Yeah, this new Kweli I'ma it to you before the bootleggers get hold of it You know what I'm I figure I put it out first, make money wit' it Why not, Okay, 1, 2
Yo I'm like the '90s Brownsville and Bushel it grimey When I'm flatbush, that's where you'll find me In Brooklyn, Tek Justin and Sadat
And Free and Sid [Incomprehensible] Always catch me wit' and Rubiks, we was truant kids Dollar band nooseses, bell, run, and never look back Mr. Man kept the in his bookbag
Rubiks introduced me to Black and DJ Enuff on K, I go back a long way Wit' Super Nat in Washington Square freestylin' Peformin' at Lounge who ate off Jean Grae
Fuckin' Mood is how I met Hi-Tek Black came in effect when Elijah gave my tape to Mos Def Reflection Eternal was on deck My crew the best and we it
We our music was the Vanguard of a movement Every release was bangin', they on the come up was like fuck the radio 'til Pharoahe said "Get the fuck up" Flex listened, at Bryant
The next was right about now we need the hit written while I hit the road On tour to support the records the day it was sold Corey had me the example of De La Soul
and The Roots to me, these the sickest niggaz Get my wit' the Okayplayers and the Spitkickers Rawkus got a with MCA, this the gray area But let it for Music Cemetery of America
They tried to you by switchin' the name to Geffen Now they Interscope's bitch and every artist who had a chance 'em Ain't no big surprise, wasn't no love Jimmy Iovine never signed me, I just kinda ended up
But that, literally it was my way or the highway Hit the road with the Beastie Boys and toured Europe with Gotta 'em for the love on the album, I knew out on 'Electric Circus', he'd get it by any means necessary like
I dropped a single, shot a video, took of my situation Got a poppin', it's a celebration, bitches Yo boy Free, I had to get out I put you on, that's I'm at right about now
And if you're sayin' my time, you right about now This goin' through my mind, right about now Hey yo, hey yo, time to write about now And if you lookin' you can find it right now
I put you on, that's where I'm at right now This goin' through my mind, right about now Yo, hey yo, it's to write about now And if you you can find it right about now
That's bitches, Talib Kweli One of the baddest motherfuckers you've seen That's bitches, Talib Kweli You're now with the best, I said it
The best, the best, that's bitches You're now rockin' the best, the best Talib Kweli, where's, where's my