Talib Kweli, Mos Def - Joy(2002)

[00:04.04] Wooaahh! yeah
[00:05.08] On top of the world
[00:06.70] Yeah, that's how my seeds got me feeling' right now
[00:09.48] On top of the world
[00:11.98] Yeah, you ever felt like you could do anything, (Yeah)
[00:13.45] On top of the world
[00:16.54] (?) I'ma hold y'all down for real, (Gotcha!)
[00:19.99] It was 1996, 4th of July, looking off in the sky
[00:23.64] Dealing with thoughts inside, when something caught my eye
[00:26.11] It was a silhoutte of a beautiful woman, bright with life
[00:28.29] Carrying my first seed, looking like she gone bear fruit tonight
[00:30.55] We at the African street festival, and she walking around
[00:33.42] Talking about the midwife said, that bring the baby down
[00:35.72] I'm about to be a father, the sights and sounds, seem brighter around me
[00:37.84] And for starters, I know I'ma work harder, word
[00:42.08] We got home at three in the morning, I was beat
[00:43.74] Them contractions started coming as soon as I fell asleep
[00:45.68] 3: 05, like every five minutes, then the water broke
[00:48.54] We on the go, yelling at the cabbie, cause he's sort of slow
[00:51.24] You know them hospitals all trying to get paid, no questions
[00:53.99] Hear come the doctor's with they drugs, trying to do c-sections
[00:56.69] But my baby stay's strong, in labor for yay long
[00:59.45] Eight-pound baby boy, to carry my name on, joy!
[01:02.14] Huh, yeah
[01:04.21] I know how you feel, Kweli I know how you feel
[01:04.83] (That's the sound of joy)
[01:07.37] See my brother, I know how you feel, Kweli, I know how you feel
[01:11.15] (That's the sound of joy)
[01:12.15] So when you, have a seed, come in the world, say dog that shit's real
[01:16.10] (That's the sound of joy, y'all)
[01:17.56] Huh, Kweli, yo I know how you feel, Kweli, yo I know how you feel
[01:19.60] My baby girl
[01:23.69] June 10th, 1999, I been on the grind
[01:24.96] Since the birth of my son, it's been about, way more then rhymes
[01:27.28] Baby on the way, my lady glowing today, at least
[01:28.67] That's what the midwife said, on the phone
[01:31.12] Anyway, the music got me going away
[01:32.82] Like everyday, but it's a blessing, so I gotta have patience
[01:35.37] And she got pregnant on a Jamaican vacation
[01:37.66] So it's all good, this time well have the baby in a house
[01:40.14] I went the hospital route, I know what they all about (Never again)
[01:43.56] So I'm out on tour, in Baltimore
[01:45.31] Get the call around four, when the water hit the floor (Damn!)
[01:48.36] I gotta rock my show, but I gotta go
[01:50.88] Got second thoughts about her not going, to the hospital
[01:52.96] I left the show early, Mos held me down, good looking (No doubt)
[01:56.05] Call the car service, like, take me straight to Brooklyn (Uh huh)
[01:57.03] Got the news in the car, stayed sorta calm
[02:00.64] But I cried tears of joy, when they put my daughter in my arms, how precious!
[02:03.90] Huh, huh
[02:04.68] Said I know how you feel, uh, said I know how you feel when you
[02:06.74] (My precious joy)
[02:09.29] Said I know how you feel, uh, Kwe I know how you feel
[02:12.93] (I know you do, huh, my precious joy y'all)
[02:14.48] Huh, uh, said I know how you feel (yeah), said I know how you feel
[02:18.11] (My precious joy)
[02:19.66] Huh, man I know how you feel (yeah), said I know how you feel
[02:23.46] I do it for the seeds y'all, in they formative years when they need y'all
[02:26.76] We gotta believe, in what we conceive y'all, it's deep y'all
[02:28.63] I give them the truth, so they approach the situation, with ammunition
[02:31.75] I keep nothing away, they hear everything, cause they know how to listen
[02:34.23] Teach them the game, so they know they position, so they can grow
[02:36.32] And make decisions, that change the world, and break old tradition
[02:39.34] They put kids in jail, for a life they ain't even get to start
[02:42.00] That's murder too, and it's breaking my heart, it's breaking our nation apart
[02:44.90] We gave the youth all the anger, it's just
[02:47.61] We ain't taught them, how to express it, and so it's dangerous
[02:49.72] You can't talk to them
[02:51.23] Unless your language is relating to what they going through
[02:52.69] So busy ignoring them, you can't see what they showing you
[02:54.98] And you wonder, why we called baby-daddy's and baby-momma's
[02:57.27] When we grow up, we can't act like adult mothers and fathers, yo
[03:00.25] I'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl, everyday they bring joy to my world
[03:03.90] Huh, yeah
[03:05.03] I know how you feel, Kweli I know how you feel
[03:07.94] (That's the sound of joy)
[03:10.46] Brother Kwe', I know how you feel, Brother Kwe', I know how you feel
[03:14.49] (Baby girl, my precious joy)
[03:16.08] Kweli, I know how you feel, say bro' I know how you feel
[03:19.00] (Fela, be my joy, yo)
[03:20.69] Huh, if you know how the people feel, let me really know how you... yo
[03:24.86] I do it for the seeds y'all
[03:26.34] I do it for the seeds y'all
[03:35.59] I do it for the seeds y'all
[03:40.99] I do it for the seeds y'all
[03:45.93] I do it for the seeds y'all
[04:06.40] I do it for the seeds y'all
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