Definition - Black Star.mp3

[00:00.00]Hello everybody
[00:02.80]Recording line from somewhere
[00:05.38]Lord have mercy
[00:10.52]All nice and decent crew follow me now we say
[00:14.74]Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop
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[00:17.30]Say J Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop
[00:19.98]Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop
[00:21.73]Say Black Star come to rock it non
[00:25.09]Yo from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate
[00:28.16]The whole and not the half of it vocab and not the math of it
[00:30.78]Projectile that them blasted with accurate assassin shit
[00:33.16]Me and Kweli close like Bethlehem and Nazareth
[00:35.71]After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk
[00:38.52]Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin
[00:41.02]Connectin like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments
[00:43.14]Cause all my Brooklyn residents heavy regiments
[00:45.33]Don't believe here the evidence where Brooklyn WHAAAAAAAoohhhh
[00:49.69]See that Bound to take it all kid believe that
[00:51.88]From where they sellin tree at to where the police be at
[00:54.50]Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them where we be at
[00:56.68]Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie
[00:59.55]In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous life look pretty
[01:02.48]What a pity blunts is still fifty cents it's intense
[01:05.24]Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense
[01:07.42]My presence felt my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection
[01:09.92]People thinkin MC is short hand for Mis Conception
[01:12.72]Let me meditate set it straight came to the conclusion
[01:15.53]That most of these cats is featherweight let me demonstrate
[01:17.77]Walkin the streets is like battlin be careful with your body
[01:20.83]You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade
[01:23.77]Stop actin like a b***h already be a visionary
[01:25.77]And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary
[01:28.51]Third rate teacher readin and talkin about
[01:30.33]"I knew he'd amount to nothin"
[01:31.64]Neighbors like "He was the quiet type
[01:33.32]Who'd have thought they was frontin "
[01:34.64]Talkin Loud like you in RCA get carted away
[01:36.45]With body parts and treys what a way to start your day
[01:39.38]Yo it's like
[01:40.19]One two three
[01:41.13]Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[01:43.69]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[01:46.50]Best alliance in hip-hop wyahhhhh
[01:49.93]I said one two three
[01:52.11]It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
[01:54.37]They shot Tupac and Biggie
[01:57.61]Too much violence in hip-hop wyahhhhh
[02:01.01]I said Manhattan keep on makin it(Bo)Brooklyn keep on takin it(Bo)
[02:04.05]So relax we're takin it back Redhook where we're livin at
[02:06.24]Plenty cats be strugglin not hustlin and bubblin
[02:08.06]It ain't about production and what else we discussin
[02:10.18]When the c**k crows my crop grows enable me to rock flows
[02:13.61]Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed
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[02:17.35]COLOSSAL true original b-boy apostle
[02:19.41]Standin on the rooftop with the Zulu gestapo
[02:21.54]You think you the shit
[02:22.85]Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit
[02:24.97]It could be your crew or click
[02:26.40]Or some random kid you smoked buddha with
[02:27.97]Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
[02:30.61]Of spittin the epitome of stupidity livin my life
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[02:34.10]Expressin my liberty it gotta be done properly
[02:36.34]My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty
[02:38.28]People follow me and other cats they hear him flow
[02:41.16]And assume I'm the real one with lyrics like I'm Cyrano
[02:43.84]Still sippin wishin well water imported from Pluto
[02:47.08]Three hundred and sixty milliliters for all our believers
[02:49.46]In miles or kilometers most cats cannot proceed us
[02:51.41]In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters
[02:54.34]A cypher will complete us if we come through your receivers
[02:56.84]You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us
[03:00.40](Line for line) Good Jesus Mos Def and Kweli just
[03:03.52]Make a b***h freeze up thinkin we will ease up
[03:05.70]One two three
[03:06.52]Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[03:09.21]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[03:11.89]Best alliance in hip-hop wyahhhhh
[03:15.70]I said one two three
[03:17.25]It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
[03:19.75]They shot Tupac and Biggie
[03:22.81]Hold your head in the beat top wyahhhhh