Playlist Blackalicious

blackalicious - 4000 miles

Yo

[All]
We take a journey through music right now (*2X*)

[Charlie Tuna]
Yo, when music temptations cant be resisted
Fifths will be unconsistent make me a misfit
Listed as a phenomenom I got an oncoming bomb
Which is perfection and flexin like I spent time in Nam
The beat is on and its nice an easy
Instrumentals blendin like cinnamon rice and peas
And lifes a breeze when you dont have to kick it to find
Contemplate the creation with blackalicious and I
Tuna fish is for a musical infant hes past gone
Tryin to hold fast and grasp hits like last fall
So last long flash on keepin the past strong
we grab songs and rythm so people can catch on
Yes
My mic honor cause momma I twiced promised her
Love life if music is truly your wife honor her
Burnin to your thermometer stretch a million kilometers
Connect a population at birth to one another for real

[Chorus]
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity
Movin, one force one love one whole community
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on

[Gift of Gab]
Underground or overboard overlord oh my lord
More remore pure sonic over joy sworn for shorts
Unseen aquatic bout to get explored
Warriors breakin all the limits twistin the laws

[Chief Xcel]
Now who said that underground is only just one more
I'm sellin time and space and matter makin hula-hoops of saturns
rings

[Gift of Gab]
And bring my thing and sink to think
That these was meant to be writ if these spits will ever be writ
We on some destiny (shh shhh) we took a piece of this
We often testement on every cultural element
Ever sent to us by the ancestors as though we manifest it
Some new world pedestrians
just lounging with some fishin poles Up on the moons crescent
Just tryin to make some history spittin on a few records
I had a dream like martin luther king in adolescense
And now I'm out in tokyo and europe havin sessions
The final destination used to be my main question
But then I looked and all that I was searchin for was present
The final destination used to be my main question
But then I looked and all that I was searchin for was present

And now I'm out and out on and on the road we play
Soundin off like an army ho replay
Talkin bout walkin miles of roads he paved
Travel out droppin bombs with no delay

[Overlaps with chorus]
And now I'm out and out on and on the road we play
Soundin off like an army ho replay
Talkin bout walkin miles of roads he paved
Travel out droppin bombs with no delay

[Chorus]
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity
Movin, one god one love one whole community
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on

[Latyrx]
Now see we rock around the clock we dont stop for nothin
Gonna take it to the top - non stop - no frontin
People listen when it drops cause it speaks to something
In they souls when they all alone spacing in the zone
Or walking they block - talking to they homey at the shop
See the point is this - even if the homey got shot
Then there still be the bump knockin in your trunk
Get ya out your slump rockin it straight off the top
I'm cockin it like ingredients thrown hap-hazardly inside a
crockpot
With a magic sock schnapps a big ass book and some vodka
And pass it my way cause I'm a real big talker
And i love new experiences I'm the godfather of gettin into to
trouble
On the road undercover shit - take your whole crowd if you leave
em uncovered
And i believe even hammer would say my shits proper work
Not to put a damper on the underground answer shit
You dealin wit motherfuckers not underground anthem thugs
Rock from the west coast damn near the athens and you still hate
a whack song
As much as the next man and still in love with the good one
We interact with listners this is our contribution on the war
against
The whiteness is likeness a constitution of fatness
Blackalicious Jurassic more Latyrical madness
Your mind is captured with tactics to get you back to the
fatness
And you still want to battle just how long does this last?
We have the fashion to classic the pure love satisfaction
Is when the magic is captured live-action aint tangible with

[Chorus]
Music, deliver from within and it covers up everything
Music, when the melody and rythm get the moving an unity
Movin, one god one love one whole community
Do it, keep travelin on keep travelin on

