[Talib Kweli]
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Yo you sent out the signal right?
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And this is what happened
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The voice of Hip Hop got heard
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Never comprimised this is how we put it down c'mon
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[Kool G Rap]
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Throughout my thuglife I've seen the ???
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Like ??? fight over the role of dice
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Flashing whole lights when killas on a hiest
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So contight, get poltergiest over the bowl of Christ
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Who pulled the slice from cats aiming gats who showed the hiest
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Told you right she be the one that come and hold your mic
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Then aim it at the whole vice squad just like ???
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Rollin like every prototype was dolomight
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One man recall his ice inside his gun hand he holds for life
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[Rah Digga]
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This for the ones with holes in they graves
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Waitin for they piece when the law misbehave
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I say we off ??? watch 'em walk the beat
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Like you can't cross streets make them all retreat
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(now) Judges and the jury be a little to appointed
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Making us defendants when we supossed to be the plantiffs
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Laugh now cause soon the thrill stops
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Heads get it on and start to kill cops
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[Sporty Theivz]
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I'm sober but the pull me over
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What i do yo? (what we do yo?)
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Poe-poe go i'm drivin to slow (cool yo)
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I torin' them explorin them (damn)
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For them that's why i'm ignoring them (uh-oh)
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Bring like king skip
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Before they bring this to some Rodeny King shit
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Forget them fools
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Now make no sudden moves
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They reachin for they tools (let's move)
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You buggin dude
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Kirk you ran the stop, word them pigs frontin
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Yo tell like you tell 'em cousin we ain't did nothin
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All they see is three blacks in a jeep with seats back
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Lookin for ??? packs how the blood dog can eat that
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They thirstin for a reason to blast you can't beat that
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Gats and a badge to match you can beat that so bounce 'em
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[Mos Def]
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My people unite and let's all get down
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We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
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One god, One love, One light
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One aim, One voice, One fight
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My people unite, hop up and do it right
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We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
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One god, One love, One light
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One aim, One voice, One fight
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My people unite, hop up and do it right
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Do it right ya'll, keep it tight ya'll, do it right ya'll, just do it
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[Shabaam Sahdeeq]
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Blood on they hands, blood on my mans
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Destroying the fam
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More souljers die, another mother cries
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Anthony Buyers, ??? ???, Diallo
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Let it keep happenin and theirs more to follow
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It's even deeper then that penal shot in the back
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Forever we fight and cus but the world still adjust
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So many bullets just to stop one man
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Is that the plan,
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To leave us all dead in the street
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[Common]
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I'm an opponent of violence
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To many of my guys have to condome it in silence
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Law takes lives and can only do violence
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And with night sticks i write quick
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Hopin that
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[Talib Kweli and Common]
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I might hit somebody in the heart
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[Talib Kweli]
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Like an arrow with her eyes on a sparrow
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Yo i feel my peoples pain all in my bone marrow
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[Common]
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I'm tellin Pharoahe to let my folks go
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Ma's been singin to law like they background vocals
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[Talib Kweli]
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Local, state, federal cops have been payed properly
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To protect the property
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How can i just stand by and watch a man die for nothin and not react
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The way we spit on this track is how we bustin back
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[Common]
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Yo i pimp slap 5-0
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Get behind them and make the marks drive slow
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[Talib Kweli]
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Yo, you wanna know how to improve on the quality life?
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Try respectin it step into my zone and maifest a check in it
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[Pharoahe Monch]
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Cops they transport me from Long island to Medina
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with they fucked up demeanor
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Dreamin of stickin it to me like Abner Louima
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Pharoahe slash El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
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with plans of retaliations of they coward ass
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God please allow me to preach for 'em
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A voiceless man through a spirit i speek for him
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Step to city hall if a dove flew for Diallo
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with a vision of cops inside the Public Enemy logo
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[Posdnous]
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All that scheming and plotting
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The young absorb like cotton does
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Ecspeacially in my city where the boys steady rockin in
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You would thought 5-0 would cut it all short
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But they play the biggest part in the art o |