[00:00:10] All nice and decent crew follow me now we say [00:00:14] Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop [00:00:17] Say J Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop [00:00:19] Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop [00:00:21] Say Black Star come to rock it non [00:00:25] Yo from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate [00:00:28] The whole and not the half of it vocab and not the math of it [00:00:30] Projectile that them blasted with accurate assassin sh*t [00:00:33] Me and Kweli close like Bethlehem and Nazareth [00:00:35] After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk [00:00:38] Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin [00:00:41] Connectin like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments [00:00:43] Cause all my Brooklyn residents heavy regiments [00:00:45] Don't believe here the evidence where Brooklyn WHAAAAAAAoohhhh [00:00:49] See that Bound to take it all kid believe that [00:00:51] From where they sellin tree at to where the police be at [00:00:54] Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them where we be at [00:00:56] Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie [00:00:59] In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous life look pretty [00:01:02] What a pity -- blunts is still fifty cents it's intense [00:01:05] Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense [00:01:07] My presence felt my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection [00:01:09] People thinkin MC is short hand for Mis Conception [00:01:12] Let me meditate set it straight came to the conclusion [00:01:15] That most of these cats is featherweight let me demonstrate [00:01:17] Walkin the streets is like battlin be careful with your body [00:01:20] You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade [00:01:23] Stop actin like a b**ch already be a visionary [00:01:25] And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary [00:01:28] Third rate teacher readin and talkin about [00:01:30] "I knew he'd amount to nothin" [00:01:31] Neighbors like "He was the quiet type [00:01:33] Who'd have thought they was frontin " [00:01:34] Talkin Loud like you in RCA get carted away [00:01:36] With body parts and treys what a way to start your day [00:01:39] Yo it's like [00:01:40] One two three [00:01:41] Mos Def and Talib Kweli [00:01:43] We came to rock it on to the tip-top [00:01:46] Best alliance in hip-hop wyahhhhh [00:01:49] I said one two three [00:01:52] It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee [00:01:54] They shot Tupac and Biggie [00:01:57] Too much violence in hip-hop wyahhhhh [00:02:01] I said Manhattan keep on makin it (Bo ) Brooklyn keep on takin it (Bo ) [00:02:04] So relax we're takin it back Redhook where we're livin at [00:02:06] Plenty cats be strugglin not hustlin and bubblin [00:02:08] It ain't about production and -- what else we discussin [00:02:10] When the cock crows my crop grows enable me to rock flows [00:02:13] Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed [00:02:17] COLOSSAL true original b-boy apostle [00:02:19] Standin on the rooftop with the Zulu gestapo [00:02:21] You think you the sh*t [00:02:22] Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit [00:02:24] It could be your crew or click [00:02:26] Or some random kid you smoked buddha with [00:02:27] Consider me the entity within the industry without a history [00:02:30] Of spittin the epitome of stupidity -- livin my life [00:02:34] Expressin my liberty it gotta be done properly [00:02:36] My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty [00:02:38] People follow me and other cats they hear him flow [00:02:41] And assume I'm the real one with lyrics like I'm Cyrano [00:02:43] Still sippin wishin well water imported from Pluto [00:02:47] Three hundred and sixty milliliters for all our believers [00:02:49] In miles or kilometers most cats cannot proceed us [00:02:51] In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters [00:02:54] A cypher will complete us if we come through your receivers [00:02:56] You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us [00:03:00] (line for line) Good Jesus Mos Def and Kweli just