Black Star, Apani Emcee - Hater Players

[00:02.46] (Talib kweli) [00:02.48] Yes. [00:07.37] Every day somebody ask me where all the real mc's is at? [00:10.82] They underground [00:12.42] There's mad talented cats underground with that raw shit [00:16.17] Yaknowwhat'msayin? bringin them raw skills [00:18.56] Yaknowwhati'm sayin? [00:19.95] Really, to me. [00:21.56] It's a small wonder, like vicki, why I'm picky [00:23.81] These niggas suck like hickies [00:25.46] And still get the shit they slip in like mickies [00:27.18] I'm sick of the hater-players, bring on the regulators [00:29.46] With the flavors like a farm team f**king with the majors [00:31.95] Like a river how I run through it, I do it so cold [00:34.23] Freezin up your bodily fluids, your style is old [00:36.74] You runnin your mouth, but don't really know what you be talkin about [00:39.10] You should retire, get that complimentary watch, be out! [00:41.78] Yo, with the quickness, so swift you miss this lyrical fitness [00:44.44] Now get this, these emcees wanna test me like litmus, bear witness [00:47.69] I'm like shot clocks, interstate cops, and blood clots [00:50.03] My point is, your flow can stop! [00:51.78] By all means, you need more practice, take that ass home [00:54.31] Everybody lookin at you, fish tank syndrome [00:56.86] In full effect, I stay catchin lyrical rep [00:59.15] And keep it blacker than the back of your neck [01:01.16] What you expect, that shit's hollerin [01:02.72] Cause we developin the followin [01:04.45] Gettin played like stone love tapes and dollar vans [01:06.73] Order reverse your universe so your demise is first [01:09.12] Before your rise it gets worse [01:10.44] You need a night nurse like gregory [01:11.91] Beggin me - stop it hurts! - is what you say to me [01:13.90] Like that's supposed to mean somethin? [01:15.42] You the one I seen frontin in the club [01:17.02] Your act I don't buy it, I got the dub [01:18.83] Come on everybody, come on just show your love [01:21.39] Come on everybody, come on just show your love [01:23.88] Come on everybody, come on just show your love [01:26.27] Come on everybody, come on just show your love [01:28.75] Come on everybody, come on just show your love [01:31.10] Chorus: *chanted in background* [01:31.63] Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-uh-oh *repeated 4x* [01:31.94] (Mos def) [01:32.26] Visions occupy my synaptic space [01:34.39] Command and shake, to illustrate my mind's landscape [01:37.08] The tall grass, the low plains, the mountanous ridges [01:39.40] Thickets among the forests, rivers beneath the bridges [01:42.19] Presence of hilltops, lit up with tree tops [01:44.56] Eavesdrop; and hear the incline of sunshine, nine [01:47.34] Stones in orbit, refuse to forfeit [01:49.59] They all form a cipher, and they came to observe it [01:52.59] I follow suit, and face it, embrace it [01:54.93] Shinin bright, but still I'm careful not to waste it [01:57.30] Destined to rise, because I'm basement adjacent [01:59.86] Spirit is still so just chill and be patient [02:02.49] Some heads approach like I'm the one to base with [02:04.87] Clowns about to scream and shout but don't say shh. [02:07.49] I ain't your student so I ain't to be tested [02:09.44] I'm majestic, I represent my strength without effort [02:11.91] My, method is unorthodox, but of course it rocks [02:14.51] My serious synopsis will drop kick, my topics [02:17.39] Run the gauntlets and galvanize the audience [02:19.61] I must represent, I don't come off with no corniness [02:22.02] It's all luminary, despite commentary [02:24.60] Some people say, mos how you get so? [02:26.83] My sign will make you jump around like calypso [02:29.35] And, murmur to yourself like a schizo [02:31.70] There ain't no bottom on the? [02:33.52] Chorus [02:35.12] (Talib kweli) [02:35.75] Come on, come on, come on, come on [02:37.12] Here we go. blackstar, hop on the blackstar line [02:39.36] We bout to take y'all home. [02:40.90] Yaknowwhatimean? here we go... [02:42.09] We got all markets on lock [02:43.15] From meat to stock [02:44.38] Blackstar, what? throwin like head rock in bars [02:46.79] Men flock to where we are, cause it's the place to be [02:49.25] Grab my paint, jump on stage and deface emcees [02:51.74] We sell our souls like spawn and come for the drone I sit upon [02:54.44] Freestyle or written songs so we can get it on! [02:56.44] Going back and forth, fallin back, all across the track [02:59.04] Passin the mic's like quarterbacks [03:00.48] Of course it's phat, get off of that! [03:01.94] Reverse psychology got em scared to say when shit is whack [03:04.41] Out of fear of being called a hater, imagine that! [03:06.97] We ain't havin that reachin past the star status that you grabbin at [03:09.62] My battle raps blast your ass back to your natural habitat [03:12.12] So floss, cause what it costs ain't worth it to me [03:14.24] Cause I'm the one these spice girl emcees wannabe [03:16.86] But they can't, ain't no points for effort, so why bother? [03:19.57] Cause your girl calls my name out like clarence carter [03:21.29] Clarence carter, clarence carter! [03:22.78] (I be strokin, that's what I be doin) [03:23.22] Aiyyo, as we rock harder [03:24.72] And always drop the bonified head nodders [03:26.78] Aiyyo, later for the hater-players [03:28.68] Yo-yo, yo-yo, later for these hater-players [03:31.20] Chorus [03:43.40] Blackstar keeps shining [03:44.76] Chorus [03:50.73] Blackstar keeps shining [04:06.86]