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Talib Kweli - The Manifesto Lyrics

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  • Manifesto this is what we want to see happen
  • for my peoples still breakin graf writin and rappin
  • I rock the mic right and exact my life's my sacrifice
  • Take my mic and I'm like a Chinese man with no rice
  • Oh yeah we flippin through the pages of time to find design
  • Like Vaseline on the faces of Black Georgia we shinin
  • Deeper than petroleum jelly we in the air like conversations
  • on celly and just appear like stretch marks on bellies
  • after givin birth you had to let go, you playin for life
  • The Manifesto, here comes the beat because I said so keep pushin
  • I got the cushion for the seat of your soul
  • Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold
  • and we frontin, from nigga to kid, to Son of God
  • It's wild dependin on labels for man woman and child
  • My style just is, all that's seen and all that's heard
  • God gave us music so we play with our words
  • So when Tek be in constant meditation like a monk
  • while Kweli speaks in tongues to get your intellect drunk
  • yo we bound to take over the 90% of your brain that you ain't usin
  • To us it's life or death we keep you chosin
  • Every shook eye ain't seen, every goodbye ain't gone
  • Ain't no rest for the weary yo forever it's on
  • The Manifesto, establishes a hip-hop order
  • Movin upon the face of the water, like Reflections
  • Aiyyo all the real MC's can meet me outside
  • So we can decide how we gonna change the tide
  • like the moon we on the Earth takin a ride around the Sun
  • Now Son we only just begun, and the journey's far from done
  • We all miss you, what your brain gone fishin like Walter Mosley?
  • There's an MC that can hold me, supposedly?
  • No one could come close to me, only, the family really know me
  • Hip-Hop's last hope like Obi Wan Kenobi
  • Through your television I'm shinin light like a train
  • Comin out like earthworms when it rains, bringin it
  • like the C.I.A. be bringin in crack cocaine bailin out of planes
  • with the George Bush connections, I push Reflection
  • like I'm sellin izm, like a dealer buildin the system
  • Supply and the demand it's all capitalism
  • Niggaz don't sell crack cause they like to see blacks smoke
  • Niggaz sell crack cause they broke, my battle lyrics
  • get concious minds provoked and ghetto passes revoked
  • cause we surrounded by the evil, you know that the people's minds
  • is feeble they believe in it, even if it don't make sense
  • This makin dollars shit, don't take a scholar to
  • see what's goin on around you, either you widdit or you ain't
  • is what it comes down to, have you forgotten?
  • We pickin 100% designer name brand cotton
  • They still plottin, my Third Eye is steady watchin
  • Every shook eye ain't seen, every goodbye ain't gone
  • Ain't no rest for the weary yo forever it's on
  • The Manifesto, establishes a hip-hop order
  • Movin upon the face of the water, like Reflections
  • (Yeah see that's what I'm talkin about, it be the slaughter man
  • We need to break it down because these heads
  • they don't know what they talkin about
  • Frontin all this nonsense, yo break it down)
  • From open mics to solutions I got a collage of answers
  • and a ten point program, just like the Black Panthers
  • One: First respect yourself as an artist
  • If you don't respect yourself then your rhymes is garbage
  • Two: Make sure your crew is as tight as you
  • cause when them niggaz fallin off they gonna bring you down too
  • Three: Understand the meaning of MC
  • The power to Move the Crowd like Moses split the seas
  • Four: Know your shit and don't ever be blunted
  • If you don't know what your words mean then your rhymes mean nothin
  • Five: Kick facts in the raps, and curse with clarity
  • What's a curse when language is immersed in vulgarity
  • Six: We gonna fix industrial poli-tricks
  • Shit they made an artform out of ridin dicks
  • Seven: We soldiers for God needin new recruits
  • So if you rhymin for the loot then youse a prostitute
  • but Eight: Acknowledge that you need food on your plate
  • In order to say your grace make sure your business is straight
  • Nine: We buildin black minds with intelligence
  • and when you freestyle, keep the subject matter relevant
  • Ten: Every MC grab a pen
  • and write some concious lyrics to tell the children
  • I'll say it again, every MC find you a pen
  • And drop some concious shit for our children
  • The Manifesto!

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