[All]
We take a journey through music right now (*3X*)

blackalicious - 40oz for breakfast

[Gift of Gab]
A forty ounce for breakfast gets a brother through the day
I guess I shoulda had a V8 instead; anyway
let me contemplate my thought something back to a time
when my fridge was full of booze but in my pocket not one dime
I remember back on Willis Ave, with my ace-boom homey Mark Black
I would start the day off hearin the sound of the fo'-oh crack
I went to work blitzed, so eventually I got dissed
and caught a shocker when my supervisor said "You're
dismissed"
Now as I stare at my last check now my mind is stressed and
depressed
I spell relief S-T-I-D-E-S yes with a little excess less the
worry
Why go job hunting today?
When I can sit back and smoke this sack and drink
and feel my problems shrink away
And by now, the rent's due in two weeks
But inside my mind that's just another problem brew can delete
I got evicted, to the point where the court martial came to my
door
and said, "Get this kid: get your bags and split you don't
live here no more"
And now I'm ass out; I'm so damn hungry I feel like I'm gonna
pass out
I asked my brother for a handout and he hooked me
though I knew he had doubts
And rightfully so, cause I had new shit to deal with
I'm so confused I have no control of my life I think I'll get
lit
So as my problems compile, I steady smile, oh yes
Sippin on that forty ounce that's leadin me to a path of nowhere
So as I think about tomorrow, I hesitate and say:
a forty ounce for breakfast, will get me through the day..

A forty ounce for breakfast gets a brother through the day
I guess I shoulda rolled a joint up instead; anyway
seems like everytime I start I don't know when it's time to say
when
Now my mental gets all blurred and inside talk the ill-behavin
Coolin with my boys, no names need to be mentioned
At a party with some brothers I don't know I'm chillin in some
E&J
With a forty O-Z to wash the shit down
and plus a lot of marijuana now I need to sit down
I can't remember the last time I was this blew out of my cranium
My ears and head begin to hum aloud as the room spun; anyway
next thing I know I blacked out woke up with vomit all over my
coat
Start talkin out my ass I can't see straight but yet I quote
and I don't know what came over me, I started dissin both my
homies
that I used to freestyle with and now I'm askin them to show me
what they got not thinkin straight I don't know why I posed the
challenge
Now my ego is erupting as if I was Mt. Saint Helens
Some shit was said I know I can't erase and now shit ain't the
same
I wish I had just one more chance to live that day again
I strain; cause this bid was to find a true friend
and loose them to booze in my system just ain't how I'm livin
Nothin I could really say to mend up how someone else feels
And so I guess I gotta wait and see if maybe the wounds will
heal
And I really didn't mean a word I said though I can't prove that
Now the only thing that I can really say is I went out
And out I went and now and then I get irate and say
A forty ounce for.. nah
A forty ounce for.. fuck!!
Just one more forty just one more I'll make this last day
A forty ounce for breakfast, can get me through the day

blackalicious - a to g

--We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A"
sound....Listen with care

(Gift of Gab)
I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
Adding on, absolutely abolishing
Average amateur's arsenal just astonishing

--Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"

I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully BACK
Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons

--Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"

Crazy character, constantly creating concontions
Catalyst, a cannabalistic rhymes conqueror
Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
Consistent capacity

--Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"

Done did that done did this diddle don
Domination don't dignify diction
Doin' it deep down dialect daring
Doomsday dut devastate during the duration

--Listen to our song for vowel "E"

Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
Eons of energy, everyone affected
Efficiently epitomize excellent
Extravagant elevate where the essence is

--"F" is the letter with which these words begin

Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
Niggers fall frequently, fact
Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this
wack shit

-- You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for
letter "G"

(scratched)
-I be the Gift of Gab
-The man with the given gift of gab
man with the gift of gab
-I possess the gift of gab
-Gift of gab, gab
-I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
-Got the gift of gab
-When I shoot the gift, I shoot
-I use the gift of gab like a harpoon
-On the serious tip, I'm equipped with a gift
-The gift of gab, it don't waiver
-Yo man you gotta -- Grab the mic to show you got the gift of
gab

--These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the
letter G.

blackalicious - a2g

--We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A"
sound....Listen with care

(Gift of Gab)
I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
Adding on, absolutely abolishing
Average amateur's arsenal just astonishing

--Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"

