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(featuring Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Mos Def & Talib Kweli)
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[Mos Def]
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History
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Shoutin' it every day y'all (right now)
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Everyday (right now)
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Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!)
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Listen
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Brooklyn wins again
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It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, dem niggaz again
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Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and that's 'sta on the guest lock
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Kanye, you're the dope man in hip hop, now let's rock
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Now roll out niggaz, my hometown niggaz
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I get it good in your hood so slow down niggaz
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Watch the speed though, man, you better let ease off
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A street talk into a collision course with these walls - bam!
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They don't move, don't pray, don't lose, don't sleep
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Light passin', light fashion, light pappers that pass part a gun
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Black hands up ??
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Black guns up ??
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Dyin' wish is to touch the air
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Seekin' heaven that wasn't here
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Eyes will not see another year
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It's another day
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It's the same fight
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Dip around, sound the bell
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Mix it up and ?? where you live it up the beat
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And get risen up you're knocked down get it back and get it up
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Get off of queer street and get with us
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And get clear where we did it
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From the heart, from the people
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From the top, from the jeep
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From the gut, from the street
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From my soul to the mic to the essence
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Say in my absence you feel the presence, exactly
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I make contact with shorter emcee
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Me and mine we don't just get by
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We get free and that's ready [Mos -- nigga]
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[Jay-Z]
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Just to get by
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Nigga I sold coke, nigga I pushed lah
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Carried a fo'five
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Claimed I was ready to die
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Promised never to cry
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Held it all inside
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Reality was too much to take so I
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Kept my mind fry
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Slimmed for most of mine
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Soon as I closed my eyes
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Then I woke up behind
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Nigga either I load up these nines
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Or blow up with rhymes
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Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca
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And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
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Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein your moms
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Doin five dollars worth to work just to get a dime
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So pardon my disposition
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Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
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Picture me working McDonald's
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I'd rather pull a mac on you
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Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin
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[Kanye West]
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It's on I'm packin weight like nina simone
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Piano flow
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It's like a Michaelangelo paintin' a portrait of Maya Angelou
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And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote
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If music get's you choked up this is the treat anaerobe
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This is shy nigga I mista all of that
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Fuck a mattress, put this bitch on the almanac
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Dice what they hittin' for, 'lax what you sittin' on
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Tracks who you spittin on, rap till we get it on
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And don't let nobody with the power to sign
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Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme
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They used to tell me toughen up
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Put some bass in your voice
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They used to tell me lighten up
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Put some mase in your voice
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Lord willin' I ain't kill nobody
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But I have a feelin' this album
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That I'm gonna make a killin'
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Well now that's chillin'
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This is love it or hate it music
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But, at least we made it music
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And we didn't make it industry
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This is gon' be interesting
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This'll be the end of me or I'm ??? on be an entity
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Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli
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We are not makin' songs no more
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We're makin' history
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[background singers]
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This morning I woke up
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Feelin brand new, I jumped up
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Feelin my highs and my lows
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In my soul, and my goals
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Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin
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But I been thinkin I got my reasons
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Just to get (by), just to get (by)
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Just to get (by), just to get (by)
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[background singers repeat in the background]
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
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[Talib Kweli]
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Just to get by, just to get by
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Just to get by, just to get by
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[background singers]
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
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[Talib Kweli]
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Just to get by, just to get by
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Just to get by
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We keep it gangsta, stay 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy'
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To set the tide to the violence on the TV during the war
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Killin each other is easy, there's war and liquor for fallen niggaz Believe
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Me, it's ghetto love, I bet you seen it all befo'
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Just to get by, my people we get fly
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My people we get high, fillin cigars with the lah
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Nigga come on, even Jesus was stoned before receivin' the throne
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I said to rest in peace to Nina Simone
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[Busta Rhymes]
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Back in the days we was used to doin the shit
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I can't call it all in the streets
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We was hustlin fiends that asked for it
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I guess I was used to just standin on corners
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Waitin for paper bags with bundles of crack
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Hopin the week was good so I could get money back
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To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
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When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength
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That made me angry and bleed
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With the frustration havin me smokin Newports and weed
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To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
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Those be the times when I try to rely
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On my niggaz and street motherfuckers
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And reach out to wifey and then I place a call on my mother
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To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
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(Hey yo mom pick up the phone, I g- I gotta to talk to you ma)
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If you was five percent instead of actin stupid and guessin
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You had to go and study your lessons
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And know your math in the building recession to get by
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[Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers]
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This morning I woke up
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Feelin brand new, I jumped up
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Feelin my highs and my lows
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In my soul, and my goals
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Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin
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But I been thinkin I got my reasons
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Just to get (by), just to get (by)
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Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye)
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[background singers repeat in the background]
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
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Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
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[Talib Kweli]
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Some people try
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Some people try just to get by
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For my piece of the pie
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You love to eat and be high
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We deceive and we lie
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And we keepin' it fly - yo yo yo yo yo
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People ???
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Keeper of the skies
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Can't see your eyes
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See the evil inside
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The best people you find
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Stronger people in mind
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I stay readin' the signs
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Yo-yo-yo-yo yo
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[repeat]
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