Hip Hop - Mos Def.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : D Smith/J. Kirkland
[00:01.00] 作曲 : D Smith/J. Kirkland
[00:02.81]You say one for the treble two for the time
[00:05.85]Come on y'all let's rock this
[00:08.16]You say one for the treble two for the time
[00:11.17]Come on
[00:11.93]Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape
[00:13.88]Now let it fall huh
[00:16.80]My restlessness is my nemesis
[00:18.45]It's hard to really chill and sit still
[00:20.51]Committed to page I write a rhyme
[00:22.27]Sometimes won't finish for days
[00:24.18]Scrutinize my literature from the large to the miniature
[00:26.98]I mathematically administer
[00:29.24]Subtract the wack
[00:30.10]Selector wheel it back I'm feeling that
[00:32.85]From the core to the perimeter black
[00:34.72]You know the motto
[00:35.73]Stay fluid even in staccato
[00:37.19]
[00:38.20]Full blooded full throttle
[00:39.58]Breathe deep inside the drum hollow
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[00:42.06]There's the humyoung man where you from
[00:44.27]Brooklyn number one
[00:45.73]Native son speaking in the native tongue
[00:48.04]I got my eyes on tomorrow there it is
[00:50.26]While you still trying to find where it is
[00:52.14]I'm on the Ave where it lives and dies
[00:54.38]Violently silently
[00:55.86]Shine so vibrantly that eyes squint to catch a glimpse
[00:59.00]Embrace the bass with my dark ink fingertips
[01:01.47]Used to speak the King's English
[01:03.37]But caught a rash on my lips
[01:04.98]So now my chat just like dis
[01:06.87]Long range from the base-line swish
[01:08.81]Move like an apparition
[01:10.38]Float to the ground with ammuntionchi-chi-POW
[01:13.17]Move from the gatevoice cued on your tape
[01:15.55]Putting food on your plate
[01:16.79]Many crews can relate
[01:18.15]Who choosing your fate yo
[01:19.89]We went from picking cotton
[01:21.33]To chain gang line chopping
[01:22.94]To Be-Bopping to Hip-Hopping
[01:25.03]Blues people got the blue chip stock option
[01:27.47]Invisible man got the whole world watching
[01:30.14]Where ya at I'm high low east west
[01:32.24]All over your map
[01:33.30]I'm getting big props with this thing called hip hop
[01:36.03]Where you can either get paid or get shot
[01:38.04]When your product in stock
[01:39.40]The fair-weather friends flock
[01:40.69]When your chart position drop
[01:42.09]Then the phone calls
[01:43.06]
[01:43.61]Chill for a minute
[01:44.68]Let's see who else hot
[01:46.08]Snatch your shelf spot
[01:47.15]Don't gas yourself ock
[01:48.68]The industry just a better built cell block
[01:51.19]A long way from the shell tops
[01:53.29]And the bells that L rocked rock rock rock rock
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[02:20.08]Hip Hop is prosecution evidence
[02:21.79]An out of court settlement
[02:22.99]Ad space for liquor
[02:24.29]Sick without benefits hungh
[02:25.99]Luxury tenements choking the skyline
[02:27.97]It's low life getting tree-top high
[02:30.68]It is a back water remedy
[02:32.34]Bitter and tender memory
[02:33.51]A class E felony
[02:34.94]Facing the death penalty hungh
[02:36.80]Stimulant and sedative original repetitive
[02:39.28]Violently competitive a school unaccredited
[02:42.73]The break beats you get broken with
[02:44.28]On time and inappropriate
[02:45.61]Hip Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
[02:47.66]Medicine for loneliness
[02:48.93]Remind me of Thelonius and Dizzy
[02:50.95]Propers to B-Boys getting busy
[02:52.88]The war-time snap shot
[02:54.88]The working man's jack-pot
[02:56.16]A two dollar snack box
[02:57.54]Sold beneath the crack spot
[02:58.91]Olympic sponsor of the black Glock
[03:01.03]Gold medalist in the back shot
[03:02.98]From the sovereign state of the have-nots
[03:04.82]Where farmers have trouble with cash crops woooo
[03:07.46]It's all-city like Phase 2
[03:09.01]Hip Hop will simply amaze you
[03:10.60]Praise you pay you
[03:12.12]Do whatever you say do
[03:13.62]But black it can't save you