Talib Kweli - City Playgrounds lyrics

What we have here is the alpha and the omega
I spit it, bare witness to the greatest
And the latest, they try to hate us
Witness the evolution of spitting
It's wicked and it's decadent
Revolutions per minutes
Every time the record spin
Retribution for cynics
Like a stick-up kid with weapons
In Brooklyn, they say I run it
The 'Natti is checking in
No matter the terminology
Blood splatter artistically
It's looking like a Jackson Pollock painting
It's a mystery
Really should be brothers united
Against the industry
The African diaspora scatter
With shattered history
The game missing me, rap is so repetitive
Although I ain't your blood or your cuz


It's all relative i got a gang of rhymes
And Tones' beats is banging
We moving through the streets
Like we're slanging dimes
It's magical, how the track's so classical
The cats who got gassed up
In their sweats like Plaxico
I'm back from my sabbatical
Voice of the future, black radical
Keeping all the damages collateral
Listening to instrumentals
Thinking about all the things
I've been through
The music is just a peek into my life
It's a window
It's so high tech and it's all so simple
And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
Even if I get down, I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Hey yo
I'm taking all bets and settling all debts
A giant leap for man begins with a small step
From a sword to a set
To my people on the picket line
Who's sicking of getting treated like
Them aliens in District 9
I juxtapose my business model with my spirit
What I'm just supposed to keep
You comfortable with the lyrics?
I know the flow's disturbing
I know for certain just because
You know all about the artist don't
Mean you know the person
You don't know me, I run labels
These unstable rappers so phony
I try to listen but they're
Boring as missionary position
So I'm shitting on these
Niggas like dysentery conditions
I'm sitting on the throne
You dreaming that it's empty soon
Nobody feeling you
You're screaming in an empty room
The tree that fall in the forest
Nobody hearing you
Even though you fall the hardest
Don't get me started
Listening to instrumentals
Thinking about all the things
I've been through
The music is just a peek into my life
It's a window
It's so high tech and it's all so simple
And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
Even if I get down, I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Yo, I build up my defenses when
I'm left to my devices time gets suspended
More than DMX's driver's license
My music's steady
Not affected by the higher prices
People having sex in the
Streets like Dionysus
You know what my advice is? Fuck my advice
Live your life stop tripping like everything
Amount to crisis i make the sacrifices
My history is black as ice is
I don't think that I can trust
You if you're lacking vices
I never miss a beat, the
Liquor make me slurred, it takes my words
Tries to twist them like a
Swisher Sweet with sticky herbs
American History X
Your teeth'll hit the curb
It's easy 'cause I'm ill with the wordplay
I still flip the bird
Like Jeezy, strip it down, now it's exposed
I suppose my flow is
The emperor's new clothes
Although I'm always by myself
I never ride alone
The music is on then I'm right at home
Zoning listening to instrumentals
Thinking about all the things
I've been through
The music is just a peek into my life
It's a window
It's so high tech and it's all so simple
And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down
Even if I get down, I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Hotter than the tar on this empty playground
Yeah, it's pavement
Don't be scared to think, man
Don't be scared i know whats in your brain
It's scary, man
You only usin' like ten percent
The other ninety percent is scary, man
But don't be scared, scary ass niggas