Definition

Mos Def

[Mos Def]

Lawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd, lawd have mercy

All nice and peace and true, follow me now, we say

Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop

Say J. Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop

Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop

Say Black Star come to rock it non...



Yo, from the first to the last of it, delivery is passionate

The whole and not the half of it, vocab and not the math of it

Projectile that them blasted with, accurate assassin shit

Me and Kweli close like, Bethlehem and Nazareth

After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk

Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin

Connectin like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments

Cause all my Brooklyn residents, ? heavy regiments

Don't believe, here the evidence, where Brooklyn WHAAAAAAAoohhhh

See that? Bound to take it all kid, believe that

From where they sellin tree at, to where the police be at

Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them where we be at



[Talib Kweli]

Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie

In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous, life look pretty

what a pity -- blunts is still fifty cents, it's intense

Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense

My presence felt my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection

People thinkin MC is short hand for Mis Conception

Let me meditate, set it straight, came to the conclusion

that most of these cats is featherweight, let me demonstrate

Walkin the streets is like battlin, be careful with your body

You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade

Stop actin like a bitch already, be a visionary

And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary

Third rate teacher readin and talkin about,

"I knew he'd amount to nothin"

Neighbors like, "He was the quiet type,

who'd have thought they was frontin?"

Talkin +Loud+ like you in RCA, get carted away

with body parts and treys, what a way to start your day

Yo it's like



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