tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64717438553448301252024-02-07T03:17:06.265-08:00Blackalicious Lyricslyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-56571099185008199642011-06-08T21:47:00.001-07:002011-06-09T17:47:42.001-07:00"The Craft" (2005)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxeIPgstPVT3E9QSYwMmSr4-d-KY_vCv26eByVKyXVJBSrE3gdBXeAxcbKZ4LGiLrtDzYbrMhxa0kpw2rmWbIqu7qxfayinoI9w3HdkPomYkpj94Et08_ipA64Taf1eaJE_33XP_PSec/s1600/craft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxeIPgstPVT3E9QSYwMmSr4-d-KY_vCv26eByVKyXVJBSrE3gdBXeAxcbKZ4LGiLrtDzYbrMhxa0kpw2rmWbIqu7qxfayinoI9w3HdkPomYkpj94Et08_ipA64Taf1eaJE_33XP_PSec/s320/craft.jpg" /></a></div>lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-65663698513879210982011-06-08T21:46:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:46:48.341-07:00World Of Vibrations Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Joy King, Ledisi)[Gift of Gab]<br />
We'd like to welcome you all again to the world of vibrations<br />
Introduction to the nation of revolutionary thoughts<br />
Hear the sound evolve, expand, and change<br />
Most of the things that we're sayin' haven't broken through your chatter<br />
So y'all niggaz still ego trip based and<br />
Have not begun to taste the kundalini wisdom bliss<br />
I'm droppin' as a lyric quotin' vessel for the stages<br />
Play this on your play list<br />
I like dough<br />
But musically I'm transcendin' the physical<br />
And don't blame me for the slang and the words<br />
God writes these rhymes through me<br />
I just listen to him<br />
I'm just livin' duke<br />
Matrix driven rules haven't fooled me<br />
Cuz I still think abstract<br />
And stay metaphysical<br />
And challenge what is really real<br />
And keep creatin' with the force to bring rap back<br />
Not that it's away<br />
But everybody got somethin' to say<br />
So let me speak the opposite of what's hot now<br />
And make that hot<br />
So it will get exploited<br />
And the corporation only will back dudes who bite my style<br />
And they can try and try again<br />
I've been influenced by a lot of pioneers<br />
South to the East and West<br />
But when a hot MC<br />
Gets on stage with a real MC<br />
Most of the time the situation gets hostile<br />
<br />
[Chorus: Ledisi]<br />
We vibrate at higher frequencies<br />
Welcome to our world and intro to<br />
Fall into a space<br />
Where there is no thoughts<br />
Just moments captured<br />
Here we go<br />
<br />
We vibrate at higher frequencies<br />
Let us up inside your head<br />
Just step inside our world of vibration<br />
Bump this from your birth to your deathbed<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Take time with the pad and the pen to dig within<br />
In a world of BS that we're livin' in<br />
To my ears music sound sweet as cinnamon<br />
So I stay poundin' out tunes and tunes again and again<br />
In the 5th chapter ladies and gentlemen<br />
And I still got MCs on my dinner menu<br />
Write late at night this isn't David Letterman though<br />
On second thought, I'm like a letter man though<br />
Let the craft evolve catch a little syndrome<br />
Shootin' through your vains, vibratin' though your eardrums<br />
Used to think 30 years old then the end comes<br />
Now I feel like I'm just gainin' momentum<br />
Seen the world two times all except for India<br />
About to vacate there when we finish this one<br />
Work hard but still some sweep<br />
We won't mention them<br />
In fact, they act as fuel for our engine<br />
Engine engine number 9, mic lynchin'<br />
When we're done with this these songs are our pension<br />
MCs are puppets, Me, I'm Jim Henson<br />
Take a squat or get chopped by the henchmen<br />
City, town, state arena or convention<br />
Please believe these the G's that ease pension<br />
Rakka and Ev said that it's a marathon<br />
Song after song, we keep on inventin'<br />
<br />
[Chorus: repeats]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-54953218837058933852011-06-08T21:45:00.003-07:002011-06-08T21:45:44.210-07:00Supreme People Lyrics - Blackalicious[Chorus]<br />
Su-preme (Supreme, Supreme) [x8]<br />
<br />
Su-preme people living with they backs aligned<br />
Up against the wall cause these days are asinine<br />
Living in a money matrix, How cats survive<br />
Some will fade away and wither, others will blast a 9<br />
Kings and Queens working 9 to 5's<br />
And making nothing searching for a deeper purpose in life<br />
This CAN'T be life...<br />
? can't be right...<br />
Without no money in my pockets I just can't see right<br />
I used to try to preach to younguns like, "Do right kids"<br />
Now-a-days all that I can say is, "Get it how you live"<br />
Live how you get it, shit!<br />
Don't nobody wanna get...<br />
A promotion up to fry cook like little Calvin did<br />
Some would rather take a gamble, hey they might to bids<br />
The allure of fast money in this hell-bound system<br />
Got you look at two-hundred bucks a week<br />
Versus, like a thousand in a day<br />
Tell me what makes more sense to these...<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
Trapped like rats in mazes for the cheese<br />
Every natural resource is here, We don't really need money<br />
But certain people need power over people<br />
They act like that cause they're trapped inside their EGO-sphere<br />
And now you can't feel free<br />
Without material possesions, you can't just be [Be: echo]<br />
And without 'em you're left stressin, so anxiously [Be: anxiously]<br />
So you grab the Smith & Wesson, then aim, then squeeze [Squeeze: echo]<br />
To get what's comin' to ya<br />
The block's so hot, it blew the top off the thermometer<br />
The rush for drama is more appealing than a plane light<br />
Cause life is insane, so insanity is a sane light<br />
It's so easy to see, simple as day and night<br />
SU-preme people born out of the way of the light<br />
In the darkness, trying to fly straight<br />
To some folks it's like being a fish swimming with sharks... shit!<br />
<br />
(Perhaphs not since men turned their ears the preachings of a mere prophet<br />
2000 years ago have the words of humble men reached so many with such force<br />
? Perhaps because it has been burning for long, now smoldering<br />
Now bursting into hot flames, now hastily covered over to smolder again<br />
Until the next outbreak.)<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
SU-preme people only want the best and uhh<br />
SU-preme people won't settle for less then uhh<br />
Straight from royalty put inside projects and uhh<br />
Capitalist system that don't make sense to ya<br />
SU-preme people put against the fence, Get up!<br />
? hostile if you aint fixing the...<br />
Problem you created that make these condition up<br />
A little reparation for your acts are sent to us<br />
SU-prome ride to die to get the bucks<br />
? by any means so, uhh, lock your benzes up<br />
Tuck your chain and watch and keep your defenses up<br />
All they wanna do is live it up like ?<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
SU-preme...<br />
SU-preme...<br />
SU-preme...lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-87408197252328530682011-06-08T21:45:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:45:08.101-07:00Rhythm Sticks Lyrics - Blackalicious[CHORUS]<br />
Rhythm Sticks<br />
Rhythm Sticks<br />
Get 'em<br />
Go<br />
[x8]<br />
<br />
[Verse One]<br />
Go from out the gate<br />
The Great<br />
Create the styles that dwell within<br />
The flow no doubt will wake you take you<br />
Acres aways well within<br />
The sacred space<br />
The place<br />
Where we awaken<br />
From this hell within<br />
If you ain't heard about my crew<br />
I guess I have to spell it then<br />
B<br />
B is for the beat you knock<br />
While puffin on you L<br />
L is for the lyrics on the beat that have to get to<br />
A<br />
A is for the absolute that dwells<br />
Everywhere you can't C<br />
C C C C<br />
C is for creating that is if you're in the K<br />
K is for the knownin' which will bring us back to A<br />
A as in another A and then another L<br />
I hope you follow me me me me<br />
I as in myself<br />
Myself and me<br />
C cultivate and capture<br />
Put a cease<br />
To I<br />
Ignorance cause ignorance must die<br />
Die die die<br />
Fly away make us free<br />
Free free free<br />
O<br />
O is for the oneness that is U<br />
U U U U<br />
U is universal like the sound your listenin' to<br />
S<br />
Essence of the spirit in the music that opens up<br />
The Chi Chi Chi<br />
<br />
[CHORUS]<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
Up and<br />
Down the trails<br />
Of many styles we can go<br />
What's in<br />
Store for the future<br />
Doubt that we can know<br />
But in<br />
Ourself we can create<br />
And we can grow<br />
To be a vessel<br />
For these days days days days<br />
Touchin'the moon and stars<br />
With such a cosmic glow<br />
Rushin'<br />
MCs that end up in the hospital<br />
It's nothin'<br />
Sometimes it's simply how it's got to go<br />
That's if you suckas want to play play play play<br />
It's such an<br />
Inebriating feeling<br />
To be creatin' really<br />
It really makes me feel free<br />
You think this ain't the real thing<br />
Then you just can't be listenin'<br />
To what my ears are hearin'<br />
There ain't no way way way<br />
Pitchin'<br />
So twisted if you're hittin'<br />
Nigga it isn't pretty<br />
Wittier inner dealings<br />
Committed venom deadly<br />
All in your inner city<br />
I'll spit it when I'm ready<br />
Don't make me spray spray spray<br />
<br />
[CHORUS]<br />
<br />
[Verse Three]<br />
Now this is not<br />
Your average<br />
Everyday tune<br />
It is in tune<br />
With frequencies<br />
Speakin' through me<br />
And keep reachin'<br />
Way out to you<br />
Seekin' to find<br />
The triple I<br />
Mastery through<br />
The rhythm sticks<br />
Given to listeners<br />
Rendered prisoners<br />
To the mu-mu-mu-mu-music<br />
Inner centered<br />
Vessel astral planning travelers<br />
Sent to this dimension here<br />
To inform the whole planet earth<br />
Time is runnin' out<br />
At any moment death it can occur<br />
Celebrate the moment fully<br />
This is what you have it for<br />
Avid rap fanatic<br />
Magic<br />
Add it and subtract it<br />
Rabid<br />
Mathematic patterns<br />
The sporadic<br />
Manic anthem<br />
Static<br />
Cannot have a chance<br />
Enchanted random<br />
Valiant chantin'<br />
And some<br />
Gallant cabbage grabbin'<br />
Stackin'<br />
Hammer slammin'<br />
Captain<br />
