Prisoner of Conscious

Talib Kweli Prisoner of Conscious Lyrics
1.Human Mic

I exhibit characteristics of the average misfit
Who graduated from stabbing and grabbing a biscuit
It's sick and tragic how antagonistic we get
When it's no power go sour,
I seen him crossing a bridge by the masses,
Covered in the ashes of both towers.
Made in New York and the way that we talk
Make him an offer than you can't confuse
Come back later on after you've thought it over
Look out for shooters that we're popping up at the opera
The popular, adore his pain for the sins of the God father.
Popular music got 'em confused with killers and artists
I kill it the hardest. Competition dearly departed.
They feeling some sort of way 'cause my flow revealing the
garbage
I'm making 'em throw it up. You just making the people vomit.
When it comes to this rhymin' I'm a legend like too common,
Or the Chupacabra, the way I move it together it's how I knot
'em.
Make them acclaim my cover, you adapt the way you shot it,
The Amarretta, you're sweet as a girly drink,
Throw it back, coniac, I'm the best, you know that
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
On track as the most prolific ever, the most consistently,
Vicious, New York can rip you, be ripping it like a shread
Some symphony hall shit, getting higher than your faucet,
Getting better. Drop a pearl every jam like Eddie Vedder.
Very fed up with self appoint and preserved us with past errors
That never seen their reflection when they're walking past
mirrors.
They got bitten and now they're smitting with the taste of blood
and ticking
They taking enough drugs for the sleeping and keeping it fucking
and make it up.
Raise the bar and the waiters up,
Others hating, just confused, undergo the way to luck.
The eyes are the window to the souls and my shades is up,
Advocate for artists, regardless cause I got faith in us.
For the worthless who don't get paid enough
Take the bus, hands way too rough for the paper cuts.
As far as they're concerned from on the table on the way to love
Take a slump, feel it to raise a child, you got to raise it up.
Raise it up, raise it up, raise it up, take it up, take it up.


2.Turnt Up

Thinking of the masterplan, where there's nothing but cash
inside my hand
Wanna dig it to my pocket my profit is ever set
I dig deeper, you know I represent, represent.
Money over bitches, my sisters go over everything
Band that make her dance, that is just like a wedding ring.
Barb of the haters, the jealousy that the cheddar bring,
Trying to get away from this 85s like avalanche.
Ride with me, I got 'em licking like Minnie,
Got 'em licking like Mickey, these monkeys writing like dickeys
Cause they're seeing what I'm doing, feeling the more confusion,
Cut edges like a chewing, I'm flowing just like a student
Of the romance languages, only the diamonds hang with us,
My mil is decorated with ton just like the greatest is,
The crive's outrageous like really is no joke,
The girl of your dreams be coming over the smoke.

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud,
Turn it up load, turn it up load,
Drop it, stop it,
With all the soap operas and the soul boxes,
Turn up, turn up, turn up, for the people.

You can feel the heat from the beat,
My sand dark on your feet,
Want it down like a zebra, I move with the speed of cheetas.
I'm from Brooklyn where the heat is the side of a true leader
I ain't asking for no followers, just looking for new leaders.
Is hard not consuming all the bullshit they feed us,
And your venus like a cork to the wound from the fetus.
Been hard since it started reading, alliteration is literally
lidid
To my DNA swimming on through my semen.
So everytime I bust babies begin being born,
Draw it like a picture, picture of perfect painting,
Police profile and people peacefully praying
Lay the low like lead us the lazy as lolly
Gagging on my ground, getting guap cause green is the new black.
Meet me at the bar, we throwing a few back,
Hop out the car, you know who blew that.

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud,
Turn it up load, turn it up load,
Drop it, stop it,
With all the soap operas and the soul boxes,
Turn up, turn up, turn up, for the people.

And we drink and smoke,
Got wearing funny hats like the pope wore,
Come in looking quite clean and open
So heard might scheme of the no good
You know quirt got sling in the notebook
I got the birds on the wire like no wood,
I still rap these styles like this poster,
I'm alive and down throw like a notion
We rhyme like a lazy bee so focus
I'm in the ring so lean I need a phone call
I ain't lying, bad teeth so ferocious
Maybe I'm lying bare feet in the ocean,
On the beach full of sleep in the open,
To the beez so unique like a potion
I love music, I'm completing my devotion,
I'm completing my devotion.

