Kanye West, Consequence, Talib Kweli - Chain Heavy lyrics

Uh, we got the black elite
In the house tonight rosewood
I feel like I'm at the
NAACP or something right now
The Essence Festival
Q Tip on the beat too, uh, uh

My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy
My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy

They try to tell me my chain broke the levee
Maybe 'cause it's flooded
Why you walk around with
A baby cross's cousin?
My teeth already white
Y'all gon' make me floss for nothing
My teeth real diamonds
What's the cause of the frontin'?
Why y'all got all caps on?


Don Cheadle time, get extra black on 'em
Burn, Hollywood, burn
Take too long for niggas to get they turn
Probably be cremated before I get my earn
They try to tell me that
Aliens built the pyramids
I swear life's a bitch on her period
For every inch they cut the
Nose off the Sphinx
I make my jeweller add a few more links
You can look at me
Tell I ain't fuck what nobody think
And my face always lookin'
Like somebody stinks

My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy
My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy

Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face
Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face alright, okay
Here we go, like we should
Like we should, like we should
Like we should

Question: What color was the skin of the
Man who beared the cross?
No matter how many lashes
They couldn't beat it off
How many Cassius' will we
See in one lifetime?
That's why it's Miles Davis, Kobe
It's Mike time
I keep that GOAT book on the ottoman
And wrote hooks about slaves
That was slaughtered
In the 1800s y'all forget that
I got called "Nigga" on Twitter
So many times, yo, i lived that
Now I'm just tryna find where
To raise my kids at
'Cause they don't want niggas next
To where they crib at
Hey, realtor, I'm lookin' for a nice park
Twelve noon
She said my family gon' make it too dark
This is the flow that solar eclipses
So hopefully one day that
Real soul will eclipse
The bullshit they got us listenin' to
In this existence don't give up now
Just a little more persistence
I am the day Ice Cube met Michael Jackson
Keep 'em away, hanh! Something might happen
This is the makin' of a masterpiece
So we broke out the chains
And told the master, "Peace!"

My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy
My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy

Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face
Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face alright, okay
Here we go, like we should
Like we should, like we should
Like we should

Some wear a suit and tie
They don't wanna remain average
Some wear a suit and tie like
A chain and a straitjacket
My chain heavy, stop in that traffic
Coppers harass us then DA attack us
Want us in chains like BA baracus
So no major factor in my
Decision to be a rapper
Was rebellion being anti-establishment
Was attractive to a black kid from Brooklyn
Flames got the thangs cooking
Land of the juks where them
Lames get them chains tooken
It ain't lookin' good for you
If you're a tourist here
Sometimes I rhymes the sort of
Frequency that only purists hear
A couple rappers tried to beef with me
Nobody's scared
Niggas was so fucking corny that nobody cared
Why I gotta battle rappers? I debate scholars
Question: do it gotta make sense
If it make dollars?
Sick visions is living inside of brains
It's like we sadomasochistic
Addicted to whips and chains
Figuratively, quite literally
Clinically insane
Spit flames and then visit the higher plane
Try in vain to ignore it
Don't buy the chain if you can't afford it
'Ye, them lonely-idled whores by the boards
Trust

That old ball-and-chain had me
Chained up for weeks
So of course I'm off the chain as
Soon as I hit the streets
And now when we link she
Saying the game's over
I drove her crazy and she
Became a chain smoker
Now the new dude she's saying
That can stay over should be a chain
Who goes by the name of Choker
That's what he did when she told
Him he should play the sofa
So the chains on the door
I'm on the way over
Now when I came over, his only response
Was, "You must be the owner
Of a chain of restaurants
'Cause I'mma eat your food for
That chain that I wore
'Cause you be running 'round like
The chain make the man"
So it's obvious the he don't
Know the chain of command
'Cause my chain commands
That kind of respect
And it's so chunky that it's
A pain in the neck but it came with a check
I remember on chaining day
It spoke for it'self and this is
What the chain would say
"Them chain snatchers are hoping
That you ain't ready
So don't get distracted, keep your aim steady
Or there'll be a chain reaction
Since my chain's heavy"

My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy
My chain heavy, yeah, yeah, my chain heavy
My chain heavy, my chain too heavy

Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face
Here we go, like we should
Feel the sweat, on your face alright, okay
Here we go, like we should
Like we should, like we should
Like we should