 The tune is heavily based on sampling "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" by Hall & Oates.The song is a cautionary tale about the use of drugs, in particular "base" (otherwise known as crack cocaine); a topic they would tackle on their follow up album, "De La Soul Is Dead", albeit from 
a different perspective, on the song "My Brother's a Basehead".In the opening line, Posdnuos raps