Stabbin talent lackin;<br />
Yappin'<br />
Slackin'<br />
Rappers<br />
Smack 'em<br />
Backwards<br />
Ballads<br />
Tackles<br />
Actors<br />
Savage<br />
At this<br />
Bammer crap is damned and banished<br />
Lavish<br />
Fans will go bananas<br />
And command<br />
Some Gab<br />
A master at this<br />
Transcendental gathering<br />
Of rhythm stickslyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-12560553064968290262011-06-08T21:44:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:44:42.655-07:00Powers Lyrics - Blackalicious[Verse One]<br />
Met her out of town<br />
In a small cafe<br />
She had the motion of the ocean<br />
How her hips did sway<br />
She had everybody lookin'back<br />
And everybody tookin' back<br />
And anything she wanted all the guys<br />
Obeyed<br />
Now she was a site for sore pupils<br />
And she likes to flaunt it cause she knows she got it<br />
And she does the most intoxicating things<br />
To make a man with worries<br />
Feel everything is okay<br />
<br />
[CHORUS]<br />
She's got powers<br />
And I think I want to get in her spell<br />
Powers<br />
Every bone inside me of all my cells<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
She holds you down but when you need a push<br />
She keeps it honest<br />
She reflects<br />
Then she'll force you to look<br />
You dig everything about her<br />
From her head down to her follicles<br />
There's a heaven in her smile<br />
She'll steal your heart like a crook<br />
Now she knows<br />
Exactly what you want and when<br />
And she goes<br />
To any measures just to see you get it<br />
And she flows<br />
Like the now<br />
I think that she was Nephertiti in a life<br />
Before this present life was took<br />
She got powers<br />
<br />
[CHORUS]<br />
<br />
[BRIDGE]<br />
P-O-W-E-R-S<br />
Fizz and bubble when I see her yes<br />
Want to see just how deep her abyss gets<br />
Lost in the magic of her secret bliss<br />
She is a bonafide keeper just<br />
Want to travel inside and seek her depths<br />
Mystique so fresh<br />
From the west coast to the east coast<br />
It's a death blow make a Negro get<br />
Spun up in her web she don't need no net<br />
People low and behold<br />
She knows just<br />
What I need make an ego<br />
What I need make an ego<br />
Fly like an eagle<br />
Feelin' regal, o b-o-y<br />
O she's so fly<br />
Lethal injection<br />
Frozen in my step like deep in breath<br />
Keepin'a brethren like me in a head spin<br />
Doc take a rain check<br />
She is the medicine<br />
<br />
[Verse Three]<br />
She got some tricks and she got some treats<br />
She'll shake the ground underneath you<br />
Knock you off your feet<br />
She got everything you dream about<br />
Everything you think about<br />
Hear melodies and sounds of music<br />
When she speaks<br />
She stays persistent with her energy<br />
And she plays<br />
Those games when its time to play 'em<br />
And she ages<br />
Like the finest kind of wine<br />
And just a whiff of her ferment<br />
Will make your knees get weaklyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-80531016294298928272011-06-08T21:43:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:43:47.997-07:00Your Move Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Lifesavas)[Chorus x4: imitating Big Daddy Kane on "The Symphony"]<br />
You, got to groove...<br />
Freeze, stand still, MOVE<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Huffin and puffin, this track is bumpin discussion<br />
on how we crushin and snuffin<br />
The one's that bluffin, it's nothin<br />
and while they lunchin, we bustin<br />
to get you, up in the club and<br />
We keep you wantin and dubbin<br />
Dig it like somethin you puffin on<br />
Fill it up in your stomach to your astonishment, on a mission<br />
The marvelous, starvenous, verbal novelist, killin 'em softly<br />
Offin them, often they in a coffin, we drillin' them, taunt 'em<br />
All in the tournament, in the bottomless pit again<br />
Pardon me, but this art is like the parliament rockets parkin<br />
All on yo' gardens and +lawns+ just like +potholes+, sonically stompin<br />
Up on a mission of dominance, solid flawless, so obvious<br />
Callin y'all to the ball to get off the wall, everybody yes, YOU [echoes]<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
I've been to Africa, Brazil, everywhere across the Americas<br />
Canada, France, Italy, Copenhagen, Australia<br />
Everywhere, every time, every audience, mass hysteria<br />
Some rappers make good records, but live they are a failure<br />
Mailin your area, special delivery carrier<br />
Tearin the various barriers, 'til everyone's everyone<br />
Whether you're heavy or Libra, or Aries, or Lebanese<br />
Vegetarian, Ebony, Ivory, seventeen or ninety-THREE<br />
I don't care if you're arrogant, or inherit inheritance<br />
From yo' parent's parent and then didn't share it with N'ER NIGGA<br />
Prepare if you dare, to get yo' HANDS IN THE AIR<br />
It's a rare form, Mary'll shake her derriere witcha<br />
BEAR witness to SNARE kicks that TEAR and rip through<br />
the blarin' speaker woofers that pummel into the AIR [and] hit cha<br />
It's there witcha, yo' cares lifted, don't stare driftin<br />
The airs shiftin slightly, so come into the lair, get SUM<br />
<br />
[Lifesavas]<br />
"Party people, you are now being rocked by the sounds<br />
of Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab, Blackalicious<br />
We're here to take you higher, y'all!<br />
And I want everybody from side, to side in the front<br />
and the back Everybody in the building<br />
MAKE SOME NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOISE" [crowd cheers]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab: through speakerphone then normal]<br />
Jumpin and movin<br />
and dancin and sweatin<br />
and shoutin and grindin<br />
And bobbin and weavin<br />
we takin you outta yo' mind<br />
and the science applyin this, high in the sky in this pio-lots<br />
Flyin this, dia-late ir-is, wireless mics<br />
The fire is bright, retire, I'm sire, you're squire<br />
and dire straits, admirin higher intelligence, dialect science [exhales]<br />
I elect my-self Vice Prez, I'll belt<br />
Rappers that lie to get by and get fried<br />
and left by their self scientists<br />
Thrive when this guy is lit, try and spit fire<br />
with my intent I in-vent sciences, try the best with no side effects<br />
Buy a vest or be lyin in rest, tryin to test<br />
The eyes in the eyes of the vi-brant lion with iron tiger fists<br />
<br />
[Chorus and guitar riff]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-76370864950865819382011-06-08T21:26:00.003-07:002011-06-08T21:26:57.535-07:00Lotus Flower Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. George Clinton, Joy King)[Chorus]<br />
Be alive now<br />
Let me open the door<br />
Let the music captivate and make the voices still<br />
And<br />
See the light<br />
See the lotus flower<br />
Spinnin' around within<br />
Openin' up all new worlds to explore<br />
Ay Ay Ay Ay<br />
<br />
[Repeat]<br />
[Repeat]<br />
<br />
[Verse One]<br />
Here we go ridin' on waves<br />
See the lotus<br />
Creepin' up without a notice<br />
Make a foe spaz<br />
Dwellin' in a zone that's so rare<br />
Really no man<br />
Be up in or try to go there<br />
Outta your head<br />
Flyin' through the sky on mopeds<br />
Yellin' oh yeah<br />
Cosmic universal showcase<br />
I'm a go head<br />
Shoot the gift at y'all<br />
With no lead<br />
Get you open<br />
Runnin' around the rings of Saturn<br />
And some Pro Keds<br />
Screamin'<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Bridge: George Clinton]<br />
Ain't nothin' wrong with you<br />
Do not adjust your channel<br />
Keep movin' on won't you<br />
We've just began to travel<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
Stylin' infinite and passion<br />
Make me mash on<br />
Till the last song is done<br />
So fasten<br />
Your belt and let's run<br />
To intersessions<br />
You're probably stressin'<br />
I didn't come to rhyme about<br />
Using a Smith and Wesson<br />
We test understanding<br />
Lessons<br />
That come from down and under<br />
Where sons haven't been born<br />
At my discretion<br />
I'm here to bless ya<br />
Apply the pressure<br />
To get ya<br />
Aligned with mind and body<br />
Party<br />
Syncing<br />
With the bigger picture<br />
You may not get it now<br />
But in the future<br />
You will mature<br />
And join the Craft<br />
And outer sessions<br />
If the music lets ya<br />
It's just the essence<br />
Of pure common sense<br />
It's not a lecture<br />
If you don't make it in this life<br />
I'll see your spirit<br />
Next time<br />
Screamin'<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Bridge: George Clinton]<br />
Just let the song take you<br />
To places where the magic<br />
Is going on people<br />
I know you've got to have itlyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-45869371185216523862011-06-08T21:26:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:26:24.417-07:00My Pen And Pad Lyrics - Blackalicious[whispers]<br />
Here we go...here we go...<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Back on the journey again, tool is the pad and pen<br />
Cool is the fan as the wind, soothin' you after I send<br />
True inter vision risen and driven while givin' you MY<br />
Isms of intuition while niggaz is livin' a LIE<br />
Syllables spill and I fly, high as a pittacle rhyme<br />
Not to belittle a fool, but try to get into you my -<br />
Lyrics inherited form awareness somewhere in the sky<br />
Clearly you'll give them merit and cherish 'em better wit' time<br />
There is none ever and on like rivers, so clever I shine<br />
Verbal ambassador travel in this endeavor of mine<br />
Never a anti-gangster, the ghetto is still on the mind<br />
If I was, not rappin', a nigga might be up inside<br />
All of you terraces, stealin' wallets and necklaces, I<br />
give hella gratefulness for the blessin' share this and fly<br />
Everywhere people outside the culture now try to deFINE<br />
What it is, but it is MINE, such it is, love with BLIND<br />
Vision but no division is vivid we livin' inside<br />
Vicious vindictive and mental prisons from within the mind<br />
I sit and find stillness from minutes is written the RHYME<br />
Gettin' you smitten wit' it, particularly if you're a prime<br />
Listener, listen up, twist it up like the lyrics was lime<br />
Vintage is instant, so give it up when you hear it recited<br />
Recite it at attention, relivin' tension and bendin' yo' spine<br />
