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[mos def]
Aight, uhh, alright y'all slow down i'm tryin ta
Aight, yo i i only took a little bit of spanish you gotta
Aight i hear what you're sayin but yo, aight okay
Alright okay, alright okay okay
Alright okay, i'm feelin you, okay
Alright okay, alright okay okay
Alright okay, i'm feelin you yo
All my people in brooklyn and you know we're hot, i say
We don't stop, the body rock
All my people in queens and the land in between say we
Don't stop, the body rock
Shaolin and l-i say you know we're fly, say we
Don't stop, the body rock
From the east to the west son we take it to the chest say we
Don't stop, the body rock

Check me out y'all
I'm in the lab with ab, i got the band they're fat
My man t-a-s-h take it to your breastplate
It's the mighty mos def, complete the trilogy
Just shot myself a dime, see are you feelin me?
Son i'm wicked and nice when i'm on facility
Let me take a sec to review what i wrote.. *paper rustling*
.. "mos def and i sound par fresh" ok it's dope
Let's record this ('cord this) they gonna want dis (want dis)
And all area crew is gonna flaunt this *clapping*
And when we step to the plate pah it's flawless
My man t-a-s-h with styles glory great
Great, great great, great great uh uhh uh uhh uh uhh uh

[tash]
Up next we got catash with that west coast rhymin
Bombin niggaz with the style that's dangerous as mountain climbin (ahhhh!)
Cause the alkie words i'm spittin be twistin while you listenin
Plus i'm in this motherfucker with the likwit coalition
Gotta leave you in position, twist it backwards like dough go
While you starin down my throat like, "is he drunk or is he sober?"
Who knows, all i know is tash got flows
And got the technique to get the ladies out of they clothes
I been overly exposed to the forty-oh's and chickens
So i'ma keep it pumpin til the beat stop kickin
Or til the plot thickens, cause this is how we do
Catashtrophe, mos def, and the brother man que!!!!

[q-tip]
What's up tash, hey yo, tip can't call it
Sure as mos is def and you alkaholik
I'ma be surfin at, thing that's worth dealin
Hypodermically, shoot up your feelin
Figuratively, speakin of course now
Old and greedyness, seekin it's course now
What we gonna do, eradicate them
Shoot them from the jam, they fear disease

[mos def]
Tash love... are you ready to rock the mic?
Q-tip... are you ready to rock the mic!
Mos def... are you ready to rock the mic?
We got the universal style that you got to like!
And ain't nobody steppin up when we got the mic
So turn the a.c. up cause it's hot tonight!
And til the bright early morn' we be rockin you all
Don't stop, the body rock!

[tash]
Cause i'm next to flex, and i'm technically advanced
To turn you on like cybersex, so in less than two sec's
I blind mc's like thomas dolby with the science that'll leave
They braincells fryin slowly (fire!) so slowly i flow and
Express written consent, from the undergroundin niggaz
Coast ii coast i represent cause gettin bent, i do
But i'm doper than sherm plus the way i put it down
Could burn the perm off big worm, so peace and pipe this greeting
Of the last action hero that be freezin rappers dead in they tracks
Like sub zero (zero), cause rico ain't no joke
I eat your flows and yo' beat up rappers even feel my presence
When i'm home with my feet up

[mos def]
For what you skied up or treed up
Relax and pull a seat up, make your landlord turn the heat up
Got the opposition shook like tiger woods about to tee up
So niggaz no competition with the clear mos definition
Mc's screamin now for years can't rhyme without they mom's permission
You just a young'un comin out, gettin gassed to run your mouth
Wildin on the runabout, baby pah you comin out
Barkin that you want a bout but son you know the comeabout
When mos def blow up and, you don't, nuttin
Don't you know nuttin? my crew go huntin
We keep it on the norm then we transform som'in
And while, we do it, you bounce to it
The cops wanna stop the body rock but don't do it

[q-tip]
Dy-no-mite!!! like jimmy j.j.
Swap down pen-ny, somewhere in l.a. (a)
Now we got to bond like voltron (tron)
Tash you the bomb, mos you the won ton (ton)
Q will pick the lead, i must drop on thee (thee)
A-b-s, i bust down, facility (ty)
T-r-a-c-t is the mc (cee)
It's the ll, inside the place to be (be)

[mos def]
Tash love... are you ready to rock the mic?
Q-tip... are you ready to rock the mic!
Mos def... are you ready to rock the mic?
We got the universal brothers that you got to like!
Now ain't nobody steppin up when we got the mic
So turn your a.c. up cause it's hot tonight!
And til the bright early morn' we'll be rockin you all
Don't stop, the body rock!

