[Diverse]
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My mind compliance like a science
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Analyze my data, not a fader on the face of the earth
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Can blend rhythms like my will, surreal spinnin
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Ever-movin like evolution it's retribution
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For sellin roots, lessen futures, I'm steppin to fuse? ya
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Sun rises my subconsciousness culminates constant
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Live to see various i-de-ologies, angles like isosceles
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read my auto-b-i-ography
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So many stars? to me that vibrantly shine
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Velocity's properly thick like mahogany dimes
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We findin beauty in this urban-gritty usually overlooked by many
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Movin through the densely populated city
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And soon and eventually - 'we gotta get ova'
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I document culture closer to the edge
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Bolder than a print, open to interpretation, gazin deep into the glitz?
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To my people, raise you fists
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I know it stays intent, whatever pays your rent, but saves your soul
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You know the drill, it go:
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[Mos & Diverse simultaneously]
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Hotter than most dudes
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From left to right, on top and below you
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Flow like the coastals, move like smoke do
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-I'm Diverse- these other cats is just hopefuls
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When they ask who put it down, baby, you know who
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Tell your whole crew, it's somethin that you need to know, dude
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This is how we go through
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[Mos]
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Who the poisoned pen?
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Mos got the inkwell full of syrum
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Prescribed for any emcee claimin they ill
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A small dose'll change the way that they feel
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Milligrams in the raw, snow-cut, check how I label the pill
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It's MD, the spit-doctor, chant like a witch-doctor
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Recite me, and ya whole ailment get proper
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I'm the, medicine man, representin my clan
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Mixin the potion with verse fire and simmer, my man
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And stay shoutin out the home team wherever I am:
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it's the B-R-O double akh-K-L-wY-liN out
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The cowboys who don't fret to pull they lamas? out
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Ironhorse style cab?, hoop-te ville ridin out
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No lights, no cam, action - drama'd out
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?? out, absorb the shit that I'm about
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Inner-city Bruno, ghetto folks, holla out
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I'm good money, tell the doubters get they wallets out
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Hot when the dice is out, they go broke findin out
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Smack ya mojo, caught a half of 'oh no'
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Magical vocals, get it down like coastals?
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Underground nigga that spoke truth and broke through
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Shine bright when I'm far from my close-to
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I told you, you know how Mos do
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Hotter than most dudes
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From left to right, on top and below you
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Flow like the coastals, move like smoke do
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-I'm Mos Def- them other cats is just hopefuls
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When they ask who put it down, baby, you know who
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Tell your whole crew, it's somethin that you need to know, dude
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This is how we go through
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[Diverse]
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Exposed to a higher set of variables, as fly as aerial
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Definin stereo components, moments with my master
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Remasterin techniques, havin some fresh sheets
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Damagin margins with a broader outlook - 'we lookin out, y'all'
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Me and Mr. Mighty Mos, we outlaws
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Blazin in the saddle, raisin like the mornin star, formin majestic
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Candescent like the street lamps, I-be-amped to inn-o-vate
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Reminiscent of technology, probably just my will to build
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To real notions of emotions similar to the seven seas
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Steadily sparkin cables, tables turnin like the high tide
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I'm captive to this music, vastness, into it i skydive
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Tumblin like buildings crumblin on inner-cities cumbersome
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They comin to run us out, my niggas shout for justice
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You wanna link with me, then let me know
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This music is like my vessel so we seem to be inseparable
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From C-?Sea?-town, headed eastbound
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You know the rest, it go:
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Hotter than most dudes
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From left to right, on top and below you
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Flow like the coastals, move like smoke do
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-It's D-I- these other cats is just hopefuls
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When they ask who put it down, baby, you know who
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Tell your whole crew, it's somethin that you need to know, dude
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This is how we go through
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Wylin Out
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Mos Def |