Sendin' you signals to get yo' internal system aligned<br />
Lyrical pittacle, situation is critical<br />
Syllable after syllable, Give It To You, deliver you my -<br />
Intervals, sendin' you through dimensions who didn't know<br />
Hidden in you, within you, when you get in the begin into it<br />
Sentiments internets, couldn't send you yet signals you get<br />
Rippin' through skin and through tissue, fix you elixirs that MIGHT -<br />
(lift your peripheral vision, the mystical wisdom that tends<br />
to go into the infinite system of livin' and this is the ending<br />
As well as the beginning of the Gift and his prime)<br />
Mission the bliss is divine, Christen it, isn't it fine?<br />
Listen and dissin' it, that's the incident innocent<br />
Men and women hit, lyrics is killin' niggaz, they shivelin'<br />
The predicaments thick, and it spills the wig of the ignorant lyricist, puttin' fear in their spirit...<br />
Yo, that's my time!<br />
<br />
[record skips in fast forward]<br />
<br />
[Intro to "Side to Side"]<br />
I know all you fellas have had a lady in your life that, you really appreciated<br />
and you wanted to do something special for her and, let her know it<br />
Well, I gotta lady like that, and I wrote this song to her...lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-33957854579072988122011-06-08T21:25:00.002-07:002011-06-08T21:25:38.635-07:00Side To Side Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Lateef The Truth Speaker and Pigeon John)[Verse One: Lateef The Truth Speaker]<br />
When you first walked in and I saw you at the bar or somethin'<br />
I ain't really wanna holler or nothin'<br />
I just pegged you as the type for frontin'<br />
Steady chucklin' with your girlfriends actin' contrary and cluckin'<br />
But ya song came on, and somethin' changed in the way she was movin' along<br />
Eyelashes caught flashes of the possibilities, maybe this one is the one for me<br />
She's movin' to the dance floor, we'll see<br />
What I seen was inspirational, highly motivational<br />
Had to maneuver the set, up to confrontationals<br />
Even though it was my chance to mack<br />
I already did my dance, had the reservoir tapped<br />
Hit me like a thunder clap, though<br />
Can't let somethin' that fat pass BY, why asks why?<br />
Made my way through the crowd with the side to side<br />
Then I pushed up on the tush 'cause, uh, I ain't shy!<br />
Said, "Excuse me Miss, but I liked what I saw"<br />
When she spoke, I damn near dropped my jaw!<br />
HELL NAW! I can't believe she SAID that shit!<br />
I need to call my sister, "Come up through and check this chick!<br />
And put some sense in her, cause her IQ 'bout six"<br />
Bein' that, stu-pid in pub-lic there should be a law against<br />
I mean, she didn't have a CLUE, tell you what to do<br />
Just SHUT UP, ride the groove, and let's move now<br />
<br />
[Chorus x2]<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two<br />
<br />
[Verse Two: Gift of Gab]<br />
When I stepped into the coliseum, I was slidin' through<br />
Just bein' me, lovin' the space and lettin' everything be free<br />
And bein' free to 'til I seen her, me, I popped up, solutions<br />
Could it be? She was the one that could make me a believa?<br />
Step through the crowd like a bobber and a weaver<br />
Couldn't really see the crowd, all that I could see was HER<br />
Looked directly in her eyes, all that I could see was blurred vision<br />
Couldn't really tell if she was prime and ready furr pickin'<br />
She was downin' that 'Yac in straight shots<br />
Offered me a drink, I told her I was tryin' to stop<br />
I thought to reconsider mackin', then she pulled off her top<br />
and yelled, NEXT THING I KNOW, SHE WAS DOIN' THE WOP<br />
She said, "Gabby, Gabby, Gabbyyy, you need to come and swig"<br />
I said, "I think I'm cool, you need to find another nigga"<br />
Baby, baby, baby PLEASE, then she dropped down to her KNEES<br />
Then I had to leave, I didn't want to contract diseases<br />
I said, "Don't take it personal, I think you need Jesus<br />
You're movin' kinda fast, you need to stop and just breathe"<br />
Hopin' she would have a clue, tell you what to do<br />
Just SHUT UP, ride the groove and let's move, now..<br />
<br />
[Chorus x2]<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two<br />
<br />
[Verse Three: Pigeon John]<br />
As soon as I walked in the DO'-woe-woe<br />
The rati-o was in favor of me, 'cause as far as I could see<br />
all the bitties on the FLO'-woe-woe<br />
was movin' in such a way in the heat, kinda made me wanna pee<br />
Leavin' ME wanting MO'-woe-woe<br />
But I was scared, of major defeat, 'cause I saw the girl Lateef<br />
was dancin' with sayin' NO-woe-woe<br />
and Gab was wrestlin' with a freak who was topless<br />
I was intimated to SHOW, any interest at ALL<br />
I just stood still, pressed against the walllll (that's when I saw her)<br />
Time froze, the ice around my heart e-RODED<br />
Glasses she looked like a spy, wanna decode it<br />
I said, "My name is Pi-Pi-Pigeon Johnny"<br />
Stuttered a little bit, felt like a big DU-mmy<br />
She said I didn't have a clue, she told me what to do -<br />
She said, "SHUT UP and ride the groove"<br />
I said, "Okay", like..<br />
<br />
[Chorus x2]<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two now<br />
Side to side to side, times two<br />
<br />
[Intro to "Automatique" - Natalie Stewart of Floetry]<br />
If you gonna be creative, y'know<br />
You're ultimately offering yourself as a sacrifice<br />
A sacrifice of, channeling something, bigger than yourself<br />
and existing here at the same time, y'know<br />
Being measured upon your words<br />
when you're channeling yourself at higher than your state<br />
is a pre' serious, jump to take on<br />
So, if they truly about, the word<br />
poetry, singing, writing, and drawing and painting<br />
or however it is, then y'know<br />
want us to realize we're here to record ripples of vanity, y'know<br />
Ripples of mathematics, that's really what you're dealing with...lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-67988564046251222302011-06-08T21:25:00.000-07:002011-06-08T21:25:06.990-07:00Automatique Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Floetry)[Floetry]<br />
It's automatique- now<br />
So here bring my speak- style<br />
Show y'all how to freak- star<br />
Is automatique- now<br />
So automatique- now<br />
The sound you gon' keep- down<br />
Come listen and peep- how<br />
It's automatique<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
It's automatic sporadic movements on the brake<br />
The moment's magic the last thing that I should do is think<br />
I burst the energy that hints that really it's no time<br />
At birth you start to think that after death back to no mind<br />
A rest that makes you new again now you embrace the planet<br />
And stand in all of all the thing you daily took for granted<br />
The trees are posin' all unique in form make this perfection<br />
The most important time is now tomorrow's a projection<br />
A co-creator if you only just believe in that<br />
Right here today inside is where I find my freedom at<br />
Is simple as a lyric from my soul to yours as felt<br />
I didn't write this I just let the pen move by itself<br />
It's ART-o-matic<br />
<br />
[Hook]<br />
<br />
[Natalie of Floetry]<br />
So blessed we rest in a space over-standin'<br />
This breath's so unique we must trace where we landed<br />
Magnetizin' minor tracks is subliminal<br />
So fiend-in to the evidence is evident I'm bein' true<br />
True to the moment the channelin' the callin'<br />
True to the heartbeat the passion and the formin'<br />
This rollercoaster's the one I stood in line for<br />
Hands in the air these upside downs here are paid for<br />
Make this relevant and here what you gotta hear<br />
I'm recordin' all the secrets of my silent shed<br />
Don't think about it just absorb everything you taste<br />
If it set you free you gonna find the ways<br />
You're who you gonna be unless you choose otherwise<br />
If you let it flow the universe will empathize<br />
Check your programs they monitorin' your sanity<br />
Now close your eyes inside you find the clarity<br />
It's automatic!<br />
<br />
[Hook]<br />
<br />
[Floetry]<br />
Free your body know this ought to be open<br />
Then lose control just let it happen then<br />
Live at it and set it<br />
Move again your clarity start to assume again<br />
I know this one twist will feel it in<br />
You think you don't know the engine [???]<br />
But it's so automatic<br />
So so so automatic<br />
<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
It's automative, beyond the common logic native<br />
Beyond the ball around my drama now I'm divin' waitin<br />
So stop and wait this, now operate it on the wavelength<br />
A thought of way is presented by true laws of nature<br />
Across the nation a lost of patience is cost inflation<br />
So caught in waitin', and contemplatin' obligations<br />
Read up inaugurations politrations violatin<br />
And all the haters all up it cannot invadin'<br />
The honest tension, two orders sacred not created<br />
Good thought I made it!! I'm born beyond the constellations<br />
So concetratin', and follow man we all are awakin'<br />
It's automative, you gotta make it follow faith in<br />
Come on come on!<br />
<br />
[Hook + adlibs]<br />
<br />
THE CRAFT!lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-69338719832989257972011-06-08T21:24:00.002-07:002011-06-08T21:24:35.048-07:00The Fall And Rise Of Elliot Brown Lyrics - Blackalicious[Part I]<br />
"I mean um, I got years man, I go back, actually<br />
I-I-I just got back to these streets man, this is home to me though<br />
Y'mean, I was goin' for a while, ten years to be exact<br />
I lost my lights in the streets, y'know but for these streets, me and my dude<br />
We got down and dirty for it, man, we did e'rythang, we took, nah'mean, to eat..<br />
That's what it's about when I was comin' up in the 80s', everybody tried to eat man<br />
and my way livin' to eat, man I gurped in theses streets<br />
I grind, walked to these streets here, nah'mean?"<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Got to get this bread<br />
Got to get this dough, got to get these chips<br />
Got to get these whips, and fits and -<br />
Got to get real mean, got to get real clean<br />
Got to get these fiends a fixin'<br />
On a mission to get rich real quick use wit' no intermission<br />
Got to live big, gettin' the tip on them big {?}, so spendin' spendin'<br />
Any witness get hit quick, this lick isn't never no kid shit<br />
