[Verse 1: Talib From the top, the top, from the top, from the top From the top, the top, from the top, from the top In a of grace Where the talent is surrounded by the and the violence So the never safe At the same snitching to the Jake Is the way to be found at the bottom of a lake But the problem we seems so great That we can't escape so we accept our So the sex and the money and the and the pictures we paint If an is a part of a community And got an opportunity to get that Would never come to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga like that so No different from a Nothing left to give cause you always wanna If you ain't using all the God provided you with a better minuteman understand you ain't nothing but a waste? Look into the of a young girl up like a flag when it's unfurled Got game listening to her pearls And she Beyonce cause she run the world Her mama to run this city Way back the nigga Puff was Diddy When it came to the music then she got real From New York, but preferred 2Pac over No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the And she that Pac was more lyrical she never went to college But she called herself 'Earth' found rhythm with the gods spiritual She God in the And it's only to pray for a little you Musical so she the umbilical chords So her daughter was born it was a Music is the light when dark And the way you spit your dart is a big part She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" Nowadays niggas up for the sex Niggas up for the money, never turn up for the movement Ratchet stars that be looking so stupid Getting in the at reunions She used to be by the writers, now she's tired of the biters No desire for the and the violence That's inflicted on the body in a party environment Her is politics Lost count of how many whores she was today She won't do it no more, all her faith say she exaggerate when she holler 'Rape' But it's only so she can tolerate
[Hook: Dobson] Help me my way to a state of grace Stir my heart, touch my Feed me sounds you made Help me find my way to a state of me up with your weight Pull me to the
[Verse 2: Kweli] She wanna to be the first in her family a higher education Her entire was a dire situation Did a paper on the state of the hip hop But no felt a part of the conversation Used to be I'm a or die'' chick B.I.G. with the And My Bitch'' No objections, being an Major label a profit She ain't been a bitch or a ho But she used to sing along when she it in a song She used to be row at the shows 'til she overdosed on the testosterone Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would stayed But she felt like she really ain't When she wouldn't let him hit, this called her a bitch She erased all her songs the phone You are who you fuck with, so the guy that she with You can bump it or it, the artist she trusted Just broke her heart, so and disgusting She not to judge him In her heart she still him And the way that he lusting a of his suffering And this young man clearly not ready for the harder emcees acting more like a dude than a dude do, only if you knew I a few who flow crazier than if you flew over the nest of the cuckoo But she gonna hear them in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues from the radio that doodoo She on D'Angelo station playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Kweli] In the face of She'd be lucky for a balance cause the is challenging her to be great I see lyrics as and shapes Put it on tape, let her know I relate When you wish you could switch the way that you And your nose was and your hair was straight you got no faith When you yourself, when you hate your race get to the core Our sisters more than grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a And you and you shit on the poor In all of records and ask 'em to buy it Why should I support music that disrespects me? And you dismissive of the efforts of those who get left the charge of repping it correctly When free online or in a cloud Ain't no reason to the radio dial You wonder why you hear no sounds on the air And it's clear that your going down by law then you found the raw On a board and you sounding off These niggas get the world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these be sounding lost Rhyming is a The line rap niggas is designed by the enemy Stop giving your soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, shit rap Running through you like fast food; Big You don't no problems, fix that All the time that you spent listening to bullshit Now you ain't never gon' get
[Outro: Talib She don't it, no She don't love it no