(Talib Kwali): Yo, I was sold to a European by a rich African Battle-man, Middle passages, I go back again. Battlin' who denied history's lies, while mystery's wive's, watching with misty they niggas be beaten visciously Battling world is North America, ran by the river, only to pray. Change My Terrorists ediquiette, who vote and kill they president, Their capacity for so evident, and prevalent. Ain't no involved, a nation dissolved, while we sit waitin' to evolve. Those who'd trade freedom for protection deserve neither. a name, fuck 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 to 2003; Niggas beef. The of choosin the slaves run deep.
Hell Yeah, yeah, Beef? Hell Yeah, yeah That's Yeah, yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Its your own people, sometimes it's your own people X2
(Mos Def): Yo, is not what Jay said to Nas, is when working niggas can't find jobs. So try to find niggas to rob, Try to find bigger 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. don't come with a radio edit. Beef is the judge's callin you defendant. Beef, it come a long jail sentence, Handed down to you in a few minutes. Beef is when your girl come for a visit, bout her pregnant, by some other nigga. Beef is high blood pressure, and bad 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. Beef is when a gold-digger got your in her, A manicured out, like, "Pay me nigga, Or I'm tellin wife, And startin up some foul rumors that'll ruin life." is when a gangster ain't doing it right, And other gangsters then decide to do his life. Beef is not what these famous would do in the mic, Beef is George Bush would do in a fight. (that's right) Beef is not Ja said to Fifty. Beef is world and earth(?) not being here me. When a soldier his life with his own gun, Beef is trying to figure out what to his son. is oil prices and Geopolitics; Beef is Iraq, the 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. This has been a Star P.S.A. From Mos Def, Pretty(?) Placo, Dante, the Black Star Embassy B to the K!