Hey, yo man, I think that dude's tryin to break into your car
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...what?
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New York life... type trife...
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That's why I'm tryin to shine the light, yo
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Here it come, here it come, here it come, y'all
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Mos Def, blessed with the breath of life so arise and give praises
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Turn my face to where the mighty sun raises
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My book of rhyme pages, filled with phrases that amaze
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I could go on for days
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First name Dante, last name Beze
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Build the house of tomorrow with bricks of today
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My foundation rests on Allah corner stone
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Shine the light throught the mic to radiate your zone
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See, the world that we know is about to get finished
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I'm watching last days wind down to final minutes
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Got dreams of paradise and my whole fam in it
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So I ain't got time to play no crime lieutenant
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Do you got time to play the crime lieutenant?
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See time is the asset, how you gonna spend it
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The way you handle yours will be well documented
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It's the raw authentic, sandalwood scented
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To make you bump the joint and in beyond city limits
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Twenty-first, no time to, approach a thing timid
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My name is Mos Def and this is how I get in it
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[Chorus:]
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Hey yo, my man (huh?)....
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Somethin tight comin through the pipe (what?)
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You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed
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to incline throughout space and time (yeah)
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You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?)
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Somethin tight comin on your right (what?)
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You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed
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To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah)
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If you can huh, you can hear it...
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If you can huh, you can hear it, we in your atmos'
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Shine like black gold, burn like black coal
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Make a old timer roll up her sleeves, now that's cold
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Behold, the one and only has blessed my testimony
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Approach the ceremony authentic, never phony
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For delf, but never lonely, keep the kinfolk close
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Watch me rip it on Pacific and Atlantic coasts
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with the antidote, for the poisonous snake lies wit
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Only wimps put the hiss on tape
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You can't get on straight, this is dead on tape
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Accompanied by Shawn J. with the bid on bait
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Put the grid on plate, on the ear or tray
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Hot damn it captain Kirk and the Klingons say
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You can't sit on stage, you got to get on the M-O-
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T-I-V-A-T-E real life, ain't no freebie
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My seed can't be needy, no time for freaky-deaky
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I'm movin on up like George and Wheezy
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Who said that this was easy, they must have been treetop high
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Standin yieldin to our boldfaced lie, we all got to die
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So all got to try, to live life right
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in the sight of most high, to live life right
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in the sight of most high, to live life right
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in the sight of most high, to live life right in the sight
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[Chorus:]
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Hey yo, my man (huh?)....
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Somethin tight comin through the pipe (what?)
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You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed
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to incline throughout space and time (yeah)
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You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?)
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Somethin tight movin on your right (what?)
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You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed
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To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah)
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If you can huh, you can hear it yo, my man (huh?)....
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Somethin tight comin through the pipe (what?)
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You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed
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to incline the pure genuine (yeah)
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You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?)
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Somethin tight movin on your right (what?)
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You heard the first time, my rhyme is designed
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To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah)
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If you can huh, you can hear it...
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If you can huh, you can hear it, we in your atmos'...
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If You Can Huh! You Can Hear
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| Mos Def |
