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Talib Kweli
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Wooaahh! yeah
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On top of the world
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Yeah, that's how my seeds got me feeling' right now
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On top of the world
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Yeah, you ever felt like you could do anything, (Yeah)
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On top of the world
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I'ma hold y'all down for real, (Gotcha!)
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It was 1996, fourth of July, looking off in the sky
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Dealing with thoughts inside, when something caught my eye
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It was a silhouette of a beautiful woman, bright with life
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Carrying my first seed, looking like she gone bear fruit tonight
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We at the African street festival, and she walking around
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Talking about the midwife said, that bring the baby down
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I'm about to be a father, the sights and sounds,
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Seem brighter around me
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And for starters, I know I'ma work harder, word
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We got home at three in the morning, I was beat
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Them contractions started coming as soon as I fell asleep
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Three oh five, like every five minutes, then the water broke
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We on the go, yelling at the cabbie, cause he's sort of slow
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You know them hospitals all trying to get paid, no questions
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Hear come the doctor's with they drugs, trying to do see-sections
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But my baby stay's strong, in labor for yay long
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Eight-pound baby boy, to carry my name on, joy!
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[Chorus:]
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Huh, yeah
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I know how you feel, Kweli I know how you feel
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(That's the sound of joy)
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See my brother, I know how you feel, Kweli, I know how you feel
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(That's the sound of joy)
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So when you, have a seed, come in the world, say dog that shit's real
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(That's the sound of joy, y'all)
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Huh, Kweli, yo I know how you feel, Kweli, yo I know how you feel
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My baby girl
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June 10th, 1999, I been on the grind
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Since the birth of my son, it's been about, way more then rhymes
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Baby on the way, my lady glowing today, at least
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That's what the midwife said, on the phone
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Anyway, the music got me going away
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Like everyday, but it's a blessing, so I gotta have patience
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And she got pregnant on a Jamaican vacation
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So it's all good, this time well have the baby in a house
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I went the hospital route, I know what they all about (Never again)
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So I'm out on tour, in Baltimore
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Get the call around four, when the water hit the floor (Damn!)
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I gotta rock my show, but I gotta go
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Got second thoughts about her not going, to the hospital
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I left the show early, Mos held me down, good looking (No doubt)
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Call the car service, like, take me straight to Brooklyn (Uh huh)
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Got the news in the car, stayed sorta calm
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But I cried tears of joy,
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When they put my daughter in my arms, how precious!
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[Chorus:]
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I do it for the seeds y'all,
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In they formative years when they need y'all
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We gotta believe, in what we conceive y'all, it's deep y'all
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I give them the truth,
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So they approach the situation, with ammunition
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I keep nothing away,
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They hear everything, cause they know how to listen
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Teach them the game, so they know they position, so they can grow
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And make decisions, that change the world, and break old tradition
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They put kids in jail, for a life they ain't even get to start
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That's murder too, and it's breaking my heart,
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It's breaking our nation apart
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We gave the youth all the anger, it's just
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We ain't taught them, how to express it, and so it's dangerous
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You can't talk to them
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Unless your language is relating to what they going through
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So busy ignoring them, you can't see what they showing you
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And you wonder, why we called baby-daddy's and baby-momma's
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When we grow up, we can't act like adult mothers and fathers, yo
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I'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl,
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Everyday they bring joy to my world
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[Chorus:]
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I do it for the seeds y'all [Repeat x5]
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