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud,
Turn it up load, turn it up load,
Drop it, stop it,
With all the soap operas and the soul boxes,
Turn up, turn up, turn up, for the people.


3.Ready Set Go


I switch lanes, it's still blurry, I switch frames,
Climbing these lames with Bill Murray and quick change
Control your mission keep up with my opposition,
Brag it about the rob but feeling your soul is missing.
Race it till your death to your holly celebration
God bless a lady if only accelerate you
Cause we're speeding when we drive on this highway of
information
The devil try to deny it, it's the highest of elevation.
They keep it on sea level so I'm staying on my A game,
They both would like to see when I express like the A train.
My air like tick to the right, use it to maintain
We be in like to see a light cause we got the same brain.
We in the same change, work in the same fields,
Now we're independent, you can keep your fucking lame deal.
Total package, the flow is mastered, I low it past the
procrastinators
Well fast, is bound to going backwords.

Life's so short, we can't afford to lose
When the guns go off and the flag drops.
I'll never stop,
I'm a race to the finish line of the road
To get in the boat.
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go.

They hate when I get it straight and they chase us,
Have the little boys coming fast to the speed race
Pulling cables with my team best believe I'm a see paper
With extraordinary gena, trust me to lead lay you.
Highway of life faster than a car,
Rick it in the trunks of the rappers that got balls.
Never rat out cause we lived through the battles, we got scars,
Mister international have it the black star.
It's the sound that you're missing I'm here with your air
glisten
Play it loud at your wind when you're gear shifting.
Gifted like the island of the misfit toys, ladies apply like the
lipstick.
Boys take over when the shit drop,
Boys wanna holla at birds like Alfred Hitchcock.
Men wanna talk to the women, we ain't screaming,
Just whisper and then we're leaving.

Life's so short, we can't afford to lose
When the guns go off and the flag drops.
I'll never stop,
I'm a race to the finish line of the road
To get in the boat.
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go.

When it's gone to the wire
I gotta win to the fire
You can't stop it. No, you can't stop it.
Because I'm destined to win,
Like a full champion,
And we know it's happening
At the time, get ready, set, go.

On your mark, get set, when I thought the jet,
Look how far I get, I'm not only an artist they say.
One is the lonely as the number they regard
Second best don't exist, it's a little oxymoronic.
What a thought, listen to haters and never buy to hitting high
Watermarks, cause the market's flooded with garbage.
You are now embraced by the light with fiber optic,
Shine it bright love, get a ten or wind tropic.
Listen out count just nonsense,
I can say the conscious is asleep, I prefer the call of the
wake.
It's so ironic, it's beautiful when you finally get awake at
your funeral
We don't get it away.
Rappers nowadays are confusing you,
I know you're tired of the usual like Trey Songz and Drake
That's why I'm leaping the faith, keeping the pace
Although it's all about the winning, it's never about the wait.

Life's so short, we can't afford to lose
When the guns go off and the flag drops.
I'll never stop,
I'm a race to the finish line of the road
To get in the boat.
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go,
Ready, set, go.


4.Upper Echelon

Check it out baby
Check it out y'all

This that upper echelon shit
What is this?

Welcome to the prison of conscious
Brainiacs said I'm done, bust the scientifical
You feel it all up in your soul, we getting spiritual
You heard I'm coming back, it's so scary I put the fear in you
I murder every track, cause the rhymers like to stare at you
Real shit back, it's a miracle, rap been laughable over the last
year or two
Reflecting like a mirror through who is the real living proof
I'm back with the classical shit, I pack lyrical
Substance like a bowls of kush into a vaporizer
And then I vaporize ya', my paper may surprise ya'
No need to brag on my paper cause I'm a naturizer
I vibrate higher, the truth break liars
I chose who is like us, the lovers, the fighters, the writers,
the exciters
Cut the grass we could see the vipers, we cut the glass cause we
the diamonds


