Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Know That, artist - Mos Def. Album song Black On Both Sides, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 31.12.1998
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Rawkus Entertainment
Song language: English
Know That |
Hey, hey, heyyy man |
I Strike the Empire Back. |
I Strike the Empire Back. |
Fuck the Empire! |
High flyin like the Millenium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo |
I never roll for dolo, frontin on me’s a no-no |
Understand? |
Doin this for my family |
Ha ha, check it out y’all |
Yo I’m tryin to make a dollar out of what makes sense |
Add it up, told my daddy I’d be a rich man |
You never know when your fate gon’switch hand |
Get today’s solid ground out of yesterday’s quicksand |
I was a young boy -- who dreamt about being a big man |
on small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan |
Gotta handle business properly, boost up my economy |
Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property |
Yesterday was not for me but nowaday it’s time for me The streets is watchin me, I watch back, that’s the policy |
Movin along my oddesey like blood through the artery |
Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless |
Let those who make the exodus seekin the North beacon |
from beatin and hog-eatin, from punishment all season |
from hands cracked and bleedin -- cotton thorns in your palms |
It’s for y’all that I sketch these songs, and it goes. |
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow |
I fear no man, because faith is the aarow |
My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow |
We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano |
Kweli is you wit me? |
(Whattup whattup?) Let’s make it happen |
I *BURN* through your argument with action |
My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin for a brighter day |
When y’all wanna leave y’all? |
Right away |
Shout it out from East-West (from South to Northern) |
From Cakalak'(to California) |
From the coldest (to the warmest) |
To the borders ('cross the waters) understand. |
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and know that I love you. |
We got love in the place |
Shout out to all the Queens (all the Seeds) |
To all the teams (that's gettin cream) |
From outlaw (to emcee’s) |
Make it happen (do your thing) understand. |
. |
and know that I love you. |
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen |
Guess who? |
The illest MC in the atmosphere, yeah the Soul Controller |
who roam the frontier like a Buffalo Soldier |
I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna |
Never disrespect no women cause I love my momma |
These cats be givin us praise but it ain’t that accurate |
I give it up to God, all that, love and attachment, get |
scary well-prepared with the shears when it get hairy |
like how these niggaz is lookin like some fairies |
and singin like canaries to the beast |
and anybody who will listen to em clearly |
Y’all don’t hear me though, even when I’m comin through in stereo |
You make a mockery of what I represent properly |
Yo why you startin me? |
I take that shit straight to the artery |
Intellectual property I got the title and the deed |
I pay for rent, with the tears and sweat, and what I bleed |
MC’s imitate the way we walk, the way we talk |
You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought |
Plus your flow a little bit off, you come across soft |
Back in the days, niggaz like that on stage got tossed off |
Need to get crossed off the guestlist |
It’s like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit |
to get the message |
Sometimes your sunshine get snatched like a necklace |
when you get too drunk on power and your drive get reckless |
Check it, MC’s in my face after I slug you then I hug you |
If I gotta dead you know it’s only cause I love you |
Shout it out from East-West (from South to Northern) |
From the richest (to the poorest) |
To the elders (in the coffins) |
Livin native (dyin for it) understand. |
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and know that I love you. |
Yea, yea, we got love in the place |
Shout out from up top (to the middle) |
To black bottom (SKY HIGH) |
Whether you colder than December |
or hotter, than July |
It don’t stop 'til we complete this |
(. and know that I love you.) keep this fly |
It’s so much to life when you just |
stay black (10X) |
My people, my people, my people people p-people (8X) |
My PE-ople, oh-oh-OH-oh-OHH, oh-OHH… |