[Talib We rhyme sayers we lead you like a beacon of light out of the cuttin down overzealous players who we're the winners of the game Walk in we'l climbin the stairways to while you scared of the people livin under ground heard the sound of the clap you wonder If it was a gun the or some thunder All of that was out my window when I was Now I'm older, lyrical clap MC's If you don't know by now, let me aquaint you my steez (C'mon) I get on stage and waste 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 breathin hard like Vader Hard as candy and suck like Now or a while your style's tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like dead or wise Release what I 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 option's doin for the Japanese Get about G's, a heavy buzz overseas Sacrifice a to mainstream and do what I believe, cause down to the chromosomes I'm a purist to this Enlighten who I and let the world catch on
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you like a of light, out of the chaos, cuttin down who stare, we're the winners of the game Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven you scared of the people livin under- -ground the sound of the clap, made 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 vexed, out of my sticks, laced on every verse My cells begin to at least a hundred thousand hertz Meanin my joint's prevalent in Fat and Footworks I cater to these first, cause they gravitate to me And the vision of what I do musically
Kweli] Mmm, mmmm, mmmm, mmm!! I walked in and stared, see how they screwin me Break you down, til you 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 face for you, keep yappin You start to hate the man in the like Michael Jackson
Majors they try to hold me captive but mine are factions But the foundation of hip-hop hold my for ransom I chance none, fuck them spots on and number one If it's meant, then I'll accept it gracious when the time This grassrooted curriculum, got me sprung like ankles Experience is missable, so I approach it all angles and inject substance deep inside of rap's core an MC and back to where it was before
[Talib Call us Liberty the Bell 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, exposin the Lyrical like John Carlos winnin gold medal Take that bass out yyour you talk to me in treble I'm _Serious_ as B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, makin crowds MOVE like organizations in Keep it positive, my prerogative is See through the chaos with my eye I exhibit the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid Throw your in the air if you with it, dig it
[Talib Kweli + Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin down players who stare, the winners of the game Walk in 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 when I was younger
Kweli] Seven-eighteen, to We at two-one-five Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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