Bismillah Ir Ir Raheem Peace, peace up y'all this is Mos Def And is a message to the people If you see or hear from me Then that goodness is The Creator You should be to The Creator for all of that 'Cause I'm not the architect of that I'm only the, the If you see weakness or in me It's from my own weakness or And I ask The Creator and the to forgive me for that Thank you Brooklyn, you World
Yeah, there it is Turn my up in the top a little bit Feel good to be up Ochenta? Yeah, yeah, ha
It's the Dante in your headphones box Freaky Everywhere on the Tell you a little bit me For my hometown, break down a little for you Myrtle and Broadway, Roosevelt projects, projects
I on the field from no league just home team I Jumped out the stands and I snatched the With the final dwindling on the clock Mos post up to throw up the shot
I put it through the net and let the world's jaw Then fled the before they called cops Tell the players and the coach I wasn't tryin' to blow But the way was ballin' made it difficult to watch
I was taught when there's somethin' you can change Keep quiet, you got nothin' to about You got work to do, I know if that work for you But that's how Mos work it
And my work is personal, I'm a workin' I put in work, I work with I get it on the water, air, the surface You the impact niggaz yeah it's workin'
God did not make me a fearful person The only fear I have is my failure to His path I would love it just to hear this On the streets where y'all at
On the ave's where the go past In the coupes the seats go back In the parties where it be so And the be so black
And black things be so phat If I I would be so glad But if not I be so mad I'm still being a man, feeding my fam
And even if you see it my fam I that I am, truly gifted, truly blessed I'm truly, Brooklyn's own, Mos Def
I'm rockin' the hard right, zero, to far left I'm, well balanced immense talents Burn the script then flip it to keep challenged And that's the of a true champ-ine That's I'm in or outside the ring
No fights, no title, no or reign Feel my presence even when I'm up out thing Just trust, that's what I'm to be But until settle in and rock with me
Ha, what it's about to be Ghetto people alive with me And say, we 'gon, by we just keep movin' on
Ghetto people, alive and Feel free, we just keep on For Alliah, Eye, Jam Master Jay All the great hero's who have away
Scott Laraque, Big and Pac, Tai, Big L All the soldiers down in the cell Lock up the flesh, but the spirit prevail To our loved ones, and
Dyin' in the street, or in their sleep (B.I.G.) Rest in peace, your livin' in the of our memory (Sans Marie) Rest in peace, your in the mansions of our memory That's
'Cause in life gon' come to an end Because it must and when it I that y'all remember me With true and ghetto love
Now raise it up 'cause everythin' in life come to an end Because it must, and when it does, I that y'all remember me Black Dante, from Myrtle and Broadway, yeah, y'all Let me hear it
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