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Talib Kweli
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The temperature got tempers flaring people sweat when the weather hot
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They argue and they fret a lot then set up the plot
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To whet up the block
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Whether or not the blood is red up in the gutter
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Music is my bread and butter
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I got a show in Brooklyn cause the ghetto love us
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Pulled up in Mtulu's truck I'm suited up I'm cool as fuck
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Security tripping on my baseball hat promoter knew what's up
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Plus Chaps had on some denim shorts and white tee shirt and
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I told the bouncer they being disrespectful 'cause like you we working
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I ain't a custy or a patron and trust me no one would be paying
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To come in this crusty ass club if I wasn't playing
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He's like "I'll put you the fuck out"
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And when you put your word like that its like third strike black you struck out
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His man tried to rush me from behind Chaps stuck out a size nine
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Seen him trip face first into the line
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Cats is cowards with no spine and they power tripping too
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The next level is the violence so what why'all niggaz want to
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[Chorus:]
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Work it out
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We should try to work it out
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People lie, people cry, people die to work it out
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Read the book, pray to god
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Look inside to work it out
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We should try to work it out
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Yo what why'all ladies want to do
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Work it out
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To get fly she work it out
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People lie, people cry, people die to work it out
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Read the book, pray to god
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Look inside to work it out
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Show the love
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Lose the hate
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Work it out
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Work it out
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People placed in situations they can't take and what they facing
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Is the trials and tribulations to make them say the Lord's forsaken them
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Their loved ones intervening but they always blaming them
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For problems they don't realize what they part is in creating them
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Like men who so insecure think they women cheating on them
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And women who think the proof that they man love them is they beating on them
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Keep sleeping on them soon they partner creeping on them
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Committing crimes of passion they in caskets mother weeping on them
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With her head in her hands
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There's only one thing that the dead understand that it's better to be alive
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Now what you gonna do stick your head in the sand
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You probably the type to fall for anything and take that instead of a stand
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Now that's a mouse instead of a man
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I cherish my role as the head of my fam
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And on the road I meet incredible fans
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I rock with singers an a DJ instead of a band we at a theatre near you
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So what why'all niggaz want to do
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[Chorus:]
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Stay civilized when they try to kill my high I try to think through problems
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Bring honesty to rap like Cam'ron brought the pink to Harlem
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You could be on the brink to stardom and suddenly you sink to bottom
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Tell the truth about the war and suddenly you linked Saddam
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Hate the topic but the closet people get to patriotic
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Is red bull white vodka mixed with the straight hypnotic
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Paper prophets sell the revolution so they make a profit
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Trust they got it fucked up with your taxes started making rockets
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Take it off the top like politicians speaking proper diction
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Stuffing dollars in they britches like they do a lotta stripping
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Got the top position bitching about the quality of life
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All that bullshit get exposed as soon as Kweli sees the mic
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They cutting down the tree of life the sun rays is running out
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The babies ain't eating right so the guns keep coming out
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See how they play the streets an night slap the taste out your mouth
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To show you what they work about
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So what why'all niggaz want to do
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[Chorus:]
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