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o.G
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Let's go
Bismillah
Welcome to the Black Star
Joy and Pain, coin of the realm, both sides
Racks
Such powerful current could make tears touch the eyes
Facts
Grace and every morning God opened up mine aligned, Hamdulillah
We all on notice that any next moment could be the last time you stand on this side
Slow down son you're killing em but only the phony because the real don't die
On god
All good for all hoods and palaces
Poised throughout triumphs or challenges
Top rank duppy conqueror skank,
And the balance don't break for any large or small bank balances
The parable of the talented, each generation the wonders and the wealth of all nations is really chump change once you take into consideration
The living revelation that no soul could escape from
So go on let a sucka say something
Cuz even when they saying something they ain't saying much
I refrain from retorts and just pray for em
Stay away from em roll thru or rise rays on em
Bang! Shine like gamma Bey on em
Shalillah live from Bedford Stuyvesant the livest one the king said "uh"
And even when we die we will not stay dead and I said what I said so there it is
The light is not afraid of the dark at all
That part Black Star
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
That time is relative and the truth is everlasting
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
That time is relative cuz the truth is everlasting
thats on god
Black star embassy setting it on fire
Getting paid independent like cinema noveau
Logging these travels in my journal like Robinson Crusoe
Nom de plume no Daniel Defoe encyclopedia brittanica flow,
The gravity to pull a planet straight insanity that Buss open your canteloupe flow
We the lions where the antelope roam
Brooklyn botanical gardens had stick up artists with they hands in they coat
Give up to goods or they hand on your throats that’s all she wrote
But now we woke right I’m making it plain I talk to em
Dissecting all the doors of perception I walk thru them
They think I’m arguing I’m not talking to Em I talk thru em
Way too many garbage humans they raw sewage
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
We gon bash us some fascists and fuck them up
This the Parable of the talented powerful is the caliber
Birthday is a holiday mark it down on your calendars
YouTube they feeding us thru a catheter
Bout to holla at yasiin and move to Africa
Spectacular bars assassinate your character brooklyn got the best rappers per capita
No lies detected
You pull it out you better fire the weapon
measure influence by the lives affected, writing records getting high for breakfast
crash by lunch but I’ll survive the wreckage
By dinner time I was aligned cuz I received the message
Heeded the lesson cuz I needed a blessing
Gave up the glory, the liars and thieves made up a story
I Stood up for the people I ain’t wait til they came for me
Solidarity and that’s on god
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
That time is relative and the truth is everlasting
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
That time is relative cuz the truth is everlasting
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So be it
04:08
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[Intro: Yasiin Bey]
Haha
Bey
Bey
Bey
Yasiin, Yasiin, Yasiin
[Verse 1: Yasiin Bey]
Sharper than a straight razor shave
Cooler than the steel, I put the blade to a point
It's worldwide currency, they wishing well coins
It's high fidelity, bang, they speaker leak noise
And not at Chuck D level, y'all at petite level
Have gun do travel spread love beat devils
Walk soft and carry the cro magnum
Science club will smash them to soft brainy fragments?
Breathe fire, spit smoke, blow away ashes
Smarten up, dumbass, this ain't bum class
Atmosphere above that, you can't touch that
Rеal, forever real, thеy could hate it or love that
It's bigger than hip-hop, hypes, and wicked government
Brooklyn award-winning, and not-give-a-f*ckingest?
You in it for the most sucker-ish, dummiest
No getting love in this, some real riders up in this beyotch
Dudes more bitch than bitch Reeboks
They arms can't box the Bey seven three ahks?
These dudes dope and this detox
Turkey wing clean up your act, you wack like crack, ha
I been a lot and I will never be that
I got the right and exact and a trap for the rats
The liars and the saps, the posers and the hacks
Land mine, mainline, your spine goes snap, Bey
Vanglorious, phantasmagoria
Crack-panned all y'all? each and every all of you
Whoever you can call, then you better start calling 'em
Then call the coroner, white drapes for all of you's
Greatest ain't greater than, strongest ain't strong enough
Biggest ain't bigger than a real small portion of
The legendary trillatary top rank officer
Get lost, big boss, this boss is bossier
Chip on your shoulder, I'ma knock it right off you
Bey, torpedo, blast smash the ego
Sniper on the range, sniper bang 'nuff, reload
RPG to get free power people, brrap
One clip and they evil, done with
Talking like they want trouble and really want ****
They probably wanna trick like a skier on the strip
Get money in your midst snuff a b*tch? (Hey) kill a pimp
Loudmouth rhetoricals and ain't said *
You can talk 'til you die and you ain't said this
Unless you repeating the phrase of y'all beesiest?
