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Great Expectations
Talib Kweli

Kweli:

My nigga Punchline want his money

Yo, this is a capitalist society

Yo! Hello world, how y'all doin?

Don't be shy, y'all can wave back, man I know y'all can't see me

Oh you got it?

Verse 1: Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Ichiban in Japan is mush-mush

Yo, I'm able to keep it fresh like veggie tables and couscous

Got my comp in a catch deuce-deuce

Livin proof, you want the truth? Nah, you can't handle the truth

I flip it like any Angelo, be it Michael- or D'

Paint the ceiling with my sounds, smoke trees with melodies

I enter the palace with no malice intended

If L's make you cough a chalice is recommended

Particularly filled with sticky that I got from Manny

I'm breakin mics like Amy Fisher breakin' a family

It can be, all so simple if you let it

If you don't want to, fuck it, forget it, yo, don't sweat it

You feel little when you let the power of the rhythm hit you

White widow got my eyes Chinese

But sharp as leaves of paper cuttin' your skin

Whenever I write with my pen and make a point

Y'all be like, Yeah, that's the joint

Yo Matt, got the track on they DAT

That make it easy to complete 'cause I write shit with or without a beat

See you on the hook like a fish we knock it out, no doubt,

The shit fixed like carols at Christmas

So bounce, come on, bounce, come on

I lock you in my sentence and the shit's a run-on

Tokyo, where you at?

Brooklyn, where you at?

CHORUS:

Kweli next to be up, so I suggest you re-up

Or freeze up like you hear a shot

Now I can trace the tracks of all the teardrops of every single MC in earshot

I fear not or none, number one, Ichiban, none, number one, Ichiban

VERSE 2: Talib Kweli

I get my camouflage from Weiss/Mahoney

My rhymes are worth the price of Sony

Your light like last for one minute like Rice-A-Roni

Son, I'm nice, you're phoney It seems all you want in life's to know me

I'm colder than when the ground's covered with ice and it's snowy

One and only Talib Kweli from Eternal Reflect

Yo, I come to Tokyo where everything is Hi-Tek

So I feel right at home, rightin' poems, fightin' clones

Who bite my own style cause they ain't got one, I got drive while you ride shotgun

Please stop, son I watch Get on the Bus a lot

And all this shabuya has got to stop I'm just playin'

Japanese culture is like amazin', animation is like hair-raisin

Kick selection got no limit eatin' seaweed, maybe one day I get with it

But when I see weed I'm smokin', heh, I'm just jokin', really not though

My homie Common told me, Arigato

My art got no Boundaries like Pablo Picasso

Who? You don't know, you never knew Big up to Ru

See you in the show on the Avenue Of the Americas etcetera, etcetera

You get the point, you want hot shit, I got a plethora

Classics, it's the best of Brooklyn, New York City, so we're never comin' shitty

I get more love in Japan than Hello Kitty

Such a pity, these MC's think they hangin' with me

Catch me on Japanese MTV with Mos Diddy


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  \   2000 Seasons   A Game   A Game   Abra Cadabra   Africa Dream   After The Rain   Ain\u2019t Waiting   Around My Way   Around My Way   Art Imitates Life   Astronomy (8th Light)   Back Again   Back It Up   Back Up Offa Me   Back Up Offa Me   Ballad Of The Black Gold   Beast   Beautiful Struggle   Before He Walked   Big Nel from Da Natti   Black Girl Pain   Bridge To Bama(HI Tek Remix)   Brown Skin Lady   Celebration Flow   Chaos   Children's Story   City Playgrounds   Cold Rain   Colors Of You   Come Here   Come Here feat. Miguel   Country Cousins   Definition   Delicate Flowers   Demonology   Distractions   Down For The Count   Drugs, Basketball & Rap   Due Process [Instrumental]   Eat to Live   Eternalists   Everything Man   Everywhere I Go   Expansion Dedication   Favela Love   Favela Love feat. Seu Jorge   Fly That Knot   Friends & Family   Fuck The Money   Funny Money   Game   Get Back Pt. II   Get By   Ghetto Afterlife   Ghetto Show   Ghetto Show - Anthony Hamilton   Go With Us   Going Hard   Good Mourning   Good to You   Got Work   Guerilla Monsoon Rap   Guerrilla Monsoon Rap   Gun Music   Gutter Rainbows   Hamster Wheel   Hater Players   Hell   High Life feat. Rubix Cube & Bajah   Hold It Now   Holy Moly   Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt2 (Deliver Me)   Hot Thing   How You Love Me   I Try   I Try   I Try   I Try - Mary Jblige   I Try [Instrumental]   I\u2019m On One   In the Mood   In The Red   In This World   Inner Monologue   Intro   It Only Gets Better   It's Like That   Joy   Just Begun (Ft. Jay Electronica, J Cole & Mos Def)   K.o.s. (determination)   Keynote Speaker   Kindness for Weakness   Let Me See (Remix)   Lifting Off   Listen   Listen!!!   Lonely People   Long Hot Summer   Lord Of The Light   Love Language   Lover's Peak   Make It Classy   Memories Live   Midnight Hour   Mood Swing   More or Less   Move Somethin'   Move Something   Ms Hill   Ms. Hill   My Life   Name Of The Game   Nature   Never Been In Love   New Leaders   Niggas Lie Alot   NY Weather Report   Old School   On My Way   Outstanding   Palookas   Perfect Beat   Purest Hearts   Push Thru   Put It In The Air   Raise the Bar   Rare Portraits   Ready Set Go   Ready Set Go feat. Melanie Fiona   Real Women   Respiration   Right About Now   Rocket Ships   Rocket Ships feat. Busta Rhymes   Rush   Say Something   Self Savior   Sharp Shooters   Sharp Shooters   Shock Body   So Good   So Low   Some Kind Of Wonderful   Soon A New Day   Soon the New Day   Soul Music   Space Fruit   Space Fruit (Interlude)   Stand to the Side   State of Grace   Stay Around   Strangers   Supreme, Supreme   Talib Kweli Come Here feat. Miguel. Off of Talib ...   Talk To You (lil' Darlin')   Tater Tot   Testify   The Beast   The Blast   The Nature   The Nature (Feat. Justin Timberlake)   The Nature [*]   The Perfect Beat   The Proud   The Show   The Wormhole   Theives In The Night   This Means You   This Means You (Ft. Mos Def)   Too Late   Twice Inna Lifetime   Two & Two   Uh Oh   Upper Echelon   Violations   Wait For You   Waitin' For The Dj   We Got the Beat   We Got the Beat   We Know   We Know - Faith Evans   What I Feel   What's Real   Where Do We Go   Work It Out   Work It Out

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