I be listening to real shit, real spit, like die hard feeling
Type of shit the fake niggas find hard to deal wit'
I'm on a higher plane, I'm destroying em' while I build them
My threat can't be contained, so my name on Obama kill list
Kweli the artist that you wanna be, moving the through darkness,
The light is what's in front of me,
Front on me you posers exposing your insecurities
Supposedly it's wack, and replaces lack of maturity
The purity you need to get in the game is gone
Ain't no conspiracy, stop looking for someone to blame it on
Gotta pay a debt, took a stale style and I made it fresh
Wait a second, got your girl wetter than tomatoes flesh
Waiting on me with baited breath


Welcome to the
Walking through a double fist, and I'm lifted on something
vicious
Everything is moving, I'm getting me a percentage
Vintage, nothing but the sky is my ascendant
My girl is ride or die, I'm avoiding the evil temptress
Ain't no question who the best is, you don't like the state then
fuck it and my mansions
Pimping down to the socks, and so is business
The all night workout like 24-Hour Fitness
Y'all niggas is adorable, incorrigible, the prayers that you get
is barely audible
People is ignoring you why? the last place in the world that you
belong is a recording booth
Order suit, niggas is gassed up, petroleum a lab when these
niggas get swept up
Custodians a culture back to the future rap the delorean
A class looking joint to spit as valedictorian

This that upper echelon shit

Welcome to the Prison Of Conscious


5.High Life

This the high life
Call it my life
Yeah, yeah

This the Bah Butta
The beautiful love
Fit like a glove, whats good
My peoples don't think I could
Get it you know we should
Holding like it's a grudge, submerged
But I just surf

I'm writing the universe
But the stars don't fit in my bars I'm too mega
It's the food on my label
My plate is full of color arugula, banger
I share the food with my neighbor Julian
I made it like Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker

Move raker sun scraper
Give you five for them papes
Take you higher on the vapors
Sire of the flavor
Designer of the caper
Executive, executor, director
When I'm a path rider up I'm a navigator
Plight of a savior

Now what would Jesus do
How you believe in him?
He don't believe in you
The idea that you got I'm unbeatable
That deem me and the princess bride inconceivable
These MCs is eatable way edible
I'm fishing with dynamite, now I got a freezer full of rappers
Bastard I'm ten steps ahead of you
Incredible, give credit where credit due

Put passion into action
Mashin on the gas when them others they be maxin
Accelerate generate, power with my pen and pape
Stimulate you simulate
You do it I incinerate

You do it for the inner place
Musical when innovate you imitate
You're theory's full of holes so I ventilate
Damn the women say they love when we get on stage
Even if they say they don't want quote
And the hate just integrate

They feel us like shade
You know we feelin great
Not a script that's writ
This how originals spit
It's an unconventional gift
Kweli and turbalin
Them others they be herbin it, the praise we deservin it

Word I love strong
Righting the right wrong
Continuing to fight on
I'm putting the gloves on
I love horns, lovin this damn track
Lovin the hand clap, clap, clap

Lovin when you listen
Love a fix said Ashford and Simpson
Livin for the drums in the slums
Some are the best part,
The tourists never come
They run when it gets dark

Yeah, so I'm from outer space
They funny like them bridal maids
Booking like we playin spades
Yeah we always make the grade
Try to see to get a fade
Lets see if they get the hate
Sucker free I'm in my space
Say I'm hella steezy yeah
Believe i get us somewhere
Streaking like a smarting
Sunny in Delrous bright parking
Fly chicks sparkin
Then we up the road to the phoenix
Steady bar hopping
It's high life everywhere
Tony Allen rhythmist
Pad em on we living it
Kweli on his business
Everywhere we deep in this
...we speak in it
So unique we spit

Yeah the great debater
The caped crusader
The alpha the omega
The favorite communicator
Who's junky
I'm the monk
I'm the job creator
The part of the conversation
The start of the indoctrination
Know this is a thing of beauty
I'm bring it like left...
I'm drinkin like a smoothy
I'm spending like a ...
Rappers out the sect
I'm collecting them like suvey
They acting up and I'm directing them like a movie
Skip the drama this is action adventure
They're so frickin soft it should be against the law
The only contender
Ah yo do i really need to mention

This is the high life
High life high life
High life high life
High life high life


6.It Only Gets Better


Lord knows I had it hard today,
Had it hard today
Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way.
Cause it only gets better, better
It only gets better from here.
It only gets better, better,
It only gets better from here.

Every day I gotta wake up early,
Let it break, thank the Lord at the take,
Get the troops, hit the booth, spiritual, it's been great.
Practicing my gratitude, life is so beautiful,
Working on that attitude, just because

It only gets better, better
It only gets better from here.
It only gets better, better,
It only gets better from here.

Every day I gotta
Trust the God and hustle hard,
My grind is real, my hustle dope.
I'm finding meals, I'm signing deals,
I'm the Gladiator like Russell Crowe.
Yeah, you know it's real, but I'm focused still
Why you focus shake it like gold field
Cause you're not in tune, no, you're not immune
No acclamation, no golden seal.
You sick side, gotta flush it down,
We talk to folks, cover your mouth,
Ain't nobody gonna cover that shifts
So you go to work, you tuff it down.
You bust it out till you're out for work,
I know your boss a jerk, you're gonna cuss a mouth,
Hit it with a bus driver upper-cut,
That cock only think you punch him out.
I relate to you, you gotta pay your dues,
When the time is right you gotta make a move.
Your job is what you get paid to do,
Your call is what you're made to do.
I got faith in you, you're gonna make it through,
Cause you don't chase money, money chasing you.
Keep laboring like you got a thing to do,
Won't taste no foods like they put you.
No more wait for you, you gonna take it now,
You gonna make a vault.
As long as you walk on the earth with that first got to make me
proud.
Hey, let me break it down, oh, bless your hearts,
Keep talking bout how stressed you are,
Better talk about how blessed you are.

Lord knows I had it hard today,
Had it hard today
Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way.
Cause it only gets better, better
It only gets better from here.
It only gets better, better,
It only gets better from here.

Every day I got to get up early, wake the kids,
Get on running made again
Go to work watching in,
Every day I'm hustling.
Fight the traffic, lose my cool,
Get the kids right after school,
Think it's hard, yeah, that's true,
This is what I have to do

Cause it only gets better, better
It only gets better from here.
It only gets better, better,
It only gets better from here.

What we got is true they listen
Try to talk to gal but is real what I'm spitting
Call Christ by name but still ain't rising
Set to my lane but still ain't listening
Got ice in the vans we make so frigid,
Still in the kill brain self when you hit it
Order pills when you pop that, pop that, pop that,
Don't stop, get it, get it,
Started, we the fighters, we survivors but we ain't living
My soul is blacker than the Friday after Thanks Giving.
We love that color 25% more like we like to face prison
But just because the president was black there's no racism?
Postracial? More like most racial,
They hate for you disgraceful,
Don't let them take you off your base, let them motivate you.
Don't let it overtake you, so what another clause,
Survive the storm but riding on the beach in the southern wild.

Lord knows I had it hard today,
Had it hard today
Still I gotta keep my head up high along the way.
Cause it only gets better, better
It only gets better from here.
It only gets better, better,
It only gets better from here.

Memories live, man, and my memories stay alive.


7.Before He Walked


Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music.
Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music.

I'm from a small city, but I have big dreams,
Had some good ideas, but I had better schemes
I thought the hustle way for me was etched in stones,
Until my pun to dime and name etched in stone.
My daughter's growing up, my son on his way,
They closing in on me, I feel like every day.
Music saves me, soothing like the navy,
But a lifetime of scars only sixteen bars.
So I took the vibe with me using my life,
Yep, I propose the main music my wife.
If ever need to call a nigga music's my night
And if I need to bring the girls together music's my dice.
If I degraded and I haven't even cried to,
I watch purpose prophesize about going through.
Music ain't the knowledge itself
And I'm the knowledge itself, then I acknowledge your wealth.

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music.
Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music.

Music a part of me, I'm a bully,
Beating up the track with brutal lines.
The truth inside of me, rappers hit the booth and they lie to
me,
I'm using the inspiration that they provide to me.
I'm redefining the space, you can call me the new geometry.
A picture of you, papa, when I google monogamy.
Now all the people who go irresponsibly
Thinking your album is trash is not the root of economy.
So you're expecting the conscious and introspect of use
Each of lyrical vestibule, let me tell you what's best for you.
My music gives you a message true or respect is due,
But music is emotion, that's lost for me intellectual.
A tree in form of a far is never heard
Amongst the sparrows and the robbers and even the ghetto birds.
You download it for free but what I create the same
Ofcourse you're nothing but a pair in making, trust me.

Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my heart, my music.
Like a medicine in times of war, helps me get over
The sweetest sounds I ever heard, my joy, my life, my music.

I was born on the afterbeat, I'm like ron for Johnson
When you reach the crossroads me and the devil have to meet
It's sort of same thing as clever on when they soar
Lower went, looking for God and cleft kept on.
Willing to the same songs but we hear them different
Serenade the death like we got a fear of living.
Having the sounds on stage cause the spirit rising,
Stop the devilish ways where clever displays the lyricism.
The songs are a natural resource of actual street stories
Attract the police forces.
Slay to the rhythm the masses that rip off us.

And he could run before he walked.


8.Come Here

(feat. Miguel)


I don't wanna waste your time, baby
I just wanna make you come to me
Comfortable, baby so come here, darling
And come for me, baby
I don't wanna waste a second no girl
I just wanna make you come dance with me
Come talk to me
Come here, darlin' come here for me, baby

Why you so far away? You need to feel this
I've got somethin' to tell you, come here real quick
I've done dirt in the past, I know that love hurts
I'll come for you, but my lady's got to come first
I can tell by your hesitation there's trust issues
You get excited, ignite it, highly combustible
You on a higher vibration, that's why I fuck with you
Left me provide for you, comfortable as a Huxtable
Your whole style is colder than Minnesota
I love your profile, the way you look over shoulders
At the crib, I'm hopin' you come over
We can do it like Common and Mary and come closer
We can do it like Barack and Michelle, give me a fist bump
Black magical, act radical with the fist up
Do it 'til we rockin' the bells, you like hip-hop
Promise you I'm not gonna tell, we keep our lips locked

I don't wanna waste your time, baby
I just wanna make you come to me
Comfortable, baby so come here, darling
And come for me, baby
I don't wanna waste a second no girl
I just wanna make you come dance with me
Come talk to me
Come here, darlin' come here for me, baby

Like a Spike Lee movie, I'm movin' across the floor
Feelin' love in the music, I'm using it like a lure
I love how you do, with your beauty and your allure
Make you come like the ocean, approaching me like sure
She Rockefeller Center like Diego in the lobby
As valuable as The Scream or a Salvador Dali
She popular with the thieves and wanna be Thomas Crown
Some try to steal her attention as soon as I'm not around
This last bird probably flew the coop
Blastin' Outkast, last words: Ooh-Dee-Whoo
I don't know how to describe you, you're so beautiful
Je ne sais quoi how you say, voulez vous?
Pardon my French, with the tongue kissin' I'll make her come
hither
'Til she dancin' with wolves, see how they run with her
I'm dumb twisted off rum, liquor
But fix my composition and give a proposition to consider

I don't wanna waste your time, baby
I just wanna make you come to me
Comfortable, baby so come here, darling
And come for me, baby
I don't wanna waste a second no girl
I just wanna make you come dance with me
Come talk to me
Come here, darlin' come here for me, baby

Hey you, hey you hey you
Yeah, I'm talkin' to you
Hey you, hey you hey you
Yeah, I'm talkin' to you
Simmer down for me
Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down for me
Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down for me
Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down for me

Black Madonna, you sow the seeds like a farmer
While I mange, just serving long sentences, no commas
Write poetry in your honor, your body is like a sauna
The promise, you gettin' closer to the sun, you gettin' hotter
You the Earth, that's emphatically yes
But I still call you a bad bitch, under my breath, out of
respect
Naturally blessed, Lady Chatterly fresh with tatted flesh
I ain't gotta ask her why you stare that's a yes

I don't wanna waste your time, baby
I just wanna make you come to me
Comfortable, baby so come here, darling
And come for me, baby
I don't wanna waste a second no girl
I just wanna make you come dance with me
Come talk to me
Come here, darlin' come here for me, baby


9.Push Thru

High rises, day breaks
Clouds hide the sun's rays
Quick sand and mistakes
Smash walls to get through
I fight the good fight
Even on the bad days
It's darkest before light
I'm gonna push through

