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Talib Kweli
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What we have here
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Is the alpha and the omega
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I spit it, bare witness to the greatest
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And the latest, they try to hate us
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Witness the evolution of spitting, it's wicked and it's decadent
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Revolutions per minutes, every time the record spin
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Retribution for cynics, like a stick-up kid with weapons
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In Brooklyn, they say I run it, the 'Natti is checking in
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No matter the terminology, blood splatter artistically
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It's looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, it's a mystery
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Really should be brothers united against the industry
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The African diaspora scatter with shattered history
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The game missing me, rap is so repetitive
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Although I ain't your blood or your cuz, it's all relative
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I got a gang of rhymes, and Tones' beats is banging
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We moving through the streets like we're slanging dimes
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It's magical, how the track's so classical
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The cats who got gassed up in their sweats like Plaxico
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I'm back from my sabbatical, voice of the future, black radical
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Keeping all the damages collateral
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Listening to instrumentals
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Thinking about all the things I've been through
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The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window
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It's so high tech and it's all so simple
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And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
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Even if I get down, I don't lay down
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Hey yo, I'm taking all bets and settling all debts
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A giant leap for man begins with a small step
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From a sword to a set, to my people on the picket line
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Who's sicking of getting treated like them aliens in District 9
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I juxtapose my business model with my spirit
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What I'm just supposed to keep you comfortable with the lyrics?
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I know the flow's disturbing, I know for certain just because
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You know all about the artist don't mean you know the person
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You don't know me, I run labels
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These unstable rappers so phony
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I try to listen but they're boring as missionary position
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So I'm shitting on these niggas like dysentery conditions
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I'm sitting on the throne, you dreaming that it's empty soon
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Nobody feeling you, you're screaming in an empty room
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The tree that fall in the forest, nobody hearing you
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Even though you fall the hardest, don't get me started
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Listening to instrumentals
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Thinking about all the things I've been through
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The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window
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It's so high tech and it's all so simple
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And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
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Even if I get down, I don't lay down
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Yo, I build up my defenses when I'm left to my devices
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Time gets suspended, more than DMX's driver's license
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My music's steady, not affected by the higher prices
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People having sex in the streets like Dionysus
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You know what my advice is? Fuck my advice, live your life
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Stop tripping like everything amount to crisis
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I make the sacrifices, my history is black as ice is
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I don't think that I can trust you if you're lacking vices
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I never miss a beat, the liquor make me slurred, it takes my words
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Tries to twist them like a Swisher Sweet with sticky herbs
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American History X, your teeth'll hit the curb
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It's easy 'cause I'm ill with the wordplay, I still flip the bird
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Like Jeezy, strip it down, now it's exposed
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I suppose my flow is the emperor's new clothes
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Although I'm always by myself, I never ride alone
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The music is on then I'm right at home, zoning
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Listening to instrumentals
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Thinking about all the things I've been through
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The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window
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It's so high tech and it's all so simple
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And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
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Even if I get down, I don't lay down
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
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Yeah, it's pavement
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Don't be scared to think, man, don't be scared
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I know whats in your brain
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It's scary, man, you only usin' like ten percent
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The other ninety percent is scary, man
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But don't be scared, scary ass niggas
Talib Kweli - Get By
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