Not a picnic, flip bis-cuit/get rich, that's it<br />
Big bills, just Ben's, no frills, just Benzes<br />
Spendin' endless spendin' sprees<br />
Limitless, BUILD IT UP TO THE MILLIONS<br />
Then I can have things, like a new fly ring<br />
and a new fly fling, I can do Irene, Darlene, Charlene<br />
and Francine, even get inside Pam's jeans as clean as you ever did see<br />
On the scene doin' real big things, as I PIMP this simple SYSTEM<br />
Then I hear si-rens, and I see high beams<br />
Now I am fly-in', but they're behind me<br />
NOW I'M ON ONE KNEE, AND THE DOPE'S ON ME<br />
NOW MY HOPE'S GONE SEE AND I LOST MY FREEDOM<br />
LOCKED UP, SEE YA!!<br />
<br />
[Part II]<br />
<br />
[Verse One: Gift of Gab]<br />
..He was a young lad<br />
Off of happiness and smiles, he was sprung bad<br />
Wanted all the trendy classy number one fads<br />
In a very short time, learned the rules of combat<br />
Learned who was a punk, and who would have swung back<br />
How to take from the weak, especially when hung-ray<br />
While mama's workin' two jobs, and daddy's gone away<br />
and police be throwin' you vibes, even at a young age<br />
and it was like he was livin' inside a cage<br />
from the outside world, 'cause he just couldn't relate<br />
..and then life really began<br />
and trifeness was a giv-en when he graduated<br />
<br />
The Fall [echoes]<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
..So he hustled<br />
doin' whatever just to get the bread and the mustard<br />
Stacked high, grew wit' some niggaz he trusted<br />
He shouldn't have though, 'cause them same niggaz got him busted<br />
And 'bout the same time he 'bout to get sent up, his -<br />
Ex-girl is like, "I'm pregnant baby daddy - plus it's twins"<br />
and when he goes to jail, he has company<br />
in the form of fifty percent of the cats he grew up wit'<br />
Gets out, goes back, just like a puppet<br />
Caught in a genocidal death trap of the government<br />
The don't rehabilitate, they just be lovin' it<br />
When niggaz is in the pen, 'cause that's big money makin' to them<br />
<br />
The Rise [echoes]<br />
<br />
[Verse Three]<br />
For some time he sat and pondered<br />
Trapped in a cell filled with criminals and convicts<br />
Time had arrived to confront the real conflict<br />
Lookin' within, not without, he got honest<br />
Started to read and acquire that self-knowledge<br />
Learned he was royalty and didn't come from garbage<br />
How to embrace struggle and learn from his problems<br />
True wealth is health, family, and a higher conscious-ness<br />
Learned most of what he was taught was nonsense<br />
Read up on economics and how to start a business<br />
Self-determination and dedication empowered him<br />
Somethin' inside him told him only God could STOP him<br />
Now he's out livin' what others said was impossible<br />
Thought he would be another victim of ghetto obstacles<br />
Through a concrete, a rosebud started to blossom<br />
Remember change is really all that remains constant, yeah [echoes]<br />
<br />
[Intro to "Black Diamonds and Pearls"]<br />
"Saved message...Friday...3:56...P.M."<br />
"Hey, ?B-Cam?, this is your sister Dee-Dee<br />
I was just callin' to tell you that I, gone to see Frankie<br />
and I told him that you wanted him to, um<br />
GIVE a, like, what it was like to be in prison<br />
and what, advice he would give and<br />
Oh my God, I got this letter from him<br />
Tim, you've got to hear it, this word should be in the book or a song or something<br />
I mean really..."lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-20952255234464702362011-06-08T21:24:00.000-07:002011-06-08T21:24:00.286-07:00Black Diamonds And Pearls Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Larry Saunders, Ledisi)(Black diamonds and PEARLS)<br />
<br />
[Intro: message continued from interlude]<br />
"I'm just gonna read you a little bit of ?:<br />
'I like to start off by saying that prison is truly a living hell<br />
It is a place where love and compassion are looked upon as weaknesses<br />
And violence and brutality are worn like a medal of honor<br />
Prison is a tedious task of survival that could shatter your dreams and ambition<br />
The California Department of Corrections ISN'T designed<br />
to help you rehabilitate yourself or even help you<br />
to become a productive law-abiding citizen'"<br />
<br />
[Chorus: Larry Saunders (Ledisi)]<br />
(Black diamonds and PEARLS)<br />
Keep on, keep goin', march on, move on<br />
Keep blowin' it up<br />
Keep ON, keep goin', march on, move on<br />
Stay strong, keep goin', keep, blowin' it up<br />
(Black diamonds and PEARLS)<br />
KEEP ON, keep goin', march on, move on<br />
Keep blowin' it up, yeaaaah<br />
Blowin' it up, yeaaaaaaah<br />
<br />
[Verse One: Gift of Gab]<br />
Young leaders, little unsung heroes<br />
You can run some meters, be a hoop or a track star<br />
School teacher, scientist, or even<br />
own your very own street, maybe even be a rap star<br />
Times witcha, you could change whole pictures<br />
Make a better situation, for your mother and yo' big mama<br />
Make dollars, own a ride and a house<br />
Get it right, use your powers, getting' everything you did want<br />
Then the youth say, "Look at where I'm at now<br />
Straight poverty, death is in my backyard<br />
Dope dealers, get fifty G's a pack<br />
While my teacher don't really give a damn about a black child!<br />
And the grown folks say, 'tell the truth', then act fowl<br />
Say 'no' to drugs, hidin' all they crack vials<br />
And talk all about peace and love and God<br />
But then why are we at war, killin' people in Iraq now?"<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
Young sista had a child, still young herself now<br />
And it's others all around screamin' turmoil<br />
Ain't done wit' school, how are you gonna make it now?<br />
Life is gonna be a little harder for you girl<br />
Some how, she sees the face of a child<br />
And on her face is a smile, and now it's brighter up in her world<br />
And makes her stronger now, she's gotta carry on<br />
And be a very good mama, this is life, let it unfurl<br />
And she's doin' it, mother of the earth now<br />
Found a blessin' in the struggle through her first child<br />
Kept goin', kept growin', kept flowin'<br />
Kept strivin', kept knowin' God would make a way somehow<br />
Live yo' life, girl, show 'em how it's done now<br />
I believe in you, so keep it movin' 'til the sun's down<br />
Never let them hold you back from anything you want now<br />
Life is but a ride, so find the treasures that are unfound<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Verse Three]<br />
Young brotha, takin' care of his mother<br />
Makin' bread, gotta hustle, 'cause the table's lookin' thin now<br />
Stress ridden as he walks his little sister<br />
to her preschool, which is up the road just a few miles<br />
Back at the house, his mom seeks magic<br />
Through the pipe smoke travelin' through her lungs out and back down<br />
Worst part that breaks the young man's heart<br />
is he's the one that's supplyin' it, he feels like he's trapped now<br />
'Cause every time he says, "No", then she'll spaz out<br />
Start shakin', "Mama, please, where is dad now?!"<br />
Guess he's gotta be the home's only man now<br />
Left the life alone and gotta whole other plan now<br />
Stacked enough to put her in a rehab found<br />
Work and got a G.E.D., his sister's in his hands now<br />
And with support from other members in the fam<br />
Gonna make it out this struggle, young people, here's your chance, come on!<br />
<br />
[Chorus and ad-libs]<br />
<br />
Black diamonds and PEARLSlyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-91837657360023593272011-06-08T21:23:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:23:31.031-07:00Give It To You Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. KWEEN and Lyrics Born)[Chorus: Gift of Gab and KWEEN]<br />
Rhyme for rhyme and line for line<br />
The lyrics from the mind that's prime, arrive on time<br />
and rip into you fine as wine, sublime the kind<br />
of spitters who would shine divine<br />
with rhymes and life, is what you make it<br />
Rhyme for rhyme and line for line<br />
The lyrics from the mind that's prime, arrive on time<br />
They rip into ya night to night, recite the type, of written<br />
Come inside the light, tonight's the night, we give it to ya<br />
<br />
[Verse One: Gift of Gab]<br />
Comin' back to stay, when I rap this way<br />
Blowin' minds wit' these lyrics out my fact-oray<br />
That are practic-ally, on some maste-ray<br />
Show you all how a funky record has to be<br />
Not to toot my horn, I'm from Californ<br />
It's the +cheese+, not the kind that's grown from cows in barns<br />
But the kind that meets your needs in like a thousand forms<br />
As we dance to the ever flowin' masquerade<br />
Homey, pass the J, homies pass away<br />
Over pride when another nigga blast a K<br />
Evil thought hearts chilly, Dickie Dastard-lay<br />
All his people mourned deeply as the pastor prayed<br />
Come though from out of town, you wouldn't last a day<br />
All they know is long money and assassination<br />
Get it now, not tomorrow, don't procrastinate<br />
This is my grind, verbal slangin', I'm a master fate<br />
In a drastic way, this is class so pay<br />
Close attention, write all night 'til I gasp and faint<br />
Get my people out this struggle of that Section 8<br />
If you want it, hey we got it, you don't have to wait because...<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Verse Two: KWEEN]<br />
Golden voice wit' style, spirit poised for power<br />
Definition of a goddess, I'm a poster child<br />
As I boast about, here's a dose fo' trail<br />
Evil spirits don't concern me, tell the ghost be out!<br />
Shine my light to dim, all the spite within<br />
Competition, 'cause at times, I know we frighten them<br />
All we really wanna do is give some sight to them<br />
All my people, New York City to the coast of Cal<br />
I'm the toast of towns, I'm the cat's meow<br />
Movin' faster than your mind, come and catch me now<br />
Niggaz see me on stage and wanna ask me out<br />
I'm the true original never a hand-me-down<br />
When I flash no doubt, know that ass is out<br />
Nefertiti, Mama Zulu, try and pass the Nile<br />
Take your breath away it's like you're catchin' asthma now<br />
In this verbal marathon, you couldn't last a mile because...<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Verse Three: Lyrics Born]<br />
Lyrics Born to rap, I put it all on that<br />
