[00:10.473]One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[00:14.880]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[00:17.400]Best alliance in hip-hop, wayohh
[00:21.027]I said, one, two, three, Black Star shine eternally
[00:25.326]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[00:28.141]And Hi-Tek make the beat drop, wayohh
[00:31.561]Redefinition, turning your play into a tragedy
[00:34.260]Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately
[00:37.046]Niggas is sweet so I bet if I bit I'd get a cavity
[00:39.490]Living to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity
[00:42.139]We die hard like the battery thrown in the back of me by the mad MC
[00:45.328]Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery, actually
[00:47.864]Don't be mad at me, I had to be the one to break it to you
[00:50.502]You get kicked into obscurity like judo—no, Menudo
[00:53.235]Cause You pseudo, trying to compete with reality like Xerox
[00:55.913]Towards destruction you spiraling like hairlocks, wipe them teardrops
[00:58.582]Chasing stars in your eyes, playing games with your lives
[01:01.349]Now the wives is widows soaking up pillows, weeping like willows
[01:03.852]Still more blacks is dying, cause they live and they trying
[01:06.377]"How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applying
[01:08.984]Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners
[01:11.782]Rocking ever since before Prince was called The Artist
[01:14.450]Rocking before Funkmaster Flex was rocking Starter
[01:17.278]When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool, before they was martyrs
[01:19.767]Life or death, if I'm choosing with every breath I'm enhancing
[01:22.500]Stop, there comes a time when you can't run
[01:24.871]What, lyrically handsome, call collect a king's ransom
[01:27.799]Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
[01:30.530]Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, move like a phantom
[01:33.980]You'll talk about me to your grandsons
[01:36.184]Cats who claiming they hard be mad fags
[01:38.395]So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags
[01:40.964]Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have
[01:43.539]Sinking they ship, like Moby Dick to Ahab
[01:46.278]Son I'm way past the minimum, entering millennium
[01:49.174]My raps will hold a gat to your back like Palestinians
[01:51.901]Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon
[01:54.411]Official b-boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim
[01:57.270]Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10
[02:00.030]These simpletons they mentioned in
[02:01.347]The synonym for feminine
[02:02.693]Sweeter than some cinnamon
[02:04.114]The Danish rings by Entenmann's
[02:05.238]Rush up on adrenaline, they get they asses sent to them
[02:07.907](Gentlemen) you got a tenement, well then assemble it!
[02:10.710]Leave your unit trembling like herds of moving elephant
[02:13.197]Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element
[02:16.090]From Flatbush settlement, skin possesses melanin
[02:18.600]Hotter than tales of crack peddling, making em WOOP
[02:21.696]Like blue gelatin, swing like Duke Ellington
[02:23.792]Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
[02:26.601]The hot Apache red who burn down your chief teepee
[02:29.120]You see me?
[02:30.270]One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[02:33.496]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[02:36.035]Best alliance in hip-hop, wayohh
[02:39.939]I said, one two tree, Black Star shine eternally
[02:44.042]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[02:46.711]Because we ruling hip-hop, yes we is rulin hip-hop
[02:52.085]Talib Kweli is ruling hip-hop
[02:54.562]Say we Black Star, we rule hip-hop-ah-ahh-ah-ahh-ahh
[02:59.109]Whoahhhh!