Turbo charged bars
Slot cars on tracks, falling off, game stars in these rap wars
Ain't nothing band-aids won't cover
Touring with 7D coverage
Live bands, two buses, my own cash
No budget, no major label fundings, Jets baby
We went from crawling to walking to running
You can't see nothing, you under gag order
Hopping out of Audi's hurting y'all with kicks, I'm the
Transporter
Think about it, never mind, you ain't gotta
I'm already on some whole other, word to yo mu'fuckin' self
Nobody else gon' do it for ya, nobody else
Every now and then someone'll offer ya help, but they ain't
doing nothing
'Til they really see you tryna do something, I ain't bluffing
Kush puffing on you jive turkeys
Stuffing stockings with these gifts
Audible applaudables homie take a wiff


When you a man, action is what's expected, nothing is spoken on
Producer never got time for no excuses, gotta go beyond
My flow is tom-foolery
I beautifully exude the vibe that's free of ambiguity
Ya goonery for the sake of goonery is cartoons to me
It's coonery, it's lunacy, let's make a plan
Only way that you hang is attached to a tree
The moon talk to the sea and speak the body language fluently
She make it rain
When I'm on fire, she always try to douse me
Only reason that you make it rain is 'cause your diamonds cloudy
I see you from a mile away when it get overcast
Old people feel it in they bones, invade your home like a broken
glass
And let myself in, fighting for freedom like the people in
Tunisia
Spread through Sudan and Egypt, this the music for the movement
The score to your achievements, never join 'em so you gotta beat
'em
It's carpe diem hey (hey) yeah


Like kindergarteners
My vision's bothered by vigilantes that harbor on street corners
Try your hardest to harvest bundles of weed on ya
The starving'll speed on ya, stampede on ya
Impede on your pockets then pee on ya
Dreams of us living lavish in fabrics of fine linens
Spending, established, with women dining and laughing
But this environment got us violent, ready to crash in
To society, take this driver seat, hope you fastened
Your seatbelts twice, when I rolled them dice, I crapped
So many times I can build casinos from scratch
Too many daps you might receive from the things you achieve,
relax
That's what my mental say, but my physical's been detached, I'm
on some other shit
Like fuck the government, I'm higher rankings, where's the
mothership?
I made a covenant that I was changing but my luck is bent
Quite disgusting when reality tainted, where the fuck you been?
Left him face down like he was planking
In a cold world where old girl and her homeboy got a motive
You can bench curl your tribulations, that sensation's insulting
Got a wifey or a mistress, nigga which one you indulging?
Regardless of who you pick know life's a bitch when you ain't
focused nigga
I'm focused


10.Hold It Now

Got a buzz like them George Tack,
They're still cheering like them orders left,
The air is toxic, better hold your breath,
Resurrect the music, I snatch it from close to death.
Vital signs are improving, I make it lay down,
Not to mind, is usually disrupted by devil's playground.
My rip establish the rampage is for the sport of it,
Been nice for a career, you just barely grasp at the thought of
it.

Get it to the hood like a rush cart,
Support it like the shot bars and lambars,
Except they never sit and I'm never living more in the sun
Got smart ass whipped before ever ripping the damn heart.
See you fronting with your dollar store shades on,
Faking the abs sprayed on those artificial ray on
Run a set of fine you questify like ray don
Shung when inform life voultron of young ray quan.
Mix in a bit of care rest one a cute tip,
Rock him some of that ice cube, now who's this
No one as gifted as this, so magnificent,
Classicly consistent the nasty as black licorice.

Coldest, but I get the room hotter than bedroom yoga,
Seen the show, you know I make the people move like individ, you
notice?
I'm focused, I'm like Moses when the mic is on
That's why these rappers gather like rooches when the light is
on.

Hold it now, I hold it down,
I'm staying where I'm at, you better go around.
You know the voice and you know the sound,
I rip the microphone and then I throw it down.
Hold it now, I hold it down,
I'm staying where I'm at, you better go around.
You know the voice and you know the sound,
I rip the microphone and then I throw it down


11.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.
I try to tell her I'm just a man,
She said 'no, you're wrong, cause you're way more than that, you
need to cut the scheme.
You're not fooling me, this lunacy. Them excuses might be new to
the birds, but they ain't new to me.'
Yo, I hate when the fit is proun, is like everytime I pick up
the phone you bitch moan, whoa.
I'm like why you stressing for? Press to the norm, make me wanna
never get involved.