Twelve years deep, my foot ain't comin' off the gas<br />
We walk the chosen path, close the culture gap<br />
O.G. like the Figure-Four the Boston Crab<br />
All across the map, beyond the almanac<br />
You see the backstage posted lookin' so relaxed<br />
Lady wit' me, open toe, lil' shoulder bag<br />
Hat tipped just a bit, ooh she cold like that<br />
Where my ballers at? If you can call it that<br />
Potna' both you and me know that shit is boulderdash<br />
We see right through yo phony ass like youse a holograph<br />
We so real, when they see us, it's like they pause and gasp<br />
Cat's lookin' like they see a flyin' saucer pass<br />
Cross they arms, turn they heads like they was Ultraman<br />
We gotcha whole clique surrounded in a cul-de-sac<br />
So baby get ta jump-ropin' over a broken glass because...<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
"The Craft"lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-32863926772351561412011-06-08T21:22:00.003-07:002011-06-08T21:22:56.179-07:00Ego Sonic War Drums Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. P.E.A.C.E.)[Peace]<br />
Our house is in the middle of the street<br />
I'm a talkin' head, talkin' head<br />
Spittin' speech, Hungry like A Wolf, Where's the Beef?<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Beef eater gin, in-toxicant, men-tal<br />
Alternate, end-ings, opposite trend Zen<br />
Copperfield, pen bend, topple and kill end men<br />
Send them, in wind, tremblin', off of them skills (skills, skills, skills...)<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
My copper top is poppin' tops (tops), the heat keeps blowin'<br />
+Energizer+ bunny, ain't it funny, how I stay so +ever ready+<br />
But I never see the money (money, money, money...)<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Money never makin' me<br />
I make it, come inside and take a seat<br />
It's vacant, Ego Sonic, inner space<br />
The sacred sequel on again<br />
Erase and cease the hatred season<br />
of the drums of war of sages past<br />
and speakin' through the ancients<br />
speakin' through the, speakin' through the ancients, speakin'<br />
(speakin', speakin', speakin'...)<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
As a kid, I was Harry Potter-like<br />
Not locked in a room but on the streets, they poked fun and took my bike<br />
Until I chose to write, spec-tacular, vernacular, spells, for the fight<br />
(fight, fight, fight...)<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
In the, middle of the class, I was writin' my secret agenda<br />
Getting' a bl-ast from ignitin' my deepest surrender<br />
A bit of chastisement I may have gotten from teachers when the<br />
classes were done, masses were stunned, I pass it on<br />
(I pass it on, I pass it on, I pass it on...)<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
I be flingin' stones at yo' dome and yo' +Jet-son+<br />
and +Elroy's+ El Dorado drivin' while the sun sets some<br />
Back seat, fulla cotton candy, beer, and bubble gum<br />
(bubble gum, bubble gum. bubble gum...)<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Summertime in the city<br />
Pity rappers fallin' to the Ego Sonic War Drums [echoes]<br />
<br />
[Chorus x2]<br />
Ego Sonic War Drums, we so hard - RUN<br />
Beatin' on yo' door come, try and get SOME<br />
You'll get trampled, tryin' to sample, end up gettin' NONE<br />
Ego Sonic War Drums, we so hard - RUN<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Heeey ya, raise the bar to another level of rhymin' again<br />
Maaa-jor daaays of, verbal assault tactics that get<br />
waaaay out, Blazin' the bow again to set new trend of flaa-va, Dйj-а vu<br />
We blowin' 'em up wit' the way we slaaay-a, saaay ya praaa-yas<br />
Set in the head of the rappers we SLAAY-a<br />
YAAAY-A, HI-YA, HI-YA, HO!<br />
Come on in-SIDE and try the flow<br />
Creepin' up on yo' mind just like a SPID-A<br />
KIND-A slow, SHINE and FLOOOW<br />
Sparkle and rock until I can't SHINE NO MO', OHHH!<br />
Low and beHOOOLD, FOOOE<br />
Animal instinct comin' out of the SOOOUL<br />
Chief Coyote, Blackfoot, Savage NavaHOOOOS<br />
Scalpin' yo' top and rock out the spot, off the top knockin'<br />
and then I frolic about the DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH<br />
<br />
[Bridge]<br />
Just because we out there, doesn't mean we don't care<br />
Respect our clout, yeah, Gift of Gab dope, yeah<br />
P-E-A-C-E, yeah, E-S-W-D, playa<br />
Arrows flyin' everywhere, Ego Sonic warfare<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
Peace pipe, puffin', arrow stick you in yo' stuffin'<br />
OH-WO-WO-WO-WO-WO-OW, think I'm bluffin'<br />
Jumpin' off my horse and runnin' up on you ain't nothin<br />
I don't have no rifle, I just throw my hatchet in yo' face<br />
Catch it, get an eye FULL<br />
Hear them drums? Battle sounds! See that land? Battle grounds!<br />
See the men? Battle rounds! Hear me now, man down!<br />
Bows UP, clear the section, roll out a winner<br />
In my Ego Sonic head dress in<br />
and for you dum-dum opponents, hope you learned yo' lesson<br />
(learned yo' lesson, learned yo' lesson, learned yo lesson'...)<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Chief Apache drummer, tipi dweller, eagle feather bearer<br />
Chalice lighter, inner fire starter, worship Mother Nature<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
Mohawkin' egos clawin' beak seems to bear it all<br />
Seminole, Blackfoot, Mohican, and Choctaw<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Choppin' ya, scalpin' ya, offin' ya, moppin' ya, falcons are<br />
flockin' around you, wreck shop while I'm poppin' at Pocahontas<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
Death it won't fall upon us, as long as I'm Geronimo-an<br />
Keepin' the heater flowin', you know they ain't into throwin' 'em<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Burnin' the tip of the Arrow, the temperature's blarin'<br />
The endin' is near when we hit you wit' THIS, then you're perishin'<br />
(perishin', perishin', perishin'...)<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
Cherish everyday light, light<br />
Couldn't picture livin' life in the dark right, right, right?<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Ear to the ground, I hear 'em comin'<br />
Do you really think they comin'?<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
Ego sonic, hear that thumpin'<br />
Do you really think they drummin'?<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Do you really think they comin'?<br />
<br />
[Peace]<br />
I can see 'em!<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
HERE THEY COME!<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab and Peace]<br />
If they catch us, they gon' kill us<br />
Wouldn't want to be us, RUN! (RUN, RUN, RUN...)<br />
<br />
[Chorus and ad-libs]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-87817881361897425732011-06-08T21:22:00.001-07:002011-06-08T21:22:26.801-07:00The Craft Lyrics - Blackalicious[Chorus]<br />
This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe<br />
This style, they say music gives new life<br />
From a source inside that is forever flowin'<br />
This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show<br />
This life, I've been given a gift tonight<br />
And for that, I vow to be a vessel<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab - Verse One]<br />
I didn't have to be, given the gift to rip<br />
I'll never master me, I know that it's from Him<br />
or Her or It, dimensions that sit<br />
Waitin' to sift through me, I fall short, still it hits me swift<br />
I didn't have to see, I coulda hit the lick<br />
I coulda drifted it quick, I coulda quit so quick<br />
It's really a trip, I guess I was picked<br />
I don't know what I did to deserve a ride like this (Damn!)<br />
I didn't have to eat, I coulda been so thin<br />
I didn't have to be, quoting these sentences<br />
I didn't have to reap, the work put in but then<br />
even the work in itself was such a blessin<br />
I didn't have to see, the planet lip to lip<br />
I didn't have to make, a livin' writ to writ<br />
I didn't have to dream and then begin to live it<br />
And for that, I vow to be a vessel<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe<br />
This style, they say music gives new life<br />
From a source inside that is forever flowin'<br />
This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show<br />
This life, I've been given a gift tonight<br />
And for that, I vow to be a vessel<br />
<br />
[Verse Two]<br />
I give thanks for my rhymin' ability<br />
I don't front like it's not a responsibility<br />
I can open a mind, if the youth will listen to me<br />
I'm not goin' to front, like I'm on some killin' spree<br />
and as hard as the times are, God is livin' through beats<br />
that come not from minds, but that travel through spiritual reasons<br />
Some of the time, I feel like, it's not even me<br />
No mon-ey can buy gateways to infinity<br />
Still I'm hun-gry to shine, when I know I should let it be<br />
I want but I have, every single thing that we need<br />
So help me align self with soul and then I'll be free<br />
To sculpt and design verbal styles and experience freedom<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe<br />
This style, they say music gives new life<br />
From a source inside that is forever flowin'<br />
This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show<br />
This life, I've been given a gift tonight<br />
And for that, I vow to be a vessel<br />
<br />
[Chief Xcel samples]<br />
"Let go, do what's in front of you"<br />
"Then, let go, then do what's in front of you"<br />
<br />
[Verse Three]<br />
This ain't leisure, although it feels<br />
It is a duty, a way to live, another way to give<br />
Another way to just, have communion<br />
With the source of the sun and moon and, a way to pay the bills<br />
Displayin' skills, I take it REAL serious<br />
The vibe's so mysterious, not just one more day to kill<br />
..and I could lose my connection<br />
if I do not respect it enough, fffade away it will<br />
Day to day it gives energies<br />
That replenish me, if I believe and I say it will<br />
and act on it, 'cause action is the key to freedom<br />
Only way to be a leader, lead by the way you live<br />
<br />
[Chorus x3]<br />
This Craft, this beat, this rhyme, this vibe<br />
This style, they say music gives new life<br />
From a source inside that is forever flowin'<br />
This stage, this mic, this crowd, this show<br />
This life, I've been given a gift tonight<br />
