[Talib We rhyme sayers we lead you like a beacon of light out of the chaos cuttin down players who stare we're the winners of the Walk in we'l prepared climbin the to heaven while you scared of the people under ground heard the sound of the clap made you If it was a gun the crowd or thunder All of was out my window when I was younger Now I'm older, lyrical clap MC's If you don't know by now, let me aquaint you with my (C'mon) I don't get on and waste your time Niggaz got a lot to say but just can't rhyme They just babies, I snatch em out incubators Attach them to respirators, they breathin like Darth Vader Hard as candy and suck Now or Laters After a while your style's tasteless and it GOT NO
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like or wise sages Release I hold save it through 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, to a remedy to help and get my people free, but little support, got my on freeze My only doin bootlegs for the Japanese Get about eight G's, a buzz overseas 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, the winners of the game Walk in well prepared, the stairways to heaven while you 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 that was out my when I was younger
Oppose for the nine, how no sections of the earth Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, on every verse My cells begin to 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
[Talib Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I walked in and stared, see how they screwin me you down, til you ain't the man you used to be Domination of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to It blurs the lines between the fact and Now we omission, I fix your face for you, keep yappin You start to hate the man in the mirror like Jackson
Majors they try to hold me but mine are figure factions But the of hip-hop hold my braincells for ransom I chance none, fuck them spots on charts and one If it's meant, then I'll accept it gracious the time comes This grassrooted curriculum, got me like twisted ankles Experience is missable, so I approach it from all and some substance deep inside of rap's core Take an MC and back to where it was
[Talib Call us Liberty like the of Philadelphia scenery Me and Bahama-D, style free like need to be Seein me, feelin me, we right here on the Turnin hardrocks to pebbles, the devil olympian like 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, crowds MOVE like organizations in Philly Keep it positive, my prerogative is See through the chaos my third eye I exhibit the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid Throw your in the air if you with it, dig it
Kweli + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin overzealous players who stare, we're the winners of the Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the livin under- -ground heard the 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
[Talib Seven-eighteen, to We at two-one-five Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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