Seventeen verse of the twenty-fifth Ezekiel
Lethal, let us pray 'fore they soldier these suckers
[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]
Aight, we back motherfucker
Yeah, January, February, marching with the people
'April, may I have a Black Star sequel?' said the black caucus
June, July, to black August
September to October you find me where Black Thought is
November when we come for that office
The black POTUS
The black lotus flower fall in December, go ask the weatherman
Colder than the winter wind, day after December 10
We celebrating Yasiin birthday
Brooklyn, New York City, that's the scene of my birthplace
I'm so on top of this bopping thru metropolitan frolicking with the populous topplin' all the charlatans
My songs acknowledge the heroes that need honoring
I promise we demolishing all Confederate monuments
I'm noticing how these Nazis become Congressmen
It's softer than some Moccasins and way faker than collagen
It doesn't matter if they scholars who got doctorates
Or hiding behind fake names like Tommy Robinson, I'm bombing 'em
Plus the sleeve is monogram if I die I'll come back and perform as a hologram
Can't tell if it's a boy or a girl, get a sonogram
My name is floating up and down the ave like dollar vans
Fam, my syrup is maple leaf
Eatin' falafel in Morocco Im packin' the straight hashish
In the pipe as I pass it I'm stabbing these fake emcees
So sharp I'm making 'em bleed, god half of them make believe
I come from a place of peace but they only respect the violence
You get arrested for domestic silence
Rappers is vampires, we the Lycans
Even the Vikings no match against attacks from the conquering lions
Bring it together like a hyphen, cuz liars testing my patience
Never stopping cuz my parents ain't never had a vacation
Relocating, looking at places along the ocean
Smoking trees under trees as shady as rap promoters, calamities
slash catastrophe, add an apostrophe, your whole philosophy is mediocrity
Atrocities committed in the name of owning property, monopolies
That's my hypotheses
[Outro]
Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin Amin
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TALIB
Chasity all locked up
Feelings linger but the finger all rocked up
I drop a jewel like your niece name
Breaking up all the bed frames til the police came
This the Black star liner like Marcus the cargo
Is All the star dust that we spark up
They say the target is the vegan chics w the tofu
It’s hard tho this the shit the gangstas smoke to
You taking up all the space that’s left in my heart
Now I'm Waking up to a world you breaking apart
You trust the papers they say I’m known for breaking the hearts
Has god forsaken us or cuz it’s worth it he’s making it hard
When we make love
You speak in colors you canvas I’m paintbrush
You get submissive but aggressive when you say something
Poking like a needle under skin when you take blood
These other chics man they faker than a lace front
The eyes is the window to the soul but it’s caked up
Sad face clowning but the cover it with make up
They keep hating cuz the good fortune favor us
You hear this beat it’s like this mufucka made for us
YASIIN
Perfect match duet
One said I'm too noble for simple love
Said the other have you ever been noble enough
But never mind clever fool I love you still
Just to feel your tender touch trying to crush my will
See it's the moments like these you remember to breathe
Forget the scenery and remember to flee
Forget the magic remember the sleeve
Soft cloaks and dangerous charms
And the truth too wide for the blinds to hide
Finding solace in the thought that the light is not afraid of the dark that part
The kids light a spark that's art
Don't be confused you won't put me to the screws
Bey do what Bey do
Beneath the sun and moon
Even what's fresh is nothing new feeling great
How are you
Sweet heart sweet heart sweet hard sweet odd sweat heart
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My favorite band
02:08
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Cocaine cracked devil honkytonk
Trailer park trash can trap house
Off top all black everything
Tmt fuck white supremacy
Mental illness
Bring the noise break the gentle stillness
The trap door an insidious cat call
Your equivalency is false no need for the back and forth
The belief you superior to the darker races
Just means you inferior and live in darker places
Gods amazing we artists this ain’t a product placement huh
Love is a spiritual technology
I give it up to god when they clap for me
I love to give credit where the credit due
It’s beautiful as the struggle faced by the destitute
We celebrate diversity with carnivals and festivals
Too big to fail,
I grab the bull by the horns and wag the dog by the tail
The OG’s is in jail and the millennials for sale
Am I dreaming or do our demons have tentacles and scales huh
5 White supremacy automatically gone against us huh
Your third eye is the point of entry huh
Automatic like a reply
From a hipster Automatic as the pointer sisters Huh
Try to conquer us with the pestilence huh
That’s as common as black excellence huh
They rewarded for mediocrity huh
I ain’t begging for my equality no
Automatic causing static
This a trust exercise Like falling backwards
Gotta trust we your guys and we gonna catch ya
I see the lust in your eyes for the rapture yup
Kweli - pass that pass that pass that pass that
Yasiin - Automatic, automatic, automatic,
Automatic, automatic automatic automatic
Huh automatic as an automatic ha
or automatic as a meditation ha
Automatic as a Trail of Tears ha
alright this way triumph feel huh (?)
The road so dark be the light ha
Said the light onto the dark road ha
The light is not afraid that part ha
Gang gang variation theme team ha
The local dream time always ha
The address on spectrum road aha
From the rivers of the true and real ha
(it's a trap I'm sure of it)
Sin sober sensation ah ha (?)