I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully BACK
Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons

--Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"

Crazy character, constantly creating concontions
Catalyst, a cannabalistic rhymes conqueror
Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
Consistent capacity

--Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"

Done did that done did this diddle don
Domination don't dignify diction
Doin' it deep down dialect daring
Doomsday dut devastate during the duration

--Listen to our song for vowel "E"

Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
Eons of energy, everyone affected
Efficiently epitomize excellent
Extravagant elevate where the essence is

--"F" is the letter with which these words begin

Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
Niggers fall frequently, fact
Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this
wack shit

-- You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for
letter "G"

(scratched)
-I be the Gift of Gab
-The man with the given gift of gab
man with the gift of gab
-I possess the gift of gab
-Gift of gab, gab
-I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
-Got the gift of gab
-When I shoot the gift, I shoot
-I use the gift of gab like a harpoon
-On the serious tip, I'm equipped with a gift
-The gift of gab, it don't waiver
-Yo man you gotta -- Grab the mic to show you got the gift of
gab

--These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the
letter G.

blackalicious - alphabet aerobics

(Now it's time for our wrap up
Let's give it everything we've got
Ready? Begin)

Artificial amateurs, aren't at all amazing
Analytically, I assault, animate things
Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat
Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
Casually create catastrophes, casualties
Cancelling cats got their canopies collapsing
Detonate a dime of dank daily doin dough
Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low
Eatin other editors with each and every energetic
Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette
Furious fat fabulous fantastic
Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics
Gift got great global goods gone glorious
Gettin godly in his game with the goriest
Hit em high, hella height, historical
Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy
Imitators idolize, I intimidate
In a instant, I'll rise in a irate state
Juiced on my jams like jheri curls jockin joints
Justly, it's just me, writin my journals
Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on
Karate kick type brits in my kingdom
Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is
Learned lame louses just lose to my livery
My mind makes marvelous moves, masses
Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered
Niggas nap knowin I'm nice naturally
Knack, never lack, make noise nationally
Operation, opposition, off, not optional
Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals
Perfected poem, powerful punchlines
Pummelling petty powder puffs in my prime
Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum
Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got uh
Really raw raps, risin up rapidly
Riding the rushing radioactivity
Super scientifical sound search sought
Silencing super fire saps that are soft
Tales ten times talented, too tough
Take that, challengers, get a tune up
Universal, unique untouched
Unadulterated, the raw uncut
Verb vice lord victorious valid
Violate vibes that are vain make em vanished
? well would a wise wordsmith just
Weaving up words weeded up, I'm a workshift
Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large
X-height letters, and xylophone tones
Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws
Yesterday's lawn yards sell our (yawn?)
Zig zag zombies, zoomin to the zenith
Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme ZEA-LOTS!....

(good....can you say it faster?)

blackalicious - as the world turns

"Now, I thought I would talk about today
For your consideration, as the world turns
As the world turns, you read in all these scriptures
About the world, find out that the world does turn!"

As the world keeps spinning, we live these days
Dollar bill done drove the whole world crazy
While sitting on the porch letting ganja blaze
Never hesitate a moment to enhance my phrase
Since I needed that escape I take my pull
Seen the thugs on the corner trying to act all cool
Pretty much out of character
I look right through, their transparent exterior
You in my book getting written and I'm the derriere
Thought you was peeping me but I was aware of ya
You peep my ill expressions, how I just glare about
Trying to trace my inner world and my whereabouts
Well try on, try on
I'm watching everything that's going down
And it ain't nothing that I ain't been around
The same ghetto but a different town
Weeell, I remember growing up in the P-a-c
It was a whole lot of love in my family
I had clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
Times we didn't have a lot but that was fine with me
In good times and even bad times
Whether rainy, grey sky or the sunshine
Life was so much simpler, I didn't realise it then
But time has definitely made me a wiser man

[Chorus 2x: Erinn Anova]
The world keeps turning round
And time just keeps on moving

