 [Mos Def]
Lawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd,
lawd have mercy
All nice and peace and true, follow
me now, we say
Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop
Say J. Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop
Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop
Say Black Star come to rock it non...
Yo, from the first to the last of it,
delivery is passionate
The whole and not the half of it,
vocab and not the math of it
Projectile that them blasted with,
accurate assassin shit
Me and Kweli close like, Bethlehem
and Nazareth
After this you be pressing rewind on
top your master disk
Shining like an asterisk for all those
that be gatherin
Connectin like a roundhouse from the
townhouse to the tenaments
Cause all my Brooklyn residents, ?
heavy regiments
Don't believe, here the evidence,
where Brooklyn
WHAAAAAAAoohhhh
See that? Bound to take it all kid,
believe that
From where they sellin tree at, to
where the police be at
Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them
where we be at
[Talib Kweli]
Brooklyn New York City where they
paint murals of Biggie
In cash we trust cause it's ghetto
fabulous, life look pretty
what a pity -- blunts is still fifty cents,
it's intense
Tree scents is dominant can't be
covered with incense
My presence felt my name is Kweli
from the Eternal Reflection
People thinkin MC is short hand for
Mis Conception
Let me meditate, set it straight, came
to the conclusion
that most of these cats is
featherweight, let me demonstrate
Walkin the streets is like battlin, be
careful with your body
You must know karate or think your
soul is bulletproof like Sade
Stop actin like a bitch already, be a
visionary
And maybe you can see your name in
the column of obituary
Third rate teacher readin and talkin
about,
"I knew he'd amount to nothin"
Neighbors like, "He was the quiet
type,
who'd have thought they was
frontin?"
Talkin +Loud+ like you in RCA, get
carted away
with body parts and treys, what a way
to start your day
Yo it's like
Chorus: Mos Def and Talib Kweli
One two three
Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in hip-hop, wyahhhhh
I said one two three
It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
They shot Tupac and Biggie
Too much violence in hip-hop,
wyahhhhh
[Mos Def]
I said Manhattan keep on makin it
(Bo!), Brooklyn keep on takin it (Bo!)
So relax we're takin it back, Redhook
where we're livin at
Plenty cats be strugglin not hustlin
and bubblin
It ain't about production and -- what
else we discussin?
When the cock crows, my crop
grows, enable me to rock flows
Strivin for perfection ever since I was
a snot-nosed
COLOSSAL, true original b-boy
apostle
Standin on the rooftop with the, Zulu
gestapo
[Talib Kweli]
You think you the shit
somebody in the wings'll force you to
quit
It could be your crew or click
or some random kid you smoked
buddha with
Consider me the entity within the
industry without a history
of spittin the epitome, of stupidity --
livin my life
expressin my liberty, it gotta be done
properly
My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty
People follow me and other cats they
hear him flow
And assume I'm the real one with
lyrics like I'm Cyrano
[Mos Def]
Still sippin wishin well water, imported,
from Pluto
Three hundred and sixty milliliters for
all our believers
In miles or kilometers, most cats,
cannot proceed us
in the jungle with the leaders we the
lions you the +cheaters+
A cypher, will complete us if we come
through your receivers
You can play us and repeat us and
then take us home and read us
(line for line) Good Jesus, Mos Def
and Kweli just
make a pussy freeze up, thinkin we
will ease up
Chorus
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