Talib Kweli - The Show lyrics

[Talib Kweli:] Okay... Okay, I'm only gettin it on one side of the headphone Aight! Yeh, bring it in like... Five somethin in the mornin goin on six It's daylight, sunrise time Time to free yo'self... free yo' soul, free yo' mind Ladies, free that a**... yeah! Coast to coast it's the most, we don't brag and boast We just leave 'em comatose It's your boy Talib Kweli, yeah! Flow is tight, though I got a couple screws looses It's cuckoo, my rep in this game is bigger than Bruce Bruce Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce SHOOT~! Y'all n***az can't hang like a loose noose I get on stage, n***az in my ear like a Bluetooth And that's the triple truth Ruth, they lips is loose like They seen your lovedaddy in the bulletproof blue Coupe My rhymes is full of truth, and the business full of lies Try to look a Masai kid in his eyes for the flies And tell him how he f**ed up our environment daily The only thing we know about Africa is from Nas or Belly But go off like a Hutu or Tutsi, from Rwanda or Burundi Over drums like Babatunde Olatunji Sayin n***a just to keep our teeth white, like Paul Mooney Fightin spiritual wars, like the Shi'ite or the Sunni Yo~! Our music went from tap dance to the lapdance Try to get me to sell out and that's a fat chance You see black faces in my rap pages Larry Davis, Angela Davis or Ossie Davis Yeah, welcome to the show, it's Talib Kweli, so amazin Live from California it's the Madlib invasion, let's GO! This exercise in freedom is called the "Liberation" I keep it fly by a process of elimination When it come to payin the kid, sometimes it's hesitation 'Til I make 'em check it in like they got reservations But there ain't no reservations about coppin this Even though it's free for the people there ain't no stoppin this Poppin fresh, cakin up, I'm breakin up the, monotonous flow That can't write or plant life like a botanist grow A new crop and just roll, it up, blow it out whoa Excuse the co*kiness though, I'm just showin out - know You can't go without this, now what'chu know about that? Now what'chu know about... now what'chu know about... [to fade]