All my people out in queens that know you're hot, you say
Don't stop, the body rock!
All my people out in brooklyn and you know we're hot, say
Don't stop, the body rock!
Shaolin to l-i and you know we're fly, said
Don't stop, the body rock!
All the people on the greens and the land in between said
Don't stop, the body rock!

... no stoppin
... no stoppin
Out in jersey ... no stoppin
Philadelp-i-i ... no stoppin
Chi town gettin down ... the playgrounds
Detroit you say ... no stoppin
In cali ... no stoppin
And the great v-a ... no stoppin
Cause in the brooklyn town ... no stoppin
And the boogie down ... no stoppin
L-i and queens ... no stoppin
And you see medina greens ... no stoppin
You know we, lyricist lounge ... no stoppin
And my man abstract ... no stoppin
Cause see we never the wack ... no stoppin
Don't stop, the body rock
D-dah, don't stop

[mos def]
Ha ha, said the world world world famous
Said wa wa wa wa world world world famous
Said wa wa wa wa world world world famous
Said the world premier, who's standin here
I'll let you know
Flow so diligently (mos def)
I make it sound so differently (mos def)
Me and sean j. both willing to be considerably
Shine like a good feeling to me
To all my people all originally all from brooklyn shows
Give the party people what they lookin for
And it's lookin mo' bright, my game mo' tight
Said it's alright, alright, i said this all night
Rockin all night, all night, we rockin all night
All my people in brooklyn, show yo' resprect
All my people in qb, show yo' respect
Flex mix this, mos kick this, now you gon' get this
Handlin the business
>from here on to the city limits
Them other cats sounded unfinished
But let me jump in it, i rump wit it, i thump in it
I got the sean j. jump in it
Accompanied by what be fly, speakin candidly, me and my family
Is doin very outstandidly, it ain't nuttin but a jam to me
It's just my man and me
And that's the f-u-n-k-m-a-s-t-e-r
Flexin it, respectin it, make the honey dolls get affectionate
I'm in your section wit de womp de womp de womp de de womp womp
World, world world famous, we ain't nameless
Yo you know this jam it be bumpin in the foreign lands
And all your mans be like "yo, damn!"
Tap yo' hands and raise yo' hands up high

Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

[black thought]
Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price
Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life
Started out at like twelve
Trapped in a belly of hell
Grew into a man inside of a cell
Yo, anger just swell up
At a early age that develop
Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him
They said he's on a road to become a felon
But instead he swung blows that'll spilt your melon
He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed
Started making noise but they tried to mute it
They put him through it
For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]
They rather look you in the face and shoot it
And leave your spot looted [or what]
Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught
When you scream at it and do it
With sweat leaking from the outline of your soluid
Don't understand the point that you at
Or how the hell you came to it?
Flashback to images of that night, out in patterson
They pulled him over heading home from a gathering
And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him
Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?

Chorus

Hurricane
Accuse a hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for hurricane, hurricane

[black thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could y'all stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
You tell me that you know the pain
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could ya'll stand the weather?
You built for that weather?
Yo, know what'm saying?
Know what'm saying?

[common]
You gotta fight for what you believe in
Nobody knows the troubles seen
This flick left me wondering
'what can become of kings and young kids?'
Summer dream deferred, incident occured, freedom blurred
A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on
The cops, y'all know what they be on
A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from
Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,
Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night
Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,
Developing his knack to write
Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself
What he loved on the outside world, detached himself
You know the cards blacks get dealt by the system
He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions
This picture proved to be bigger than black and white
A young soul named lesra brought him back to life
It's amazing to a man what a book could do
And how certain books seem to look for you
This is the story of a champion's fall and rise
The story left me wiping my eyes
Peace ru


Chorus

Hurricane
Accuse a hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for hurricane, hurricane

[black thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever
Could y'all stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
You tell me that you know the pain
Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever and ever yo, locked down forever
Could you stand the weather?
Yo, yo i can't even explain the pain
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane

