- Beautiful Struggle
[Sample]
This is a tear jerker
[Intro - echoes]
The revolution is here, the revolution is here people
I said it once, I'll say it twice
You gots to be ready
The revolution is inside of you
People, the revolution is here, yeah
- Cold Rain
Lets try something new
It's been a long time coming
Let me try something brand new
Hey yo Ski
What you ever do, man?
Come on
Yo, what we doing it for?
- Delicate Flowers
My girl is a delicate flower, a super-hero
Being a single mom helped her develop the powers
We stay up to a elegant hour talking the hell and the sour
Reaching out to god cause the devil a coward
But he still sits on my shoulder and whispers
It feels like my shoulder gets colder the more that I listen
And now it seems like she ready to leave
We stay to beef the main reason my desire to spreading my seed
- Deliver Us
Intro:
Deliver us, deliver us (yeah)
Deliver us, deliver us (what, yeah)
And what the people say? We wanna live it up
And what the people want? Please deliver us
And what the people need? Hey
- Drugs, BasketbaLL and Rap
[Talib Kweli]
Yea
S'what im talkin about
S-A-S, size aint shit, neva dat
Strong Arm Steady, talib kweli
Yea
[Chorus: Talib Kweli]X2
- Get By
Yeah.. my Lord.. yeah
[Verse 1: Talib]
We sell, crack to our own out the back of our homes
We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn
We go through "Episodes II," like "Attack of the Clones"
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone
To get by.. just to get by
- Gutter Rainbows
Talib Kweli,
yeah, hey
Get wit it, get wit it
Here we go, here we go,
come on, come on
Here we go, here we go,
come on, come on
- Hostile Gospel
Talib Kweli
[Intro: singers (Talib)]
Deliver us, deliver us (Yeah)
Deliver us, deliver us (What? Yeah)
[Talib Kweli]
And what the people say? We wanna live it up
And what the people want? Please deliver us
- Hot Thing
Yeah
Special dedication
I'm sending this one out to you and you and you and you
I said to you and you and you
[Verse 1]
She cold blooded
I love how we meltin' the ice
- Kindness For Weakness
[Intro/Chorus]
"Don't you take, my kindness for weakness" {*repeat 2X*}
"Don't you take.."
Dilated, yo, yo
[Rakaa Iriscience]
I might flip, but usually a calm individual
- Listen
[Intro: Talib Kweli]
This the year of the Blacksmith
Talib Kweli (Kweli) K-1 (K-1)
Let's go! {"Listen!"}
Yeah, yeah niggaz don't {"Listen!"}
Back in the days we all used to {"Listen!"}
Now shit is so wack, nobody {"Listen!"}
To that real hip-hop, yo {"Listen!"}
- Ms. Hill
Another night, slips away (phone ringing)
in other words, (yo, who's this?) I should say
there are no words, (y'all heard it) you should say
there are no words, (I mean it's life)
every night, slips away (I mean, what can I say? it's best)
in other words, I should say
there are no words, you should say
there are no words
- Never Been In Love
"Never Been In Love"
[Verse One]
I know there's a first time for everything
First time I let her in my bed she got wetter then the perfect storm
That we weathering together and
This the first time that I've ever considered wedding rings
But first things first yo
- Oh My Stars
[Kids Rapping]
I'm freestyling, for me, myself and I
I write them on the paper til it gets sky high
I say goodbye, to all the bad things I've done
I start a new beginning, at this is how it begun
From, KRS-One to Talib Kweli
Now I'm the best superstar on BET
And MTV, better yet I'm known universally
- Prisoner Of Conscious
Треклист:
01 - Intro
02 - Human Mic
03 - Turnt Up
04 - Come Here [feat. Miguel]
05 - High Life [feat. Rubix, Bajah]
06 - Ready Set Go [feat. Melanie Fiona]
07 - Hold It Now
- She's My Hero
We do it for the babies
They say falling in love the definition of going crazy
The knowledge that makes us just cherish innocence makes it impossible
He heading for the graves, drivin' right past the hospital
There be glass in the hallway
Bloodstained floors
(Yeah) I like that one, go in
Come on, they say karma is a bitch
- So Low
I can go so low
I can feel the gravity that's in the world around me
I can go so low
I can feel the fire burning as it swirls around me
And I've been so low
I felt ice cold in hours at the bottom of the sea
Might have been so low
You might did low get low but you never been as low as me
- Soon The New Day feat. Norah Jones
[Verse 1]
Here we go like
Yes yes yawl
To the beat yawl
Ain't no sleep yawl
To the break of dawn
5 o'clock in the morning
We keep rockin on
- Stay Around
Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, Kweli
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
'Cause these rappers fake and I'm in love with your state of mind
'Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby, won't you stay around with me?
- The Magic Hour
Last one to fall asleep
First one to wake up
All nighters 6:20 in AM
It's magic hour
Doing it 'til the sunrise
I live my life in the sunshine
It was as beautiful as Hawaiian beaches
Usually it's the students to be the truest teachers
- The Proud
[Intro]
The Proud, stand tall or don't stand at all
C'mon, uhh, yeah, break it down, what we do?
[Chorus]
We survive, it's more than pride
We stay alive, ready to ride
We survive, it's more than pride
- Turnt Up
Thinking of the master plan
Where there's nothing but cash inside my hand
Wanna dig into my pocket my profit is ever set
I dig deeper, you know I represent, represent
Yeah, money over bitches, my sisters go over everything
My bandz will make you dance forever, just like a wedding ring
Barb of the haters, the jealousy that the cheddar bring
Trying to get away from this 85's like Evelyn
- We Got The Beat
Yeah! Come on! What it is
It's the P-l-a-n-e-t R-o-c-k
Kweli, BK, se-la-vis
You could tell I be hell-a-free like college radio
WQHT gonna play me though
this hot shit is to fly like the cockpit
got spit like a french kiss chicks lock lips
coming from the deep black like the Loch Ness
- Where Do We Go feat. Res
Where do we go? What do we say? What do we do?
Nowhere to turn, nowhere to run and there's nothin new
Where do we go for inspiration?
It's like pain is our only inspiration
[Talib Kweli]
Yea, I see a place where little boys and girls
Are shells in the oceans not knowin they a pearl