Definition Chords by Black Star

[Chorus]
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Hello everybody they're calling live from somewhere
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Lawd lawd have mercy
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All nice and peace and true follow me now we say
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Say hitek yes you're ruling hiphop
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Say J Rawls yes you're ruling hiphop
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Redefinition say you're ruling hiphop
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Say Black Star come to rock it non


[Verse]
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Yo from the first to the last of it delivery is passionate
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The whole and not the half of it vocab and not the math of it
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Projectile that them blasted with accurate assassin shit
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Me and Kweli close like Bethlehem and Nazareth
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After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk
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Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin'
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Connected like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenaments
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'cause all my Brooklyn residents Heavy regiments
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Don't believe here the evidence where Brooklyn
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See that Bound to take it all kid believe that
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From where they sellin' tree at to where the police be at
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Talib Kweli ekwelity yo tell them where we be at
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Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie
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In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous life look pretty
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What a pity blunts is still fifty cents it's intense
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Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense
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My presence felt my name is Kweli from the eternal reflection
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People thinkin' mc is short hand for misconception
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Let me meditate set it straight came to the conclusion
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That most of these cats is featherweight let me demonstrate
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Walkin' the streets is like battlin' be careful with your body
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You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like sade
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Stop actin' like a bitch already be a visionary
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And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituaries
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Third rate teacher readin' and talkin about I knew he'd amount to nothin
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Neighbors like He was the quiet type who'd have thought they was frontin
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Talkin' loud like you in RCA get carted away
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With body parts and treys what a way to start your day
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Yo it's like
             
One two three


[Chorus]
                       
Mos Def and Talib Kweli


[Verse]
                                   
We came to rock it on to the tiptop
                       
Best alliance in hiphop
                    
I said one two three
                                    
It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
                          
They shot Tupac and Biggie
                           
Too much violence in hiphop
                                                             
I said Manhattan keep on makin' it Brooklyn keep on takin' it
                                                            
So relax we're takin' it back Red Hook where we're livin' at
                                                   
Plenty cats be strugglin' not hustlin' and bubblin'
                                                     
It ain't about production and what else we discussin'
                                                            
So when the cock crows my crop grows enable me to rock flows
                                                    
Strivin' for perfection ever since I was a snotnosed
                                   
Colossal true original bboy apostle
                                             
Standin' on the rooftop with the Zulu Gestapo
                      
You think you the shit
                                          
Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit
                              
It could be your crew or click
                                         
Or some random kid you smoked buddha with
                                                            
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
                                                   
Of spittin' the epitome of stupidity livin' my life
                                               
Expressin' my liberty it gotta be done properly
                                    
My name is in the middle of ekwelity
                                                  
People follow me and other cats they hear him flow
                                                           
And assume I'm the real one with the lyrics like I'm Cyrano
                                                    
Still sippin' wishin' well water imported from Pluto
                                                         
Three hundred and sixty milliliters for all our believers
                                                  
In miles or kilometers most cats cannot proceed us
                                                            
In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters
                                                           
A cypher will complete us if we come through your receivers
                                                               
You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us
                                 
Good Jesus Mos Def and Kweli just
                                               
Make a pussy freeze up thinkin' we will ease up


[Chorus]
             
One two three
                       
Mos Def and Talib Kweli
                                   
We came to rock it on to the tiptop
                       
Best alliance in hiphop
                    
I said one two three
                                    
It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
                          
They shot Tupac and Biggie
                                 
Hold your head when the beat drop


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