The album's title derives from a line from a 2002 Kashal Tee song, "I'm All This", in which he says: "So fuck the commercial tracks you be doin' - A brother got to eat - Yeah? Why don't you rap for food then?" It is played in the intro of "Lynguistics" and Kashal Tee is also featured on the song "616 Rewind".[citation needed] In addition, the quotation could be rooted back to the 2000 album of Guru, Jazzmatazz vol.3 where, in the song "Who's There?", a featuring with Les Nubians, he says: "These distraught thoughts of a young man in a rooming house, This messed up life, this poverty, he could do without, But what options does he have when all hope is gone? A brother gotta eat, plus all the Henny and all the smoke is gone, All it takes is one quick stick".[6]
All tracks are produced by Kno, except where noted.
| Title | Producer |
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| 1. | "Will Rap for Food" (Interlude) | | 0:26 |
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| 2. | "Lynguistics" | | 2:28 |
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| 3. | "Mic Like a Memory" (feat. Kory Calico) | | 4:38 |
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| 4. | "So Live!" (feat. Jayze, Game & Mr. Raw) | Celph Titled | 3:08 |
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| 5. | "Hey" (Interlude) | | 0:28 |
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| 6. | "Fukinwichu" | | 4:51 |
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| 7. | "Ain't No Way" (feat. Anetra & Mr. SOS) | | 3:58 |
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| 8. | "Missing Children" (feat. Braille) | | 4:56 |
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| 9. | "Midnight" (Interlude) | | 0:33 |
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| 10. | "Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts" (feat. J. Bully & Mr. Raw) | | 3:52 |
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| 11. | "Kno's Diggin" (Interlude) | | 0:37 |
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| 12. | "Halfanimal" | | 4:02 |
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| 13. | "Family Ties" (feat. Anetra & Cashmere the Professional) | | 4:01 |
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| 14. | "Dirty South" (Interlude) | | 0:34 |
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| 15. | "Mindstate" | | 3:56 |
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| 16. | "Takin' the Loss" (feat. J. Bully) | | 5:29 |
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| 17. | "Not Guilty" | | 3:39 |
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| 18. | "616 Rewind" (feat. Celph Titled, Kashal-Tee, Sankofa, and Tonedeff) | Kno, Deacon the Villain | 4:16 |
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