Mos Def - Twice Inna Lifetime текст песни

[talib kweli]

Yo, we been through this before right? (word, word...) so we

Figurin, if we gonna do it, we gotta freak it, yknow what Im sayin?

(true, true, true...) cuz everything gotta go up from here, right?

So hi-tek, turn it up a notch...

[jane doe]

Hail mary, matta fact hail jane

Niggaz take my name in vain/vein like I was cocaine

My affirmations kill emcees like assasination

Bringin you pain until you wish you had a vaccination

Or vaccine, I shine like vaseline

Gas plays like petroleum, walk over them like linoleum

My vocab expand like a rubber band

Walkin nekkid through the motherland, give the finger to my brotherman

Niggaz just dont understand my reasons, I transcend like season

And scar these rappers like legion

Its treason, my suspension attract attention

Im ventin, givin these chickenheads detention

Did I mention my name, yo, go by the jane doe

Drenched in polo, chill downtown in soho

You dont know, this is just half my potential

Check my credentials, come harder than sequential

Its essential, you listen, I drive, you a pedestrian

They bless me on the track cuz I attack wit the estrogen

Rhyme against the best a men, jane burn it up

When you hear it in the whip, tell your man to turn it up!

[wordsworth]

Yo...get it...yo

Yo, we fortified live, supportin allies

The wack is tryin to shorten our lives, it sorta waters my eyes

But here is somen the cryin talk about

The verse on that cassette you and cousin fought about

That led to God and satans fallin out

Encourage the liquor for those who aint here that you pourin out

On 3-way, your parents, preacher and spouse called my house

Revive or ruin, my theories of mics

Sony or aiwa, black or white, I fit in all stereotypes

Search for a cast to plot, I make you a laughin stock

So shook, I could walk a half a block and feel the aftershocks

Rain of acid drops, seek some help

Now dont rewind, get it the first time,

Shouldnt have to repeat myself

Eternally verbally, I have numbers, succumb to time outs

In rhyme bouts youll dial 9, just to get a line out

Known fact or factors and non-rappers fractured

Results in more cast appearances than a hundred actors

Emcees Im testin like diseases injected in gerbils

Wordsworth, kweli, hi-tek, reflection eternal..what...

[talib kweli]

My style high life like fonz when I burn heads like a conk

Cuz niggaz front, when their chances get slim like pharoahe monch

Thinkin they shits is heavy when they light like ilumination

Intellectual masturbation with premature ejaculation

Im comin cleaner than vaccinations

My fascination with character assassination,

Got these niggaz burnin like sensation

We keep it hot like matches and on lock like latches

Wack emcees get they microphones snatched like lee patches

So you go! to every wack muthafucka that you know (scram...)

My lyrics they get up in your genes/jeans like parasucos

So theres no mystery about the father, niggaz is hot and bothered

Like the bitches that they are, takin pictures with stars

And got em open, but after they little hopes and dreams get broken

Me and hi-tek, we live long and prosper like vulcans

Think Im jokin? we both got sons, we make cream and break dreams

See through the fake schemes, wipin your slate clean

Like a squeegee, we be lightin shit up like phosphorus

Turnin flamboyant niggaz anonymous, depressin to optimus

You stoppin us is preposterous, like an androgenous masohganist

You pickin the wrong time, steppin to me when Im in my prime like optimus

Transformin, from rookie of the year to veteran

Hip-hop is big business like con edison or medicine

But fuck it, they gonna let us in, or else we rush the door

I got to many reasons, save your whys and what fors

Chorus:

[kweli] this is twice inna lifetime so Im lettin you know (let em know,

Yo!)

Blackstar, wordsorth, punchline and jane doe (yo!)

[mos] lyrical com-pete and we emcee

We got the fortified five, exhibit level degree

[punchline]

Check it...

I keep dough in my pocket while you follow the false prophet

Get deep like islamics wrapped in a white garment

I touch topics that try to open up your optics

Vacate in the tropics, you dodgin bullets in the projects

Cut the nonsense, Im hotter than alot a men

Start honorin, got more wifeys than solomon

Fuck the squad you in, a-yo we be the biddomb

Regardless what I spit on, you worse with the tracks I shit on

Once you get on, its fair you cant trust (yes!)

Words & punch, make rappers march like the third month

I build with friends, lyrically spit gems

Call me diamond, cuz Im your girls best friend

Emcees are born losers, alcoholic abusers

Ill go on the radio and start a gay rumor

And then Ill talk about how the crowd tried to boo ya

Label shoot ya, stressed out with brain tumors

My gat claps, 50% of the wack

Take it back to real rap, krylons wit the fat cap

Get robbed for your ascap, leave you inside

Fortified live, reppin ny til I die!

[mos def]

Black body radiation situation that we workin wit

My verb exists enlisted by the bogeys campin services

The purpose is, make you go and purchase this, no nervousness

We are, hot like black tar, black star with emergerence

Superlative, you fabricated like the word absurditive

Im rockin this from here to where the purges live

To brooklyn where the merchants live

Next door to the murderers

And bourbon is a elder mans medicinal alternative

My memory is furnished with, back streets to back seats to fat jeeps

Legendary athletes who play by the trash heap

My crew wasnt that deep, but beef we didnt act sweet

Treadin on these stompin grounds you better catch some black feet

Flashy, it was between dekalb and pulasky

Off the meter like an out of borough taxi

They run your pockets fastly, black and nasty, nappy and crafty

And swat are either sittin in clinton or kaksaki

Man rudolph can screw off! you too soft to stop us

You and your coppers should see some foot doctors

Got your burnt chest popped up, but keep your guns cocked up

Cuz all them cats that you knocked up and always gon be locked up

Hide yaself like donna summer, another number one

And comin from the underground, this is how its comin down

Baby let me run it down,

Mos def, talib kweli, jane doe, punch, wor.. umm..e!

Excuse me! just ate another emcee!

Sometimes thats just how it be

Partner wash you down with green tea and some lime

We like the five on the fist, fortified organized like dis!