[Talib We your rhyme sayers we lead you a beacon of light out of the chaos down overzealous players who we're the winners of the game Walk in we'l climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the people under ground heard the sound of the clap made you If it was a gun the or some thunder All of that was out my when I was younger Now I'm much older, lyrical MC's If you don't 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 can't rhyme They just babies, I snatch em out incubators Attach them to respirators, they hard like Darth Vader Hard as candy and like Now or Laters a while your style's tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like or wise sages Release what I hold save it through my 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, to a remedy to help and get my people free, but little support, got my on freeze My only option's bootlegs for the Japanese Get about eight G's, a heavy overseas Sacrifice a pill to mainstream and do what I believe, down to the chromosomes I'm a purist to artform Enlighten who I and let the world catch on
[Talib Kweli + Yeah, we your sayers, who lead you like 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 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 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 least a hundred hertz my joint's prevalent in Fat Beats and Footworks I cater to these first, cause they gravitate to me And appreciate the vision of I do musically
[Talib 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 Domination of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to It blurs the lines between the fact and Now we back omission, I fix your face for you, keep You start to the man in the mirror like Michael Jackson
Majors they try to me captive but mine are figure 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 accept it gracious when the time comes This grassrooted curriculum, got me like twisted ankles Experience is missable, so I approach it all angles and inject some substance deep of rap's core Take an MC and back to it was before
Kweli] Call us like the Bell of Philadelphia scenery Me and Bahama-D, style free like need to be Seein me, feelin me, we right here on the hardrocks to pebbles, exposin the devil Lyrical olympian like John Carlos winnin gold Take that bass out yyour voice you talk to me in I'm as Steady B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, makin crowds MOVE like organizations in Keep it positive, my is exercise See through the chaos my third eye Word I the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid Throw your hands in the air if you it, dig it
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your sayers, who lead you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin overzealous players who stare, the winners of the game Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven while you scared of the people under- -ground heard the sound of the clap, 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 meet at Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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