Sweating on a hot template ha
Tiny cell panaroma huh
Silencer of the clarion call huh
Wave forms and bird songs ah ha
Recognition is invitation ha (?)
Grace a gift you shouldn't earn ha (?)
Thanks again report to work huh
Not for free freedom huh
How you mean, ask yourself huh
Look to everything that you desire
Look at the condition that it's put you in ha
Do the honest math, pass the figures ha
Pass the fixers friendly neighbor ha (?)
Freshest labor, Mary's native huh (?)
Local time all ages
Forever is a current event (the future)
Life on this side is quick quick
(Im talking about now now)
Trade trick, sorcerer, insecure, synonym
Frankenstein trying to get it strange ha (?)
Ain't the source matter strange enough? Ha
I heard Dilla say turn it up! Ha
I heard him twice when he said it first
And that's automatic automatic automatic
Automatic Automatic
Everything is not for sale, everybody pays the price
Yasiin and Talib - Cocaine cracker devil honkytonk
Trailer park trash can trap house
Off top all black everything
TMT f**k white supremacy
TMT TMT TMT TMT TMT
TMT TMT TMT TMT TMT what's white supremacy
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Yonders
02:40
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Talib Verse
Shots fired
You say your block is like the wire I am not inspired
Real G try to stop the violence they not aspiring to live in Food desserts lacking proper diets
I start a riot every time I voice the unheard
Rhyming in the rough til the diamond got unearthed
Old earths like that boy got some nerve
White liberals feigning concern
We Born in killer hospitals with doctors who would abuse us
Carried box cutters there were other popular uses
At the hardware store a buck fifty went a long way
Fat caps for the krylon paint
Wait you feeling froggy then leap like amphibians
Evolutionary this apeshit you simian
Revolutionary and flyer than cloud city and
Superman to man wearing capes like calrissian
Toxic see how they marketing carcinogens
Got them African dancing like aunt Vivian
Jamaicans to Haitians Puerto Rican’s Dominicans
Trini’s and the Bajans cuz Brooklyn’s like the Caribbean
The Birds chirp I get it straight from the source now
Gentrification the neighbors is getting tossed out
My crew all city your name just get crossed out
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Supreme alchemy
02:13
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They're afraid his children will be like him, and if he's giving the white world hell, what will his children do? This wasn't no play thing. The motive is that the seed of a man chosen by God must not be wasted.
Runaway, that’s the plan live above the grave
None is safe, I see the pain on a mothers face
A ton of grace is what she showed as they took away
her first born, she didn’t break she didn’t look away
Because of race, they said her life wasn’t valuable
But that was fake they said her womb create capital
But that was rape, they say because she black that it’s impossible
To be racist but they assume that racism is logical
we know better we know meadows no rose petals
Hiding in the shadows like Wesley Snipes in Mo Betta
They play oppression olympics looking for gold medals
we don’t settle
You know a long time ago being crazy meant something, nowadays everybody's crazy
On... Keep On, Float On, No Fear Of Time
Float On... Float
Ladies and gentlemen, know what I'm saying?
A message from the ancient future, a fresh fossil
A piece of the buried gospel that the earth refused to swallow
A seed grown to a tall tree, long sleeves
Bright fruit leaning off the leaves, warm breeze
Live from the summit of the incline
And this is been everything beside a short ride
Marks of greatness, battle scars and bruises
Sceneries of clarity, classes of confusion
Live from the summit of the incline
And this has been everything besides a short climb
We done survived and thrived in what others have died in
Bed Stuy do or die, so do as what I did
Get it on git'r done, another one another one
Banging Madlibber drum, you could feel the difference
Where they get their rhythm from the tipping point T-O-P Black Star reconvene the boulevard or Van Green (?)
The Kings County keep creating kings, who make amazing and creative things
So give thanks for the elegant raw the elemental is sharp
God gave us the design and we assembled the Ark and just float
Nowadays everybody's crazy
On, Keep On, Float, On... no fear of time
Float On... Float, it was water then, but it's fire next, that's a promise not a threat
Everybody had to think about what was possible for a Black artist, you know, within the international, the mainstream scene, and uh, I mean that opening was there because of hiphop
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
Doors cracked open a little bit, the people downtown we're looking for some new energy and they were already feeling it from just the presence of kids from Brooklyn
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding, yea
Being downtown, being in the East Village, the had the same kind of impact that the jazz cats had
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
And they were coming with a new culture, a culture that was new, that was dynamic, that was sophisticated
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding, yea
The albums were theory books, they're guide books too
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding
When they were fourteen, fifteen, they grabbed onto this thing, so they learned all that material
I wanna thank you for helping me reach the understanding, yea
You know, I mean one of them things we know about MCs is man they just have phenomenal memories
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