[00:01.59]History, it's happenin' every day, y'all (right now)
[00:06.17]Everyday (live, right now)
[00:08.91]Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!)
[00:10.50]Mos Def
[00:10.99]Listen! Brooklyn wins again
[00:13.10]It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, them ****** again
[00:15.94]Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S. Dot on the guest lock
[00:19.08]Kanye, you're the ******* of hip-hop, now let's rock
[00:21.67]Now roll out, ******, my hometown ******
[00:24.36]I get it good in yo hood, so slow down, ******
[00:27.55]Watch the speed though, mind your pedal and ease off
[00:29.76]Or screech off into a collision course with these walls
[00:32.53](BAM!) They don't move, don't pray, don't lose
[00:34.94]Don't sleep, life passin', light flashin', life happens
[00:37.77]That fast, part of done, black hands up in prayer
[00:40.31]Black guns up in fear, dyin' wish is to touch the air
[00:42.98]Seekin' heaven that wasn't here
[00:45.31]Eyes will not see another year, it's another day
[00:48.42]It's the same fight, different round, sound the bell
[00:51.07]Mix it up in victory, you live it up, the beat'll get risen up
[00:54.21]You're knocked down, then get back and get it up
[00:56.24]Get off of queer street and get with us
[00:58.60]And get clear where we did it, from the heart, from the people
[01:01.36]From the top, from the jeep, from the gut, from the street
[01:04.21]From my soul to the mic to the essence
[01:06.46]So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly
[01:09.78]I make contact, for short, I MC
[01:11.80]Me and mine we don't just get by
[01:14.47]e and that's ready [(Mos, *****!)]
[01:15.54]Jay-Z
[01:15.90]Just to get by
[01:16.36]***** I sold coke, ***** I pushed lye, carried a fo' five
[01:19.47]Claimed I was ready to die, promised never to cry
[01:22.08]Held it all inside, reality was too much to take, so I
[01:25.69]Kept my mind fried, slept for most of mine
[01:28.52]Soon as I closed my eyes, then I woke up behind
[01:31.30]Thinkin' either I load up these 9's, or blow up with rhymes
[01:35.44]‘Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca
[01:38.17]And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
[01:41.44]Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein' your moms
[01:44.14]Doin' five dollars worth of work just to get a dime
[01:46.63]So pardon my disposition
[01:48.67]Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
[01:51.71]Picture me workin' McDonald's!
[01:54.10]I'd rather pull a MAC on you
[01:55.56]Sorry, Ms. Jackson, but I'm packin', bye!
[01:57.08]Kanye West
[01:57.46]Yeah! It's somethin' about that Nina Simone piano flow
[01:58.92]It's like a Michelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou
[02:02.64]And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote
[02:05.51]If music get ya choked up, this is the tree and the rope
[02:08.23]This is Chi, *****, I'm Mr. All-of-That
[02:10.98]**** a map, let's put this ***** on the almanac
[02:13.59]Dice what they hittin' fo', lax what you sittin' on
[02:16.17]Tracks who you spittin' on, rap 'til we get it on
[02:18.89]And don't let nobody with the power to sign
[02:21.30]Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme
[02:23.68]They used to tell me, "Toughen up, put some bass in your voice!"
[02:26.41]They used to tell me, "Lighten up, put some Mase in your voice!"
[02:28.87]Lord willin' I ain't killed nobody
[02:31.56]But I have a feelin' this album that I'm gonna make a killin'
[02:34.73]Or not a shilling, this is love-it-or-hate-it music
[02:37.38]But—at least we made it music
[02:40.17]And we didn't make it industry, this is gon' be interesting
[02:43.03]This'll be the end of me, or I'm finna be an entity
[02:45.52]Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli
[02:47.81]We are not makin' songs no more, we're makin' history
[02:50.74]kground singers + (Talib Kweli)
[02:51.41]This morning I woke up
[02:52.61]Feelin brand new, I jumped up
[02:55.25]Feelin my highs and my lows
[02:58.28]In my soul, and my goals
[03:00.88]Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'
[03:03.29]But I been thinkin' I got my reasons
[03:05.89]Just to get (by), just to get (by)
[03:08.41]Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye)
[03:18.40](Just to get by, just to get by)
[03:20.38](Just to get by), just to get get buh buh buh bye bye
[03:28.48]Talib Kweli
[03:33.47]We keep it gangsta, say 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy'
[03:35.47]Desensitized by the violence on the TV during the war
[03:37.53]Killin' each other is easy, its pourin' liquor for fallen ******
[03:40.71]Believe me, it's ghetto libation, seen it all before
[03:42.60]Just to get by, my people, we get fly
[03:45.72]My people, we get high, fillin' cigars with the lah
[03:49.12]*****, come on! Even Jesus was stoned
[03:51.51]Before receivin' the throne
[03:53.21]I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone
[03:54.05]Busta Rhymes
[03:54.36]Back in the days we was used to doin' the ****
[03:56.13]I can't call it all in the streets
[03:57.09]We was hustlin' fiends that asked for it
[03:58.89]I guess I was used to just standin' on corners
[04:00.84]Waitin' for paper bags with bundles of crack
[04:02.54]Hopin' the week was good, so I could get money back
[04:04.85](To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by)
[04:08.39]When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength
[04:12.24]That made me angry and bleed
[04:13.30]With the frustration havin' me smokin' Newports and ****
[04:15.40](To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by)
[04:18.91]Those be the times when I try to rely
[04:22.08]On my ****** and street ***********
[04:23.61]And reach out to wifey, and then I place a call on my mother
[04:26.08](To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by)
[04:29.63]*Ayo, Mom, pick up the phone, I gotta to talk to you, Ma*
[04:31.16]If you was five percent instead of actin' stupid and guessin'
[04:33.55]You had to go and study your lessons
[04:35.79]And know your math in the building in session
[04:36.91]kground singers + (Talib Kweli)
[04:37.40]This morning I woke up
[04:39.18]Feelin brand new, I jumped up
[04:40.86]Feelin my highs and my lows
[04:43.49]In my soul, and my goals
[04:47.21]Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'
[04:49.80]But I been thinkin' I got my reasons
[04:52.53]Just to get (by), just to get (by)
[04:55.08]Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye)
[04:59.76]Some people try, some people try
[05:01.90]Just to get by, for my piece of the pie
[05:03.61]We love to eat and get high
[05:05.81]We deceive when we lie
[05:07.56]And we keepin' it fly – yo, yo, yo, yo, yo
[05:09.30]When people decice to keep a disguise
[05:12.51]Can't see your eyes, see the evil inside
[05:15.05]The best people you find
[05:16.36]Stronger people in mind
[05:17.45]I stay readin' the signs