Manifesto, this is what we to see happen For my peoples still breakin' graf writin' and I rock the mic right and exact, my life's my my mic and I'm like a Chinese man with no rice
Oh yeah, we flippin' through the pages of to find design Like Vaseline on the of Black Georgia We shinin' deeper petroleum jelly We in the air like on celly And just appear like stretch on bellies
After givin' you had to let go, you playin' for life The Manifesto, here comes the Because I said so pushin'
I got the for the seat of your soul in the day they stole our smile So we our teeth in gold
And we frontin', nigga to kid, to Son of God It's wild dependin' on labels for man, woman and My style is all that's seen and all that's heard God gave us so we play with our words
So when Tek be in constant like a monk While Kweli speaks in to get your intellect drunk Yo, we bound to take over the 90% of your that you ain't usin' To us life or death, we keep you chosin'
shook eye ain't seen, every goodbye ain't gone Ain't no rest for the weary yo, it's on The Manifesto, establishes a hip-hop Movin' upon the face of the like reflections
all the real MC's can meet me outside So we can how we gonna change the tide Like the moon we on the earth a ride around the sun Now son, we just begun and the journey's far from done
We all miss you, what your gone fishin' like Walter Mosley? There's an MC can hold me, supposedly? No one could close to me, only the family really know me last hope like Obi Wan Kenobi
Through your television I'm shinin' like a train Comin out earthworms when it rains Bringin' it the C.I.A. be bringin' in crack Cocaine out of planes
With the Bush connections, I push reflection I'm sellin' izm like a dealer buildin' the system Supply and the it's all capitalism
don't sell crack 'cause they like to see blacks smoke Niggaz sell crack they broke My battle get conscious minds provoked And passes revoked
'Cause we surrounded by the You know that the people's is feeble They in it Even if it don't make sense, this makin' shit,
Don't a scholar to see what's goin' on around you you widdit or you ain't is what it comes down to Have you forgotten we pickin' 100% designer name Cotton They still plottin', my eye is steady watchin'
Every shook eye ain't seen, goodbye ain't gone no rest for the weary yo forever it's on The Manifesto, establishes a order Movin' upon the face of the water reflections
Yeah, see what I'm talkin' about, it be the slaughter, man We to break it down because these heads They don't what they talkin' about Frontin' all this nonsense, yo, break it
From open to solutions, I got a collage of answers And a ten point program like the Black Panthers One, first respect yourself as an If you don't respect yourself then rhymes is garbage
Two, make sure crew is as tight as you 'Cause when them niggaz fallin' off, gonna bring you down too Three, understand the of MC The power to Move the crowd like split the seas
Four, know your shit and ever be blunted If you don't know your words mean then your rhymes mean nothin' Five, facts in the raps and curse with clarity What's a curse language is immersed in vulgarity
Six, we fix industrial politricks Shit, they made an art 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 your grace make your business is straight Nine, we black minds with intelligence And when you freestyle, keep the subject matter
Ten, every MC a pen And write conscious lyrics to tell the children I'll say it again, every MC you a pen And drop some conscious shit for our
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