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Talib Kweli
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Remember, whatever discipline you're in
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Whether you're a musician or a photographer
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A fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer
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A singer, a designer "” whatever you do
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You have one thing that's unique
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You have the ability to make art. Sometimes life is hard
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Things go wrong "” in life and in love
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And in business and in friendship and in health
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And when things get tough, this is what you should do
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Make good art
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This about to be the realest shit you ever heard
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I lynch rappers, got them hanging on my every word
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These bitch rappers be claiming they slinging heavy word
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Really snitch rappers, niggas singing like every bird
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Rich rappers, nah, I don't know them niggas
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Niggas don't get rich rapping, they selling clothes or liquor
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My flow is sicker cause I flow with vigor
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I'm no beginner, peep the whole agenda
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Control my center cause I gravitate with Gravitas
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This my inner monologue
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Burning down your party cause our cocktails is molotov
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My crime mob make you stop, lock and drop, don't get wollywop'd
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Actually battery in my back like a copper top
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Got it popping, started on the B-side of Body Rock
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Direct to fan, I'm running my shop like my mom and pop
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Modern day slavery today to be an artist, watch
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They treat them like a product and try to mount like a hot ' tot
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Molly pop, niggas not caring if they body rot
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Partying like Mardi Gras, get the cream like Häagen-Dazs
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Golly gosh, this is Utopia, cornucopia
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I'm known to start revolts against the Romans like Zenobia
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Hoping to keep coping copious amounts of opiates
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Tried to start a union, but they blocked me like a Soviet
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I hope they get it, I'm sick of explaining history
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I'm rolling with a circle of winners, we claimin' victories
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It ain't a mystery, the hate'll make it bittersweet
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They hate when I engage to debate 'em like Wale's Twitter feed
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Who I'm kidding? I'm the great debater
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My crew stay winning, we stay innovating
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Your circle is rotten as great tomatoes
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They get high with you then start dry snitching like Jose Canseco
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Prosecco, I'm sipping vino with a vivid hue
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Haberdasher rocking Borsalinos like Hasidic Jews
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Pitiful, rappers never stand up to the ridicule
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That's why I had to get at you
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Wear it if it fit the shoe, nigga
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(Baby, just shine your light
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If you've gotta dim yours, so they can shine brighter
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Just stay bright, so shine your light)
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We're in a transitional world right now because
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The nature of distribution is changing
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The distribution channels that people have built
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Over the last century or so are in flux
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The print, the visual artist, the musicians
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which on the one hand intimidating and on the other
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Immensely liberating. The rules, the assumptions
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The now-we're-supposed-tos of how you get your
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Work seen and what you do then, they're breaking down
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The gatekeepers are leaving their gates
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You can be as creative as you need to be to get your work seen
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The old rules are crumbling. And nobody knows what the new rules are
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So make up your own rules
Talib Kweli - Get By
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