Sunday morning in the church just singing a song
Mama gave much praise cause her soul was strong
When I was young I used to do lots of thangs was wrong
I never thought about till one day she was gone
Now my daddy passed on about a year before
Reminiscing as I glance at the fishing pole
But these things gotta happen so we all can grow
And now they spirits much freer than they was befo'
So fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on
Cause there's angels in the midst
And they're guiding and watching me every day
And even though at times I let it get to me
Just a little and I go astray
We keep marching on and on
Young militants will watch and now we're growing
With kids of their own, as it all unfolds
As the world keeps turning on, the world keeps turning on

[Chorus 4x]

This one goes out to family, y'all come first
G-A-B, Chief Xcel, Blackalicious, out

blackalicious - aural pleasure

Shortcut to Blackalicious Lyrics
Blackalicious - 4000 Miles Lyrics
Blackalicious - 40oz. for Breakfast Lyrics
Blackalicious - A to G Lyrics
Blackalicious - A2G Lyrics
Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics Lyrics
Blackalicious - As the World Turns Lyrics
Blackalicious - Aural Pleasure Lyrics
Blackalicious - Back to the Essence Lyrics
Blackalicious - Beyonder Lyrics
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow Lyrics
Blackalicious - Brain Washers Lyrics
Blackalicious - Cheezit Terrorist Lyrics
Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics Lyrics
Blackalicious - Clockwork Lyrics
Blackalicious - Day One Lyrics
Blackalicious - Deception Lyrics
Blackalicious - Deep in the Jungle Lyrics
Blackalicious - Do This My Way Lyrics
Blackalicious - Dream Seasons Lyrics
Blackalicious - Ego Trip by Nikki Giovanni Lyrics
Blackalicious - Finding Lyrics
Blackalicious - First in Flight Lyrics
Blackalicious - Green Light: Now Begin Lyrics
Blackalicious - Hanger, Cliff Lyrics
Blackalicious - If I May Lyrics
Blackalicious - Introduction: Bow and Fire Lyrics
Blackalicious - It's Going Down Lyrics
Blackalicious - Lyric Fathom Lyrics
Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way Lyrics
Blackalicious - Making Progress Lyrics
Blackalicious - Nowhere Fast Lyrics
Blackalicious - Paragraph President Lyrics
Blackalicious - Passion Lyrics
Blackalicious - Purest Love Lyrics
Blackalicious - Reanimation Lyrics
Blackalicious - Release Pt. 1, 2 and 3 Lyrics
Blackalicious - Rhymes for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Lyrics
Blackalicious - Searching Lyrics
Blackalicious - Shallow Days Lyrics
Blackalicious - Sky Is Falling Lyrics
Blackalicious - Sleep Lyrics
Blackalicious - Smithzonian Institute of Rhyme Lyrics
Blackalicious - Swan Lake Lyrics
Blackalicious - The Fabulous Ones Lyrics
Blackalicious - Trouble (Eve of Destruction) Lyrics
Blackalicious - You Didn't Know That Though Lyrics
Full Blackalicious Lyrics...

blackalicious - automatique

(feat. Floetry)

[Floetry]
It's automatique-- now
So here bring my speak-- style
Show y'all how to freak-- star
Is automatique-- now
So automatique-- now
The sound you gon' keep-- down
Come listen and peep-- how
It's automatique

[Gift of Gab]
It's automatic sporadic movements on the brake
The moment's magic the last thing that I should do is think
I burst the energy that hints that really it's no time
At birth you start to think that after death back to no mind
A rest that makes you new again now you embrace the planet
And stand in all of all the thing you daily took for granted
The trees are posin' all unique in form make this perfection
The most important time is now tomorrow's a projection
A co-creator if you only just believe in that
Right here today inside is where I find my freedom at
Is simple as a lyric from my soul to yours as felt
I didn't write this I just let the pen move by itself
It's ART-o-matic

[Hook]

[Natalie of Floetry]
So blessed we rest in a space over-standin'
This breath's so unique we must trace where we landed
Magnetizin' minor tracks is subliminal
So fiend-in to the evidence is evident I'm bein' true
True to the moment the channelin' the callin'
True to the heartbeat the passion and the formin'
This rollercoaster's the one I stood in line for
Hands in the air these upside downs here are paid for
Make this relevant and here what you gotta hear
I'm recordin' all the secrets of my silent shed
Don't think about it just absorb everything you taste
If it set you free you gonna find the ways
You're who you gonna be unless you choose otherwise
If you let it flow the universe will empathize
Check your programs they monitorin' your sanity
Now close your eyes inside you find the clarity
It's automatic!

