[Talib So many focusin on black people extermination We keep it balanced with that knowledge of self, It's hot, we be blowin the spots, conversations let's smooth it out like Soul Sensation
We in the like Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in Korea Head to Philly and free with the Kujichagulia TRUE Singin is swingin and writin is fightin, but they writin got us clashin like titans it's not No question, bein a man is demandin The fire's in my eyes and the need fannin (3X)
With that what? (Knowledge Of Self) 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come through My words may not just what I'm feelin
[Talib Yes yes on, yes yes Knowledge Of Self is like after death With that you worry about your last breath comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the next days The flesh goes underground, the book of life, the page Yo they me how old, we livin the same age I the rage of a million niggaz locked inside a cage At exactly which do you start to realize That life without is, death in disguise? That's why, Of Self is like life after death Apply it, to your life, let destiny day, same confusion, we're gonna take this hip-hop shit and it movin, shed a little light Now y'all bloomin like a flower with the power of the Voices and drums instruments In the flesh presently my representation
With what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 6X* - - - - these two parts - - - - I say and do, may not come quite through My words may not convey just what I'm 2X*
[Talib The most important in history is, NOW, the present So count your cause time can't define the essence But you stressin over and you follow the Roman calendar These people Cona like Gattaca, you can bet they tryin to lock you like Attica, the African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant can't forever I know you gotta get that cheddar Aiyyo I heard you twice the time money, get it together You must be History, you repeatin yourself out of the You keepin yourself your spiritual wealth That quick cash'll get your ass fast in houses of detention Inner-city camps where no one pays attention or mentions the ascension of death, til nothing's The young, gifted and Black are sprung to crack All my people where at cause, y'all ain't here And your hero's using your mind as a to paint fear With, broad brush strokes and of incarceration You get out of jail with that Knowledge of determination Stand in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Cause and effect, everything you do and that's why I got love in the face of Hands steady so the lines in the illustration is straight The thought you had don't even Infinite figure eight there's no escape..
From that (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come through My words may not convey what I'm feelin 2X*
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Things I say and do, may not come quite My words may not convey just I'm feelin 2X*
What I'm feelin, I'm feelin, ooooh, what I'm feelin...