus Rex in the lab shit
Leimert Park, so I pass it jurassic

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If anything, it's a non-topical verse that goes all over the place. Somehow you listened to those lyrics above and heard a "standard reminiscing on the past" verse? Take a few listens to a song and actually pay attention to the lyrics before you hop on the Internet to trash it, with half-formed ideas of what the verses were even about.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
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