My Punchline want his money Yo, is a capitalist society Yo! Hello world, how doin? Don't be shy, y'all can back, man I know y'all can't see me Oh you got it?
Verse 1: Talib Talib Kweli in Japan is mush-mush Yo, I'm able to keep it fresh like veggie and couscous Got my comp in a deuce-deuce Livin proof, you the truth? Nah, you can't handle the truth I it like any Angelo, be it Michael- or D' Paint the with my sounds, smoke trees with melodies I enter the with no malice intended If L's make you cough a is recommended filled with sticky that I got from Manny I'm mics like Amy Fisher breakin' a family It can be, all so if you let it If you don't want to, fuck it, it, yo, don't sweat it You feel when you let the power of the rhythm hit you widow got my eyes Chinese But as leaves of paper cuttin' your skin Whenever I write my pen and make a point be like, "Yeah, that's the joint" Yo Matt, got the on they DAT That make it easy to complete 'cause I shit with or without a beat See you on the hook a fish we knock it out, no doubt, The shit fixed like at Christmas So bounce, on, bounce, come on I lock you in my sentence and the a run-on Tokyo, you at? Brooklyn, you at?
Kweli next to be up, so I suggest you Or up like you hear a shot Now I can trace the tracks of all the teardrops of every MC in earshot I fear not or none, number one, Ichiban, none, number one,
VERSE 2: Kweli I get my camouflage Weiss/Mahoney My rhymes are the price of Sony Your light like last for one minute like Son, I'm nice, you're phoney It seems all you want in life's to me I'm colder than the ground's covered with ice and it's snowy One and only Talib Kweli from Reflect Yo, I come to Tokyo everything is Hi-Tek So I right at home, rightin' poems, fightin' clones Who bite my own style cause ain't got one, I got drive while you ride shotgun Please stop, son I "Get on the Bus" a lot And all this shabuya has got to stop I'm playin' culture is like amazin', animation is like hair-raisin Kick selection got no eatin' seaweed, maybe one day I get with it But when I see I'm smokin', heh, I'm just jokin', really not though My Common told me, "Arigato" My art got no like Pablo Picasso You don't know, you never knew Big up to Ru See you in the show on the Avenue Of the Americas etcetera, You get the point, you want hot shit, I got a Classics, it's the best of Brooklyn, New York City, so we're never shitty I get love in Japan than "Hello Kitty" Such a pity, these MC's think hangin' with me Catch me on MTV with Mos Diddy