[Talib So emcees focusin on black people extermination We it balanced with that knowledge of self, determination It's hot, we be blowin the spots, with C'mon smooth it out like Soul Sensation
We in the house Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in Korea to Philly and free Mumia 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 in my eyes and the flames need fannin (3X)
With that (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come through My words may not convey just what I'm
Kweli] Yes yes on, yes yes Of Self is like life after death With you never worry about your last breath Death comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the days The goes underground, the book of life, flip the page Yo they askin me how old, we livin the age I feel the rage of a million niggaz locked inside a At exactly which point do you to realize life without knowledge is, death in disguise? That's why, Knowledge Of Self is like life death it, to your life, let destiny manifest Different day, same confusion, gonna take this hip-hop shit and it movin, shed a little light Now y'all bloomin a flower with the power of the evident and drums original instruments In the presently presentin my representation
that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 6X* - - - - these two overlap - - - - Things I say and do, may not come through My words may not convey what I'm feelin 2X*
[Talib The important time in history is, NOW, the present So count your blessings cause can't define the essence But you stressin over time and you follow the Roman These people enter like Gattaca, you can bet they tryin to lock you like Attica, the African diaspora strength in numbers, a giant can't slumber forever I know you gotta get cheddar whatever Aiyyo I heard you twice the first time money, get it You must be History, you repeatin out of the pages You keepin yourself depleatin your spiritual quick cash'll get your ass quick fast in houses of detention Inner-city concentration camps where no one pays or mentions the ascension of death, til left The young, gifted and Black are sprung to crack All my people where y'all at cause, y'all ain't And your hero's your mind as a canvas to paint fear With, broad brush strokes and of incarceration You get out of jail with that Knowledge of determination Stand in ovation, you put the Hue in Human and effect, effect everything you do and that's why I got love in the of hate Hands so the lines in the mental illustration is straight The thought you had don't even Infinite like eight there's no escape..
that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not quite through My words may not just 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...