[Hook]

[Floetry]
Free your body know this ought to be open
Then lose control just let it happen then
Live at it and set it
Move again your clarity start to assume again
I know this one twist will feel it in
You think you don't know the engine (???)
But it's so automatic
So so so automatic

[Gift of Gab]
It's automative, beyond the common logic native
Beyond the ball around my drama now I'm divin' waitin
So stop and wait this, now operate it on the wavelength
A thought of way is presented by true laws of nature
Across the nation a lost of patience is cost inflation
So caught in waitin', and contemplatin' obligations
Read up inaugurations politrations violatin
And all the haters all up it cannot invadin'
The honest tension, two orders sacred not created
Good thought I made it!! I'm born beyond the constellations
So concetratin', and follow man we all are awakin'
It's automative, you gotta make it follow faith in
Come on come on!

[Hook + adlibs]

THE CRAFT!

blackalicious - back to the essence

When I'm on the mic I stand tall with gall
style worth more than anything you goin find in mall
the treasure of the mutiny is what keeps you all enthralled
i lively up the people with the yes yes y'all
create wait watch and let the fake fall
employ my strategy like checkmate
call your bluff in that destruction of all previous discussion
when I hit like a concussion your heart rate stall
recorders all stall you jaw'll go slack
I deliver makin quivers and shivers all down your back
like a river flow the beat
bounces in cadillacs bumpin that vicious blackalicious
kick drum that keeps punchin thru that speaker countinously
meticoulously
etchin out the spaces in time
for miles affecting rhymes that changing minds permanently
like mescaline giving your whole peception perspective a new
design that
wreck that misconception now we seeing eye to eye yet?
can the mc speak? the suckas stay quiet
the crowd can get rowdy like the party was a riot
try it and the ladies will whoride your ass up out the spotlite
"you crazy dont you know that fool lateef'll set it on you?

He better than you" she telling you the truth due -
I give you the proof due
step you end up getting cut up by the cornerstone's edge
down back by the end I say dont get contrary
cause baby I'm very highly motivated
I'm trying to do that play and ownership thing like Isiah did
hope your vision ain't impaired
but my prayers you can hear what I'm saying to you
Now if you fakin it may sound strange to you
like some way under my breath maybe I'm playing you
but I only do that murder rap shit for those whose the cap fit
as for the rest I'm trying to you all back to the essence

Chorus:

back to the essence when we in the house feel the almighty
presence
making mcs act humble like peasants
smoking the mic and leaving nothing but resin
making the spots pop like pots full of wesson
making it hot cooking your goose and your pheasant
taking your props leaving your ass butt naked
soul exposed no material protection
low and behold we going back to the essence

[Gab]
I be that G-I to the F when I get def up on that mic
I swing that lefty no discrepency and effortlessly
and in the right frame of mind
electricity combined with mind soul and the way I flex the
agility
focus ability makes some heads quite restless in this vicinty
Trying to fill me out but they just jesters in my vicinty stuck
in my art
Trying to feather my energy I bless plenty of enemies
hittin me with expressions that would so would like to get rid
of me
in my quest to be the epitome it'll be cold in helll
'fore I feel stress from any of these illiterate
insecure about they little insignicant contributions
Infinitely I'm mocking yes and don't whenever the Gift put out a
fly quote
Yes I'm doing my thing and leaving a cloud of cess smoke
Wherever I go whether i'm balling whether I'm flat dead broke
I'm heeding my call and leaving a ball of rappers with heads
roast
and bringing that universal dopeness to the east and west coast
and really no one the best though is god
allowing you to harness the energy within whoever feels the most

