Common - Music is About Love Interlude (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005) lyrics

You know
For those who don't know about Common
You know, I’m an MC that talked about
And talks about love a lot, you know
Like I said, in hip-hop
They expect us to only talk
About guns and women
And just like bitches and all this, you know
And how many diamonds we got
But that ain't all we about, so you know
When Common came on the scene
I was talking about hip-hop
Talking about culture, talking about music
And i talked about 40 ounces, but
You know and that too, but it was more
To it than just that, you know
It's like music is about
Love, it’s about God
It's about spirituality and you know
A lot of people had a lot
Of things to say about me
And they was talking about, "Ah, he's soft
Man" and you know
"He ain't coming with the real hip-hop"
You know and, "He going crazy
He doing all these love songs
What's on his mind?
What's happening with the boy? What's
The matter with the boy?
It's a problem with him he used to
Be raw hip-hop when he first started
Now he’s changing on some other stuff
What’s going on with dude?
What's happening with him? Huh? What’s
The matter with Common now?
Let me know, what's the matter with Common?"
That's what they be saying
They hear the boy going crazy