| Here I am, Miss Badu
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| Not Big Sean, but I don’t fuck with you
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| It’s 'cause I’m from the D, the other D
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| But Detroit has a special place in my heart
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| Creative, deep, rooted, organic, cosmic
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| Fantastic, futuristic, ancient, musical
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| When I think of Detroit, I think of these things
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| There’s something in that dirty water that gives it its flavor
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| There’s an invisible intelligence that runs through the streets
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| Like an underground rooting system
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| Millions and billions of memory of atoms of all of the beautiful music that has
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| been created there
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| And I’ve seen it volve into things only felt in the hart
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| I know this to be true
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| Thank you, Berry Gordy, for that little house
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| Thank you, Stevie Wonder, for always calling me and reminding me that it is
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| there
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| That thing
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| I always long to reconnect with it when I lose my way musically
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| Thank you, J Dilla, for your peculiar, peculiar intelligence
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| Yeah, Detroit just has a magic, and I know it to be true
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| Not Big Sean, but I don’t fuck with you
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| Live from Badubotron, Nubian phenomenon
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| Detroit, where the Nubians grow |