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Mos Def
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Yo I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin'
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Middle Passages, I can't go back again
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Battlin' years of denyin' history, lies and mysteries
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Wives with misty eyes watchin' their niggas be beaten viciously
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Battle in the wilderness of North America
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Ran by the river, only stoppin' to pray
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Chased by predators
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Terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their president
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Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent
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Ain't no hesitation involved, a nation dissolved
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While we sit back waitin' to evolve
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Those who would trade in their freedom
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For their protection deserve neither
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Fuck a name, fuck tradition
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Religion, you learn Jesus
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Turn the other cheek
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Inherit the Earth, just stay meek
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Fuck the way you speak
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Try to walk, we chop off your feet
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Fast forward to 2003, niggas beef
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The psychology of children are slaves to run deep
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Hell yeah, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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What's beef? hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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That's beef, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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It's always your own peoples
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Sometimes it's your own peoples yo
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Yeah yeah, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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What's beef? hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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That's beef, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo
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It's always your own peoples
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Sometimes it's your own peoples yo
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas
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Beef is when workin' niggas can't find jobs
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So they tryna find niggas to rob
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Tryna find bigger guns so they can finish the job
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Beef is when the crack kids can't find moms
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Cause they end up inna pine box or locked behind bars
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Beef ain't the Summer Jam for Hot 97
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Beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic
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Beef don't come with a radio edit
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Beef is when the judge is callin' you "defendant"
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Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence
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Handed down to you in a few short minutes
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Beef is when your girl come through for a visit
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Talkin' bout "I'm pregnant by some other nigga"
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Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit
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Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to get it
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And all your little kids is doin' is gettin' bigger
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You tryin' not to raise 'em around these wild niggas
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Beef is when a gold digger got ya seat and a
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A manicured hand out like "pay me nigga"
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Or I'm tellin' your wife
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Or startin' up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life
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Beef is when a gangster ain't doin' it right
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Another gangster then decided what to do with his life
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Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic
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Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight
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Yeah, beef is not what Ja said to 50
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Beef is more than Irv not bein' here with me
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When a soldier ends his life with his own gun
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Beef is tryin' to figure out what to tell his son
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Beef is oil prices and geopolitics
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Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip
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Some beef is big and some beef is small
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But what y'all call beef is not beef at all
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Beef is real life happenin' everyday
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And it's realer than them songs that you get at Kay Slay
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This has been a Black Star P-S-A
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From Mos Def, Pretty Flocko, black Dante
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And the Black Star embassy, B to the K
MOS DEF - a fan of DOOM
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