And for that, I vow to be a vessellyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-46171749066464683292011-06-07T01:16:00.001-07:002011-06-09T17:46:40.827-07:00"Blazing Arrow" (2002)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxkhWbrEaFiK7Ok5PAvuuDcERIVsMiZ1lhD3Y1crfSyS6xRrRXCgMpmtT8ySut3n0Yn7yOIz646bSCYEkutZ05Fq3SbsEUuO_to5aMs0qf9gj2VNYgieQ2GWgv_jdU382byTOJPhKan0/s1600/arrow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxkhWbrEaFiK7Ok5PAvuuDcERIVsMiZ1lhD3Y1crfSyS6xRrRXCgMpmtT8ySut3n0Yn7yOIz646bSCYEkutZ05Fq3SbsEUuO_to5aMs0qf9gj2VNYgieQ2GWgv_jdU382byTOJPhKan0/s320/arrow.jpg" /></a></div>lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-50506903609889244532011-06-07T01:15:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:15:35.030-07:00Introduction: Bow And Fire Lyrics - BlackaliciousLadies and gents, soul music lovers everywhere<br />
All around the universe<br />
You know as well as I do the things I change<br />
Changing, changing<br />
The day will come, warning, warning<br />
<br />
I got my arrow, I got my bow<br />
I got my fire and I'm walking through the darkness<br />
Slowly on a tight rope wire<br />
Got my arrow<br />
<br />
The forces trying, trying, tired<br />
Then the wind is blowing harder<br />
But my power comes from higher<br />
So seek arrow<br />
<br />
I got my bow, I got my fire<br />
And I'm walking through the darkness<br />
Slowly on a tight rope wire<br />
Got my<br />
<br />
Arrowlyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-59856555848830985402011-06-07T01:14:00.003-07:002011-06-07T01:14:59.513-07:00Blazing Arrow Lyrics - BlackaliciousAmazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow<br />
The rays that range from Asia way to Rio De Janeiro<br />
A craze you crave? but work today's the day that in a major way<br />
I'll make you say oh look he saved the day and also paved the way (hooray)<br />
Rockin? my crew like razor blades today and days away from now okay, okay<br />
I'm like a laser ray keepin the stains? away<br />
and dangerous ways rappin the phrase that pays<br />
all things just ain't a phase but ageless ways a cagey great displays<br />
yo hey, this ain't a game, so stays awake<br />
cause if you came to play you'll all behave insane<br />
After we change the game it won't reamin the same<br />
(I'll fade away!!!) So make your disc and play this tape in your Camaro<br />
Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow<br />
<br />
The verbal God, I throw a murder all my foe and kill 'em<br />
But learnin all and so I'm gorowing while I'm learnin wit em<br />
Infernal I'll explode returnin out the globe about to blow<br />
Now get up out here yo, see head on out the zones that I patrol<br />
Rock and roll might tear you out the soul like blunts and alcohol<br />
I knock your whole toboggan for a loop and now the doubt will flow<br />
I'm not the pro you wanna knock cause on the real I got the glow<br />
Cosmic flows as I suppose thats how its supposed to be<br />
and got to go!!! How'd ya know? Intuition<br />
I was on the old safe surface figure out your purpose that's impossible<br />
But logic will disturb the thought or focus what its not is all about<br />
the grow about the kind of onus only god can know<br />
I rock it for the chocolate, for the awkward for the thoughtless<br />
in your home or at your office<br />
I'm your early morning coffee so who got the ball?<br />
We roll with Navajos with double barrels<br />
Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrowlyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-4940829568987609512011-06-07T01:14:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:14:26.986-07:00Sky Is Falling Lyrics - BlackaliciousRain and thunder and lightning<br />
Crumbling buildings<br />
Falling hurricanes<br />
Earth shattering membranes<br />
Scattering insane<br />
Happening<br />
Souls keeps burning<br />
And the sky keeps plummeting<br />
Now--<br />
<br />
The sky is falling, life is appalling<br />
And death is lurking, niggaz killing each other<br />
Leaving bodies nobodies searching for<br />
And youth announced ..., catching a bit of murder one<br />
And mothers is drinking and drugging, hoe-in; searching for their son<br />
And liquor stores upon every corner<br />
And younger people done accepted defeating<br />
The melting pot of lavas seeping<br />
And the hood is all the mic can conceive when your foes bleeding to their death<br />
And you picking their pocket<br />
Wanna just get even<br />
Niggers is banging and coppers is banging punk snuggin<br />
Highly intelligent Africans lowered to punk smuggin<br />
And capitals of the planet, planets run by the government<br />
And genocide 's overwhelming, devil is loving it<br />
And children in highschool go 'n smokin their classes up<br />
And people thats rich don't be checking for what is happening<br />
Degrading all women, knock em up, leave em, now smack em up<br />
And ain't no way to reach us we're sleeping like hells castle<br />
Sky is falling<br />
<br />
Rain and thunder and lightning<br />
Crumbling buildings<br />
Falling hurricanes<br />
Earth shattering membranes<br />
Scattering insane<br />
Happening<br />
Souls keeps burning<br />
And the sky keeps plummeting<br />
Now--<br />
<br />
Rain and thunder and lightning<br />
Crumbling buildings<br />
Falling hurricanes<br />
Earth shattering membranes<br />
Scattering insane<br />
Happening<br />
Souls keeps burning<br />
And the sky keeps plummeting<br />
Now--<br />
<br />
Rain and thunder and lightning<br />
Crumbling buildings<br />
Falling hurricanes<br />
Earth shattering membranes<br />
Scattering insane<br />
Happening<br />
Souls keeps burning<br />
And the sky keeps plummeting<br />
Now--<br />
<br />
The sky is falling, no one is watching<br />
Tornadoes twisting wheres nobody is listening<br />
And fires no one pays attention<br />
Energies are erupting<br />
Blurring the intentional vision<br />
Doctors and lawyers and scientists all are locked in the prison of the mind<br />
And all the youth are unreachable but they teachable<br />
But emcees don't be teaching them too<br />
Down deep down in their soul<br />
Amongst the prostitution and pimping, robbing and stealing<br />
We give a name<br />
sab-a truth<br />
This is nigger-land<br />
Glad to knew ya<br />
But give a damn<br />
For the future<br />
Religions is institutionalized<br />
Hittin truths, even youths...alized<br />
You got two pistols at the head of your own people<br />
Its lethal but its living proof<br />
Instead of leaving smiles leaven death inside of our living room<br />
And instead of college they got us slangin after highschool<br />
For the love of the money and everything that it will buy you<br />
Everybody out for that<br />
And they kill you if you a rival<br />
20 lines and 1 stake on the table<br />
Its about survival<br />
The sky is falling<br />
<br />
Rain and thunder and lightning<br />
Crumbling buildings<br />
Falling hurricanes<br />
Earth shattering membranes<br />
Scattering insane<br />
Happening<br />
Souls keeps burning<br />
And the sky keeps plummeting<br />
Now--<br />
<br />
Revelation<br />
From the Now ...<br />
To the Temptation<br />
Calm ... the Fury<br />
All .... .....<br />
Drown the confusion<br />
Through the devastation<br />
Live in the trees of elimination<br />
Truth is absolute<br />
Prophets Cant wait long<br />
...... ....<br />
Cant take long<br />
Revelation<br />
Devastation<br />
Better stay stronglyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-67737558366549346112011-06-07T01:13:00.003-07:002011-06-07T01:13:52.505-07:00First In Flight Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Gil Scott-Heron)[CHORUS:]<br />
First in flight [repeated 4X]<br />
<br />
[Gil Scott-Heron:]<br />
(Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'<br />
We go beyond the edge of the sky)<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
FREE! Like a bird out in the wind in the night<br />
Like a 747 to LA that's in flight<br />
FREE! Like a garden flourishing in the wind<br />
Like a student bout to do it when he's graduating<br />
FREE! From any of the energy perception<br />
Can never be defined create the definition within<br />
FREE! Just loving life itself and never pretend to be<br />
Anything other than the man I was meant to be<br />
Travel through time and get a glimpse of the centuries<br />
To come a better day is promised remember<br />
FREE! Like my nephew in a few months about to be out the penitentiary<br />
Meditation [repeated 9X]<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
UH! I never hesitate about a reluctant mind<br />
Just put the peddle to the metal see what ya find<br />
You back there slouching over won't you pick up your spine?<br />
Let's make it really really happen live up this time<br />
Cause you can choose to say "Good morning God" or "Good God, morning"<br />
With black clouds storming<br />
I walk without umbrellas into these woods<br />
Don't need em cause the might trees above will shelter me good<br />
I'm eating berries from the bushes of the heavenly good<br />
From the ?stakes/steaks? the power came to us whenever we stood<br />
Reverberating out we're reaching each and every hood<br />
Whenever we could the spiritual anatomy fool<br />
But never take the credit for it B cause that'd be rude<br />
It's just the way in life we searchin for that had to be new<br />
You gotta work it though cause everyday ain't Saturday fool<br />
Evolve into a better life and be happy with you and me<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Gil Scott-Heron]<br />
The first to fly<br />
The first to strive<br />
The first to fight to stay alive<br />
The first to win<br />
The first to strike<br />
The first to live<br />
The first in flight<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
RISE! Like the sun up at the crack of the dawn<br />
Like a waking giant in the morning stretching and yawning<br />
RISE! Like an infant being held in the light<br />
Like the smoke from an incense when it's ignited<br />
RISE! If you're sleeping won't you open your eyes again<br />
The greatest high be that natural high within<br />
No need to force the progression just ride the wind<br />
You'll know the answer to the where and why and when<br />
If you keep working for your search you will find the end<br />
Though at the end you find it only begins again<br />
See at the end you'll see it only begins again<br />
And everything you learn you're only remembering<br />
Cause you're<br />
<br />
[Chorus (repeat 4X)]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab: repeat 2X]<br />
