I Try, Pt. 2
Talib Kweli lyrics
Talib Kweli lyrics
"Chaos Lyrics"
Out A Touch Lyrics
I've seen your picture in the paper, on the front page of magazines I pulled the trigger right at you on Billboards movie screens When I talk it's to myself, 'cos I know your kind just like everyone else Maybe it'll work itself out in time, before I lose my mind You, you're out-a-touch, all alone in the danger zone and I think too much You're out-a-touch I keep your letters by the mirror, you're the subject of every dream You're not so invincible and I'm not what I might seem When I look it's in your eyes, and I know your look, you can hypnotize How long does it have to last like this, a kodachrome kiss You, you're out-a-touch, all alone
I've seen your picture in the paper, on the front page of magazines I pulled the trigger right at you on Billboards movie screens When I talk it's to myself, 'cos I know your kind just like everyone else Maybe it'll work itself out in time, before I lose my mind You, you're out-a-touch, all alone in the danger zone and I think too much You're out-a-touch I keep your letters by the mirror, you're the subject of every dream You're not so invincible and I'm not what I might seem When I look it's in your eyes, and I know your look, you can hypnotize How long does it have to last like this, a kodachrome kiss You, you're out-a-touch, all alone
[Talib Kweli]
We your rhyme sayerswe lead you like a beacon
of lightout of the chaoscuttin down overzealous
players who starewe're the winners of the game
Walk in we'l preparedclimbin the stairways
to heaven while you scared of the people livin under
ground heard the sound of the clapmade you wonder
If it was a gunthe crowdor some thunder
All of that was out my window when I was younger
Now I'm much older, lyrical clap MC's
If you don't know by now, let me aquaint you with my steez
(C'mon) I don't get on stage and waste your time
Niggaz got a lot to say but they just can't rhyme
They just babies, I snatch em out they incubators
Attach them to respirators, they breathin hard like Darth Vader
Hard as candy and suck like Now or Laters
After a while your style's tasteless and it GOT NO FLAVOR
[Bahamadia]
Projects my eyesights to the heavens like dead or wise sages
Release what I hold save it through my book of rhyme pages
Scripts be ageless, like scrolls from dead sea
The cadence off and on like the motion of Tai Chi
Ba-ha-ma-D, wor-dy, to Reflect, Eternally
Science to a remedy to help and get my people free, but
Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong Come and love your daddy all night long All right now, hey hey, all right See the girl with the diamond ring She knows how to shake that thing All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey Tell your mama, tell your pa I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right Aw, play it boy When you see me in misery Come on baby, see about me Now yeah, all right, all right, aw play it, boy When you see me in misery Come on baby, see about me Now yeah, hey hey, all right See the girl with the red dress on She can do the
little support, got my thesis on freeze
My only option's doin bootlegs for the Japanese
Get about eight G's, a heavy buzz overseas
Sacrifice a pill to mainstream and do what I believe, cause
down to the chromosomes I'm a purist to this artform
Enlighten who I touch and let the world catch on
[Talib Kweli + Bahamadia]
Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you like a beacon
of light, out of the chaos, cuttin down overzealous
players who stare, we're the winners of the game
Walk in well prepared, climbin the stairways
to heaven while you scared of the people livin under-
-ground heard the sound of the clap, made you wonder
If it was a gun, the crowd, or some thunder
All of that was out my window when I was younger
[Bahamadia]
Oppose for the nine, how no content sections of the earth
Walkin vexed, out of my sticks, laced on every verse
My cells begin to peak at least a hundred thousand hertz
Meanin my joint's prevalent in Fat Beats and Footworks
I cater to these markets first, cause they gravitate to me
And appreciate the vision of what I do musically
[Talib Kweli]
Mmm, mmmm, mmmm,
Feel the Pain Lyrics
I feel I'm a threat to high powered MC's Cause when I roll up on their live shows they kinda freeze From being approached by The Genius of rap Whose poetry makes hands on a clock clap You see, I be coming with strong rhymes galore That even a stubborn MC can't ignore That trying to defeat me brings about danger Like a child speaking to a stranger Soft MC's, I see more and more With an ancient style, the prehistoric bore Yes, they scream and roar until their throat get sore Now they're running to the neighborhood drug store To buy the cough drop for what? The wrong hip hop Now they swear they're on the good ship lollipop But it's a swe
mmm!!I feel I'm a threat to high powered MC's Cause when I roll up on their live shows they kinda freeze From being approached by The Genius of rap Whose poetry makes hands on a clock clap You see, I be coming with strong rhymes galore That even a stubborn MC can't ignore That trying to defeat me brings about danger Like a child speaking to a stranger Soft MC's, I see more and more With an ancient style, the prehistoric bore Yes, they scream and roar until their throat get sore Now they're running to the neighborhood drug store To buy the cough drop for what? The wrong hip hop Now they swear they're on the good ship lollipop But it's a swe
I walked in and they stared, see how they screwin me
Break you down, til you ain't the man you used to be
Domination of my jurisdiction, people's addiction to lies
It blurs the lines between the fact and fiction
Now we back omission, I fix your face for you, keep yappin
You start to hate the man in the mirror like Michael Jackson
[Bahamadia]
Majors they try to hold me captive but mine are figure factions
But the foundation of hip-hop hold my braincells for ransom
I chance none, fuck them spots on charts and number one
If it's meant, then I'll accept it gracious when the time comes
This grassrooted curriculum, got me sprung like twisted ankles
Experience is missable, so I approach it from all angles and
inject some substance deep inside of rap's core
Take an MC and back to where it was before
[Talib Kweli]
Call us Liberty like the Bell of Philadelphia scenery
Me and Bahama-D, style free like Mumia need to be
Seein me, feelin me, we right here on the level
Turnin hardrocks to pebbles, exposin the devil
Lyrical olympian like John Carlos winnin gold medal
Take that bass out yyour voice you talk to me in treble
<br /> I'm _Serious_ as Steady B so you know I ain't playin
I'm stimulatin, makin crowds MOVE like organizations in Philly
Keep it positive, my prerogative is exercise
See through the chaos with my third eye
Word I exhibit the exquitiness, since a child I was vivid
Throw your hands in the air if you with it, dig it
[Talib Kweli + Bahamadia]
Yeah, we your rhyme sayers, who lead you like a beacon
of light, out of the chaos, cuttin down overzealous
players who stare, we're the winners of the game
Walk in well prepared, climbin the stairways
to heaven while you scared of the people livin under-
-ground heard the sound of the clap, made you wonder
If it was a gun, the crowd, or some thunder
All of that was out my window when I was younger
[Talib Kweli]
Seven-eighteen, to five-one-three
We meet at two-one-five
Reflection Eternal, Bahamadia, yes yes
[Xzibit]
Yo listen the fuck up y'all
It's Mr. X to the Z Xzibit
Broadcastin with the home grown
That's right, they straight out of my backyard
The Beat Junkies, on Rawkus Records understand me?
It's Soundbombing 2!