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Projects my eyesights to the heavens dead or wise sages Release what I hold save it through my book of 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 little support, got my on freeze My only option's doin 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 to this artform who I touch and let the world catch on
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin overzealous players who stare, we're the 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, made you If it was a gun, the crowd, or thunder All of that was out my when I was younger
Oppose for the nine, how no content of the earth Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, laced on every My cells begin to at least a hundred thousand hertz Meanin my joint's prevalent in Fat Beats and I cater to these markets first, they gravitate to me And appreciate the of what I do musically
[Talib Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I in and they stared, see how they screwin me Break you down, til you ain't the man you to be of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to lies It blurs the 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 they try to hold me but mine are figure factions But the foundation of hold my braincells for ransom I chance none, them spots on charts and number one If it's meant, then I'll accept it gracious when the time This grassrooted curriculum, got me sprung like twisted Experience is missable, so I approach it from all and inject some substance deep inside of rap's an MC and back to where it was before
[Talib us Liberty like the Bell of Philadelphia scenery Me and Bahama-D, free like Mumia need to be Seein me, me, we right here on the level hardrocks 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 B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, makin MOVE like organizations in Philly Keep it positive, my 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 Kweli + Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, down overzealous players who stare, we're the of the game Walk in well prepared, 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
Kweli] Seven-eighteen, to We at two-one-five Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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