[Talib So many focusin on black people extermination We keep it balanced with knowledge of self, determination It's hot, we be the spots, with conversations C'mon smooth it out like Soul Sensation
We in the like Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in Korea to Philly and free Mumia with the Kujichagulia TRUE Singin is swingin and writin is fightin, but they writin got us like titans it's not excitin No question, bein a man is demandin The fire's in my and the flames need fannin (3X)
With that what? (Knowledge Of Self) 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come quite My words may not convey just I'm feelin
[Talib Yes yes on, yes yes Knowledge Of Self is like after death With that you never worry your last breath comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the next days The flesh goes underground, the book of life, the page Yo they askin me how old, we the same age I feel the rage of a million niggaz locked inside a At exactly which do you start to realize life without knowledge is, death in disguise? That's why, Knowledge Of Self is life after death Apply it, to your life, let destiny Different day, confusion, we're gonna take this hip-hop shit and keep it movin, shed a little Now y'all bloomin like a flower with the power of the Voices and original instruments In the flesh presently presentin my
With that what? (Knowledge Of Self) 6X* - - - - these two parts - - - - Things I say and do, may not come through My may not convey just what I'm feelin 2X*
[Talib The most important in history is, NOW, the present So count your blessings cause can't define the essence But you stressin over time and you follow the calendar These people enter like Gattaca, you can bet they tryin to lock you like Attica, the African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant can't forever I know you gotta get that cheddar Aiyyo I heard you the first time money, get it together You must be History, you repeatin out of the pages You keepin yourself depleatin your wealth That cash'll get your ass quick fast in houses of detention Inner-city concentration camps where no one pays or mentions the of death, til nothing's left The young, and Black are sprung addicted to crack All my people where y'all at cause, y'all ain't And your hero's using mind as a canvas to paint fear With, broad strokes and tales of incarceration You get out of with that Knowledge of Self determination in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human Cause and effect, effect you do and that's why I got love in the face of Hands steady so the lines in the mental is straight The thought you had even contemplate Infinite figure eight there's no escape..
From that (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come quite My words may not convey what I'm feelin 2X*
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Things I say and do, may not quite through My words may not just what I'm feelin 2X*
What I'm feelin, I'm feelin, ooooh, what I'm feelin...