Talib Kweli, 9th Wonder, Planet Asia, Brother Ali - Understand lyrics

Good Lord I’m full of surprises
Here’s something for you to ride with
Lay down, pump up the volumes
Put you phone on silent
Yea, you need to understand the process
Why? So you can have respect for it
People be telling you what your job is
Like they the ones getting the cheque for it
Sometimes I get into my own head
It’s like you never understood me
I’m not just tellin’ y’all how it is
I tell my people how it could be
Know I’m exactly where I should be
One of the best that ever did it
They’ll probly lie to you in public
But in private they’ll admit it
Back in the shadow while snitches
Getting their tattle on
The Don like Magic Juan
And my saber getting it's rattle on
Forging the fires of Avalon
My catalogue empowerment
Your cowardice is towering like Babylon
Travel on the rivers of my
Father like Gil Scott
I’m colder than the fleece that keep
Them golden like Jill Scott
Frying up the bagel on the
Block cause it’s still hot
Sentiment hollow like the bullets
That kill cops
It’s astrological like the flow
It’s astronomical like the Tribe
The white dwarf star invisible
To the naked eye
We makin’ the tide rise like when
The moon overtake the sky
You thinking if you can’t see it
Or touch it it ain’t real
If it ain’t a physical reality
Then you can’t deal
Still on the idea that you can’t kill
Try to treat the symptoms not
The root of the problem the body can’t heal

When we touch these mics we get busy
Come and have a good time with G-O-D
Make you shake the finger and wiggle
Scream, shout, laugh and just giggle
Shake that body, party that body
You ain’t rockin’ with us? You’ll be sorry
That’s word, I’m not the herb
Understand what I’m saying?
Saying? Saying? Saying?

From the earliest moment I
Remember me existing
I been driven, living for the vision
What to do when you wake up and realise
That the castle you been building
Is actually a prison
I’m right where the most high has me at
Trying to abandon the bad
Habit of glancing back
And any future I imagine that
All is exactly that, a fantastic track
Every breath I breathe I see it
As a unit of my destiny
That did not exist until
The second I conceive
Chest start heaving and the
Blessings I receive, that’s what I believe
Living in the moment is a love like this
An OG told me I should hug my gift
If you could be please
D with what you witness
Then you will never distress no
Matter what might shift
This, you hear the sound of
Crickets when they walking through
These rappers say they loud but
Their audibles is horrible sad and boring
That’s the categories that they fall into
God is on the line
This the final call for you
Told the divine, "I resign, I belong to you"
I heard a voice like, "Who you talking to?
Don’t you realize that I am all you do?"
(Go ahead man)
Borrow this mic, I’m tryna talk it through

Keep it on the one like knowledge
And go the mileage with me
This is policy, monk magic dynasty
Model mantras a direct current from the wise
When I wind up in the whirlwind
Bit the metals from gold to sterling
Planet sick, the world need surgery
Police popping kids and pirates out purging
I drown my pain in the verses, spit sermons
On the playback, eyes closed
With a big spliff burning
My movement is grassroots
That’s how noble do no shit
Sherlock the devil never told the truth
Respect to the great mind
Moving at the speed of light
On a straight line 45 degrees I post
That’s me shining at the center
Salute to the council of the elected host
The destiny manifested was in
The message wrote
Cream of the earth is what the lesson spoke

When we touch these mics we get busy
Come and have a good time with G-O-D
Make you shake the finger and wiggle
Scream, shout, laugh and just giggle
Shake that body, party that body
You ain’t rockin’ with us? You’ll be sorry
That’s word, I’m not the herb
Understand what I’m saying?
Saying? Saying? Saying?

Understand what I’m saying?
Saying? Saying? Saying?
Understand what I’m saying?
Saying? Saying? Saying?