[Talib So many emcees on black people extermination We keep it balanced that knowledge of self, determination It's hot, we be blowin the spots, with C'mon let's smooth it out like Soul
We in the house Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in Korea Head to Philly and free Mumia the Kujichagulia TRUE Singin is and writin is fightin, but what they got us clashin like titans it's not excitin No question, a black man is demandin The fire's in my and the flames need fannin (3X)
With that (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 4X*
Things I say and do, may not come quite My words may not just what I'm feelin
[Talib Yes yes on, yes yes Knowledge Of Self is like life after With that you never about your last breath Death comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the days The goes underground, the book of life, flip the page Yo askin me how old, we livin the same age I feel the rage of a niggaz locked inside a cage At exactly which point do you start to That life knowledge is, death in disguise? That's why, Of Self is like life after death Apply it, to your life, let destiny Different day, confusion, we're gonna take this hip-hop shit and it movin, shed a little light Now y'all bloomin a flower with the power of the evident Voices and drums original In the flesh presently presentin my
that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination 6X* - - - - two parts overlap - - - - I say and do, may not come quite through My words may not convey just I'm feelin 2X*
[Talib The important time in history is, NOW, the present So count blessings cause time can't define the essence But you stressin over time and you follow the Roman These people enter like Gattaca, you can bet they tryin to you down like Attica, the African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant can't slumber I know you gotta get cheddar whatever Aiyyo I heard you twice the time money, get it together You must be History, you repeatin yourself out of the You keepin yourself your spiritual wealth That quick get your ass quick fast in houses of detention Inner-city concentration where no one pays attention or the ascension of death, til nothing's left The young, gifted and Black are sprung to crack All my people where y'all at cause, y'all here And your hero's your mind as a canvas to paint fear With, brush strokes and tales of incarceration You get out of jail with Knowledge of Self determination in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human Cause and effect, everything you do and that's why I got love in the of hate 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 through My words may not convey just what I'm 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, what I'm feelin, ooooh, I'm feelin...