Yeah, this new Kweli I'ma give it to you before the bootleggers get of it You know what I'm I figure I put it out first, some money wit' it Why not, Okay, 1, 2
Yo I'm Brooklyn like the Brownsville and keep it grimey When I'm from flatbush, that's where you'll me In Brooklyn, Tek wit' and Sadat
And Free and Sid [Incomprehensible] Always catch me wit' Juju and Rubiks, we was kids band nooseses, jump bell, run, and never look back Mr. Man the hammer in his bookbag
introduced me to Black and Forte DJ Enuff on Avenue K, I go a long way Wit' Super Nat in Washington freestylin' everyday at Lyricists' Lounge who ate off Jean Grae
Fuckin' Mood is how I met Hi-Tek Black Star came in effect when Elijah my tape to Mos Def Reflection Eternal was on deck My crew the and we proved it
We our music was the Vanguard of a movement Every release was bangin', they on the come up They was like fuck the radio 'til said "Get the fuck up" listened, jabbin' at Bryant
The next was right about now we need the Radio hit written I hit the road On to support the records since the day it was sold had me followin' the example of De La Soul
Common and The Roots to me, the sickest niggaz Get my figures the Okayplayers and the Spitkickers Rawkus got a deal with MCA, the gray area But let it for Music Cemetery of America
tried to fool you by switchin' the name to Geffen Now they Interscope's and every artist who had a chance left 'em Ain't no big surprise, wasn't no love Jimmy Iovine never signed me, I just kinda ended up
But fuck that, it was my way or the highway Hit the road with the Beastie Boys and toured Europe Kanye Gotta thank 'em for the on the album, I knew out on 'Electric Circus', he'd get it by any necessary like Malcolm
I dropped a single, shot a video, took control of my Got a label poppin', a celebration, bitches Yo boy Free, I had to get out I put you on, where I'm at right about now
And if you're sayin' it's my time, you right now This what's goin' through my mind, about now Hey yo, hey yo, it's to write about now And if you lookin' you can find it right now
I put you on, where I'm at right about now This what's goin' through my mind, about now Yo, hey yo, it's time to about now And if you lookin' you can find it right now
That's right bitches, Kweli One of the baddest motherfuckers you've seen That's right bitches, Talib You're now rockin' with the best, I it
The best, the best, that's right You're now rockin' the best, the best Talib Kweli, where's, where's my