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