"Check this out..."

[KRS-One]
Hooooooooooooo~! (HEY DJ!) WHAT? ("I
know you're gonna dig this")
Yeah, yeah, yeh yeh! KRS, ohhhh~! Talib Kweli
Talib this is crazy, yo this is crazy
Hah... what'chu doin?
What ya doin'? Throw your hands up, c'mon

[T] BK to BX and every place inenter deleted
between, it's all 7-18 like
[K]Grand Concourse, whassup! whassup?

[Talib Kweli]
We got beats to the rhyme and the rhyme is so fresh fresh, yo
So what'chu got? 9's and tecs, you no threat
It's the beat, how you get your cake don't matter
It takes heart heart, the lyrics been replaced with the swaggerenter added
I stay sharp enough to slash your face like a dagger
The actors been replaced with the rappers
The rappers been replaced with the actors
actors, seeSee how they try to stayenter deleted
on the beat
The pig route when he walkin walkin' down the street to the beat

[KRS-One]
WOOP~! Sound of da police
What is the life of a true hip-hopper, hip hopper, the beats
Peace love unity livin livin' proper with the beats
In any endeavor whatever whatever, we will prosper with our beatsenter added
Some cats are real, other are impostors with beats
We the realest, livest livest, the rawest
The rawest, crack cocaineCrack cocaine, heroin survivors with beats
We avoided the cops, we focused on beefs
Spittin,
Spittin' all we saw was stacks of rhymes written, elite written
WayElite, way too smart for the system of course
We know a smart free black man just pisses 'em off! off

What they like is when we glisten and gloss
FlashinFlashin' millions but still takin takin' a loss
Bump the beat! Yeah, beat all in the street
Talib yo, I think it's 'bout time to speak

[Talib Kweli]
Yeah... yeah... word~!
Watch Word, watch me take it there, life ain't no Christmas there
Hell yeah yeah, it's crystal clear when Kweli and Kris is here
Searching for the perfect beat beat, I went to East Dayt'
It's crazy and fugazi how theyenter deleted
slaves to they release dateenter added
They try to look away, they're scared to look inside
AskinAskin' why like a guy who look for Godenter deleted
up in the sky (that's right)
SearchinSearchin' high and low, behind the do', inside the drawer
Little did he know that the beat was tryin tryin' to find a flowenter added
Stuck in limbo, how low can you go go?
A punched hole through your stomach lining like Tylenol
BuildSpill all kind of rolled, kinda roll, metaphors and similies
that'llThat'll have you doubtin doubtin' my competitor's abilitiesenter added
My whole body is a spiritual facility
Rock a vest after a lyrical killing spree
The illest delivery, later for the talk we need action
Silence is golden but the violence is platinumenter added
When you rappin to 'to the beat

[KRS-One]
Boom, bap, who's, that?enter deleted
KRS-One bring the beat back
The perfect beat we seek that,enter deleted
knowledge of mind we speak that
We don't speak weak crap over weak tracks
MOVE, THAT;
Move that, we speak boom bap live in the club
We can show and prove that

[Talib Kweli]
Yeah, it It ain't old school or new
school school, it's true school rap
Beat you 'til you're blue and black, true dat, it's dat

[KRS-One]
Better It's beat win again, work the street
MovinMovin' again, insert the heat
Lookin again for the perfect beat
Don't look in the book to learn to eatenter added
Write up a hook, learn to speak
Never be shook, follow the heat
Forever they look weak
T.K.TK you must speak! speak

[Talib Kweli]
Teachin Teachin' 'em how to eat to live
They cheap and their pimp is pleadin pleadin' the fifth Fifth
BleedinBleedin' as if they goin goin' to war
EverytimeEvery time they leavin leavin' the cribenter added
Sneakers and whips, police be peepin peepin' the strip
You see 'em walkin walkin' the beat
Hoes believin believin' the pimps who eatin eatin' the shrimps
So John's walkin walkin' the street
Lookin
Lookin' for a sweet face, in face,in each case
TryinTryin' to get they heartbeat racin,
racin' and the dark meat be tastin tastin'
soSo delicious, my description so good to the beat
It's lifted right from the sounds that
That youenter deleted
hear in the hood when you sleep

[KRS-One]
Bring the beat back! back
All that whackness, we don't need that
You gotta bring the beat back! back
All that whack garbage, we don't need thatenter added
Bring the beat back! back
All that weakness we don't need that
SelectorSelector, bring the beat back, bring back
Bring the beat back!
Selector, listen! back, selector, listen

[Talib Kweli]
Yeah, DJ Rhettmatic
Talib Kweli, hip-hop hip hop