Know That (Explicit)-Mos Def/Talib Kweli

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.54]Hey hey heyyy man [00:01.41]I strike the empire back [00:06.21]I strike the empire back [00:08.73]F**k the empire [00:09.66]High flyin like the millenium falcon piloted by han solo [00:13.23]I never roll for dolo frontin on me's a no-no [00:15.93]Understand doin this for my family [00:19.32]Ha ha check it out y'all [00:20.79]Yo I'm tryin to make a dollar out of what makes sense [00:23.61]Add it up told my daddy I'd be a rich man [00:26.19]You never know when your fate gon' switch hand [00:28.80]Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand [00:31.26]I was a young boy -who dreamt about being a big man [00:33.93]On small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan [00:36.60]Gotta handle business properly boost up my economy [00:39.57]Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property [00:42.24]Yesterday was not for me but nowaday it's time for me [00:44.73]The streets is watchin me I watch back that's the policy [00:47.52]Movin along my oddesey like blood through the artery [00:50.13]Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless [00:52.68]Let those who make the exodus seekin the north beacon [00:55.11]From beatin and hog-eatin from punishment all season [00:57.72]From hands cracked and bleedin -cotton thorns in your palms [01:00.42]It's for y'all that I sketch these songs and it goes [01:03.30]Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow [01:05.82]I fear no man because faith is the aarow [01:08.40]My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow [01:10.95]We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano [01:13.62]Kweli is you wit me [01:14.91]Whattup whattup [01:15.39]Let's make it happen [01:16.71]I *burn*through your argument with action [01:18.36]My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin for a brighter day [01:21.60]When y'all wanna leave y'all right away [01:23.43]Shout it out from east-west [01:24.30]From south to northern [01:25.62]From cakalak' [01:25.89]To california [01:26.82]From the coldest [01:27.54]To the warmest [01:28.20]To the borders [01:28.89]'Cross the waters [01:29.43]Understand [01:30.66]And know that I love you [01:32.52]We got love in the place [01:34.05]Shout out to all the queens [01:35.37]All the seeds [01:35.97]To all the teams [01:36.45]That's gettin cream [01:37.17]From outlaw [01:37.74]To emcee's [01:38.61]Make it happen [01:39.27]Do your thing [01:39.96]Understand [01:41.25]And know that I love you [01:42.48]Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen [01:44.70]Guess who the illest mc in the atmosphere yeah the soul controller [01:48.24]Who roam the frontier like a buffalo soldier [01:50.52]I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna [01:53.37]Never disrespect no women cause I love my momma [01:56.01]These cats be givin us praise but it ain't that accurate [01:58.56]I give it up to god all that love and attachment get [02:01.32]Scary well-prepared with the shears when it get hairy [02:03.63]Like how these n***az is lookin like some fairies [02:05.40]And singin like canaries to the beast [02:07.11]And anybody who will listen to em clearly [02:08.94]Y'all don't hear me though even when I'm comin through in stereo [02:11.91]You make a mockery of what I represent properly [02:14.13]Yo why you startin me I take that s**t straight to the artery [02:17.31]Intellectual property I got the title and the deed [02:19.53]I pay for rent with the tears and sweat and what I bleed [02:22.23]Mc's imitate the way we walk the way we talk [02:24.72]You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought [02:27.42]Plus your flow a little bit off you come across soft [02:29.97]Back in the days n***az like that on stage got tossed off [02:32.61]Need to get crossed off the guestlist [02:34.50]It's like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit [02:37.17]To get the message [02:38.16]Sometimes your sunshine get snatched like a necklace [02:40.65]When you get too drunk on power and your drive get reckless [02:43.26]Check it mc's in my face after I slug you then I hug you [02:46.32]If I gotta dead you know it's only cause I love you [02:48.33]Shout it out from east-west [02:48.90]From south to northern [02:49.77]From the richest [02:50.58]To the poorest [02:51.18]To the elders [02:51.81]In the coffins [02:52.53]Livin native [02:53.22]Dyin for it [02:53.79]Understand [02:54.99]And know that I love you [02:55.71]Yea yea we got love in the place [02:58.38]Shout out from up top [02:59.61]To the middle [03:00.39]To black bottom [03:00.96]Sky high [03:01.50]Whether you colder than December [03:02.88]Or hotter than July [03:04.20]It don't stop 'til we complete this [03:06.00]And know that I love you [03:08.19]Keep this fly [03:10.14]It's so much to life when you just [03:13.65]Stay black [03:17.40]10x [03:41.10]My people my people my people people p-people [03:51.00]8x [03:55.59]My pe-ople oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh oh-ohh