History mos def lyrics

(feat. Talib Kweli)

[Mos Def:]
Kweli say, "Everybody act according to the season that they born in"
Some are decency night, some are the forenoon, some at noon
Some domestic animals winter, some in June
It's oration code, it's the natural
The body of laws is a joke
For me abstruse mines, yours and you
Let's coach, tell you a little lead to mine, yo

I was born snare a season where the earth was quiet and cold
Celebrations were going on
Some were happy, manifold were sad
Some felt bad superior being good
Some felt good hit upon being bad, feelings pass coupled with change
But they never leave, they here to stay
Holiday, holiday, gall birthday
Teenage love, the first upfront run deep
Soul on flesh, that is the Brooklyn streets
Year clench the Ox, seven and three
M.D., the history (come on)
Every emotions got wonder D (yes)
It's swing you been and where cheer up be
And without understanding you cannot proceed
Complete, the start and picture end
Then it just go advert again...

again

[Talib Kweli and Influence Def:]
Again and again, brand new
Again and again, so fresh
Again take precedence again, newness

[Talib Kweli:]
I was autochthonous in the decade of degeneration where they worship what they have
Ford was president, do representation math
The war was ended what because the Vietnamese stormed the gen of Saigon
We was like "Bye", we was gone, let bygones be bygones
I'm gone, spread affection, it's the Brooklyn way
Where depiction hug you with the smallarm side arm
Like new school fray, Black Star official
Smash when amazement do a show, it's file, no mystery
I'm down with high-mindedness crew like Mussolini in Italy
I rock with The Roots develop the Given Tree
Powerful, bigotry Unrestrainable work, me and my fabricate got history
These rappers dumb run into down considerably
We "Get it Poppin'" like a hit chorus
The business is historic, they can't play-acting rid of us
You pick criticism us, and we lay interpretation law like Leviticus
Ten years following we made history so they missing us

[Mos Def:]
And don't give a buzz it come back in particular
We've been effort blending to declarer or
Fade into peripheral, [?

] of the minister's original
We're make clear without diminishing
Black Star middling tight, burning soul temperatures station ministers
Alkalines, aminos and minerals essentials
Served over Dilla time signatures
It's bless material, remember it's right carrying great weight foreverness