It's me<br />
Let your mind and your soul be free<br />
Work to shine meet your goal believe<br />
Spread that kind of L-O-V-E<br />
Take some time off the lonely<br />
<br />
[Gil Scott-Heron: repeat to end]<br />
Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'<br />
We go beyond the edge of the skylyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-50173774626381666072011-06-07T01:13:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:13:22.487-07:00Green Light: Now Begin Lyrics - Blackalicious[Chorus:]<br />
Green light, now begin<br />
Green light oh-way<br />
Ee-yah-oh-way [x3]<br />
Green light, now begin<br />
Green light oh way<br />
Ee-yah-oh-way [x3]<br />
Green light, now begin<br />
<br />
The verb annihilator pen, every animator blend<br />
Thought exaggerate a win, comin' at ya made ya thin<br />
Diabolically I grin as I'm frolicking within your anatomy again<br />
Makin' people higher into infinity from sin where your remedy<br />
For them who are feelin' where your friends don't intend to be<br />
A trend but a symphony of hymns lyrics sent to me<br />
From Him I extend to thee the tims of intensity<br />
Lend your attention see is whence your invisions<br />
Of a mental division full of internalisms and again and again<br />
I'm gonna win this division we a men on a mission, green light now begin<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
<br />
No more of that sittin' in a slump and uh<br />
No more of that coulda-woulda-shoulda junk (nope)<br />
No more of that waiting for the inspiration, innovation<br />
Or a green light--now begin<br />
No more of that lettin' all your time pass (uh-uh)<br />
No more petty illusions of the mindless (nope)<br />
It's time to expand, power from within, you're takin' over this dominion<br />
Green light, now begin<br />
<br />
I be the heat of the night (don't fear the leader?)<br />
I'm hear to strike light reveal the meteorite<br />
Eating your readings and pens bleeding intense feeling<br />
Appealing sentence in dents in just reeling 'em in<br />
I'm merely a chameleon amid your elementary<br />
Elements of the century tell 'em that it was me that sent ya<br />
Tell 'em a-visually they'll be in to me until they sleep<br />
And hell I'm an entity bailin' well and a felon, I'm free<br />
Millin' and rousin' and I'm (rollin' and killin'?) from filtering<br />
Hell of intelligent diligent heaven-sent benevolent relevant medicine<br />
Poetry pedestrian peddelin' mad adrenaline to lyrical gentlemen<br />
Okay?<br />
Alright<br />
<br />
[Chorus]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-8360362618136395442011-06-07T01:12:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:12:43.817-07:004000 Miles Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Jurassic 5, Latyrx)[Charlie Tuna]<br />
J5 Blackalicious<br />
<br />
Yo<br />
<br />
[All]<br />
We take a journey through music right now [2X]<br />
<br />
[Charlie Tuna]<br />
Yo, when music temptations cant be resisted<br />
Fifths will be unconsistent make me a misfit<br />
Listed as a phenomenom I got an oncoming bomb<br />
Which is perfection and flexin like I spent time in Nam<br />
The beat is on and its nice an easy<br />
Instrumentals blendin like cinnamon rice and peas<br />
And lifes a breeze when you dont have to kick it to find<br />
Contemplate the creation with blackalicious and I<br />
Tuna fish is for a musical infant hes past gone<br />
Tryin to hold fast and grasp hits like last fall<br />
So last long flash on keepin the past strong<br />
we grab songs and rythm so people can catch on<br />
Yes<br />
My mic honor cause momma I twiced promised her<br />
Love life if music is truly your wife honor her<br />
Burnin to your thermometer stretch a million kilometers<br />
Connect a population at birth to one another for real<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything<br />
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity<br />
Movin, one force one love one whole community<br />
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Underground or overboard overlord oh my lord<br />
More remore pure sonic over joy sworn for shorts<br />
Unseen aquatic bout to get explored<br />
Warriors breakin all the limits twistin the laws<br />
<br />
[Chief Xcel]<br />
Now who said that underground is only just one more<br />
I'm sellin time and space and matter makin hula-hoops of saturns rings<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
And bring my thing and sink to think<br />
That these was meant to be writ if these spits will ever be writ<br />
We on some destiny (shh shhh) we took a piece of this<br />
We often testement on every cultural element<br />
Ever sent to us by the ancestors as though we manifest it<br />
Some new world pedestrians<br />
just lounging with some fishin poles Up on the moons crescent<br />
Just tryin to make some history spittin on a few records<br />
I had a dream like martin luther king in adolescense<br />
And now I'm out in tokyo and europe havin sessions<br />
The final destination used to be my main question<br />
But then I looked and all that I was searchin for was present<br />
The final destination used to be my main question<br />
But then I looked and all that I was searchin for was present<br />
<br />
And now I'm out and out on and on the road we play<br />
Soundin off like an army ho replay<br />
Talkin bout walkin miles of roads he paved<br />
Travel out droppin bombs with no delay<br />
<br />
[Overlaps with chorus]<br />
And now I'm out and out on and on the road we play<br />
Soundin off like an army ho replay<br />
Talkin bout walkin miles of roads he paved<br />
Travel out droppin bombs with no delay<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything<br />
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity<br />
Movin, one god one love one whole community<br />
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on<br />
<br />
[Latyrx]<br />
Now see we rock around the clock we dont stop for nothin<br />
Gonna take it to the top - non stop - no frontin<br />
People listen when it drops cause it speaks to something<br />
In they souls when they all alone spacing in the zone<br />
Or walking they block - talking to they homey at the shop<br />
See the point is this - even if the homey got shot<br />
Then there still be the bump knockin in your trunk<br />
Get ya out your slump rockin it straight off the top<br />
I'm cockin it like ingredients thrown hap-hazardly inside a crockpot<br />
With a magic sock schnapps a big ass book and some vodka<br />
And pass it my way cause I'm a real big talker<br />
And i love new experiences I'm the godfather of gettin into to trouble<br />
On the road undercover shit - take your whole crowd if you leave em uncovered<br />
And i believe even hammer would say my shits proper work<br />
Not to put a damper on the underground answer shit<br />
You dealin wit motherfuckers not underground anthem thugs<br />
Rock from the west coast damn near the athens and you still hate a whack song<br />
As much as the next man and still in love with the good one<br />
We interact with listners this is our contribution on the war against<br />
The whiteness is likeness a constitution of fatness<br />
Blackalicious Jurassic more Latyrical madness<br />
Your mind is captured with tactics to get you back to the fatness<br />
And you still want to battle just how long does this last?<br />
We have the fashion to classic the pure love satisfaction<br />
Is when the magic is captured live-action aint tangible with<br />
<br />
[Chorus]<br />
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything<br />
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity<br />
Movin, one god one love one whole community<br />
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on<br />
<br />
[All]<br />
We take a journey through music right now [3X]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-80385704841108726272011-06-07T01:11:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:11:20.650-07:00Nowhere Fast Lyrics - Blackalicious[Sample (Scratched by Chief Xcel):]<br />
<br />
Now you, who ever you are,<br />
as you're listening to what I'm going to say,<br />
will probably not want to believe what I'm going to tell you.<br />
And there isn't any way in which I can make you believe;<br />
I can only state the facts as they are<br />
and hope that you will really believe me.<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Hey yester-day you were supposed to meet me now I got to testify<br />
I waited hours for you guess that all was just a lie<br />
Figured you stepped inside soon enough you said good bye<br />
"Peace Out! I'm gone and won't be back!" I head your echo cry<br />
Oh how the seconds fly left without a second try<br />
I check and try to recollect how I just let you die<br />
And now I wallow in these severed ties<br />
<br />
Of Yesterday [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Of yester-day girl your really gone I guess that's how it just should be<br />
I had big plans for us today but now you're history<br />
Today's a mystery you took pieces I miss of me<br />
I keep on diggin deep tryin to find that kid in me<br />
We had some really good discussions back then didn't we?<br />
Befriended me but now we don't speak like we're enemies<br />
And all I got is memories<br />
<br />
Of yesterday [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
But Yester-day memories are priceless and I'm really glad you left em<br />
There etched inside I take a ride when driftin through the spectrum<br />
It's just at times I dwell and dwell and then I have to catch up<br />
To now while back in time it ceased to march it just kept on<br />
I want you back I want you back when it was here I slept on<br />
What I appreciate a little more now as a blessing<br />
Now I'm complaining and regretting<br />
<br />
About yesterday [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
And I'm just goin nowhere fast<br />
<br />
[CHORUS: woman's voice (repeat 2X)]<br />
I don't try to stay here<br />
I just fly away here<br />
Out of my oasis<br />
I am not complacent<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Your stuck in a flurry of illusions goin nowhere fast<br />
<br />
I am today I'm all that ever was and ever is and uh<br />
It is an honor, don't become a mental prisoner<br />
Just listen to the now and keep your mind from driftin off<br />
I am the mission, the position of this instance uh<br />
New opportunity to get the love your wishin for<br />
To kick the door in to look for your ambitions, what?<br />
