Listen!!! (Explicit) (Amended Version)

Listen!!! (Amended Version) - Talib Kweli

This the year of the blacksmith

Talib kweli kweli k-1 k-1

Let's go Listen

Yeah yeah niggaz don't listen

Back in the days we all used to listen

Now sh*t is so wack nobody listen

To that real hip-hop yo listen

Ladies and gentlemen

Get ready here it come listen

Talib kweli and I'm bangin on your eardrum

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

Wait wait wait wait

Wait just a minute

Friends romans countrymen lend me your ears

Start repenting cause the ending is near

But don't panic you can't function if you living in fear

Pay attention you gotta listen to hear

Wait just a minute

Who the f**k you think you talking to

Put you on hold get a specialist to walk you through

Kweli the flow captain to fast or slow rapping

I'm soul cracking

You ain't heard your sh*t appear like closed captions

King of the bars and I'm going hardcores

All my confidence comes from knowing god's laws

Banging on the system fighting my kind of war

Loud as a whisper quiet as a lion's roar

Ladies and gentlemen

Get ready here it come listen

Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

It's for your spirits so

But y'all don't hear me though listen

Get up get into it and get involved listen

There's a little something that I wanna spit for y'all

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

Wait wait wait wait just a minute

Get it now get it fast

Get it right

Get it big get it live

Get it done get it tight

Somethin I wanna tell you

But you don't really hear me though

I spit it clearly so it's live at your stereo

To your heart while it's beatin in your chest

I'm speaking to execs in the seat behind the desk

To your spirit nutting weaker than the flesh

So while you try to keep it fresh

You getting deeper in the depth

Real hip-hop is missing from the shelf

Yep it's what you felt

When you listen to yourself

Only a few is making cuts that finish

So before you spend your hard earned spinach

Wait just a minute

Ladies and gentlemen

Get ready here it come listen

Talib kweli and I'm bangin on your eardrum

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

It's for your spirits so

But y'all don't hear me though listen

Get up get into it and get involved listen

There's a little something

That I wanna spit for y'all

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

Wait wait wait wait just a minute

Yeah you love the sounds coming out your speaker

I spit rounds like a 9-millimeter

The youth today they frown at the teachers

They ain't down with no leaders

They don't wanna wait just a minute

They like what ni**a wait right there

I got reservoir dogs

You be missing a right ear

Listen get it clear figure is my year

I'm everywhere making appearances in niggaz nightmares

Hear the word peep the flow check the cadence

What you heard is a pro I'm so amazing

Don't front girl you know it's your favorite

New kweli yo they running out of patience

Ladies and gentlemen

Get ready here it come listen

Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

It's for your spirits so

But y'all don't hear me though listen

Get up get into it and get involved listen

There's a little something

That I wanna spit for y'all

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

Wait wait wait wait just a minute

Ladies and gentlemen

Get ready here it come listen

Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

It's for your spirits so

But y'all don't hear me though listen

Get up get into it and get involved listen

There's a little something

That I wanna spit for y'all

Something I wanna tell you

Now let me get up in it

Wait wait wait wait just a minute

Listen

Wait just wait just wait just a minute