(Talib Kwali): Yo, I was sold to a sick European by a rich Battle-man, Middle passages, I can't go again. Battlin' years who history's lies, while mystery's wive's, with misty eyes watching niggas be beaten visciously Battling this is North America, ran by the river, only to pray. Change My Terrorists ediquiette, who vote and kill they president, capacity for evil so evident, and prevalent. Ain't no hesitation involved, a dissolved, while we sit waitin' to evolve. Those who'd they freedom for protection deserve neither. Fuck a name, tradition, religion, you learn Jesus. Turn the other cheek, Inherit the earth, 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 That's Yeah, yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Its always your own people, sometimes it's own people X2
(Mos Def): Yo, is not what Jay said to Nas, Beef is working niggas can't find jobs. So they try to niggas to rob, Try to bigger guns so they can finish the job. is when a crack-kid can't find moms, cause they in a pine box, or behind bars. ain't the summer Jam on Hot Ninety-Seven. Beef is the Cocaine and epidemics. Beef don't come a radio edit. Beef is when the callin you defendant. Beef, it come a long jail sentence, Handed down to you in a few minutes. Beef is when your girl through for a visit, talkin her pregnant, by some other nigga. Beef is blood pressure, and bad credit; Need a loan for your and you're too broke to get it. And all your little kids is is gettin bigger, You try to not them around the wild niggas. is when a gold-digger got your seed in her, A manicured out, like, "Pay me nigga, Or I'm tellin wife, And startin up some rumors that'll ruin your life." Beef is when a ain't doing it right, And other gangsters then decide to do his life. is not what these famous niggas would do in the mic, Beef is George Bush would do in a fight. (that's right) is not what Ja said to Fifty. Beef is and earth(?) not being here with me. a soldier ends his life with his own gun, Beef is trying to figure out what to his son. Beef is oil prices and is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. Some beef is big, and some is small, But what call beef is no beef at all. Beef is life, happenin every day, And its real-er than the that you gave to K-Slay. This has been a Star P.S.A. From Mos Def, Pretty(?) Placo, Dante, From the Black Star B to the K!