[Talib We your rhyme sayers we lead you a beacon of light out of the chaos cuttin overzealous players who stare the winners of the game in we'l prepared climbin 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 thunder All of that was out my window 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 and waste your time Niggaz got a lot to say but just can't rhyme They babies, I snatch em out they incubators Attach them to respirators, they breathin hard Darth Vader Hard as candy and suck like Now or After a while your style's and it GOT NO FLAVOR
Projects my eyesights to the like dead or wise sages Release I hold save it through my book of rhyme pages Scripts be ageless, scrolls from dead sea The off and on like the motion of Tai Chi Ba-ha-ma-D, wor-dy, to Reflect, Science to a remedy to help and get my free, but little support, got my thesis on My only option's bootlegs for the Japanese Get about G's, a heavy buzz overseas Sacrifice a pill to and do what I believe, cause down to the I'm a purist to this artform who I touch and let the world catch on
[Talib + Bahamadia] Yeah, we rhyme sayers, who lead you like a beacon of light, out of the chaos, cuttin overzealous players who stare, we're the of the game Walk in prepared, climbin the stairways to heaven while you 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 window when I was
Oppose for the nine, how no content sections of the Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, on every verse My cells begin to peak at least a thousand hertz my joint's prevalent in Fat Beats and Footworks 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 Domination of my jurisdiction, addiction to lies It blurs the lines the fact and fiction Now we back omission, I fix your face for you, yappin You start to hate the man in the like Michael Jackson
Majors try to hold me captive but mine are figure factions But the foundation of hip-hop hold my braincells for I chance none, fuck spots on charts and number one If it's meant, then I'll accept it gracious when the time This curriculum, got me sprung like twisted ankles is missable, so I approach it from all angles and inject substance deep inside of rap's core an MC and back to where it was before
[Talib Call us like the Bell of Philadelphia scenery Me and Bahama-D, style like Mumia need to be Seein me, feelin me, we here on the level Turnin to pebbles, exposin the devil Lyrical olympian like Carlos winnin gold medal Take that bass out yyour voice you to me in treble I'm as Steady B so you know I ain't playin I'm stimulatin, makin crowds like organizations in Philly Keep it positive, my is exercise See through the with my third eye Word I exhibit the exquitiness, since a I was vivid your hands 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 overzealous players who stare, we're the of the game Walk in well prepared, 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 some All of was out my window when I was younger
Kweli] Seven-eighteen, to We meet at Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
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