Kos (determination) Lyrics

Kos (determination) lyrics

[Talib Kweli]
So many emcees focusin on black people extermination
We keep
it balanced with that knowledge of self, determination
It's hot, we be blowin
the spots, with conversations
C'mon let's smooth it out like Soul
Sensation

We in the house like Japanese in Japan, or Koreans in
Korea
Head to Philly and free Mumia with the Kujichagulia TRUE
Singin is
swingin and writin is fightin, but what
they writin got us clashin like
titans it's not excitin
No question, bein a black man is demandin
The
fire's in my eyes and the flames need fannin (3X)

With that what?
(Knowledge Of Self) Determination
*repeat 4X*

[singer]
Things I
say and do, may not come quite through
My words may not convey just what I'm
feelin

[Talib Kweli]
Yes yes come on, yes yes
Knowledge Of Self is
like life after death
With that you never worry about your last
breath
Death comes, that's how I'm livin, it's the next days
The flesh
goes underground, the book of life, flip the page
Yo they askin me how old,
we livin the same age
I feel the rage of a million niggaz locked inside a
cage
At exactly which point do you start to realize
That life without
knowledge is, death in disguise?
That's why, Knowledge Of Self is like life
after death
Apply it, to your life, let destiny manifest
Different day,
same confusion, we're gonna take this
hip-hop shit and keep it movin, shed a
little light
Now y'all bloomin like a flower with the power of the
evident
Voices and drums original instruments
In the flesh presently
presentin my representation

With that what? (Knowledge Of Self)
Determination
*repeat 6X*
- - - - these two parts overlap - - -
-
Things I say and do, may not come quite through
My words may not convey
just what I'm feelin
*repeat 2X*

[Talib Kweli]
The most important
time in history is, NOW, the present
So count your blessings cause time
can't define the essence
But you stressin over time and you follow the Roman
calendar
These people enter Cona like Gattaca, you can bet
they tryin to
lock you down like Attica, the African diaspora
represents strength in
numbers, a giant can't slumber forever
I know you gotta get that cheddar
whatever
Aiyyo I heard you twice the first time money, get it
together
You must be History, you repeatin yourself out of the pages
You
keepin yourself depleatin your spiritual wealth
That quick cash'll get your
ass quick fast in houses of detention
Inner-city concentration camps where
no one pays attention
or mentions the ascension of death, til nothing's
left
The young, gifted and Black are sprung addicted to crack
All my
people where y'all at cause, y'all ain't here
And your hero's using your
mind as a canvas to paint fear
With, broad brush strokes and tales of
incarceration
You get out of jail with that Knowledge of Self
determination
Stand in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human
Cause and
effect, effect everything you do
and that's why I got love in the face of
hate
Hands steady so the lines in the mental illustration is straight
The
thought you had don't even contemplate
Infinite like figure eight there's no
escape..

From that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination
*repeat
4X*

Things I say and do, may not come quite through
My words may not
convey just what I'm feelin
*repeat 2X*

..

Things I say and
do, may not come quite through
My words may not convey just what I'm
feelin
*repeat 2X*

What I'm feelin, what I'm feelin, ooooh, what I'm
feelin...