Redefinition Lyrics

Redefinition lyrics

What what what, what what, what what, what what



 Woaaaahhhhhhh!



 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



 And Hi-Tek make the beat drop, wayohh



 



 [Talib Kweli]



 RE:DEFinition, turning your play into a tragedy



 Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately



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



 Livin 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, tryin to compete with reality like Xerox



 Towards destruction you spiraling like hairlocks, wipe them teardrops



 Chasing stars in your eyes, playing games with your lives



 Now the wives is widows soakin up pillows, weepin like willows



 Still mo' blacks is dyin, kids ain't livin they tryin



 _How to Make a Slave_ by Willie Lynch is still applyin



 Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners



 Rockin ever since before Prince was called The Artist



 Rocker before Funkmaster Flex was rockin Starter



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



 Life or death, if I'm choosin with every breath I'm enhancin



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



 



 [Mos Def]



 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 claimin 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



 Sinkin they ship, like Moby Dick, did Ahab



 Son I'm way past the minimum, it's a verb millenium



 My rap's the holy gas in your bag, like Palestinians



 Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon



 Official b-boy gentlemen, long term, never the interim



 Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10



 These simpletons they mentionin the synonym for feminine



 Sweeter than some cinnamon from Danish rings by Entenmann's



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



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



 Leave your unit tremblin like herds of movin elephant



 Intelligent embellishment, follow for your element



 from Flatbush settlement, kid posseses melanin



 Hotter than tales of crack peddlin, makin em WOOP



 like blue gelatin, swing like Duke Ellington



 Broader than Barrington Levy, believe me



 The hot oppresion rent who burn down your chief teepee



 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



 Whoahhhh!