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[Intro]Lets try something new |
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It's been a long time coming! |
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Let me try something brand new |
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Hey yo Ski! |
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What you ever do, man? |
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Come on!Yo, what we doing it for?[Talib Kweli - Verse 1] |
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This is for all the day-trippers and the hipsters |
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Whores and the fashionistas |
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Spiritual leaders practicing all the laws of attraction |
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The teachers who read the passages |
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From the back of a |
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G?That be bustin off |
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Dalai Lama's or flashing heatersthe last of the boosters |
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With the shooting, the thugging and all the booning and spooningand all the crooning, and cooning and auto-tuning, alive |
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You be tellin, peddlin' to consumers |
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I'm helping them to see through itget with this new movement, |
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Let's move it![Hook] |
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Feel the cold rain |
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Still I'm standing right here |
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Even the winter summer days[Talib Kweli - Verse 1] |
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Yeah I'm a product of |
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Reaganomics |
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From the blocks where he rocking a feds like |
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J Electronicadrop and make this a lockif he promises where the heart iswhether |
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Jesus or Mohammadregardless of where the |
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Mosque is (word) |
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They hope for the |
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Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy |
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Tell me when do we stop it? |
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Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? |
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Is the answer burning |
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KoransSo that we can defend |
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Islamics?The end upon us with a hash tag, a trending topic |
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You take away the freedoms that we invite in the game |
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Then you disrespect the soldiers; you ask them to die in vein |
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In a desert praying for rain |
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The music's like a drug, and they tend to take it to vein |
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It ain't for the well-behaved |
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The soundtrack for when you're great but its more for when you've felt afraid |
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More than your average rapper |
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So you sort of felt the way |
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The brain is like a cage, you a slave, that's why they lovin' you |
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This is the book that |
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Eli that start with a |
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K-W.[Hook][Talib Kweli - Verse 2] |
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I do it for the trappers, other rappersthe |
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Backpackers, the crackersthe n-ggas, the metal-packersthe victims of ghetto factories |
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I do it for the families, citizens of humanity |
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Emcee's, endangered species like manatees |
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I do it for the future of my children! |
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They the hope for the hopeless |
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Karma approaches, we gon' be food for a flock of vultures |
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The end of the |
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WorldAin't nothing left but the cockroachesand the freedom fighters |
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We're freedom writers like |
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Bob Mosesthe chosen, freedom writers like ? |
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For my block, my borough, my hood, my city, my state, yeah |
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My obligation is to my community is so clear!yeah, we gotta save them, this opportunity so rare! |
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We do it so big over here that it's no bare |
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To the punks, bitches, the chumps, the snitches, the sneak in the game |
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We let them live with all they're weak and they're lame |
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The bozo's and joker's, promoting when they're speaking my name[Hook] |