[id:$00000000] [ti:Hip Hop] [ar:Mos Def] [al:Black On Both Sides] [by:] [00:00.00]Hip Hop (Explicit) - Mos Def [00:01.50]Written by：J. Kirkland/D Smith [00:03.01]You say one for the treble two for the time [00:06.05]Come on y'all let's rock this [00:08.36]You say one for the treble two for the time [00:11.37]Come on [00:12.13]Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape [00:14.08]Now let it fall huh [00:17.00]My restlessness is my nemesis [00:18.65]It's hard to really chill and sit still [00:20.71]Committed to page I write a rhyme [00:22.47]Sometimes won't finish for days [00:24.38]Scrutinize my literature from the large to the miniature [00:27.18]I mathematically administer [00:29.44]Subtract the wack [00:30.30]Selector wheel it back I'm feeling that [00:33.05]From the core to the perimeter black [00:34.92]You know the motto [00:35.93]Stay fluid even in staccato [00:38.40]Full blooded full throttle [00:39.78]Breathe deep inside the drum hollow [00:42.26]There's the humyoung man where you from [00:44.47]Brooklyn number one [00:45.93]Native son speaking in the native tongue [00:48.24]I got my eyes on tomorrow there it is [00:50.46]While you still trying to find where it is [00:52.34]I'm on the Ave where it lives and dies [00:54.58]Violently silently [00:56.06]Shine so vibrantly that eyes squint to catch a glimpse [00:59.20]Embrace the bass with my dark ink fingertips [01:01.67]Used to speak the King's English [01:03.57]But caught a rash on my lips [01:05.18]So now my chat just like dis [01:07.07]Long range from the base-line swish [01:09.01]Move like an apparition [01:10.58]Float to the ground with ammuntionchi-chi-POW [01:13.37]Move from the gatevoice cued on your tape [01:15.75]Putting food on your plate [01:16.99]Many crews can relate [01:18.35]Who choosing your fate yo [01:20.09]We went from picking cotton [01:21.53]To chain gang line chopping [01:23.14]To Be-Bopping to Hip-Hopping [01:25.23]Blues people got the blue chip stock option [01:27.67]Invisible man got the whole world watching [01:30.34]Where ya at I'm high low east west [01:32.44]All over your map [01:33.50]I'm getting big props with this thing called hip hop [01:36.23]Where you can either get paid or get shot [01:38.24]When your product in stock [01:39.60]The fair-weather friends flock [01:40.89]When your chart position drop [01:42.29]Then the phone calls [01:43.81]Chill for a minute [01:44.88]Let's see who else hot [01:46.28]Snatch your shelf spot [01:47.35]Don't gas yourself ock [01:48.88]The industry just a better built cell block [01:51.39]A long way from the shell tops [01:53.49]And the bells that L rocked rock rock rock rock [02:20.28]Hip Hop is prosecution evidence [02:21.99]An out of court settlement [02:23.19]Ad space for liquor [02:24.49]Sick without benefits hungh [02:26.19]Luxury tenements choking the skyline [02:28.17]It's low life getting tree-top high [02:30.88]It is a back water remedy [02:32.54]Bitter and tender memory [02:33.71]A class E felony [02:35.14]Facing the death penalty hungh [02:37.00]Stimulant and sedative original repetitive [02:39.48]Violently competitive a school unaccredited [02:42.93]The break beats you get broken with [02:44.48]On time and inappropriate [02:45.81]Hip Hop went from selling crack to smoking it [02:47.86]Medicine for loneliness [02:49.13]Remind me of Thelonius and Dizzy [02:51.15]Propers to B-Boys getting busy [02:53.08]The war-time snap shot [02:55.08]The working man's jack-pot [02:56.36]A two dollar snack box [02:57.74]Sold beneath the crack spot [02:59.11]Olympic sponsor of the black Glock [03:01.23]Gold medalist in the back shot [03:03.18]From the sovereign state of the have-nots [03:05.02]Where farmers have trouble with cash crops woooo [03:07.66]It's all-city like Phase 2 [03:09.21]Hip Hop will simply amaze you [03:10.80]Praise you pay you [03:12.32]Do whatever you say do [03:13.82]But black it can't save you