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Let Your Backbone Slide

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["Are brown from my sound in the States, green like the grass","I clock cash in every town, so I slide but nowadays, I'm trapped","It's gonna go down, first offense on the mix down, go on and break down","You wanna move with the Maestro, you feel hot so you set the blend","","When I'm in France they blow me francs, Frank","To the fresh side and let your backbone slide, this is a throw down","Dick Van Dyke flips, I get busy, they're dizzy, they start to collide","","","Beats from my rollin' stone, cold lyrics with the microphone","This jam is amplified, so just glide and let your backbone slide","While you're slither, it's contagious and epidemic, you try to lift","Butt like I said before, \"I'm not American, it's who you are\"","Or sixth, it's a throw down, I'm conducting it because like a high rise","Swung line to line of mine, I'm colossal, you'se a mosquito","I mold it in my hands before I start chiselin'","Could be a rain or brainstorm or drizzlin'","Sun could be shining, sun could be showerin'","The crescendo is nice yo, I'm the guy, the rhythm is a ride","Dry like a raisin, I glaze like a vase, I smash you like days until","Beats from box to box to bates, rocks from blocks and blocks","Aflag, then I run a post, toast, I'm the most, DEF's how it goes","They should've stepped off, I let it slide but now they got brazen","No glass is tasteless, a universe without light is light less","","You're cool but it fell again, rap scholar, soul like a Dominican","After I've created a monster, my musical monologue makes","You listen to every word I say, I, every verb you heard","","It's like a rap-sack, backpack, wic-wic-whack, give me some slack jack","Not the way you went, we all originate from the same descent","","I make your vision go blurry while your brain goes black into oblivion","To the rhythm and hey, this hey, oh, this ain't Forte, I'm coming","The keyword is synchronism, yo, check out my homeboy dance","They realize, they shouldn't have ripped, it's '89, not Beethoven's fifth","","With your swiss account is the way I bank-pank, at home I make bills","Better yet, I'll call you curious George 'cause curiosity cold killed the cat","Double-F, Fortissimo, FF for funky fresh, my DJ is LTD, mellow-flex","A slab of clay, that's shapeless, Jeff ain't no shimmer","Just let it slide y'all, I don't give a damn, damn, if ya backbone quiver","I make a lot of cents, sense and pence, gold, myrrh and frankincense","Can't hide so black to the side, let your backbone slide","Let your backbone slide","Rap is like a jungle, where rhyme for rhyme is like a vine to vine","Why's that? So many suckers on my sacroiliac","Man, oh man, watch ya swiver, wind some twine your spine","From the blast and the blaze, it's a bloodsport, bloods builds up back","Many parts, many, one, two, three, come on and break","Now it's a tower, a soul, a skyscraper, it's getting out of hand","I'mma play Tarzan, you play cheetah, cheetah, bitter love to forge","In a moment, the beat will be played in many parts, come on and break","That's why I always take time to write this","I'm holdin', words I rip, egos I strip, I make sucker crews kick","","I play snaps a vertabrae, you try to cover, a hover me, a roast, a fake","In the ground when I'm in England, they pass me pounds now","Okay, party people in the house, may I have your attention, please?","I'm constructing it, was once thoughts, pen and paper","Blowing away blockades and barricades, make ya black and blue","No X's or O's or tic-tac-toes, LTD knows, this ain't a game","My lyrics are awesome, tunin' from human, bloomin' a blossom","You listen to the poetry, big jumbo jet, vocabulary golden","I'm on a mission, call me a hip-hop, tip-tac-tition, I rap just like","Practice make perfect and I'm powerin', flowerin'","This is a throw down, a showdown, hell no, I can't slow down","",""]

Performed by: Maestro Fresh Wes
Written by: Anthony Davis; Peter Davis; Wes Williams

Credits: Davis, Anthony (Songwriter); Davis, Peter (Songwriter); Williams, Wes (Songwriter); TASTING MUSIC (Publisher); WARNER/CHAPPELL MUSIC CANADA LTD (Publisher); WB MUSIC CORP. (Publisher)

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"Let Your Backbone Slide"

Single by Maestro Fresh Wes

from the album Symphony in Effect

Released

1989

Format

Recorded

1989

Canadian hip hop

Length

4:58

First Offence Productions

Maestro Fresh Wes singles chronology

-

"Let Your Backbone Slide"
(1989)

"Drop the Needle"
(1990)

"Let Your Backbone Slide" is the debut single by Maestro Fresh Wes, released in 1989, from his album Symphony in Effect.

It was the first hip hop song by a Canadian rapper to reach #1 on The Record Singles Chart, in April 1990.^{[citation needed]} In the United States, 25,000 copies of the single were sold in its first few weeks of release.^[1] As of early 2008, it remained the best-selling Canadian hip hop single of all time.^[2]

It samples "The Champ" by The Mohawks.

Contents

1 Music video
2 Track listing
3 Chart positions
4 References

Music video

The music video was shot in Toronto, with most of it taking place in a club. In the video's first few seconds, current CITY-TV reporter Dwight Drummond plays the role of a cameraman.

Track listing

12" single
#	Title
A1.	"Let Your Backbone Slide" (Power Mix)
A2.	"Let Your Backbone Slide" (Bonus Beat)
A3.	"Let Your Backbone Slide" (Acapella Version)
B1.	"Let Your Backbone Slide" (Radio Edit)
B2.	"Let Your Backbone Slide" (Club Mix)

Chart positions

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Canadian The Record Singles Chart	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles^[3]	14

References

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