Redefinition
Black Star

What, what, what? What, what? What, what? What, what?

Woah, 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


Redefinition, 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 hair locks, 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 Funk master 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


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 millennium

My rap's hold a gat to your back, 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, skin possesses 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 tepee, 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, ah, ah, ah, ah, woah


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