I need to rip these benefits,
Uh, you so sensitive.
I say serve this rarity
She say I deserve your loyalty.
Girls have feelings.

Men lie out of fear but we front like we're not afraid,
Whether arguing or not, the bills gotta get paid.
We are not in 6th grade, we're fighting and people watching
On Tweeter she emo-blogging, I'm boiling the hemoglobin.
And lead the side the arguments never move me
Cause we acting out the stereotypes like telly perry movies.
My indiscretion is reeking in deep betrayal,
The beat is on like horses, is hard to keep em stabile.
She believed me the way Mike believed in frydal
But I need her, she the proof in my soul, my sweet potato.
Before I let her go I know she'll be forever gone,
I can't leave when the weather roam or weather storms.
She like a tree, now got me looking for feema,
Cover in my neighbor's lawn the grass is looking greener.
But in reality it never is,
I'm sure there's others, but I'll never find a better.

Girls have feelings,
Girls have feelings,
Girls have feelings,
They surely, surely do.


12.Hamster Wheel

I see, Yeah I see, see, I'm lookin right at you, I eye-contact
you
You see me, and I'm a beamie, Uh
First, I'm sayin Hi, then I'm wavin Bye-bye
We get in, we get in
Girl. you're so fly, you're so fly

Yo, these swallows is horny like Charley Parker
Be cutting em cause I'm studying these birds like ornithology
Follow em when they tweeting, holler instead of speaking
Give it a name, she played the wicked games every weekend.
Broke up with a dude for almost ending a life,
Came over for a closure, ended up spending the night.
That cosy in this apartment, wine bottles started popping,
Put scratches up on his back, they question him where he got
them.
Forgot it was her, she threaded him, fingers was like machetes,
The fucking was so static, she shaded him like a faddic,
Every single chick, shes like enough already,
I need to be with someone else, this stuff is so petty
She once reacted to things he did in the past,
Thinking it was no safe, he couldn't say no to the ask,
The heavy so rash, she gave up all her power,
He boarded out on the street, nowhere to live, nowhere to
shower.
How she gonna make it through the night?
How shes so accepting all this tension in her life?

She always carrying a baby with her,
Her spitting image just like looking at her baby pictures.
Afraid to say cause she dependent on man for real,
How she running these streets but always standing still.
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
How she running the streets but still standing still,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel.

Battery in the back, popping up with the cop,
Top popular with the acid, the hot attack.
Niggas whooping the holla out the drama
The way she passing the barber shop
Only job that's an option McDonalds or TeleMarket.
Often her asking together, this ain't the Beatles.
She need is a man like she going under needle.
She doing so much cotton, it's a wonder she living
The money was so seductive, no wonder she ain't leaving.
First time she fell like a woman was when a dude screamed
Nice ass out the car window driving past.
Nobody showed her how to live so all she do is dream
They call her rocket cause the make-up is like the mash-bomb
Scars proeminently large on her frontal lobe
Behind bars for credit cards scheme she pulled a month ago.
First she getting high, now we waving bye-bye.
Shes waiting out the station
Just the same as shes waiting out the station late at night for
a train that never came.

She always carrying a baby with her,
Her spitting image just like looking at her baby pictures.
Afraid to say cause she dependent on man for real,
How she running these streets but always standing still.
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
How she running the streets but still standing still,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel,
She need to get up off the hamster wheel


13.Rocket Ships

Movin' at the speed of a solution
Bleeding in the streets as you're breathing the pollution
They're saying that we need a revolution
But their passion is reduced to all-caps on a computer
Hey! Every sixteen I make a sick scene
Blood splattered all on you shirt like a missed scheme
Y'all niggas trippin' like mescaline and mixed greens
My flow cleaner than the Sistine, pristine
You goin' green like Al Gore with 'em
I make algorithms that got Malcolm in 'em
God's favorite, I'm sick as a doctor's patient
We live in a cold world, my job is to rock nations
My occupation? Elation, a celebration of rebels
Raise the levels and the decibels flagrant
It's too amazing how we be blazing, son
Our flowers is the loudest, they crowd around us
But cower in the shadows of the towers, boy

