[00:00:00] This Means You (explicit) - Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek/Mos Def [00:00:02] Sometimes you gotta be direct with the people y'know like [00:00:04] Give it to 'em (c'mon) [00:00:06] Yo [00:00:07] Give it to 'em [00:00:08] GET UP NOW [00:00:09] Yo we keep it type raw and know exactly what we fight for [00:00:13] When the nightfall come we in the right war [00:00:15] Cats who spill blood for a cause not just because [00:00:17] Defy the authority and follow God's law [00:00:19] Revolutionary entrepeneurswho make the fans [00:00:21] Clap they hands and stompin the floor not start the applause [00:00:23] (Ahhh ssssh Yeah ) Thank you very much without further adieu [00:00:28] Let me introduce the rest of my crew Mos Def [00:00:30] Yo I am the world renowned verb adjective adverb [00:00:33] Pronoun preposition suffix prefix [00:00:35] Original or remix sunburst and eclipse [00:00:38] Me and Kwe' combine like strands on a double-helix [00:00:40] My speech seasoned with dialect of my region [00:00:42] Booga-nam Brooklyn Bed-Stuy Eastern [00:00:45] Where youth and policemen they nah reach agreement [00:00:48] Pressure in the mornin pressure in the evenin [00:01:00] You need to get up right now [00:01:04] And move with this yes this means you [00:01:09] You you [00:01:12] Yeahh alright yeah alright yeah alright yeah [00:01:14] Alright yeah alright yeah alright yeah yeah-ehhhh [00:01:18] Uh uh uh uh yo yo yo [00:01:20] Things changed since we came out been some sh*t in New York [00:01:22] Niggaz stopped gettin jig in New York bloods and crips in New York [00:01:24] The Y-2-K celebration wasn't big in New York [00:01:27] Babylon live in New York should I keep a crib in New York [00:01:30] Or just V I to handle my B I [00:01:31] When with my A-Alikes we see with three eyes [00:01:33] Yo Kweli I agree I was thinkin the same thing myself [00:01:36] Smog in the city ain't no good for your health [00:01:39] Things changed in New York type strange in New York [00:01:42] Forty-Deuce don't look the same in New York [00:01:44] Just politics tricks and big games in New York [00:01:47] Switched trains a writer can't get fame in New York [00:01:49] Internet and Wall Street got paid in New York [00:01:52] Poor folks and workin class got slayed in New York [00:01:54] Even still everyday they make weight in New York [00:01:57] Flashlights lookin for a brighter day in New York [00:01:59] In New York they say it's - red hot [00:02:02] Will the temperature ease up Black I guess not [00:02:04] It's multi-lane traffic no sign for rest stops [00:02:06] No corner breaks put on your gloves and just box [00:02:09] No dance school to teach you to wop and bus stop [00:02:12] Better get up in the booth hop up and just rock [00:02:14] If you think it's like that it's not so just stop [00:02:17] All mankind time runnin down on one watch just watch [00:02:20] If you are just coming in I will [00:02:24] Say it once more so you can hear cause [00:02:29] You need to get up right now [00:02:34] And move with this yes this means you [00:02:39] You you [00:02:40] Yo Mos Def and Talib Kweli bring disaster to the industry [00:02:43] We best-sellin authors writin great chapters in history [00:02:45] These cats undercover like gay rappers dealin with mystery [00:02:47] My platinum grey matter spray batter that's specifically [00:02:49] Designed to make rappers break faster [00:02:51] Than eggshells in the mornin [00:02:52] Inhaled the divine in that's laid dormant [00:02:54] Water from the well STAY pourin [00:02:55] I answer back when I hear fate callin [00:02:57] Freedom fighter ready to [00:02:57] Attack at the crack of a new day dawnin [00:02:59] Way more than necessary skills f [00:03:01] Or the application [00:03:01] My flow is Great like the Lakes and it rocks like Applachains [00:03:04] My facts more than make up for what you lack in imagination [00:03:07] You more confused than [00:03:08] Tiger Woods when he made up Cabalaysian [00:03:09] I'm sayin [00:03:10] Break bounds like the jet Concorde