Know That - Mos Def/Talib Kweli.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Dorell, Greene, Smith
[00:00.00] Hey, hey, heyyy man
[00:03.48]I strike the empire back..
[00:06.21]I strike the empire back..
[00:08.59]**** the empire!!
[00:09.69]High flyin like the millenium falcon, piloted by han solo
[00:13.17]I never roll for dolo, frontin on me's a no-no
[00:15.90]Understand?　doin this for my family
[00:17.70]Ha ha, check it out y'all
[00:20.79]Yo i'm tryin to make a dollar out of what makes sense
[00:23.55]Add it up, told my daddy i'd be a rich man
[00:26.40]You never know when your fate gon' switch hand
[00:28.77]Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand
[00:31.35]I was a young boy -- who dreamt about being a big man
[00:33.90]On small looseleaf sheets i sketched a big plan
[00:36.66]Gotta handle business properly, boost up my economy
[00:39.60]Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property
[00:42.27]Yesterday was not for me but nowaday it's time for me
[00:44.76]The streets is watchin me, i watch back, that's the policy
[00:47.55]Movin along my oddesey like blood through the artery
[00:50.16]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
[00:57.75]From hands cracked and bleedin -- cotton thorns in your palms
[01:00.45]It's for y'all that i sketch these songs, and it goes..
[01:03.36]Yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow
[01:05.85]I fear no man, because faith is the aarow
[01:08.43]My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow
[01:10.95]We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano
[01:13.65]Kweli is you wit me? (whattup whattup?) let's make it happen
[01:16.38]I *burn* through your argument with action
[01:18.39]My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin for a brighter day
[01:21.33]When y'all wanna leave y'all?　right away
[01:23.43]Shout it out from east-west (from south to northern)
[01:25.38]From cakalak' (to california)
[01:26.85]From the coldest (to the warmest)
[01:28.14]To the borders ('cross the waters) understand..
[01:30.69]".. and know that i love you.."
[01:32.52]We got love in the place
[01:33.93]Shout out to all the queens (all the seeds)
[01:36.06]To all the teams (that's gettin cream)
[01:37.35]From outlaw (to emcee's)
[01:38.61]Make it happen (do your thing) understand..
[01:41.19]".. and know that i love you.."
[01:42.39]Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen
[01:44.55][talib kweli]
[01:44.91]Guess who?　the illest mc in the atmosphere, yeah the soul controller
[01:48.15]Who roam the frontier like a buffalo soldier
[01:50.49]I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna
[01:53.28]Never disrespect no women cause i love my momma
[01:56.04]These cats be givin us praise but it ain't that accurate
[01:58.62]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
[02:03.66]Like how these niggas is lookin like some fairies
[02:05.34]And singin like canaries to the beast
[02:07.08]And anybody who will listen to em clearly
[02:08.91]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
[02:14.07]Yo why you startin me? I take that shit straight to the artery
[02:17.25]Intellectual property i got the title and the deed
[02:19.47]I pay for rent, with the tears and sweat, and what i bleed
[02:22.29]Mc's imitate the way we walk, the way we talk
[02:24.72]You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought
[02:27.39]Plus your flow a little bit off, you come across soft
[02:30.03]Back in the days, niggas like that on stage got tossed off
[02:32.64]Need to get crossed off the guestlist
[02:34.50]It's like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit
[02:37.14]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
[02:43.23]Check it, mc's in my face after i slug you then i hug you
[02:46.26]If i gotta dead you know it's only cause i love you
[02:48.18][mos def]
[02:48.42]Shout it out from east-west (from south to northern)
[02:49.80]From the richest (to the poorest)
[02:51.15]To the elders (in the coffins)
[02:52.56]Livin native (dyin for it) understand..
[02:54.51]".. and know that i love you.."
[02:56.07]Yea, yea, we got love in the place
[02:58.26]Shout out from up top (to the middle)
[03:00.27]To black bottom (sky high)
[03:01.53]Whether you colder than december
[03:02.91]Or hotter, than july
[03:04.17]It don't stop 'til we complete this
[03:05.67](".. and know that i love you..") keep this fly
[03:07.11]It's so much to life when you just
[03:08.52]Stay black (10x)
[03:16.02]My people, my people, my people people p-people (8x)
[03:42.36]My pe-ople, oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh - ohh...