Take a tour with it, bake the raw
Where the beat's so savage
That it's knuckles gon' scrape to floor
Make a call, all the rocket ships taking off
Jah/Wu/gun music playin' when we facing off

Yo, I plaster the nation, causing evacuation
My manifestation got 'em patient from how I keeps it amazing
See, I'm the reason niggas need some training
While I'm inflicting the pain and making it suitable for any
occasion
I'm very engaging soon as I awaken
Quickly back you up and bag your bitch
She's reminding me of Sanaa Lathan
Rely on the hating while I'm smiling and waiting
That's when I embrace 'em
If you try to front, you'll be highly mistaken
The mightiest making of a classic, alrighty, I'll face it
My psyche is ancient and I'm hiring, so try me, I'm patient
Sorry, I'm lying, face it, I'm back for the taking
I'm urgently giving niggas the courtesy of smashing their face
in
(Damn, can you cut his mic off?!)
See how we got 'em buggin'
'Cause they can't believe what we have in the making
Shit so historic, got me goin' for it while I bang the nation
And do niggas greasier than a slab of bacon


These rap niggas is bitches, nothing but suckers to me
Sacrifice myself for the music and let them suffer through me
Your weak product is nothing to me
I only feel effects when I fuck with Louis
Yep, I get buck in the studio like I'm Evil Dee
Pulling strings like the Muppet movie
Shining my light like Mos calling his mother Umi
Who's the hottest regardless of who's flaming?
We ain't talkin' 'bout the best until you mention my name
Who're you kidding? The truest spitting
I'll break you like a mirror so it's clearer
That we don't believe in superstition
These new additions need supervision
Thinking that they can spit it in the booth like me
What are you stupid? Listen
I've been official, it's been official, I'm too consistent
I make a claim 'cause I'm too official for euphemisms
Staying in the cut like a new incision
I'll put you on your ass like True Religion
So give it up for the truest living


14.Favela Love


15.Outstanding


Girl you're outstanding
From your hips to your thighs
It's effortless how you standing out
Girl you're outstanding
So let's not waste no time
Let's get it girl cause tonight it's ours, yeah

While you walking, everybody watching you closely
Hitting them high notes, nothing about you low key
Just let it register, body is unreal
Was animated like Jessica...
Rabbit a cartoon, wanna stab like a harpoon
These dudes is dry; the club a desert
Your body like an oasis
The thirst is so real, you can see it all in they faces
Especially when you drop it low, baby you gotta know
Girl you be killing them, filling them with all kind of hope
Dude on the block that be selling dope
By the shoes and the watch you can tell he's broke
Tell him stop with the lies he telling folks, you can't see with
a telescope
Celebrating, holding glasses up like Sara Palin nose
Love it in the club when the fellows go
But you hate that your hair gotta smell like smoke
They ask you what is hitting for
Nigga try to fix the prices, never dealt with chicks before
You ain't got your liquor license, still you down to live your
life
If dude is down to split the slice of pie... you like the master
active fly
Until you hit it right
Hey you girl with the tight up-skirt
In the back of the club where they light up purp'
Known to drop it like a stripper, with her night off work
They make it rain and you stuffing dollars right in your, purse


You just looking for somebody that can fill in the spot
Fill in the blank, yeah shorty, you've been sipping a lot
Feeling the drink, as it seeps to your head
You erase your regrets
Throw another shot back, as you race to forget
Yeah the night just started, we both parted from ex love
Sleep won't make you forget him baby but sex does
Swear you ain't looking for no one night stand
But you prepared to risk it all for that one right man
Ask me, let's have a toast to your future
I know you belong to
Leave your ex in the past, don't let him haunt you
The last argument was world war III, but follow me
I introduce you to that bourgeoisie
Talk is cheap, welcome to the R. Les show
You'll be my Brigitte Bardot, I'll be your Serge Gainsbourg
Give you what you came for, let me get that car door
Have you ever made love in the Lambo Gallardo


16.Intro