[mos def]
Yes, i am the inescapable, the irresistable,
The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]
I am time
I scroll in measurements, control the elements,
I hold the evidence, i tell the story [say what?]
I am time
I know no prejudice, i bare no sentiments
For wealth or settlement, i move forward [who you?]
I am time
You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,
Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,
You can't do much for me besides serve
Me well and have good dividends returned to you
Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you
Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,
Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully
Plaintively, i wait to see what history will shape to be,
Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me
Angel's scribe the page for me,
Keep a full account of all the names for me
And make a special mark for hurricane who (?) patiently

Chorus

Hurricane
Accuse a hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for hurricane, hurricane

[black thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Yo, yo, a hurricane forever,
Imagine your locked down forever
Could you stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
I can't even explain the pain
Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever
Could you hold it together?
Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?
Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane

[verse 4]
The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star
God placed it in a man on the day he was born
Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster
Framed for manslaughter, the hurricane carter rising
From out the south water, like torrential rains
In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed
You can't believe the world we live in's injust
All i see is more proof, there's no place for us
They had my man carter locked in a cage, like an animal
Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical
Or works by remote control
It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul
Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind
There's no where to run, no where to hide
In a six-by-six a guilty man cries
For repentance and lost is what innocence is


Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind


Chorus

Hurricane
Accuse a hurricane
Ain't change a damned shame
It's life for hurricane, hurricane

[black thought]
*overtop of sung chorus*
Your locked down forever
Could you stand the weather?
Could you hold it together?
I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?
Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
Forever, imagine behind bars forever
Could you stand the weather?
You built for that? is you cut for that?
Don't be telling me that you know the pain
Your life was like a hurricane, yo

Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

Same story, same target, different time
Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind

mos def]
Yeah..
One for the treble, two for the bass
Welcome to the great incredible paper chase
Keep your boots laced if you want to keep pace

Oh no
Niggas ain't scared to hustle
It's been seven days, the same clothes
Ask them originals cause they know
Mos def, nate dogg, and pharoahe
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

[mos def]
Say my name, say my name
Observe how i stake my claim, i independently lay it down
And played my game, my own two raise my flame
Cause dick ridin ain't my thang
I earned what they said i wouldn't
I got it the way they said i couldn't
But now i'm gettin it and they whole grill is crooked
Mad cause i'm gettin caked out from my bookings
When y'all was askin permission i just stepped up and took it
What!? the kid's better buy my rookie card now
Cause after this year the price ain't comin down
And if you got a joint bubblin then get money now
Cause in a minute, there's gonna be some real trouble comin out
Just a warnin, as usual some cats wont heed it
The hard headed always gotta feel it to believe it
It's a shame that jealous gays is too short to see it
But when they face hit the cement, they nod in agreement
We could play nice and decent, or dirty like the 7-1 precinct
Call it a day or make it a long evenin
You keep on schemin, man give me some more reason
To have the women in your mama's church screamin "lord jesus!"
Harder than y'all cause i'm smarter than y'all
I know that deep down it's got to be bothering y'all
Pay attention, watch fly gon' get larger than y'all
Put your pride on the rocks, make you swallow it all
The mathematic problem for y'all, it just get harder to solve
Every day that the saga evolve
The do or die stay rumblin and bumblin hard
And when we move, we ain't got no discussion at all
East coast on your neck and you ain't shruggin it off
Try to bullyfoot and end up stumblin off
I'm daddy brooklyn, y'all niggaz are the sons of new york
Gettin spanked when there's too much trouble to talk
Respect mine

Oh no
Look at who they let in the back door
From long beach to brooklyn they know
We rock from the east to west coast
Queens salute to pharoahe (you know)
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

Very contagious raps should be trapped in cages
Through stages of wackness, pharoahe's raps are blazin
And it amazes - me how you claim thug
But go two-ways without skytel pagers
I'm intellectual, pass more essays/ese's
Than motorcade police parades through east l.a.
More beef then deli's, thus what i vent is just
What you lust to vent is irrele'
Huh, hallelujah, pharoahe monch'll do ya
Maintain the same frame of mind - screw ya!
Get the picture, sit ya, seat ya, preacher with scriptures
I'm equipped to rip ya, reach ya
Pharoahe and mos is verbal osmosis
Coast to coast, we boast to be the most explosive here
Ferocious, the lyrical prognosis
The dosage is leavin you mentally unfocused here
Mc's just - come on 'round
You're the next contestants on "catch-a-beat-down"
Don't be hesitant, sound cracks the sediment
It's evident we medicine for your whole town
Sky's the limit, game's infinite when i'm in it
All windows is tinted, how you seein me when i'm in it?
Rap, we got it on lock man, stop that
Put that mic back down, boy, drop that
Pharoahe's flows blows shows like afros
We hate y'all though, that's why nate dogg goes:

