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Mos Def
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You say one for the trebble, two for the time
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Come on y'all let's rock this!
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You say one for the trebble, two for the time
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Come on!
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Speech is my hammer, bang the world into shape
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Now let it fall... (hungh!!)
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My restlessness is my nemesis
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It's hard to really chill and sit still
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Committed to page, I write rhymes
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Sometimes won't finish for days
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Scrutinize my literature, from the large to the miniature
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I mathematically add-minister
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Subtract the wack
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Selector, wheel it back, I'm feeling that
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(ha ha ha) from the core to the perimeter black,
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You know the motto
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Stay fluid even in staccato
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(mos def) full blooded, full throttle
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Breathe deep inside the trunk hollow
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There's the hum, young man where you from
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Brooklyn number one
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Native son, speaking in the native tongue
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I got my eyes on tomorrow (there it is)
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While you still try to follow where it is
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I'm on the ave where it lives and dies
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Violently, silently
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Shine so vibrantly that eyes squint to catch a glimpse
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Embrace the bass with my dark ink fingertips
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Used to speak the king's english
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But caught a rash on my lips
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So now my chat just like dis
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Long range from the base-line (switch)
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Move like an apparition
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Float to the ground with ammuntion (chi-chi-chi-pow)
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Move from the gate, voice cued on your tape
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Putting food on your plate
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Many crews can relate
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Who choosing your fate (yo)
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We went from picking cotton
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To chain gang line chopping
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To be-bopping
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To hip-hopping
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Blues people got the blue chip stock option
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Invisible man, got the whole world watching
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(where ya at) I'm high, low, east, west,
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All over your map
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I'm getting big props, with this thing called hip hop
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Where you can either get paid or get shot
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When your product in stock
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The fair-weather friends flock
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When your chart position drop
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Then the phone calls....
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Chill for a minute
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Let's see whoelse tops
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Snatch your shelf spot
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Don't gas yourself ock
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The industry just a better built cell block
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A long way from the shell tops
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And the bells that l rocked (rock, rock, rock, rock...)
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*scratching*
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Hip hop is prosecution evidence
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The out of court settlement
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Ad space for liquor
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Sick without benefits (hungh!)
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Luxury tenements choking the skyline
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It's low life getting tree-top high
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Here there's a back water remedy
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Bitter and tender memory
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A class e felony
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Facing the death penalty (hungh!)
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Stimulant and sedative, original repetitive
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Violently competitive, a school unacredited
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The break beats you get broken with
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On time and inappropriate
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Hip hop went from selling crack to smoking it
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Medicine for loneliness
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Remind me of thelonius and dizzy
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Propers to b-boys getting busy
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The war-time snap shot
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The working man's jack-pot
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A two dollar snack box
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Sold beneath the crack spot
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Olympic spnosor of the black glock
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Gold medalist in the back shot
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From the sovereign state of the have-nots
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Where farmers have trouble with cash crops (woooo)
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It's all city like phase two
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Hip hop will simply amaze you
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Craze you, pay you
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Do whatever you say do
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But black, it can't save you
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