at the moment takes it the farthest
So thank him cause it's through you that he manifest artistry
like a painting with an infinte beyond lifetime warranty
and satan is a wack diseased that needs to be quarantined
and caged in, I'm riding a boat of dopeness come on aboard with
me
and engage in a tale of musical invention,
an mc lynchin convention GA lyrical fifth dimension miracles
all up in your system

chorus

blackalicious - beyonder

Shortcut to Blackalicious Lyrics
Blackalicious - 4000 Miles Lyrics
Blackalicious - 40oz. for Breakfast Lyrics
Blackalicious - A to G Lyrics
Blackalicious - A2G Lyrics
Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics Lyrics
Blackalicious - As the World Turns Lyrics
Blackalicious - Aural Pleasure Lyrics
Blackalicious - Back to the Essence Lyrics
Blackalicious - Beyonder Lyrics
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow Lyrics
Blackalicious - Brain Washers Lyrics
Blackalicious - Cheezit Terrorist Lyrics
Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics Lyrics
Blackalicious - Clockwork Lyrics
Blackalicious - Day One Lyrics
Blackalicious - Deception Lyrics
Blackalicious - Deep in the Jungle Lyrics
Blackalicious - Do This My Way Lyrics
Blackalicious - Dream Seasons Lyrics
Blackalicious - Ego Trip by Nikki Giovanni Lyrics
Blackalicious - Finding Lyrics
Blackalicious - First in Flight Lyrics
Blackalicious - Green Light: Now Begin Lyrics
Blackalicious - Hanger, Cliff Lyrics
Blackalicious - If I May Lyrics
Blackalicious - Introduction: Bow and Fire Lyrics
Blackalicious - It's Going Down Lyrics
Blackalicious - Lyric Fathom Lyrics
Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way Lyrics
Blackalicious - Making Progress Lyrics
Blackalicious - Nowhere Fast Lyrics
Blackalicious - Paragraph President Lyrics
Blackalicious - Passion Lyrics
Blackalicious - Purest Love Lyrics
Blackalicious - Reanimation Lyrics
Blackalicious - Release Pt. 1, 2 and 3 Lyrics
Blackalicious - Rhymes for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Lyrics
Blackalicious - Searching Lyrics
Blackalicious - Shallow Days Lyrics
Blackalicious - Sky Is Falling Lyrics
Blackalicious - Sleep Lyrics
Blackalicious - Smithzonian Institute of Rhyme Lyrics
Blackalicious - Swan Lake Lyrics
Blackalicious - The Fabulous Ones Lyrics
Blackalicious - Trouble (Eve of Destruction) Lyrics
Blackalicious - You Didn't Know That Though Lyrics
Full Blackalicious Lyrics...

blackalicious - black diamonds and pearls

(Black diamonds and PEARLS)

[Intro - message continued from interlude]
"I'm just gonna read you a little bit of ?:
'I like to start off by saying that prison is truly a living hell
It is a place where love and compassion are looked upon as weaknesses
And violence and brutality are worn like a medal of honor
Prison is a tedious task of survival that could shatter your dreams and ambition
The California Department of Corrections ISN'T designed
to help you rehabilitate yourself or even help you
to become a productive law-abiding citizen'"

[Chorus - Larry Saunders (Ledisi)]
(Black diamonds and PEARLS)
Keep on, keep goin', march on, move on
Keep blowin' it up
Keep ON, keep goin', march on, move on
Stay strong, keep goin', keep, blowin' it up
(Black diamonds and PEARLS)
KEEP ON, keep goin', march on, move on
Keep blowin' it up, yeaaaah
Blowin' it up, yeaaaaaaah

[Gift of Gab - Verse One]
Young leaders, little unsung heroes
You can run some meters, be a hoop or a track star
School teacher, scientist, or even
own your very own street, maybe even be a rap star
Times witcha, you could change whole pictures
Make a better situation, for your mother and yo' big mama
Make dollars, own a ride and a house
Get it right, use your powers, getting' everything you did want
Then the youth say, "Look at where I'm at now
Straight poverty, death is in my backyard
Dope dealers, get fifty G's a pack
While my teacher don't really give a damn about a black child!
And the grown folks say, 'tell the truth', then act fowl
Say 'no' to drugs, hidin' all they crack vials
And talk all about peace and love and God
But then why are we at war, killin' people in Iraq now?"

