[Talib We your rhyme sayers we you like a beacon of out of the chaos cuttin down overzealous players who stare we're the winners of the Walk in prepared climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the people under heard the sound of the clap made you wonder If it was a gun the or some thunder All of that was out my window when I was Now I'm much older, lyrical MC's If you know by now, let me aquaint you with my steez (C'mon) I don't get on stage and your time Niggaz got a lot to say but they just rhyme just babies, I snatch em out they incubators Attach them to respirators, they hard like Darth Vader as candy and suck like Now or Laters After a while your tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like dead or sages Release I hold save it through my book of rhyme pages Scripts be ageless, like scrolls from 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 option's doin for the Japanese Get about eight G's, a buzz overseas Sacrifice a pill to mainstream and do what I believe, down to the I'm a purist to this artform Enlighten who I touch and let the world on
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin overzealous who stare, we're the winners of the game Walk in well prepared, climbin the to while you scared of the people livin under- -ground heard the sound of the clap, 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 of the earth Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, on every verse My cells begin to peak at a hundred thousand hertz my joint's prevalent in Fat Beats and Footworks I cater to these markets first, cause gravitate to me And the vision of what I do musically
Kweli] Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I in and they stared, see how they screwin me Break you down, til you the man you used to be of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to lies It blurs the lines the fact and fiction Now we back omission, I fix face for you, keep yappin You start to the man in the mirror like Michael Jackson
Majors they try to hold me captive but mine are factions But the foundation of hold 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 sprung like twisted Experience is missable, so I approach it from all and inject some substance deep of rap's core Take an MC and back to it was before
Kweli] Call us Liberty like the of Philadelphia scenery Me and Bahama-D, style free Mumia need to be Seein me, me, we right here on the level Turnin hardrocks to pebbles, exposin the Lyrical olympian John Carlos winnin gold medal Take that bass out yyour voice you to me in treble I'm _Serious_ as B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, makin crowds MOVE organizations in Philly it positive, my prerogative is exercise See through the chaos with my eye I exhibit the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid Throw your hands in the air if you it, dig it
[Talib + Bahamadia] 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 well prepared, the stairways to while you scared of the people 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
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