Black Star - Re:Definition

[00:10.54] One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli [00:14.87] We came to rock it on to the tip-top [00:17.55] Best alliance in hip-hop, wayohh [00:20.79] I said, one two three, Black Star shine eternally [00:25.68] We came to rock it on to the tip-top [00:28.13] And Hi-Tek make the beat drop, wayohh [00:31.56] RE: Definition, turning your play into a tragedy [00:34.20] Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately [00:36.97] Niggas is sweet so I bet if I bit I'd get a cavity [00:40.08] Living to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity [00:42.41] We die hard like the battery thrown in the back of me by the mad MC [00:45.27] Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery, actually [00:47.70] Don't be mad at me, I had to be the one to break it to you [00:50.55] You be kicked into obscurity like judo, no, Menudo [00:53.24] 'Cause you pseudo, trying to compete with reality like Xerox [00:56.05] Towards destruction you spiraling like hairlocks, wipe them teardrops [00:58.77] Chasing stars in your eyes, playing games with your lives [01:01.27] Now the wives is widows, soaking up pillows, weeping like willows [01:03.94] Still no blacks is dying, 'cause they live and they trying [01:06.47] "How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applying [01:09.37] Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners [01:12.09] Rocking ever since before Prince was called The Artist [01:14.83] Rocking before Funkmaster Flex was rocking Starter [01:17.23] When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool, before they was martyrs [01:19.78] Life or death, if I'm choosing with every breath I'm enhancing [01:22.76] Stop, there comes a time when you can't run [01:24.52] What, lyrically handsome, go collect a king's ransom [01:28.07] Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem [01:30.72] Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, move like a phantom [01:34.26] You'll talk about me to your grandsons [01:36.30] Cats who claiming they hard be mad fags [01:38.47] So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags [01:41.23] Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have [01:43.76] Sinking they ship, like Moby Dick to Ahab [01:46.56] Son I'm way past the minimum, entering millennium [01:49.11] My raps the holy gat to your back like Palestinians [01:51.99] Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon [01:54.73] Official b-boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim [01:57.52] Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10 [02:00.17] These simpletons they mentioned in the synonym for feminine [02:02.92] Sweeter than some cinnamon, the Danish rings by Entenmann's [02:05.43] Rush up on adrenaline, they get they asses sent to them [02:08.14] (Gentlemen) You got a tenement, well then assemble it! [02:10.84] Leave your unit trembling like herds of moving elephant [02:13.19] Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element [02:15.89] From Flatbush settlement, skin possesses melanin [02:18.69] Hotter than tales of crack peddling, making 'em woop [02:21.56] Like blue gelatine, swing like Duke Ellington [02:24.06] Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me [02:26.83] The hot Apache red who burn down your chief teepee [02:29.34] You see me? [02:29.65] One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli [02:33.42] We came to rock it on to the tip-top [02:36.27] Best alliance in hip-hop, wayohh [02:39.78] I said, one two three, Black Star shine eternally [02:44.50] We came to rock it on to the tip-top [02:47.04] Because we ruling hip-hop, yes we is ruling hip-hop [02:51.90] Talib Kweli is ruling hip-hop [02:54.67] Say we Black Star, we rule hip-hop-ah-ahh-ah-ahh-ahh [02:59.36] Whoahhhh! [02:59.66]