[00:00.44]I'm honored to be here today.
[00:02.00]I stand before you not as an expert,
[00:05.32]But as a concerned citizen.
[00:07.80]This is the most urgent of times
[00:09.66]And the most urgent of messages
[00:12.28]The community knows it, industry knows it,
[00:14.82]Governments know it,
[00:16.29]Even the United States military knows it
[00:18.92]You can make history, or you will be vilified by it
[00:22.80]While they were sittin' on they hands,
[00:24.46]I was standin' and plottin'
[00:25.83]When I be in my own world, the whole world's forgotten
[00:28.62]Meditatin' in silence besides the loud in my pocket
[00:31.57]I don't want to hear nothing, a rat pissin' on cotton
[00:34.51]A rapper pissin' on rappers, I'm a Jekyll, I'm a jackal
[00:37.43]From rapper to rapper, you rappers PaRappa the Rapper
[00:40.15]Shark in the lake, dodgin' the fake
[00:41.83]On the line, I'm a snapper
[00:43.03]Heard you the best thing coming up,
[00:44.49]Oh, God, I'm dyin' from laughter
[00:46.17]No, I'm dyin' from living
[00:47.35]I been robbing and giving
[00:48.76]****** chances just to raise the ******* standards, wait
[00:51.76]Heard all the hoopla, faking, and all the antics
[00:54.20]Can't even count all the punches a ***** landed
[00:56.90]Nationwide tour from the west side, then back to Decatur
[01:00.46]I ain't even signed this deal, girl,
[01:02.15]I'm just splashing this swavor
[01:03.45]Baby, you Betty Shabazz, you kinda match my flavor
[01:06.26]I'm a freak with a great mind, girl, a master debater
[01:09.14]Hornier than the good Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
[01:12.22]Come here, baby, come and kiss on the king junior
[01:15.13]Then take a trip to the six, with me,
[01:17.37]It ain't pretty as Toronto, Canada
[01:19.38]Gotta walk with the hammer here
[01:20.89]Small things like that you couldn't fathom
[01:23.04]Little forty'll knock the apple out of Adam
[01:25.96]Little shorty sling **** and crack dabble
[01:28.82]Upgrade to full-time, where your tassle, where your bando?
[01:31.81]Where the hassle when the cops jocking,
[01:33.47]Blocking trying to find?
[01:34.51]Where the guala and the drugs? Ollie oxen free
[01:37.27]Hotbox topping foxy mama in a box chevy,
[01:39.96]Monotonous debauchery
[01:41.05]Obviously I've been out of it awhile
[01:43.16]You should've got my things and sent for me
[01:44.95]Empathy, empathize with my pathological lies
[01:47.77]Divide that pride and split the pot
[01:49.89]It's only my God's grace that I made it this far
[01:52.52]Thus far, I need his plus y'alls
[01:54.67]Every week, we’re seeing new and undeniable events
[01:59.87]Evidence that accelerated climate change is here now
[02:03.60]Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying
[02:07.18]With methane plumes rising up from beneath the ocean floor
[02:10.23]We are seeing extreme weather events,
[02:12.35]And the West Antarctic
[02:14.06]And Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates
[02:17.19]Decades ahead of scientific projections
[02:19.86]Waiting on **** to pan out,
[02:21.98]Why you standing there with your hand out
[02:23.86]Like you looking for some change?
[02:25.26]I mean, I could offer that,
[02:27.26]But why would I offer that when you ******
[02:29.30]Could just utilize your brain?
[02:31.10]I want that right there, yeah,
[02:33.65]I want that right there, yeah, give me all that there
[02:36.54]Yeah, want that right there,
[02:38.76]So, come on 'bout that there, I need all that there
[02:42.55]We need it all, like
[02:44.54]Some ****** like, how he get on, how he get on?
[02:48.74]He get on because he's supposed to be
[02:50.71]You gotta work for this ****
[02:52.55]****** got great time, great time, great hustle
[02:57.02]This is the time, no more weak ****
[03:00.45]It's not allowed like, new rules, we on some new ****
[03:04.52]Well, it's the same ****,
[03:05.85]But we gon' teach y'all some new rules
[03:08.53]Cause ****** make the same ****
[03:12.98]This right here, it's gon' get you right, like
[03:15.79]This is the motivation that you need (the motivation)
[03:18.67]This is, This is it
[03:19.81]I'm, This is it, like, get ready
[03:22.64]Take notes, take notes
[03:24.52]Don't copy cause you can't, but you can take some notes
[03:29.19]Ummmm, good work