(Talib Kwali): Yo, I was sold to a sick European by a African Battle-man, Middle passages, I can't go again. Battlin' who denied history's lies, while mystery's wive's, watching with misty watching they be beaten visciously this world is North America, ran by the river, only to pray. Change My with ediquiette, who vote and kill they president, Their capacity for so evident, and prevalent. Ain't no involved, a nation dissolved, we sit back waitin' to evolve. Those trade they freedom for protection deserve neither. Fuck a name, tradition, religion, you learn Jesus. Turn the other cheek, the earth, just stay meek. Fuck the way you speak, you try to walk, chop off your feet. Fast forward to 2003; beef. The psychology of choosin the run deep.
Hell Yeah, yeah, What's Hell Yeah, yeah That's Hell Yeah, yeah Its always your own people, sometimes your own people X2
(Mos Def): Yo, Beef is not Jay said to Nas, is when working niggas can't find jobs. So they try to find to rob, Try to find guns so they can finish the job. Beef is a crack-kid can't find moms, cause they in a pine box, or behind bars. Beef ain't the Jam on Hot Ninety-Seven. Beef is the Cocaine and epidemics. Beef don't come with a edit. Beef is the judge's callin you defendant. Beef, it come with a jail sentence, Handed to you in a few short minutes. Beef is when your come through for a visit, talkin her pregnant, by some other nigga. Beef is blood pressure, and bad credit; Need a loan for your home and you're too to get it. And all your kids is doin' is gettin bigger, You try to not them around the wild niggas. Beef is when a got your seed in her, A manicured out, like, "Pay me nigga, Or I'm tellin wife, And startin up some foul that'll ruin your life." is when a gangster ain't doing it right, And gangsters then decide to do with his life. Beef is not what these famous niggas do in the mic, is what George Bush would do in a fight. (that's right) Beef is not what Ja to Fifty. Beef is world and earth(?) not being here me. When a soldier ends his with his own gun, Beef is trying to out what to tell his son. Beef is oil prices and Beef is Iraq, the Bank, and Gaza Strip. Some is big, and some beef is small, But what y'all call is no beef at all. Beef is real life, every day, And its real-er than the songs that you to K-Slay. This has a Black Star P.S.A. Mos Def, Pretty(?) Placo, Black Dante, From the Star Embassy B to the K!