[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 by the pain and the violence So the never safe At the time snitching to the Jake Is the way to be found at the bottom of a lake But the problem we face seems so That we can't so we accept our fate So the sex and the money and the and the pictures we paint If an artist is a of a community And got an opportunity to get that never come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga like that so No different from a Nothing left to cause you always wanna take If you ain't using all the talents God provided you Would a better minuteman understand you ain't but a waste? Look the face of a young girl Raising up like a flag when unfurled Got game to her mother's pearls And she love Beyonce cause she run the Her mama used to run city Way back before the nigga was Diddy it came to the music then she got real picky From New York, but 2Pac over Biggie No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the And she felt that Pac was lyrical Plus she never to college But she called herself 'Earth' found with the gods more spiritual She God in the And it's only natural to pray for a you so she played the umbilical chords So her daughter was born it was a Music is the light when it's And the way that you spit your is a big part She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" niggas turn up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, turn up for the movement Ratchet stars that be looking so stupid in the fights at reunions She used to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the No desire for the lying and the inflicted on the body in a so-called party environment Her is politics count of how many whores she was called today She do it no more, lost all her faith They say she when she holler 'Rape' But only so much she can tolerate
[Hook: Abby Help me find my way to a state of Stir my heart, touch my Feed me freedom sounds you Help me find my way to a of grace me up with your weight Pull me to the
[Verse 2: Kweli] She to be the first in her family with a higher education Her entire graduation was a situation Did a paper on the state of the hip hop But no longer felt a of the conversation to be I'm a ''ride or die'' chick B.I.G. with the And My Bitch'' No objections, being an Major label a profit She never 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 would have stayed But she felt like she really ain't When she let him hit, this nigga 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 it or dump it, the artist she trusted broke her heart, so misogynistic and disgusting She not to judge him In her heart she still him And the way that he lusting a part of his And this young man clearly not for the harder discussion emcees acting more like a dude than a dude do, only if you knew I know a few who flow than if you flew over the nest of the cuckoo But she never gonna hear in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues from the radio playing doodoo She on D'Angelo Pandora playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Kweli] In the of hate She'd be for a balance cause the world is challenging her to be great I see as colors and shapes Put it on tape, let her know I could When you you could switch the way that you look And your nose was smaller and your was straight When you got no When you hate yourself, when you hate your get to the core Our sisters worth more 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 that constantly disrespects me? And you dismissive of the efforts of those who get left With the charge of repping it When it's online or in a cloud Ain't no to touch the radio dial You wonder why you don't hear no on the air And it's clear that your sales down Down by law you found the raw On a message board and you off niggas get the whole world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these be sounding lost is a memory The assembly line rap niggas is designed by the Stop giving them soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, shit rap Running through you like fast Big Mac's You don't no problems, fix that All the time that you spent listening to that Now you never gon' get back
[Outro: Talib She love it, no She love it no more