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Hello everybody |
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Recording line from somewhere |
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Lord have mercy |
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All nice and decent crew follow me now we say |
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Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop |
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Say J Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop |
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Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop |
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Say Black Star come to rock it non |
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Yo from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate |
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The whole and not the half of it vocab and not the math of it |
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Projectile that them blasted with accurate assassin shit |
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Me and Kweli close like Bethlehem and Nazareth |
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After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk |
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Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin |
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Connectin like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments |
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Cause all my Brooklyn residents heavy regiments |
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Don't believe here the evidence where Brooklyn WHAAAAAAAoohhhh |
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See that Bound to take it all kid believe that |
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From where they sellin tree at to where the police be at |
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Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them where we be at |
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Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie |
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In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous life look pretty |
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What a pity blunts is still fifty cents it's intense |
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Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense |
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My presence felt my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection |
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People thinkin MC is short hand for Mis Conception |
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Let me meditate set it straight came to the conclusion |
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That most of these cats is featherweight let me demonstrate |
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Walkin the streets is like battlin be careful with your body |
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You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade |
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Stop actin like a bitch already be a visionary |
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And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary |
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Third rate teacher readin and talkin about |
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"I knew he'd amount to nothin" |
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Neighbors like "He was the quiet type |
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Who'd have thought they was frontin " |
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Talkin Loud like you in RCA get carted away |
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With body parts and treys what a way to start your day |
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Yo it's like |
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One two three |
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Mos Def and Talib Kweli |
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We came to rock it on to the tip-top |
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Best alliance in hip-hop wyahhhhh |
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I said one two three |
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It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee |
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They shot Tupac and Biggie |
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Too much violence in hip-hop wyahhhhh |
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I said Manhattan keep on makin it(Bo)Brooklyn keep on takin it(Bo) |
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So relax we're takin it back Redhook where we're livin at |
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Plenty cats be strugglin not hustlin and bubblin |
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It ain't about production and what else we discussin |
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When the cock crows my crop grows enable me to rock flows |
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Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed |
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COLOSSAL true original b-boy apostle |
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Standin on the rooftop with the Zulu gestapo |
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You think you the shit |
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Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit |
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It could be your crew or click |
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Or some random kid you smoked buddha with |
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Consider me the entity within the industry without a history |
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Of spittin the epitome of stupidity livin my life |
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Expressin my liberty it gotta be done properly |
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My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty |
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People follow me and other cats they hear him flow |
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And assume I'm the real one with lyrics like I'm Cyrano |
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Still sippin wishin well water imported from Pluto |
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Three hundred and sixty milliliters for all our believers |
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In miles or kilometers most cats cannot proceed us |
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In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters |
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A cypher will complete us if we come through your receivers |
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You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us |
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(Line for line) Good Jesus Mos Def and Kweli just |
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Make a pussy freeze up thinkin we will ease up |
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One two three |
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Mos Def and Talib Kweli |
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We came to rock it on to the tip-top |
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Best alliance in hip-hop wyahhhhh |
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I said one two three |
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It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee |
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They shot Tupac and Biggie |
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Hold your head in the beat top wyahhhhh |