Black Star - Re:Definition lyrics
[Black Star - Re:Definition lyrics]
One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in Hip-Hop, Y-O yo!
I said one, two, three
Black Star shine eternally
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
And Hi Tek make the beat drop, Y-O
Redefinition, turnin' your play
Into a tragedy
Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately
Niggas is sweet, so I bet if I bit
I'd get a cavity livin' to get high
You ain't flyer than gravity
We die hard like the battery
Thrown in the back of me by the mad MC
Who think imitation is the
Highest form of flattery
Actually, don't be mad at me
I had to be the one to break it to you
You get kicked into obscurity like judo no
Menudo 'Cause you pseudo
Tryin' to compete with reality like Xerox
Towards destruction, you spiralin'
Like helix, wipe them teardrops
Chasin' stars in your eyes
Playin' games with your lives
Now the wives is widows, soakin' up pillows
Weepin' like willows
Still more blacks is dyin'
'cause they live and they tryin'
"How to Make a Slave" by
Willie Lynch is still applyin'
Regardless, Mos is one of my closest partners
Rockin' ever since before Prince
Was called The Artist
Rockin' before Funkmaster Flex
Was rockin' Starter
When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool
Before they was martyrs
Life or death, if I'm choosin'
With every breath I'm enhancin'
Stop, there comes a time when you can't run
What? Lyrically handsome
Call collect a king's ransom
Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion
Move like a Phantom
You'll talk about me to your grandsons
Cats who claimin' they hard be mad fags
So I run through 'em like
Flood water through sandbags
Competition is mad, what I got
They can't have
Sinkin' they ship like Moby Dick to Ahab
Son, I'm way past the minimum
Enterin' millennium my raps will hold a gat
To your back like Palestinians
Ancient Abyssinian, sure to hold the Gideon
Official b-boy gentlemen, long term
Never the interim born inside the winter
When? Day after December 10
These simpletons they mentionin' the
Synonym for feminine
Sweeter than some cinnamon
The Danish rings by Entenmann's
Rush up on adrenaline
They get they asses sent to them
(Gentlemen) You got a tenement? Well
Then assemble it!
Leave your unit tremblin' like
Herds of movin' elephant
Intelligent embellishment
Follow for your element
From Flatbush settlement
Skin possesses melanin
Hotter than tales of crack peddlin'
Makin' 'em WOOP like blue gelatin
Swing like Duke Ellington
Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
The hot Apache red who burned
Down your chief teepee you see me?
One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in Hip-Hop, Y-O yo!
I said one, two, three
Black Star shine eternally!
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Because we rulin' Hip-Hop
Yes, we is rulin' Hip-Hop
Talib Kweli is rulin' Hip-Hop
Say we Black Star
We rule Hip-Hop ah ahh ah ahh ahh whoahhhh!
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in Hip-Hop, Y-O yo!
I said one, two, three
Black Star shine eternally
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
And Hi Tek make the beat drop, Y-O
Redefinition, turnin' your play
Into a tragedy
Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately
Niggas is sweet, so I bet if I bit
I'd get a cavity livin' to get high
You ain't flyer than gravity
We die hard like the battery
Thrown in the back of me by the mad MC
Who think imitation is the
Highest form of flattery
Actually, don't be mad at me
I had to be the one to break it to you
You get kicked into obscurity like judo no
Menudo 'Cause you pseudo
Tryin' to compete with reality like Xerox
Towards destruction, you spiralin'
Like helix, wipe them teardrops
Chasin' stars in your eyes
Playin' games with your lives
Now the wives is widows, soakin' up pillows
Weepin' like willows
Still more blacks is dyin'
'cause they live and they tryin'
"How to Make a Slave" by
Willie Lynch is still applyin'
Regardless, Mos is one of my closest partners
Rockin' ever since before Prince
Was called The Artist
Rockin' before Funkmaster Flex
Was rockin' Starter
When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool
Before they was martyrs
Life or death, if I'm choosin'
With every breath I'm enhancin'
Stop, there comes a time when you can't run
What? Lyrically handsome
Call collect a king's ransom
Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem
Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion
Move like a Phantom
You'll talk about me to your grandsons
Cats who claimin' they hard be mad fags
So I run through 'em like
Flood water through sandbags
Competition is mad, what I got
They can't have
Sinkin' they ship like Moby Dick to Ahab
Son, I'm way past the minimum
Enterin' millennium my raps will hold a gat
To your back like Palestinians
Ancient Abyssinian, sure to hold the Gideon
Official b-boy gentlemen, long term
Never the interim born inside the winter
When? Day after December 10
These simpletons they mentionin' the
Synonym for feminine
Sweeter than some cinnamon
The Danish rings by Entenmann's
Rush up on adrenaline
They get they asses sent to them
(Gentlemen) You got a tenement? Well
Then assemble it!
Leave your unit tremblin' like
Herds of movin' elephant
Intelligent embellishment
Follow for your element
From Flatbush settlement
Skin possesses melanin
Hotter than tales of crack peddlin'
Makin' 'em WOOP like blue gelatin
Swing like Duke Ellington
Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me
The hot Apache red who burned
Down your chief teepee you see me?
One, two, three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in Hip-Hop, Y-O yo!
I said one, two, three
Black Star shine eternally!
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Because we rulin' Hip-Hop
Yes, we is rulin' Hip-Hop
Talib Kweli is rulin' Hip-Hop
Say we Black Star
We rule Hip-Hop ah ahh ah ahh ahh whoahhhh!