Talib Kweli - Stay Around lyrics
[Talib Kweli - Stay Around lyrics]
Ladies and gentlemen kweli!
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Kweli you should rap about this
You should rap about that
Any more suggestions? You in the back
Yeah you you should rap more on beat
You should rap more street
And never ever get your mack on please
How bout you? I like the way you're melodic
It's cause you capture hypnotic
Portrait's and seem to make
The average exotic
Kweli you nice, I know you getting some love
But you can't spit like a thug
And you a blow, you make a hit for the club
Word i don't like your voice
I don't like your choice of beats
It sounds like it's forced
And what was up with "Back Up Offa Me"?
I ain't like that
Now you should get with Hi Tek
Now he got nice tracks
Them other dudes is type wack
Yeah, people keeping it coming
I keep it bubbling
Like the heat from oven boiling
The water and the hate so they light my fire
I got a mic empire, my own label
I had to Emancipate Mimi like Mariah
At some point I might retire
On some bullshit
My legacy, horseshit like Mariah's
Illest flow found in the game
Soothing like the sound of the rain
It's the dude profound with the fame
I refusing to be sounding the same
Keeping the verses, deleting the curses
Defeating the purpose
When the people go on strike
I'm in the street with the workers
Speaking the words from a pulpit
Like the preachers at churches
Raise my hand, all the teachers get nervous
Cause they know I air them out
And they ain't even really gotta hear me out
Keep it dirty like Pigpen
Voice in the warrior's head
Like Lynne Thigpen clocking like Big Ben
Old school slang still find a way to innovate
Pete Rock got em feeling great
The ladies say
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Light the tip of the L
This heavyweight rap tipping the scale
And we never let the
System prevail, real picturesque
Missing the sale never that
It's forbidden like Afghani sisters
Lifting the veil i'm still leading the pack
These cats lacking
Just because you be having a dragon
Don't mean you got the fire
It ain't nothing to play with, it's sacred
My pen is the paintbrush
And dipping in paint plus
Truth, love, joy, anger, hatred and anguish
That's the spectrum of colors I paint with
I don't feast at the banquet cause freedom
Is the set that I bang with
Listen the conditions in my
Slum Village is Tainted
I grew through the pavement
Like the flower the girl drew in the paper
The sky bluer and the obvious save you
The rules of engagement that they use
Attitudes of a slave
Man got me stressed out losing my patience
The moves that I'm making across waters
Through contraband that I'm
Taking across borders
Information never lost in translation
Too many new words to be learned
I'm spitting fire giving third degree burns
Giving them heat stroke
Hotter than rocking a peacote
At Venice Beach though, all these
Rappers soup like miso, we go
Back in the days like
Reminiscing with Pete yo
Ladies welcome to the Kweli show she goes
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Ladies and Gentleman, it's Talib Kweli
Yeah, this Ear Drum y'all
B-B-B-B-Banging on your ear drum
We got the incredible Pete Rock
On the track like i like that, I like that
I want to give an extra big
Shout to my man Dave Dart
Holding me down as always and as usual
And his new born son, Cannon
Brand new to the world
He's now down with Blacksmith
Blacksmith is the movement
Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady gang
Talib Kweli it's what it is, yeah
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Kweli you should rap about this
You should rap about that
Any more suggestions? You in the back
Yeah you you should rap more on beat
You should rap more street
And never ever get your mack on please
How bout you? I like the way you're melodic
It's cause you capture hypnotic
Portrait's and seem to make
The average exotic
Kweli you nice, I know you getting some love
But you can't spit like a thug
And you a blow, you make a hit for the club
Word i don't like your voice
I don't like your choice of beats
It sounds like it's forced
And what was up with "Back Up Offa Me"?
I ain't like that
Now you should get with Hi Tek
Now he got nice tracks
Them other dudes is type wack
Yeah, people keeping it coming
I keep it bubbling
Like the heat from oven boiling
The water and the hate so they light my fire
I got a mic empire, my own label
I had to Emancipate Mimi like Mariah
At some point I might retire
On some bullshit
My legacy, horseshit like Mariah's
Illest flow found in the game
Soothing like the sound of the rain
It's the dude profound with the fame
I refusing to be sounding the same
Keeping the verses, deleting the curses
Defeating the purpose
When the people go on strike
I'm in the street with the workers
Speaking the words from a pulpit
Like the preachers at churches
Raise my hand, all the teachers get nervous
Cause they know I air them out
And they ain't even really gotta hear me out
Keep it dirty like Pigpen
Voice in the warrior's head
Like Lynne Thigpen clocking like Big Ben
Old school slang still find a way to innovate
Pete Rock got em feeling great
The ladies say
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Light the tip of the L
This heavyweight rap tipping the scale
And we never let the
System prevail, real picturesque
Missing the sale never that
It's forbidden like Afghani sisters
Lifting the veil i'm still leading the pack
These cats lacking
Just because you be having a dragon
Don't mean you got the fire
It ain't nothing to play with, it's sacred
My pen is the paintbrush
And dipping in paint plus
Truth, love, joy, anger, hatred and anguish
That's the spectrum of colors I paint with
I don't feast at the banquet cause freedom
Is the set that I bang with
Listen the conditions in my
Slum Village is Tainted
I grew through the pavement
Like the flower the girl drew in the paper
The sky bluer and the obvious save you
The rules of engagement that they use
Attitudes of a slave
Man got me stressed out losing my patience
The moves that I'm making across waters
Through contraband that I'm
Taking across borders
Information never lost in translation
Too many new words to be learned
I'm spitting fire giving third degree burns
Giving them heat stroke
Hotter than rocking a peacote
At Venice Beach though, all these
Rappers soup like miso, we go
Back in the days like
Reminiscing with Pete yo
Ladies welcome to the Kweli show she goes
Won't you stay around with me?
And please say the rhyme
Cause these rappers think that I'm
In love with your state of mind
Cause you a favorite of mine
And I know you on your grind
I don't want to waste your time
But baby won't you stay around with me?
And let my love (and let my love)
And let my love
Ladies and Gentleman, it's Talib Kweli
Yeah, this Ear Drum y'all
B-B-B-B-Banging on your ear drum
We got the incredible Pete Rock
On the track like i like that, I like that
I want to give an extra big
Shout to my man Dave Dart
Holding me down as always and as usual
And his new born son, Cannon
Brand new to the world
He's now down with Blacksmith
Blacksmith is the movement
Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady gang
Talib Kweli it's what it is, yeah