Re: Definition Lyrics - Mos Def

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Whoa 

One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli 

We came to rock it on to the tip-top 

Best alliance in hip-hop, 

I said, one two tree, Black Star shine eternally 

We came to rock it on to the tip-top 

And Hi-Tek make the beat drop 

RE DEFinition, turning your play into a tragedy 

Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately 

Niggas is sweet so I bet if I bit I'd get a cavity 

Living to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity 

We Die Hard like the battery done in the back of me by the mad MC 

Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery, actually 

Don't be mad at me, I had to be the one to break it to you 

You get kicked into obscurity like judo, no Menudo 

Cause you pseudo, trying to compete with reality like Xerox 

Towards destruction you spiraling like hair locks, wipe them teardrops 

Chasing stars in your eyes, playing games with your lives 

Now the wives is widows soaking up pillows, weeping like willows 

Still mo' blacks is dying, kids ain't living they trying 

"How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applying 

Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners 

Rocking ever since before Prince was called The Artist 

Rocker before Funkmaster Flex was rocking Starter 

When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool before they was martyrs 

Life or death, if I'm choosing with every breath I'm enhancing 

Stop, there comes a time when you can't run 

What, lyrically handsome, call collect a king's ransom 

Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem 

Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion, move like a phantom 

You'll talk about me to your grandsons 

Cats who claiming they hard be mad fag 

So I run through em like, flood water through sandbags 

Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have 

Sinking they ship, like Moby Dick, did Ahab 

Son I'm way past the minimum, enter a millennium 

Where cats will hold a gat to your back, like Palestinians 

Ancient Abyssinian, try to ? the ? 

Official b-boy gentlemen won't turn off at the interim 

Born inside the winter one, day after December 10 

These simpletons they mentioning the synonym for feminine 

Sweeter than some cinnamon or danish rings by entammen 

Rush up on adrenaline, and get they asses sent to them 

(Gentlemen) you got tenement, well then assemble it! 

Leave your unit trembling like herds of moving elephant 

Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element 

From Flatbush settlement, SKIN possess melanin 

Hotter than tales of crack peddlin, making 'em woop 

Like blue gelatin, swing like Duke Ellington 

Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me 

The hot oppression rent who burn down your chief tepee 

You see me? 

One two three, Mos Def and Talib Kweli 

We came to rock it on to the tip-top 

Best alliance in hip-hop, wayohh 

I said, one two tree, Black Star shine eternally 

We came to rock it on to the tip-top 

Because we rulin hip-hop, yes we is rulin hip-hop 

Talib Kweli is rulin hip-hop 

Say we Black Star we rule hip-hop-ah-ahh-ah-ahh-ahh 

Whoah!