City Playgrounds Lyrics - Revolutions Per Minute - Talib Kweli

What we have here 

Is the alpha and the omega 

I spit it, bare witness to the greatest 

And the latest, they try to hate us 

Witness the evolution of spitting, it's wicked and it's decadent 

Revolutions per minutes, every time the record spin 

Retribution for cynics, like a stick-up kid with weapons 

In Brooklyn, they say I run it, the 'Natti is checking in 

No matter the terminology, blood splatter artistically 

It's looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, it's a mystery 

Really should be brothers united against the industry 

The African diaspora scatter with shattered history 

The game missing me, rap is so repetitive 

Although I ain't your blood or your cuz, it's all relative 

I got a gang of rhymes, and Tones' beats is banging 

We moving through the streets like we're slanging dimes 

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It's magical, how the track's so classical 

The cats who got gassed up in their sweats like Plaxico 

I'm back from my sabbatical, voice of the future, black radical 

Keeping all the damages collateral 

Listening to instrumentals 

Thinking about all the things I've been through 

The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window 

It's so high tech and it's all so simple 

And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down 

Even if I get down, I don't lay down 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Hey yo, I'm taking all bets and settling all debts 

A giant leap for man begins with a small step 

From a sword to a set, to my people on the picket line 

Who's sicking of getting treated like them aliens in District 9 

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I juxtapose my business model with my spirit 

What I'm just supposed to keep you comfortable with the lyrics? 

I know the flow's disturbing, I know for certain just because 

You know all about the artist don't mean you know the person 

You don't know me, I run labels 

These unstable rappers so phony 

I try to listen but they're boring as missionary position 

So I'm shitting on these niggas like dysentery conditions 

I'm sitting on the throne, you dreaming that it's empty soon 

Nobody feeling you, you're screaming in an empty room 

The tree that fall in the forest, nobody hearing you 

Even though you fall the hardest, don't get me started 

Listening to instrumentals 

Thinking about all the things I've been through 

The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window 

It's so high tech and it's all so simple 

And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down 

Even if I get down, I don't lay down 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Yo, I build up my defenses when I'm left to my devices 

Time gets suspended, more than DMX's driver's license 

My music's steady, not affected by the higher prices 

People having sex in the streets like Dionysus 

You know what my advice is? Fuck my advice, live your life 

Stop tripping like everything amount to crisis 

I make the sacrifices, my history is black as ice is 

I don't think that I can trust you if you're lacking vices 

I never miss a beat, the liquor make me slurred, it takes my words 

Tries to twist them like a Swisher Sweet with sticky herbs 

American History X, your teeth'll hit the curb 

It's easy 'cause I'm ill with the wordplay, I still flip the bird 

Like Jeezy, strip it down, now it's exposed 

I suppose my flow is the emperor's new clothes 

Although I'm always by myself, I never ride alone 

The music is on then I'm right at home, zoning 

Listening to instrumentals 

Thinking about all the things I've been through 

The music is just a peek into my life, it's a window 

It's so high tech and it's all so simple 

And if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down 

Even if I get down, I don't lay down 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Hotter than the tar on this empty playground 

Yeah, it's pavement 

Don't be scared to think, man, don't be scared 

I know whats in your brain 

It's scary, man, you only usin' like ten percent 

The other ninety percent is scary, man 

But don't be scared, scary ass niggas