Talib Kweli Hi Tek lyrics
Talib Kweli Hi Tek lyrics
"Astronomy (8th Light) Lyrics"
Liquid Sovereignty Lyrics
[Chorus x 2] Rain Everyone wants to get out of the rain Wants to be free, wants to see no more pan We're guaranteed that the season will change 'Till then, I'm keeping sunshine on my brain When the drops hit my head they leave a stain Everyone wants to get out of the rain We cannot avoid nature's bleeding vein But I smile while it trickles down the rain Harvested love only comes after rain Even though it brings overwhelming strain It falls from all skies so I can't complain Without it, our growth would n
[Chorus x 2] Rain Everyone wants to get out of the rain Wants to be free, wants to see no more pan We're guaranteed that the season will change 'Till then, I'm keeping sunshine on my brain When the drops hit my head they leave a stain Everyone wants to get out of the rain We cannot avoid nature's bleeding vein But I smile while it trickles down the rain Harvested love only comes after rain Even though it brings overwhelming strain It falls from all skies so I can't complain Without it, our growth would n
F/ Mos Def
[Mos Def]
Against the canvas of the night
Appears a curious celestial phenomena
called Black Star, but what is it?
[Talib Kweli]
Black people unite and let's all get down
We got to have what?We got to have that love
[Mos Def]
What is the Black Star?
Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car?
Is it shinin from very far, to where you are?
It is commonplace and different
Intimate and distant
Fresher than an infant
[Talib Kweli]
Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses
Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses
Black is the color of my true love's hair
Star's are bright, shining, hot balls of air
[Mos Def]
Black like my baby girl's stare
Black like the veil that the muslimina wear
Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared?
Black like the slave ship that later brought us here
Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears
that leave black faces well traveled with years
Black like assassin crosshairs
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Sin Wagon Lyrics
He pushed me 'round Now I'm drawin' the line He lived his life Now I'm gonna go live mine I'm sick of wastin' my time Well now I've been good for way too long Found my red dress and I'm gonna throw it on 'Bout to get too far gone Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Need a little bit more of my twelve ounce nutrition One more helpin' of what I've been havin' I'm takin' my turn on the sin wagon On a mission to make something happen Feel like Deliah lookin' for Samson Do a little mattress dancin' That's right I said mattress dancin' Praise the Lord and pass the ammunit
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Blacker than my granddaddy armchairHe pushed me 'round Now I'm drawin' the line He lived his life Now I'm gonna go live mine I'm sick of wastin' my time Well now I've been good for way too long Found my red dress and I'm gonna throw it on 'Bout to get too far gone Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Need a little bit more of my twelve ounce nutrition One more helpin' of what I've been havin' I'm takin' my turn on the sin wagon On a mission to make something happen Feel like Deliah lookin' for Samson Do a little mattress dancin' That's right I said mattress dancin' Praise the Lord and pass the ammunit
He never really got no time to chill there
Cause this life is warfare, warfare
[Talib Kweli]
Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all there
Black like the perception of who, on welfare
Black like faces at the bottom of the well
I've been there before
To bring the light and heat it up like "la cocina"
Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer
I love rockin tracks like John Coltrane love Naema
[M] Like the student love the teacher
[T] Like the prophet love Khadeja
[M] Like I love my baby features
[A] Like the creator love all creatures
[Talib Kweli]
Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers
We on point like heat seekers
Targettin the black marketing strategists
Run up on em with the heaters
Everybody followin with no leaders
Feelin like we killin ourselves
because I know they can't defeat us
It don't stop til we complete this, keep this fly
There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God
[Mos Def]
Blacker than the nighttime sky
I See You Lyrics
(belew/rice) Only a week ago today I sat on a plane and flew away I see you everywhere i go I dropped my bag in the hotel hall I thought i heard your voice through the wall I see you everywhere i go The autobahn i ride I see your eyes on the signs ahead And as i sat beside the seine A boat went past and i saw you wave I see you everywhere i go When i went to sleep in japan I saw your face on the ceiling fan I see you everywhere i go Reminds me who i am A stranger in a stranger land When i went to sleep in japan I saw your face on the ceilin
f Bed-Stuy in July(belew/rice) Only a week ago today I sat on a plane and flew away I see you everywhere i go I dropped my bag in the hotel hall I thought i heard your voice through the wall I see you everywhere i go The autobahn i ride I see your eyes on the signs ahead And as i sat beside the seine A boat went past and i saw you wave I see you everywhere i go When i went to sleep in japan I saw your face on the ceiling fan I see you everywhere i go Reminds me who i am A stranger in a stranger land When i went to sleep in japan I saw your face on the ceilin
Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie
Blacker than the middle of my eye
Black like feh-lah man cry
Some man wan ask "Who am I?"
I simply reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic"
Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop
and tell it til the valley's enveloped
You're full of big chat but you nah know me
I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see
when the moon shine newly
[M] You know who else is a Black Star?(Who?)Me
[T] You know who else is a Black Star?(Who?)Me
[A] You know who else is a Black Star, who we?(And we)
[A] be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
We be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
[Mos Def]
Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[T] You know the light
[M] Go from the dark
[T] The other way is ass-backwards
[M] It's absurd
[T] Make you wanna crow like a blackbird
[M] That's right
Intro: Frogg Whoah! A get your hands in the air, and get to clappin 'em and like, back and forth because ah this is.. what you thought it wasn't It beez.. the brothers representin' the Dirty Dozen I be the F-R-O the double G *coughing in background* And check out the man he goes by the name of er... Verse One: Eminem Slim Shady, brain dead like Jim Brady I'm a M80, you Lil' like that Kim lady I'm buzzin, Dirty Dozen, naughty rotten rhymer Cursin at you players worse than Marty Schottenheimer You wacker than the motherfucker you bit your style from You ain't gonna sell two copies if you press a double album
[T] You livin from your first day to your last night
[T] Sometimes you show your ass like
[M] Lint on your clothes
[T] When you froze in
[A] THE BLACK LIGHT
[M] Dead that
[T] Before you get your head wrapped
[M] Like Badu
[T] We see through your voodoo
[T] Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin with that black magic
[M] Try to civilize you
[T] Not walk on by you
[M] Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll
[T] Be unlucky for you like a black cat
[M] A panther
[T] Revolution is the answer
[M] That's what we need
[T] Greed plague my people like the cancer
[M] True indeed
[Mos Def]
Now black people unite, and let's ALL GET DOWN
Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
Equalin up to eight, light shine bright