[Dave Chapelle as RICK JAMES]
That`s right bitches..
It`s the beautiful mixtape
Look this shit is beautiful, it`s one of the best mixtapes
You`ll ever hear in your life
One of the baddes muthafuckin`
Funkiest muthafuckin` mixtapes, ever..
I said it... that`s right bitches Talib Kweli
You`re now rockin` with the best, the best!
[TALIB KWELI]
Yeah
When I was a young man I had stars in my eyes
Time is wrinkled like the hands of the elders that love us
I find a window to watch the path like ghetto grandmothers
They says eyes is the windows to ya soul
So I open the the blind to feel the breeze blowin` in from the winter chain
Surround myself with images of bravery
Cuz the soul of my people bared witness to slavery
I seen the inside of my heart it get dark
Like the flesh of my bone
And heavy like the breath of this poem
Plus, I seen lands so dry the trees cry
Tears fallin` like it`s autumn the leaves die
Pre-packaged futures freeze dried, cross me by
The body count in the streets is knee high
Plus, I seen pubbles so deep the puddles speak
Ripe with stories that leap from the cluttered street
Blood`ll be beet-red runnin` through the gutters cuz heat
The currency that we exchange with folks who tryin` to eat
I cried in my sleep, seen trains speedin` down the tracks of my tears
Runnin` down the face of the Earth, c`mon
I see it in the space that was the place of my birth
I play eye tag with death - she`s such a flirt
That`s some scary shit, I put it all in my music
Real loud makin` a scene if I seen it I use it, yeah
Beautiful strugglin` `n` so I`m used to the bubblin`
What I be utterin` so hot it got the homeless people huddlin`
Haters mutterin` under breath, who ain`t the best?
See the scavengers `n` vultures pickin` at what`s left
I rise from the ashes like a phoenix - believe it
Flow brand new like a fetus - believe it
Mean what I say if I say it, I mean it
I lived it, I breathed it, believe me, I seen it
[JEAN GRAE]
Man I pray ya`ll passionate
I swing out like a little leaguer on a Sunday ignorin` the Catholics
Rebel rap with a spine plated metal back
I never fold medal gold with a vaultin` pole
Nigger I`m better known as light let me shine on you
Mind confident rhyme dominant lines constant
Caramello color hella mellow
The fellows run up `n` Hello
Hella sorrow when I tell `em taken Holla
I got that horrow vision, they say I`m masochistic
I don`t think it`s crazy they call me shady I`m flattered, get it?
My image is sick I`m in need of amedic
I should get a permanent residence in hospital bed it`s
THe way I freak shit, you meek like that old rapper chick
I smack an actor in a wall `til his back`s in the brick
I rig `em all with the mind basement `n` trapdoors
It`s me I`ll clap the survivors until I see some rigormortis
I seen the forest through the trees
But only because I cut off all the leaves
And left `em blowin` off into the breeze
That I create whenever I speak
I`m cheap fuck it, I need to win something
Before I kick this rap bucket in
Fuck it again, fuck you if this hasn`t struck you
As a genius stickin` out like a bucktooth
I`m couth, yes I know it mostly regarded as pottymouth
Dirty like the city ground you on when the shotties come out
I`m witty plust I`m incredibly diligent
Dream of the president mac-millied I`m militant
I go along like a Philly bed I pity you
SIlly fool I know ain`t nobody really feelin` you
(*Gunshots*)
