[Talib We your rhyme sayers we you like a beacon of light out of the chaos cuttin down players who we're the winners of the game in we'l prepared climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the livin under ground heard the sound of the clap made you If it was a gun the crowd or thunder All of that was out my window I was younger Now I'm older, lyrical clap MC's If you don't by now, let me aquaint you with my steez (C'mon) I don't get on stage and waste your Niggaz got a lot to say but they just can't They just babies, I em out they incubators them to respirators, they breathin hard like Darth Vader Hard as candy and like Now or Laters After a your style's tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like dead or sages Release what I hold save it my book of rhyme pages Scripts be ageless, like scrolls from sea The off and on like the motion 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 buzz overseas Sacrifice a to mainstream and do what I believe, cause down to the I'm a purist to this artform Enlighten who I and let the world catch on
[Talib Kweli + Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you like a of light, out of the chaos, down overzealous players who stare, we're the of the game Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the people under- -ground heard the of the clap, made you wonder If it was a gun, the crowd, or thunder All of was out my window when I was younger
Oppose for the nine, how no sections of the earth vexed, out of my sticks, laced on every verse My cells begin to peak at least a thousand hertz Meanin my prevalent in Fat Beats and Footworks I cater to these markets first, they gravitate to me And the vision of what I do musically
Kweli] Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I walked in and they stared, see how screwin me you down, til you ain't the man you used to be Domination of my jurisdiction, addiction to lies It blurs the between the fact and fiction Now we back omission, I fix your face for you, yappin You start to hate the man in the mirror Michael Jackson
Majors they try to hold me captive but mine are figure But the foundation of hold my braincells for ransom I chance none, fuck them spots on and number one If meant, then I'll accept it gracious when the time comes grassrooted curriculum, got me sprung like twisted ankles Experience is missable, so I approach it all angles and inject some deep inside of rap's core Take an MC and back to where it was
Kweli] Call us Liberty like the Bell of Philadelphia Me and Bahama-D, style like Mumia need to be me, feelin me, we right here on the level Turnin hardrocks to pebbles, the devil Lyrical like John Carlos winnin gold medal Take that out yyour voice you talk to me in treble I'm as Steady B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, crowds MOVE like organizations in Philly it positive, my prerogative is exercise See through the chaos with my eye Word I exhibit the exquitiness, a child I was vivid Throw hands in the air if you with it, dig it
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your sayers, who lead you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, down overzealous who stare, we're the winners of the game Walk in well prepared, the stairways to heaven while you of the people livin under- heard the sound of the clap, made you wonder If it was a gun, the crowd, or some All of that was out my when I was younger
Kweli] Seven-eighteen, to We meet at Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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