You can move on out to elevate your existence up<br />
<br />
Today [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
I'm just today, I'm just the way I am<br />
I am ever single day I am<br />
I'm February, April, March and even May I am<br />
I'm only what you make me hope I'm what you pray I am<br />
Today I am, I'm never really far away I am<br />
You better scope me like the hunter does the prey I am<br />
You play "I am" out in the picture yes today I am<br />
I'm everything your memory say I am<br />
<br />
Today [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
So seize me, I'm here to serve you if you serve me back<br />
It's easy, but difficult that's time alone squeeze me<br />
From beaming your feet when your all your actions turn to banking<br />
An inkling, a hint, I'm moving faster than your blinking<br />
So treat to just a slice of heaven why you cheat me?<br />
Deceive me and now I'm hell inside these thoughts that link me<br />
To flesh the soul it's bound to I was truly made to be free<br />
<br />
Today [woman's voice]<br />
<br />
Instead I'm going nowhere fast<br />
<br />
[Chorus (repeat 2X)]<br />
<br />
[Sample (scratched by chief Xcel):]<br />
I'm only saying this to show how all around<br />
man or beast sleep away there gift of time<br />
and never know the beauty of a good life below<br />
<br />
I'm bout to change the way I'm livin homey<br />
I'm eatin vegan, no ham or baloney<br />
I'm startin off my day with yoga stretches<br />
I'm bout to master self to study lessons<br />
I'm swearin off the weed and alcohol<br />
I won't be affected by doubts at all<br />
The sky's the limit, watch I'm bout to ball<br />
<br />
I'm spendin every single dollar wisely<br />
I'm writin songs that's bumpin like the Eisleys<br />
I'll have the answers you can all confide in me<br />
Nothin the day could bring that will surprise me<br />
I'm buildin to the fullest every minute<br />
I'm through talkin the talk, I'm bout to live it<br />
Ain't even started yet, I'm at the finish line<br />
<br />
Man I can't wait until it's here I'm sayin<br />
Oh what, you haitin? What, you think I'm playin?<br />
You think I ain't just go ahead and watch me<br />
I'll use the lessons yesterday has taught me<br />
I'm countin hours, minutes even seconds<br />
Man I can't even sleep, I'll build my Heaven<br />
Oh what, it here? Oh, oh what, it's what?<br />
Don't even trip, just give me one more day<br />
It's really gonna be on tomorrow<br />
<br />
[Chorus (repeat to end)]<br />
<br />
Your stuck in a flurry of illusions goin nowhere fast [repeat 3X]<br />
<br />
[Sample:]<br />
There we are. All finished.<br />
And you don't know how much I appreciate your pardon.<br />
<br />
Watch out blazing arrow<br />
<br />
Do it just how you talk it<br />
Nigga rolled in and walk it<br />
Stick a toe in the water<br />
Don't falter, go on and fall in<br />
Tell me, do you know your calling?<br />
Yo, what your mission is fella?<br />
I caught this vision when I met a fortune teller<br />
In New Orleans French Quarter<br />
on the bus bench an arbitrary corner<br />
Sorta scary looking elder woman showed up outta nowhere<br />
She stared into my eyes and said<br />
"Sure as eyes green<br />
You were conceived and walk the earth<br />
Spit that heat, purifying I believe.<br />
So are you ready for your cleansin?<br />
Cause this is only the beginning."lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-82052681370251653012011-06-07T01:10:00.000-07:002011-06-07T01:10:08.328-07:00Paragraph President Lyrics - BlackaliciousParagraph paralyzer rhythmic aristocrat<br />
Mister rap it's the gift of gab about to twist your caps<br />
Swift the fist so fast fury worry hit the switch ya ass<br />
Its 'n bits 'n fragments so midget quit this diss ya ass<br />
Sit ya ass down while I rip the tracks and spit the facts<br />
Hit the grass, green, brown, or purple I'm the diplomat<br />
Rip your raps, really you don't get the math<br />
Just to have, grief, only rhymer, I was meant to rap into that<br />
Fire breathing, rhyme heathen, kidnap your mental black<br />
Hijack your fly dap or con head your intellect<br />
Mind state, arrow blast, center crack, mind gaps<br />
Blind from their eyes back, send ya back crying act<br />
Up pencil pad, my utinsil grab thine attention<br />
Get hit so bad with two jitsu stabs I abid you<br />
And if you rap I'ma send you back rappin in a tavern<br />
If you mad kid it's just too bad<br />
Tell 'em it's the..<br />
<br />
paragraph president<br />
And it's official you can hear the cheer coming up<br />
paragraph president<br />
I want to thank you all for having my (?) perform<br />
paragraph president<br />
as a special treat this evening<br />
I have asked America's foremost young poet to read his latest poem for us<br />
<br />
Hit you with the funk it's like, "who cut the provolone?"<br />
Government officials put taps on my mobile phones<br />
Nations overthrown hold my own on my zone<br />
prone to leave your dome blown poem after poem homes<br />
Jones for the tones rome with me turn your motor on<br />
Overall this war just just got it goin on<br />
Overgrown child never growin old so when knows pokin notes<br />
Till the never nose ho overdose<br />
On my flows those flows goes deep<br />
Hold your nose bros knows foes yo don't sleep<br />
slow your row, show my soul, total hold<br />
Domination don't ya know<br />
Under comet like Muhammad with the verbal robodome<br />
It's the..<br />
<br />
paragraph president<br />
He's been sweeping the nation with a hard hitting campaign<br />
paragraph president<br />
As a politician he regards himself as a national (?)<br />
paragraph president<br />
and so mister president we urge you to do something about the deplorable<br />
state of our nation<br />
<br />
I pledge allegiance to the pen and the pad<br />
And the mic and (?) of America<br />
And to the republic, kiss my ass<br />
Thugs fakin, actin hard to get this killer beef that was given to me<br />
I must bust for all<br />
<br />
Leave your city burnin like Gamera<br />
Stamina, blaze up your space, plus I got it on camera<br />
And I'm a animal animator landin a<br />
Blow cleaning clocks nothing left for the janitor<br />
Punching through your granite a good will ambassador<br />
From another planet I could kill and smash ya up<br />
And it won't stop and I can't stop (?)<br />
Can erupt and it does had enough amateur?<br />
A rammin ya feel the goats horns slammin ya<br />
Ham it up every single time that I stand in a<br />
Crowd of emcees backin up when I'm actin up<br />
On a frenzy after ya yellin, "that's enough!"<br />
And it tempts me, that it does, and I'm glad it does<br />
When I flip see spatula style's stackin up<br />
Many big threes rappers on never catchin up<br />
Passin up, ride passenger, is it black enough?<br />
Spectacular! Now you know who's attackin ya<br />
Crackin up mashin ya top mind capturer<br />
I'm the..<br />
<br />
paragraph presidentlyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471743855344830125.post-159050515956315762011-06-07T01:09:00.001-07:002011-06-07T01:09:41.813-07:00It's Going Down Lyrics - Blackalicious (feat. Lateef the Truthspeaker, Keke Wyatt)[Chorus - Keke Wyatt]<br />
Sit back, close your eyes<br />
Peep back, got you open wide<br />
I'll let you get a taste of me<br />
It's going down in mystery<br />
Sit back, close your eyes<br />
Peep back, got you open wide<br />
I'll let you get a taste of me<br />
It's going down in mystery<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Well it's the microphone ripper, party-rockin Gift of Gab<br />
I hit the scene, lift you on my beam<br />
And send you through my high plains<br />
Mind-train shiftin through your migraines<br />
Spit with that I hit with patterns get you twisted sideways<br />
<br />
[Lateef the Truth Speaker]<br />
And I'm the head honcho, sport golden tonsils<br />
Inventin new styles all the time like pronto!<br />
Four by four, runnin over suckers like a Bronco<br />
Haters say the lyrics ain't Gonzo but they wrong though<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
We walking up and locking up the game and sparking up the flame<br />
You're not gone' be the same when our flow reach your brain<br />
It's 'bout to bust<br />
<br />
[Lateef the Truth Speaker]<br />
Not your crush, show up at our show in a tacky dress<br />
Sparking us, talking 'bout your prowess but we're not impressed<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab]<br />
Checkmate, populous crush, monstrous plush<br />
Rhymes that just thrust onto your buck buck<br />
Just rush<br />
<br />
[Lateef the Truth Speaker]<br />
Just rushin' like the Nile River, power we deliver<br />
See it's (going down in mystery)<br />
<br />
[Chorus x2]<br />
<br />
[Keke Wyatt]<br />
You know, I know, you know, I know<br />
(It's going down in mystery)<br />
<br />
[Gift of Gab (Lateef)]<br />
(Gift of Gab won't you learn 'em and assure 'em)<br />
(That the fire that you spit'll burn 'em)<br />
Burning up the track and turning up the action<br />
(Murder one attack him)<br />
Serving what you're rapping<br />
Urban gutter anthems<br />
(Certain of the fact)<br />
Curtains for the wack<br />
Searching for the knack<br />
(You're pervin' off the fatness)<br />
Fury of the rather early mornings after<br />
(Worldly like disasters)<br />
Purely just the baddest, the chief clamp down on 'em<br />
(Like a vice on a melon squeezing tight on your temples)<br />
Feel the bass (as the wind blows)<br />
In your face (and your mental) hear the taste<br />
Instrumentals even break down on you like this<br />
(We surpass your previous standards) drastically<br />
(Mastering bass), setting nights so bright<br />
(Beneath the skylight)<br />
And days (and weeks) and months (go by)<br />
And years (and decades) and we still so fly<br />
(While the others are just fly by night)<br />
And not tight (we keep writing)<br />
Like scribes (but we tight) and so wise (c'mon)<br />
<br />
[Gab & Lateef Together]<br />
The rhyme historian exploring everything that we got<br />
And even more so we exploring everything that they not<br />
These are the glory days for lyricisits, forever we plot<br />
Wait wait wait wait hold on a second bring it back (we plot [x4], c'mon)<br />
The rhyme historian exploring everything that we got<br />
And even more so we exploring everything that they not<br />
These are the glory days of lyricisits, forever we plot<br />
(It's going down in mystery)<br />
<br />
[Chorus x 2]lyricshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892854774341081679noreply@blogger.com0