Definition

[00:00.08] Hello everybody, they're calling live from somewhere
[00:05.44] Lawd, lawd have mercy
[00:09.98] All nice and peace and true, follow me now, we say
[00:14.27] Say hi-tek yes you're ruling hip-hop
[00:16.98] Say J. Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop
[00:19.63] Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop
[00:22.43] Say Black Star come to rock it non...
[00:23.98] Yo, from the first to the last of it, delivery is passionate
[00:27.26] The whole and not the half of it, vocab and not the math of it
[00:29.82] Projectile that them blasted with, accurate assassin shit
[00:32.77] Me and Kweli close like, Bethlehem and Nazareth
[00:35.32] After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk
[00:38.06] Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin'
[00:40.70] Connected like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments
[00:43.27] 'Cause all my Brooklyn residents? Heavy regiments
[00:45.93] Don't believe, here the evidence, where Brooklyn?
[00:48.86] See that? Bound to take it all kid, believe that
[00:51.26] From where they sellin' tree at, to where the police be at
[00:54.21] Talib Kweli e-kweli-ty, yo tell them where we be at
[00:56.99] Brooklyn, New York City where they paint murals of Biggie
[00:59.33] In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous, life look pretty
[01:01.92] What a pity, blunts is still fifty cents, it's intense
[01:04.57] Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense
[01:07.22] My presence felt my name is Kweli from the eternal reflection
[01:09.94] People thinkin' mc is short hand for misconception
[01:12.54] Let me meditate, set it straight, came to the conclusion
[01:15.03] That most of these cats is featherweight, let me demonstrate
[01:17.69] Walkin' the streets is like battlin', be careful with your body
[01:20.79] You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like sade
[01:23.59] Stop actin' like a bitch already, be a visionary
[01:25.66] And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituaries
[01:28.56] Third rate teacher readin' and talkin about, "I knew he'd amount to nothin"
[01:31.23] Neighbors like, "He was the quiet type, who'd have thought they was frontin? "
[01:34.24] Talkin' loud like you in RCA, get carted away
[01:36.34] With body parts and treys, what a way to start your day
[01:39.02] Yo it's like
[01:39.47] One two three
[01:41.38] Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[01:43.50] We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[01:46.24] Best alliance in hip-hop
[01:49.60] I said one two three
[01:51.67] It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
[01:54.46] They shot Tupac and Biggie
[01:57.17] Too much violence in hip-hop
[01:59.87] I said Manhattan keep on makin' it, Brooklyn keep on takin' it
[02:03.53] So relax we're takin' it back, Red Hook where we're livin' at
[02:06.30] Plenty cats be strugglin', not hustlin' and bubblin'
[02:08.53] It ain't about production and- what else we discussin'?
[02:10.90] So when the cock crows, my crop grows, enable me to rock flows
[02:14.13] Strivin' for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed
[02:16.74] Colossal, true original b-boy apostle
[02:19.44] Standin' on the rooftop with the Zulu Gestapo
[02:22.04] You think you the shit
[02:23.01] Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit
[02:24.56] It could be your crew or click
[02:25.78] Or some random kid you smoked buddha with
[02:27.36] Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
[02:30.39] Of spittin' the epitome, of stupidity, livin' my life
[02:33.67] Expressin' my liberty, it gotta be done properly
[02:36.16] My name is in the middle of e-kweli-ty
[02:38.48] People follow me and other cats they hear him flow
[02:40.74] And assume I'm the real one with the lyrics like I'm Cyrano
[02:43.02] Still sippin' wishin' well water, imported, from Pluto
[02:45.82] Three hundred and sixty milliliters for all our believers
[02:48.58] In miles or kilometers, most cats, cannot proceed us
[02:51.47] In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters
[02:54.04] A cypher, will complete us if we come through your receivers
[02:56.66] You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us
[02:59.55] (Line for line) Good Jesus, Mos Def and Kweli just
[03:02.54] Make a pussy freeze up, thinkin' we will ease up
[03:05.10] One two three
[03:06.67] Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[03:09.01] We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[03:11.87] Best alliance in hip-hop
[03:15.33] I said one two three
[03:17.38] It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
[03:19.71] They shot Tupac and Biggie
[03:22.55] Hold your head when the beat drop
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