Manifesto, is what we want to see happen For my peoples breakin' graf writin' and rappin' I rock the mic right and exact, my my sacrifice Take my mic and I'm a Chinese man with no rice
Oh yeah, we flippin' through the of time to find design Like Vaseline on the faces of Georgia We shinin' deeper than jelly We in the air like on celly And just appear like marks on bellies
After givin' you had to let go, you playin' for life The Manifesto, here comes the Because I so keep pushin'
I got the cushion for the seat of your Back in the day they stole our So we clothe our in gold
And we frontin', from to kid, to Son of God wild dependin' on labels for man, woman and child My style just is all that's and all that's heard God gave us so we play with our words
So when Tek be in meditation like a monk While Kweli speaks in tongues to get your drunk Yo, we bound to take over the 90% of your brain that you ain't To us life or death, we keep you chosin'
Every shook eye ain't seen, every goodbye gone Ain't no for the weary yo, forever it's on The Manifesto, establishes a order Movin' upon the face of the water like
all the real MC's can meet me outside So we can decide how we gonna change the Like the we on the earth takin' a ride around the sun Now son, we only just begun and the journey's far from
We all miss you, what your brain fishin' like Walter Mosley? There's an MC can hold me, supposedly? No one could come to me, only the family really know me Hip-hop's hope like Obi Wan Kenobi
Through your television I'm shinin' light like a Comin out earthworms when it rains Bringin' it the C.I.A. be bringin' in crack Cocaine bailin' out of
With the George connections, I push reflection Like I'm sellin' izm like a buildin' the system Supply and the it's all capitalism
don't sell crack 'cause they like to see blacks smoke Niggaz sell crack 'cause they My battle lyrics get conscious provoked And ghetto passes
we surrounded by the evil You know that the minds is feeble believe in it Even if it don't make sense, makin' dollars shit,
Don't a scholar to see what's goin' on around you Either you widdit or you ain't is what it down to Have you forgotten we pickin' 100% name brand Cotton They plottin', my third eye is steady watchin'
Every shook eye ain't seen, every ain't gone Ain't no for the weary yo forever it's on The Manifesto, a hip-hop order Movin' the face of the water like reflections
Yeah, see that's what I'm about, it be the slaughter, man We to break it down because these heads don't know what they talkin' about Frontin' all this nonsense, yo, break it
From open mics to solutions, I got a of answers And a ten point program just like the Black One, first yourself as an artist If you don't respect yourself your rhymes is garbage
Two, make your crew is as tight as you when them niggaz fallin' off, they gonna bring you down too Three, the meanin' of MC The power to Move the crowd like Moses split the
Four, know your shit and don't ever be If you don't know what your words mean then your mean nothin' Five, facts in the raps and curse with clarity What's a curse when language is immersed in
Six, we gonna fix politricks Shit, they an art form out of ridin' dicks Seven, we soldiers for God needin' new So if you rhymin' for the loot you's a prostitute
But eight, acknowledge you need food on your plate In order to say grace make sure your business is straight Nine, we buildin' minds with intelligence And when you freestyle, keep the matter relevant
Ten, MC grab a pen And write some conscious to tell the children say it again, every MC find you a pen And drop some conscious for our children
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