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Mos Def( Yasiin Bey )
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Astronomy
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Against the canvas of the night Appears a curious celestial phenomena Called Black Star, but what is it? (Black people unite and let's all get down) (We got to have what? We got to have that love)
What is the Black Star? Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car? Is it shinin' from very far, to where you are? It is commonplace And different, intimate and distant, fresher than an infant
Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses Black is the color of my true love's hair Star's are bright, shinin', hot balls of air
Black like my baby girl's stare Black like the veil that the Muslimina wear Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared? Black like the slave ship that later brought us here
Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears That leave black faces well traveled with years Black like assassin cross hairs Blacker than my granddaddy armchair
He never really got no time to chill there 'Cause this life is warfare, warfare Deep on the front lines, to blacks is all there Black like the perception of who, on welfare
Black like faces at the bottom of the well, I've been there Before to bring the light and heat it up like 'La Cocina' Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer I love rockin' tracks like John Coltrane love Naema
Like the student love the teacher Like the prophet love Khadeja Like I love my baby features Like the creator love all creatures
Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers We on point like heat seekers Targettin' the black marketing strategists Run up on em with the heaters
Everybody followin' with no leaders feelin' like we killin' Ourselves because I know they can't defeat us It don't stop 'til we complete this, keep this fly There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God
Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie Blacker than the middle of my eye Black like feh-lah man cry
Some man wan ask 'Who am I?' I simply reply, 'The U N I V E R S A L Magnetic' Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop And tell it 'til the valley's enveloped
You're full of big chat but you nah know me I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see When the moon shine newly
You know who else is a Black Star? Who? Me You know who else is a Black Star? Who? Me You know who else is a Black Star, who we? And we be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin' We be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin'
Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two It's the third eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
You know the light go from the dark The other way is ass-backwards, it's absurd Make you wanna crow like a blackbird, that's right You livin' from your first day to your last night
Sometimes you show your ass like lint on your clothes When you froze in The Black Light, dead that Before you get your head wrapped like Badu We see through your voodoo just like Eve's Bayou
You dealin' with that black magic, try to civilize you Not walk on by you like civil lies do get you black listed It'll be unlucky for you like a black cat, a panther Revolution is the answer that's what we need Greed plague my people like the cancer, true indeed
Now black people unite, and let's all get down Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two It's the third eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two It's the third eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight It's the third eye vision, five side dimension Equalin' up to eight, light shine bright
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