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Talib Kweli
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Gravitas, light it up
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Lighten it up, brighten it up, yea
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You want the grown step your bars up
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You brag about the scrilla them killas lighten your cars up
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Welcome to the complete history of the one known as Talib Kweli
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Such a blessing, I'm making the bread leven
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Descendant of Terra Firma
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I'm from the era of legend
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The blind to my eyesight
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Too scared of the world ending
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My men of spiritual essence be walking right into heaven
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Ascending without the stairs, expressing without the fears
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We diamonds but our minds are corrupted just like De Beers
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Unravelling minds, travelling through time like langoliers
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Standing with the flow like the man in the gondolier
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In the park of Washington Square, locks in my hair
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Louder than the bull horns we was locking 'em there
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Cops would prepare to lock us up
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They was scared like tales from the dark side
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Summer of the Central Park five
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1989 was the number, the year that I started rhyming
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From Brooklyn to Staten Island them Decepticons was wildin'
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Music soothing but the imagery violent as bomb threats
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Therapy for the prison industrial complex
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Provided the context for the crime with the Tec nine
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At Brooklyn Tech I spit it the best so they had to respect mine
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I did it to death on my grind on a quest to get signed
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Sorta like the tribe would always suggest we check the rhyme
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An internal with Puff Daddy, in front of the buffed patio
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Rolling with Hi Tek in the MPV through the streets of the 'Nati
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Before graduating to Caddies was carrying crates
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Shoutout to Flex all day doing records with John Forte
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We was standing outside of Tower devouring prey
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Powerful display of bullet points that we shower and spray the block with
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Back in them salad days these rappers was appetizers
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I played it like I was David, I was tackling that Goliath
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Attacking the open mics to the victory was decisive
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This life it was so enticing, my surgery so precise
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I would chop it like thin slices at parties we politic
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At the country club, lighting up dutches with Pac and Big
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At the crib of supernatural battling back and forth
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Back before Jean was in the unsigned hype in the back of The Source
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Rest in peace to Allah's sons
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Shabba was liking to call you son
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'Cause you mine I call you son 'cause you shine
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What's up Alyasha, this is OG Brooklyn shit
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Not for impostors, pour out a shot of vodka for them
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Big L, Big Poppa, Big Pun, 2Pac
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The jungle is too savage, rap true master producing the new classic
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This shit is too classic it's blow to vacate to spinal tap
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I started with the Rawkus Recording we work the vinyl backwards
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From DEF JUX to Loaded Lux
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I'm the underground king like I'm rolling with Bun, the vets know what's up
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The flow is nuts it's solid I got the golden touch
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Plus my Iron Sheek and I got the game and the cobra clutch
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This the highest calibre do the algebra
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From Yasiin Bey to Jean Grey to Pharoahe Monch
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Black Thought to Common
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Almost 20 years after the release of Soundbombing
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And it still sounds timeless
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I'm out and on tour with the greatest, A Tribe Called Quest
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And the De La's, opened for Jay Z and Nas, who else could say this?
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In Vegas with Tech 9 getting faded before the gig
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Only later to hit the RIO and hop on the stage with Prince
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True story, I always knew the importance of great shows
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Since 1992 I seen Ice Cube play Toads, way cold
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Continue to pave the road for the Kendricks and J Coles
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Continue to stake gold
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From making the way for Kanye to meetings with Mr. Harry Belafonte
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All started on park benches with Dante
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Predicting the future, so observant I'm clairvoyant
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The frame can't contain it, I'm painting a rare portrait
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