-nate dogg:
Oh no
Niggas ain't scared to hustle
It's been seven days, the same clothes
Ask them originals cause they know
Pharoah and mos verbalize most from coast to coast step away from the mic they
Too cold
The funk might fracture your nose
(2x)

Oh no
Look at who they let in the back door
From long beach to brooklyn they know
We rock from the east to west coast
Queens salute to pharoahe (you know)
Step away from the mic they too cold
The funk might fracture your nose

travellin' man


Intro:
Yeah yo yo what time the plane leavin?
Ahhh alright, i see you at the airport
*samples of "r-r-r-r-rock on"*

Chorus:
Memories don't live like people do
They always remember you
Whether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don't live like people do-o
Baby don't forget me, i'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
God willin' i'm comin back to you
My baby boo

I'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But god willin' i'm comin back to you
Baby boo
I'm leavin

Verse 1:
Well go 'head and leave
The call heard 'round the world from the wives of mc's
These cats is playin all that half a pound
A garment bag we snatch it down
Ain't got the state but we could prob'ly run a blacker town
Scenarios like this is tear jerkers
For the modern mc i ain't a blue collar worker
'cuz this thing called rhymin' no different from coal minin'
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond
When you start climbin'
And then i start shinin'
You be strugglin' and strivin'
And they think you prime-timin'
Matain and keep silence make note and observation
This confrontation
This is the daily operation
A concentration
Stay focused on my recitation
'bout to reach my destination with the balls of hesitation
Baby make the preperation 'cuz this ain't no recreation
This is pro ball!
And we lettin you know y'all
At the show y'all
Doin' this for dough y'all
Get the phone call
And i'm ready to blow y'all
'bout to go y'all
Been a pleasure to know y'all
And i'm lettin' you know that...

Chorus:
Memories don't live like people do
They always remember you
Wether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don't live like people do-o
Baby don't forget me, i'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
G-d willin i'm comin back to you
My baby boo

I'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But inshallah i'm comin back to you
Baby boo
I'm leavin

Verse 2:
But god willin' i'll be back home
To drop these heavy ass bags up off my backbone
Around the world with a catalog of rap songs
My baby girl is walkin, been away for that long
But no you haven't well least that's how it seem to me
My home town is like a whole different scenery
The old timers on the stoop leaning leisurely
The new jacks up in the bar smokin greenery
Easily taken for granted when you up in it but its sweet scented
When you been down for a minute
Move around city damage
Break it down with the vintage
The innovative
Classical b-boy image
Collect the winners
'cuz thats the reason that we came here
This thing is not a game here
The fortune not the fame here
From new york to the cakalaks
Cali in the caddilacs
Chicago know we innovate
Infiltrate virginia state
Dc make me say your name
Philly know we penatrate
Georgia make us generate
Like suns as they create the pace
They celebrate to my jams in foreign lands
Even your mans in japan know who i am
Minasan, like everybody out in nippon
Say ichiban, may god have well where your getting from
Phenomenom, 'scuse me that's a phone call
Its the show y'all
Tryin' to get this dough y'all
'bout to blow y'all
Been a pleasure to know y'all
And i'm lettin' you know that...

Chorus:
Memories don't live like people do
They always remember you
Wether things are good or bad, its just the memories

Memories don't live like people do-o
Baby don't forget me, i'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But inshallah i'm comin back to you
My baby boo

I'm a travellin' man
Movin through places, space and time(space and tiiiime)
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But g-d willin i'm comin back to you
Back to you

I'm leeaaavvvvinnn'!
I'll be back to you
I'm leeaaavvvvinnn'!
I'll be back to you

All over the world we go
Dc all over the world we go
Va all over the world we go
The ?cakalaks? all over the world we go
London all over the world we go
Japan we go over the world we go
Paris we go over the world we go

(beat playing in background and samples of
*samples of "r-r-r-rock on"*)
1-2, 1-2...all aboard!