(Talib Kwali): Yo, I was sold to a sick European by a rich Battle-man, passages, I can't go back again. Battlin' years who history's lies, while wive's, watching with misty eyes watching they niggas be beaten Battling this world is America, ran by the river, only to pray. Change My with ediquiette, who vote and kill they president, Their for evil so evident, and prevalent. Ain't no involved, a nation dissolved, while we sit back to evolve. who'd trade they freedom for protection deserve neither. Fuck a name, tradition, religion, you learn Jesus. Turn the cheek, Inherit the earth, just stay meek. Fuck the way you speak, you try to walk, they off your feet. Fast forward to 2003; beef. The psychology of the slaves run deep.
Hell Yeah, yeah, Beef? Hell Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Beef Hell Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Its always your own people, sometimes it's own people X2
(Mos Def): Yo, Beef is not what Jay to Nas, is when working niggas can't find jobs. So try to find niggas to rob, Try to bigger guns so they can finish the job. Beef is when a can't find moms, cause in a pine box, or locked behind bars. Beef ain't the Jam on Hot Ninety-Seven. Beef is the and AIDS epidemics. Beef don't come a radio edit. is when 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 girl through for a visit, talkin her pregnant, by some other nigga. Beef is high blood pressure, and bad Need a loan for your home and too broke to get it. And all little kids is doin' is gettin bigger, You try to not raise around the wild niggas. Beef is when a gold-digger got seed in her, A manicured out, like, "Pay me nigga, Or I'm your wife, And startin up some foul rumors ruin your life." Beef is when a gangster ain't it right, And other gangsters then decide to do his life. Beef is not these famous niggas would do in the mic, Beef is what Bush would do in a fight. (that's right) Beef is not what Ja to Fifty. Beef is world and earth(?) not here with me. When a ends his life with his own gun, Beef is trying to figure out to tell his son. Beef is oil and Geopolitics; is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. Some beef is big, and some is small, But what y'all beef is no beef at all. Beef is real life, every day, And its real-er than the songs that you to K-Slay. has been a Black Star P.S.A. From Mos Def, Pretty(?) Placo, Dante, From the Black Star B to the K!