[Kids I'm freestyling, for me, and I I write them on the paper til it gets sky I say goodbye, to all the bad things done I start a new beginning, at is how it begun From, KRS-One to Kweli Now I'm the superstar on BET And MTV, better yet I'm known I am the key, to the best MC The prophecy, the one and A timeless masterpiece, I ain't the I'm the best, God said so I'm just trying to express my flow
[Talib Kweli with Musiq Soulchild throughout] Yo, yo It good, it feel so damn good, it feel It good, it feel so damn, uh It feel good, it so damn good, it feel It good, yo, yo, yo It good, it feel so damn good, it feel tell me how it feel when I always keep it real It good, it feel so damn good, it feel Yo, now how it Yo
[Verse 1 - Kweli] It feel good, it feel so good, it feel Khalil brought the fly shit, I brought the hood Notes from the piano is out the sky Like losing their wings so they see how it feel to cry have babies for the welfare coupons Dudes on the radio rapping, them cats is I get up on it, spit up on it a new born The family structure ruptured, living proof like a group home B-Boy a man, throw a suit on Stepping out hotter ??? when the soup's on My son like "Daddy, I be missing you you gone" I I gotta go so I can stack chips like Lou Corn I ask my daughter how I look, she fixed my hat so I can it cool Cause like "That's what they wear in school" she asked me "Daddy, you know any superstars?" I at her and said "Stop being silly, that's what you two are" I say it now and said it before And you can me on this cause I've been through it y'all your heart and you can do it dog Baby a star...
[Musiq All of the days... All of the days, of my life I spent on trying to Yet another way to show you how, how you are There ain't no body, that can take away from you No what... though...
[Verse 2 - Talib Kweli with Musiq Soulchild harmonising Yeah, yo, yo, yo And even mummy and daddy might fight all through the night Argue and fuss, you a of us that we've got to get right I don't love you to death, cause I you to life And you a teenager, you might not my advice You might be full of spite, think grown, still a tyke And say things that cut a patient under the knife I say this, I was once a teenager too And for my peers is really all that I related to But I made it through, you make it too So much I say to you...
Kweli - Repeat until fade] Baby you a star, that's you are to me You know I can tell? Cause you a of me