Definition-Black Star

[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 [00:16.74] [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 **** [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 ***** 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 cock crows my crop grows enable me to rock flows [02:13.61]Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed [02:16.42] [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 **** [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 [02:33.29] [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 ***** 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