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[Talib Kweli]
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Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what
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Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what (yeah)
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Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what (yeah, what, yeah, uh)
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Pack your cannons we outlandishly brandish the weapons
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Meet Jamaican like you god {U-god?} and 'em handing you lessons
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We learn a lot from the 60's like glaring 13 necks
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Mainly the niggaz get shot for flaring out their larynx
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And get to speakin' on a conditions of black people
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that's illegal they enforce it with the force that's lethal
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make you wanna grab a gun and throw the all black gear on
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head to congress exercising your constitutional right to bear arms
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leather jackets and glasses and you can tell it's us
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the FBI probably bust a nut if we self destruct
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call it militant but ain't nobody killing Barry {Goldwater}
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you can't be militant if you ain't got no military
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but it's still a very powerful word
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picture some niggaz with guns, got 'em very disturbed, word
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now-a-days you could get shot for a cheap necklace
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back then my people bust shots for the free breakfast
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[Hook]
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now before you see God, or stand before Allah
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you could learn from the stars that fall outta the sky
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everybody act hard, like they got no regard
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so we mourn falling stars, they still living all hard
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(we still here, word)
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this is for Medgar Evers, Martin, and my brother Malcom
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sometimes we be sittin and wishing for another outcome
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my head be spinning, it be full of why's and the how come's
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the value of life is so cheap if your skin ain't talcum
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we need leaders, we looking at entertainers
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it's about the cash, so we respect the biggest gainers
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niggaz get paid then they run away from the community
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that ain't gangsta nigga, you the opposite of Huey P
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don't be confusing me with haters, player
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get your paper, just show respect to the folks who made you (yeah)
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blessed by the creator so give money nigga
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just don't bring a plate of food around a hungry nigga
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out on these streets the police is killing
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I'm spilling out my heart on these beats so I can feed my children (yeah)
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disrespect and I'm a give you a bar to save your life
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because we don't need no more fallen stars
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[Hook]
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stalk the stage with the pride of the panther
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hands off Asada and the blood of a dance floor
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word, rock on, throw the Tupac on
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he's not gone, you hear his influence in pop songs
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shine brighter than those Vegas lights
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illuminating that Vegas night to the party after the fight
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'til the gunshots disturb the peace like Luda
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too bad he ain't a white chick in Aruba
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they'd have a whole department dedicated to finding the killer
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you'd see Afeni Shakur on Larry King, and motherfucking Dennis Miller
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word, Bill O'Reilly would be flapping his gums
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how much respect do they have for my people?
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actually none
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you either do the nigga packing a gun who hate niggaz
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even though every time he pass a mirror he staring at one
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my man stressed 'cause of lack of funds
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this the type of shit that make you wanna drown your liver
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and blacken your lungs
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[Hook] x3
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[spoken]
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now of course this was inspired by Tupac Shakur
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Eazy-E, still here (still here)
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my man Justo (still here)
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Big L (still here)
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Big Pun (still here)
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I'm from Brooklyn, you know what I'm saying
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Brooklyn know a lot about tragedy
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we lost our Big Poppa and our baby girl
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that was our whole world, yo (still here)
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this is for our fallen stars
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inspired by the poets, revolutionaries, and activists
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from the generation before us
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come and do our thing on this microphone
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when else in the history of this country
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can a black man get on the microphone
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and say whatever the hell he wanna say?
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it's a lot of responsibility
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but we standing on the shoulders of our ancestors
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so I bear that burden, throw it on my back
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