[Talib We rhyme sayers we lead you like a beacon of light out of the cuttin down overzealous who stare we're the winners of the game Walk in prepared climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the people livin ground the sound of the clap made you wonder If it was a gun the crowd or some All of that was out my window when I was Now I'm older, lyrical clap MC's If you don't know by now, let me aquaint you my steez (C'mon) I don't get on stage and waste your got a lot to say but they just can't rhyme They just babies, I snatch em out incubators Attach them to respirators, they hard like Darth Vader Hard as candy and suck Now or Laters After a while your tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like dead or wise Release what I hold save it through my book of rhyme Scripts be ageless, scrolls from dead sea The cadence off and on like the of Tai Chi Ba-ha-ma-D, wor-dy, to Reflect, Science to a to help and get my people free, but support, got my thesis on freeze My only doin bootlegs for the Japanese Get about eight G's, a heavy buzz Sacrifice a pill to mainstream and do what I believe, down to the chromosomes I'm a purist to artform Enlighten who I touch and let the catch on
Kweli + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you a beacon of light, out of the chaos, down overzealous players who stare, we're the winners of the Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven you scared of the people livin under- -ground the sound of the clap, made you wonder If it was a gun, the crowd, or thunder All of that was out my window I was younger
Oppose for the nine, how no content sections of the Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, laced on every My begin to peak at least a hundred thousand hertz Meanin my joint's in Fat Beats and Footworks I cater to these markets first, cause gravitate to me And appreciate the vision of what I do
Kweli] Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I walked in and stared, see how they screwin me Break you down, til you ain't the man you to be Domination of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to It the lines between the fact and fiction Now we back omission, I fix your face for you, keep You start to the man in the mirror like Michael Jackson
Majors try to hold me captive but mine are figure factions But the foundation of hip-hop my braincells for ransom I chance none, fuck them spots on and number one If it's meant, then I'll it gracious when the time comes This grassrooted curriculum, got me like twisted ankles is missable, so I approach it from all angles and inject some substance deep inside of rap's Take an MC and back to it was before
[Talib Call us Liberty like the Bell of Philadelphia Me and Bahama-D, free like Mumia need to be Seein me, feelin me, we right on the level Turnin to pebbles, exposin the devil Lyrical olympian John Carlos winnin gold medal Take that bass out yyour voice you to me in treble I'm _Serious_ as Steady B so you know I playin I'm stimulatin, makin MOVE like organizations in Philly Keep it positive, my prerogative is See through the chaos with my eye I exhibit the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid Throw hands in the air if you with it, dig it
[Talib Kweli + Yeah, we your sayers, who lead you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, down overzealous players who stare, the winners of the game in well prepared, climbin the stairways to while you scared of the people livin under- -ground the sound of the clap, made you wonder If it was a gun, the crowd, or some All of was out my window when I was younger
Kweli] Seven-eighteen, to We meet at Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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