History-Mos Def/Talib Kweli

[00:02.11]Kweli say, "Everybody act according to the season that they born in" [00:07.36]Some are the night, some are the morning, some at noon [00:12.15]Some in winter, some in June [00:15.48]It's our code, it's the natural [00:20.22]The science is a jewel [00:22.27]For me and mines, yours and you [00:25.40]Let's move, tell you a little about mine, yo [00:31.29]I was born in a season where the world was quiet and cold [00:34.50]Celebrations were going on [00:36.65]Some were happy, some were sad [00:38.90]Some felt bad from being good [00:40.59]Some felt good from being bad, feelings pass and change [00:43.72]But they never leave, they here to stay [00:46.22]Holiday, holiday, happy birthday [00:48.22]Teenage love, the first cut run deep [00:50.58]Soul on flesh, this is the Brooklyn streets [00:53.77]Year of the Ox, seven and three [00:56.11]M.D., the history (come on) [00:59.00]Every soul's got one of these (yes) [01:01.40]It's where you been and where you be [01:03.38]And without understanding you cannot proceed [01:05.65]Complete, the start and the end [01:09.26]Then it just go round again [01:14.36]Again and again, brand new [01:16.94]Again and again, so fresh [01:19.13]Again and again, newness [01:21.43]I was born in the decade of decadence where they worship what they have [01:24.29]Ford was president, do the math [01:26.45]The war was ended when the Vietnamese stormed the city of Saigon [01:29.23]We was like, bye; we was gone, let bygones be bygones [01:31.86]I'm gone, spread love, it's the Brooklyn way [01:35.14]Where the hug you with the firearm, try it on [01:37.54]Like new school clothes, Black Star official [01:39.97]Smash when we do a show, it's facts, no mystery [01:42.36]I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy [01:44.93]I rock with the Roots like the Giving Tree [01:46.87]Powerful, bigotry at work, me and my people got history [01:49.77]These rappers dumb it down considerably [01:51.57]We get it poppin' like a hit chorus [01:53.75]The flow is historic, they can't get rid of us [01:55.98]Ubiquitous, and we lay the law like Leviticus [01:58.79]Ten years ago we made history so they missing us [02:00.10] [02:01.14]And don't call it comeback in particular [02:01.43][Outro] [02:03.25]We will never blend into ephemera or [02:05.54]Fade into peripheral, transition of the minister's original [02:08.47]We're broadcast clear without diminishing [02:10.67]Black Star so tight, burning soul temperatures and ministers [02:13.55]Alkalines, aminos and minerals essentials [02:16.33]Served over Dilla time signatures [02:18.34]It's miracle material, remember it's right now foreverness