RE: DEFinition - Black Star.mp3

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[00:10.545]One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[00:14.796]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[00:17.448]Best alliance in hip-hop, Y-O-yo!
[00:20.901]I said; one, two, three, Black Star shine eternally
[00:25.413]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[00:28.340]And Hi-Tek make the beat drop, Y-O
[00:31.793]Redefinition, turnin' your play into a tragedy
[00:34.445]Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately
[00:37.372]Niggas is sweet, so I bet if I bit, I'd get a cavity
[00:39.495]Livin' to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity
[00:42.891]We die hard like the battery
[00:43.962]Thrown in the back of me by the mad MC
[00:45.282]Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery
[00:47.411]Actually, don't be mad at me, I had to be the one to break it to you
[00:50.331]You get kicked into obscurity like judo — no, Menudo
[00:53.466]'Cause you pseudo, tryin' to compete with reality like Xerox
[00:55.858]Towards destruction, you spiralin' like helix, wipe them teardrops
[00:58.785]Chasin' stars in your eyes, playin' games with your lives
[01:01.441]Now the wives is widows, soakin' up pillows, weepin' like willows
[01:04.095]Still more blacks is dyin', 'cause they live and they tryin'
[01:06.750]"How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applyin'
[01:09.140]Regardless, Mos is one of my closest partners
[01:11.795]Rockin' ever since before Prince was called The Artist
[01:14.723]Rockin' before Funkmaster Flex was rockin' Starter
[01:17.379]When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool, before they was martyrs
[01:20.566]Life or death, if I'm choosin', with every breath I'm enhancin'
[01:22.688]Stop, there comes a time when you can't run
[01:25.079]What?
[01:25.615]Lyrically handsome, call collect a king's ransom
[01:28.270]Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
[01:30.922]Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, move like a Phantom
[01:34.580]You'll talk about me to your grandsons
[01:36.165]Cats who claimin' they hard be mad fags
[01:38.827]So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags
[01:41.210]Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have
[01:43.877]Sinkin' they ship like Moby Dick to Ahab
[01:46.531]Son, I'm way past the minimum, enterin' millennium
[01:49.447]My raps will hold a gat to your back like Palestinians
[01:52.112]Ancient Abyssinian, sure to hold the Gideon
[01:54.766]Official b-boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim
[01:57.422]Born inside the winter, when? Day after December 10
[02:00.076]These simpletons — they mentionin' the synonym for feminine
[02:02.731]Sweeter than some cinnamon, the Danish rings by Entenmann's
[02:05.386]Rush up on adrenaline, they get they asses sent to them
[02:08.313](Gentlemen!) You got a tenement? Well, then assemble it!
[02:10.965]Leave your unit tremblin' like herds of movin' elephant
[02:13.360]Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element
[02:16.013]From Flatbush settlement, skin possesses melanin
[02:17.606]Hotter than tales of crack peddlin'
[02:21.986]Makin' 'em WOOP like blue gelatin, swing like Duke Ellington
[02:24.375]Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
[02:26.770]The hot Apache red who burned down your chief teepee
[02:29.424]You see me?
[02:30.222]One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
[02:33.673]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[02:36.327]Best alliance in hip-hop, Y-O-yo!
[02:39.779]I said; one, two, three, Black Star shine eternally!
[02:44.301]We came to rock it on to the tip-top
[02:47.216]Because we rulin' hip-hop
[02:49.872]Yes, we is rulin' hip-hop
[02:52.265]Talib Kweli is rulin' hip-hop
[02:54.656]Say we Black Star, we rule hip-hop-ah-ahh-ah-ahh-ahh
[02:59.704]Whoahhhh!