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(talking)
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If you can talk you can sing
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If you can walk you can dance
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That's an old proverb from Zimbabwe
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You know what I mean
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If you can talk you can sing
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If you can walk you can dance
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Yeah, and the trumpet is blown
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Yeah, alright, C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
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Alright, Wooh!
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(talking)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, one more time
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Yo, anybody can tell you how it is
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What we putting down right here is how it is and how it could be
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Reflection Eternal for real
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And with that-
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These cats is no match
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Plus they lack a certain knack for rapping
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Chasing but they never catch the wagon
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Like rerunning what's hap'ning
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Since back when
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They had potty issues and snotty tissues, we been rockin'
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Think you poppin' next year nobody will miss you
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My thoughts is too advanced for the artists on these labels
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They come sweeter than sabal and softer than mashed potatoes
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I tried to told you the rhymes run over emcees like Land Rovers
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Took 'em back in time like Sam Kofa, Sam Kofa
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We stand over the Atlantic, looking broad like a man's shoulders
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The fire is trapped in a belly, ready to pop like canned soda
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We outlasting, from middle passage
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Touched down in New York
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Cincinnatay! Big Ohio status what you thought
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Money it's classic these bastards try to treat us like cattle
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So life has been a constant battle, battle
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Rising above the crabs in the barrel
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Way too used to living in death's shadow
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We stay on point like the best arrow, arrow
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We hit the target accurate
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Star shit, back it up
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When we hit town, y'all niggas pack it up
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That's how we get down, straight smash it up
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Like a whip, hydroplaning
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Hydro on the brain and maintaining
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Game changing into subtle shit, we remain blatant
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Yo, got to tell you to your face
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You get replaced in this game, by Kweli
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Place the face with the name
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These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain
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Like slaves on a ship talking about who got the flyest chain
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(talking)
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Yo, we the reflection of our ancestors
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We'd like to thank you for the building blocks you left us
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Cause your spirit possessed us
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Yo, you blessed us
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Thank you very much (7x)
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Yo, we the reflection of our ancestors
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We'd like to thank you for the building blocks you left us
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Cause your spirit possessed us
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Yo, you blessed us
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Thank you very much
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God bless you (7x)
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Africa Dream
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| Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek |
