Album Name

Black On Both Sides

Artist

Mos Def

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

1999.01.01

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

Hip Hop - Mos Def
You say one for the trebble
two for the time
Come on y'all let's rock this
You say one for the trebble
two for the time
Come on
Speech is my hammer
bang the world into shape
Now let it fall Hungh
My restlessness is my nemesis
It's hard to really chill and
sit still
Committed to page
I write rhymes
Sometimes won't finish for days
Scrutinize my literature
from the large to the miniature
I mathematically add minister
Subtract the wack
Selector wheel it back
I'm feeling that
Ha ha ha From the core
to the perimeter black
You know the motto
Stay fluid even in staccato
Mos Def Full blooded full throttle
Breathe deep inside the trunk
hollow
There's the hum
young man where you from
Brooklyn number one
Native son
speaking in the native tongue
I got my eyes on tomorrow
there it is
While you still try to follow
where it is
I'm on the Ave
where it lives and dies
Violently silently
Shine so vibrantly
that eyes squint
to catch a glimpse
Embrace the bass
with my dark ink fingertips
Used to speak the king's English
But caught a rash on my lips
So now my chat just like dis
Long range
from the base line switch
Move like an apparition
Float to the ground
with ammuntion chi chi chi POW
Move from the gate
voice cued on your tape
Putting food on your plate
Many crews can relate
Who choosing your fate yo
We went from picking cotton
To chain gang line chopping
To Be Bopping
To Hip Hopping
Blues people got
the blue chip stock option
Invisible man
got the whole world watching
where ya at I'm high
low east west
All over your map
I'm getting big props
with this thing called hip hop
Where you can either
get paid or get shot
When your product in stock
The fair weather friends flock
When your chart position drop
Then the phone calls
Chill for a minute
Let's see whoelse tops
Snatch your shelf spot
Don't gas yourself ock
The industry
just a better built cell block
A long way
from the shell tops
And the bells that L rocked
rock rock rock rock

Hip Hop is prosecution evidence
The out of court settlement
Ad space for liquor
Sick without benefits hungh
Luxury tenements choking the
skyline
It's low life getting tree top
high
Here there's a back water remedy
Bitter and tender memory
A class E felony
Facing the death penalty hungh
Stimulant and sedative
original repetitive
Violently competitive
a school unacredited
The break beats you
get broken with
on time and inappropriate
Hip Hop went
from selling crack to smoking it
Medicine for loneliness
Remind me of Thelonius
and Dizzy
Propers to B Boys getting busy
The war time snap shot
The working man's jack pot
A two dollar snack box
Sold beneath the crack spot
Olympic spnosor
of the black glock
Gold medalist in the back shot
From the sovereign state
of the have nots
Where farmers have trouble
with cash crops
It's all city like phase two
Hip Hop will simply amaze you
Craze you pay you
Do whatever you say do
But black it can't save you