[Chorus] High rises, day breaks Clouds hide the sun's rays Quicksand and mistakes Smash walls to get through I fight the good fight even on the bad days It's darkest before light I'm gonna push through
[Curren$y] Turbo-charged bars Slot cars on track, falling off Game stars in these rap wars Ain't nothing Band-Aids won't cover Touring with 7D coverage, live bands, two buses My own cash, no budget, no major label fundings Jets baby, we went from crawling to walking to running You can't say nothing, you under gag order Hopping out of Audis, hurting y'all with kicks, I'm the Transporter Think about it, never mind, you ain't gotta I'm already on some whole other, word to your motherfucking self Nobody else gon' do it for ya, nobody else Every now and then, somebody will off you help But they ain't doing nothing till they really see you tryna do something I ain't bluffing, kush puffing on you jive turkeys Stuffing stockings with these gifts Audible applaudables, homie take a whiff, yeah
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[Talib Kweli] Yeah, when you a man, action is what's expected, nothing is spoken on Producer, never got time for no excuses, you gotta go beyond My flow is tom-foolery I smoke these poor rappers so fast they call me {?} I beautifully exude the vibe that's free of ambiguity Your goonery for the sake of goonery is cartoons to me It's coonery, it's lunacy Let's make a plan, only way that you hang is attached to a tree The moon talk to the sea and speak with body language fluently She make it rain, when I'm on fire she always try to douse me Only reason that you make it rain is cause your diamonds cloudy I see you from a mile away when it get overcast Old people feel it in they bones, invade your home like I broke the glass and let myself in, fighting for freedom like the people in Tunisia and spread through Sudan and Egypt This the music for the movement, the score to your achievements Never join 'em so you gotta beat 'em, it's carpe diem, hey, (hey), yeah
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[Kendrick Lamar] Uh huh, yeah, like kindergarteners, my vision's bothered by vigilantes that harbor on street corners Try your hardest to harvest bundles of weed on ya, the starving'll speed on ya Stampede on ya, impede on your pockets, then pee on ya Dreams of us living lavish in fabrics of fine linens Spending established with women dining and laughing But this environment got us violent, ready to crash in to society, take this driver seat, hope you fastened your seat belts twice, when I rolled them dice I crapped so many times I can build casinos from scratch Too many daps you might receive from the things you achieve, relax That's what my mental say, but my physical's been detached I'm on some other shit, like fuck the government, I'm higher rankings Where's the mothership? I made a covenant that I was changing But my luck has been quite disgusting when reality tainted Where the fuck you been? Left him face down like he was planking In a cold world where old girl and her homeboy got a motive You can bench curl your tribulations, that sensation's insulting Got a wifey or a mistress? Nigga, which one you indulging? Regardless of who you pick, know life's a bitch when you ain't focussed Nigga, I'm focussed
