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- [Hook Mos Def]
- One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
- We came to rock it on to the tip top
- Best alliance in hip hop, wayohh
- I said, one two three, Black Star shine eternally
- We came to rock it on to the tip top
- And Hi Tek make the beat drop, wayohh
- [Talib Kweli]
- RE:DEFinition, turning your play into a tragedy
- Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately
- Niggas is sweet so I bet if I bit I'd get a cavity
- Living to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity
- We die hard like the battery thrown in the back of me by the mad MC
- Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery, actually
- Don't be mad at me, I had to be the one to break it to you
- You get kicked into obscurity like judo no, Menudo
- Cause You pseudo, trying to compete with reality like Xerox
- Towards destruction you spiraling like hairlocks, wipe them teardrops
- Chasing stars in your eyes, playing games with your lives
- Now the wives is widows soaking up pillows, weeping like willows
- Still more blacks is dying, cause they live and they trying
- "How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applying
- Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners
- Rocking ever since before Prince was called The Artist
- Rocking before Funkmaster Flex was rocking Starter
- When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool, before they was martyrs
- Life or death, if I'm choosing with every breath I'm enhancing
- Stop, there comes a time when you can't run
- [Mos Def]
- What, lyrically handsome, call collect a king's ransom
- Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
- Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, move like a phantom
- You'll talk about me to your grandsons
- Cats who claiming they hard be mad fags
- So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags
- Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have
- Sinking they ship, like Moby Dick to Ahab
- Son I'm way past the minimum, entering millennium
- My raps will hold a gat to your back like Palestinians
- Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon
- Official b boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim
- Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10
- These simpletons they mentioned in the synonym for feminine
- Sweeter than some cinnamon, the Danish rings by Entenmann's
- Rush up on adrenaline, they get they asses sent to them
- (Gentlemen) you got a tenement, well then assemble it!
- Leave your unit trembling like herds of moving elephant
- Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element
- From Flatbush settlement, skin possesses melanin
- Hotter than tales of crack peddling, making em WOOP
- Like blue gelatin, swing like Duke Ellington
- Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
- The hot Apache red who burn down your chief teepee
- You see me?
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