[Chorus]

[Verse Two]
Young sista had a child, still young herself now
And it's others all around screamin' turmoil
Ain't done wit' school, how are you gonna make it now?
Life is gonna be a little harder for you girl
Some how, she sees the face of a child
And on her face is a smile, and now it's brighter up in her world
And makes her stronger now, she's gotta carry on
And be a very good mama, this is life, let it unfurl
And she's doin' it, mother of the earth now
Found a blessin' in the struggle through her first child
Kept goin', kept growin', kept flowin'
Kept strivin', kept knowin' God would make a way somehow
Live yo' life, girl, show 'em how it's done now
I believe in you, so keep it movin' 'til the sun's down
Never let them hold you back from anything you want now
Life is but a ride, so find the treasures that are unfound

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]
Young brotha, takin' care of his mother
Makin' bread, gotta hustle, 'cause the table's lookin' thin now
Stress ridden as he walks his little sister
to her preschool, which is up the road just a few miles
Back at the house, his mom seeks magic
Through the pipe smoke travelin' through her lungs out and back down
Worst part that breaks the young man's heart
is he's the one that's supplyin' it, he feels like he's trapped now
'Cause every time he says, "No", then she'll spaz out
Start shakin', "Mama, please, where is dad now?!"
Guess he's gotta be the home's only man now
Left the life alone and gotta whole other plan now
Stacked enough to put her in a rehab found
Work and got a G.E.D., his sister's in his hands now
And with support from other members in the fam
Gonna make it out this struggle, young people, here's your chance, come on!

[Chorus and ad-libs]

Black diamonds and PEARLS

blackalicious - blazing arrow

Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow
The rays that range from Asia way to Rio De Janeiro
A craze you crave? but work today's the day that in a major way
I'll make you say oh look he saved the day and also paved the
way (hooray)
Rockin? my crew like razor blades today and days away from now
okay, okay
I'm like a laser ray keepin the stains? away
and dangerous ways rappin the phrase that pays
all things just ain't a phase but ageless ways a cagey great
displays
yo hey, this ain't a game, so stays awake
cause if you came to play you'll all behave insane
After we change the game it won't reamin the same
(I'll fade away!!!) So make your disc and play this tape in your
Camaro
Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow

The verbal God, I throw a murder all my foe and kill 'em
But learnin all and so I'm gorowing while I'm learnin wit em
Infernal I'll explode returnin out the globe about to blow
Now get up out here yo, see head on out the zones that I patrol
Rock and roll might tear you out the soul like blunts and
alcohol
I knock your whole toboggan for a loop and now the doubt will
flow
I'm not the pro you wanna knock cause on the real I got the glow
Cosmic flows as I suppose thats how its supposed to be
and got to go!!! How'd ya know? Intuition
I was on the old safe surface figure out your purpose that's
impossible
But logic will disturb the thought or focus what its not is all
about
the grow about the kind of onus only god can know
I rock it for the chocolate, for the awkward for the thoughtless
in your home or at your office
I'm your early morning coffee so who got the ball?
We roll with Navajos with double barrels
Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow

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blackalicious - cheezit terrorist

Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of a rapper that's wack
as a matter of fact, I smack a back of the style, jackets are
now
mellow minced, defeatin the mental
And become Gentle as Ben, but then they stibble and dribble
and bend like a pencil
The only utensil I got, is brain power
And you know it's essential I rock, I rain showers
sleet snow and raise hella eyebrows with my styles
You're wondering how wild
When what where, made ladies so horny
they can't even be showin they butt bare
Look up there, beside the birds the planets the hawk
the rappers who talk the mo' shit
I'm makin em walk the plank they stank I'm takin they rank
they tossed tiddlewinks I'm playin em like that game
I'm gunnin and rackin and packin em up
and I'm runnin this here rap thang
Main, you wanna go to war, I'll take you
I physically break you, when I break through
I'm makin you fake crew, you made a mistake fool
I hate you MC's, I'll grate you like cheese
I may choose to squeeze, my pencil
And write out a couple of rhymes

Whooooaaaa, whooa my goodness!!!
Are we slaughterin, is this just slaughter MC night?
Or somethin man, what is this?
Is this all the aggression you ever had?

How many MC's must get ripped, before By says don't flip with
the Gift
You know? That's what I'm talkin bout
How many MC's must get dismissed
Before somebody says, don't trip with the Gift
*laughter*
You know, it's all good
KP and SloganMasters in the house, the Cheezit Terrorist
And we chillin at 90.3 we got thirteen minutes left
And then we got Brenda Short, and her records

blackalicious - chemical calisthenics

[Gift of Gab]
I can do anything

Neutron, proton, mass defect, lyrical oxidation, yo irrelevant
Mass spectrograph, your electron volt, atomic energy erupting
As I get all open on betacron, gamma rays thermo cracking
Cyclotron and any and every mic
You're on trans iridium, if you're always uranium
Molecules, spontaneous combustion, pow

Law of de-fi-nite pro-por-tion, gain-ing weight
I'm every element of brown

Lead, gold, tin, iron, platinum, zinc, when I rap you think
Iodine nitrate activate
Red geranium, the only difference is I transmit sound
Balance was unbalanced then you add a little talent and

Careful, careful with those ingredients
They could explode and blow up if you drop then
And may hit the ground

Let it flow, yo, just let it go, get back

C-A-O-H-2 wine water solution of calcium hydroxide
Slobbin it, C-A-O lime will make bleach powder
Galvanic metal beats stomp out louder
Dried ice, C-0 squared refrigerant
N-O-2 makes you laugh, it's laughing gas used by the dentists
I nearly added acid glue, I'm like oil of a toil, the king of
chemicals
And the G heat gas waved all your mats
Chemical change, ice point, melt all your raps
Atomic weight, hold shocks, when you call
Refillable gas keep going way beyond
Biotch I'm only ill with buzzin, feel the ambiance
A diabetic process outta calm your ass
After I warm your ass, I'll give sodium, silicate N-O-2-S-1-O-3,
a water glass
Borax flexure full of brimstone sulfur
Boraxic acid, hip-hop preserver
C-O-2 could never put away the fire
Style aroma is scientific; the lyrical fuse would be connected
To teach you chemical calisthenics

The Theory is that all matter is composed of at least three
fundamental particles
Protons, electrons, neutrons, Protons charge is positive
By now you've guessed electrons are probably negatively charged
Neutrons don't follow either, neutral, in the middle, only no
apologies
Centered, unmoved by yin and yang ideology
Neutron, bomb songs, electron fury
Cosmic musical radio-activity
Different points in joints within infinity
Oxygen and hydrogen alive within all types of energy
Within all types of energy
Within all types of energy
Within all types of energy
Within all types of energy, inside a world, inside a world
Inside a universe, inside of me existing although I can't see it

Hydrocarbon, nitrogen cycle, ionization
Heavier than electric motor metals that weigh over a ton
This has been a chemist, Blackalicious creation
Clean out your desk, put your papers away cause class in almost
done

This is chemistry plus calisthenics
I'm calcium plus potassium, magnesium, newspaper of sodium,
sulfate
Your solvent, chloroform, remedy from the norm
glycerin, purest form Titanium
there is no way out, when this newfy is out
of all arms vibration, forming in a nigga
some bleachin' to teach ya religious is equal to pieces of
meteor
Eager to be here or is it, can see here I know all of all
I'ma pickin' up pretty little Cindy
I'm more, I'm thinkin of more,
I'm cookin a potion!

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