’93 ’Til Infinity Lyrics

[Verse 3: Tajai]
Hey, Miss! Who's there? I'm through there
No time to do hair; the flick's at eight, so get straight
You look great, let's grub now
A rubdown sounds flavor, later there's the theater
(Yeah, that sounds nice)
We in the cut, the cinema was mediocre (It was cool, you know)
Take her to the crib so I can stroke her


[Verse 4: Phesto]
Kids get broke for they skins when I'm in
Close range, I throws game at your dip like handball

'Cause the man's all that! All phat!
I'm D to chill from '93 'til (Aha!)

[Hook: Souls of Mischief]
Yeah, this is how we chill from '93 'til (Yeah)
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
Uh-huh, this is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill… from '93 'til

[Verse 5: A-Plus]
Huh! My black Timbs do me well (Yeah)
When I see a fool and he says he heard me tell (What?)
Another person's busy-ness, I cause dizziness
Until you stop actin' like a silly bitch

[Verse 6: Phesto]
Yo, crews are jealous 'cause we get props
The cops wanna stop our fun, but the top
Is where we're dwellin', swell and fat, no sleep
I work fit, and jerks get their hoes sweeped
Under their noses, this bro's quick
To hit blunts and flip once I'm chillin' 'cause my crew's close, kid

[Verse 7: Tajai]
I'm posted, most kids accept this as cool
I exit, 'cause I'm an exception to the rule (Hell no, I'm out)
I'm steppin' to the cool spots where crews flock
(Yo what's up, how you doin'?)
To snare a dip, or see where the shit that's flam-bee
Plan B not as poppin'

So I got tons of indo and go to the Owen's basement
My ace been fattenin' up tracks
Time to get prolific with the whiz, kid

[Verse 8: Opio]
Greenbacks in stacks, don't even ask who got the fat stacks
We can max pumpin' phat tracks
Exchangin' facts about impacts, 'cause in facts
My freestyle talent overpowers, brothers can't hack it
They lack wit, we got the mack shit
'93 to infinity — kill all that wack shit!
[Hook: Souls of Mischief]
Ha! This is how we chill from '93 till
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill… from '93 'til
Yeah, this is how we chill from '93 'til' (Uh-huh)
This is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 until
This is how we chill from '93 'til (Yeah)

[Verse 9: Phesto]
I be coolin', school's in session, but I'm fresh in
Rappin', so I take time off to never rhyme soft
I'm off on my own shit with my own clique
Roll many back-roads with a fat stoge and blunts, foldin' runts
Holdin' stunts captive with my persona
Plus a bomber, zestin'
Niggas is testin' my patience, but I stay fresh and

[Verse 10: Tajai]
Restin' at the mall, attendance on 'noid (Get off!)
But I am shoppin' for my wish to exploit
Some few fits, some new kicks
I often do this, 'cause it's the pits not bein' dipped

[Verse 11: Opio]
Flipped! The flyer attire females desire
Baby, you can step to this if you admire
The exxx-traordinary dapper rapper
Keep tabs on your main squeeze before I tap her

[Verse 12: A-Plus]
I mack her, attack her with the smoothness
I do this, peepin' what my crew gets, huh! (Shit)
Loot, props, respect and blunts to pass
Crews talk shit, but in my face, they kiss my ass (Smack!)
They bite flows, but we make up new ones
If you're really dope, why ain't you signed yet?
But I get my loot from Jive/Zomba, I'ma bomb ya

You will see, from now 'til infinity

[Hook: Souls of Mischief]
Ahhh (Yeah), this is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
Huh! This is how we chill from '93 'til
Yo! This is how we chill from '93 'til
Aww, yeah, this is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til
Yeah, this is how we chill from '93 'til
This is how we chill from '93 'til

[Outro: Souls of Mischief]
Haha! Just coolin' out, y'know what I'm sayin'?
But, but who's chillin' around the Land, y'know?
Yo, who's chillin'? I think I know who's chillin'
Yeah, tell me who's chillin' then, A-Plus
Casual — you know he's chillin'
Yo! Pep Love — he gotta be chillin'
Jay-Biz — you know he's chillin'
A-yo, man, my — my man Snupe is chillin', man
Yo, Mike G — you know he's here chillin'

Yeah, my man Mike P — you know he gotta chill
Del the Funky Homosapien is chillin'
Aye, aye, my man Domino — yo, he's chillin'
Yeah… and it's like that to the end (Yeah, like that)

For infinity, you know what I'm sayin'?
'92 is over, '93, that's when we rule (We the dopest)
You know what I'm sayin'? Peace

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About

Genius Annotation

Rising from the Oakland hip-hop scene, Souls of Mischief, a subgroup of Hieroglyphics, talk about their daily lives in 1993, from women, talking about money, and eating grub.

Planes and Pigeons says, “‘93 ‘Til Infinity achieves a rare feat: it is a beautiful song that doesn’t sound like what we think of when we typically discuss 'beautiful music’.”

This track samples the Billy Cobham track, “Heather” off of his 2nd album “Crosswinds”. A-Plus sped the sample up to ridiculous rates on most likely an SP-1200 (Many producers did this for jazz samples in the early 90’s because the SP-1200 sampler didn’t have much sample time).

During an interview with SPIN, the group’s A-Plus revealed the original title track was named differently.

The original song was called ‘91 'Til Infinity.’ We were in high school, just making songs, making demos, trying to get them to send out to people, and it was just a concept for a song. It had a whole different beat. We never really laid the song down, but we wrote verses. Time moved forward and we were working on the album, and we were like, ‘We should do a '92 'Til Infinity.’ But the album didn’t come out ‘til '93. So that was that. The other beat was slower, more somber, this was one was more upbeat.

Original four members of the Souls of Mischief, (left to right) Phesto, Opio, Tajai, A-Plus

Q&A

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How did A-Plus make the beat?
Genius Answer

A-Plus made the beat after finding the album (Billy Cobham’s Crosswinds) in a dollar bin.

I just grabbed it, and when I got home, I listened to the sample. I used to listen to my samples on 45 [rpm], because I didn’t have much sampling time in my sampler. [It was] some cheap shit. [The record is] a little gritty, but listening to it on 45, I was like, “Aw, this’d be dope, I’m gonna make it uptempo.” It was dope, but hip-hop at the time, I was trying to do something faster, a little bit uptempo. I put it together really fast. I didn’t even think it was a big deal, actually, until people were like, “Yo, that’s fucking dope.” It was just another beat.

Why does everybody have such short verses?
Genius Answer

Compositionally, we wanted to include everybody. And it’s kinda hard to do that with everybody kicking a 16-bar verse. … So in order to keep the ear interested, we were just like, well what if we just trade off, like rapidfire in that sense? And that way everybody gets to have equal time on the track.

— Phesto, SPIN, 2013

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Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco)
Release Date
September 7, 1993
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