Just Begun - Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, J. Cole

We’ve only just begun

Oh yes, indeed, I like this, I like this

Aiyyo, Hi-Tek, do me a favor, man

Speed it up a little bit

From the intro you know I’m so influential

Cause I’m glowing like a candle

The focus is so essential dog, what you tryna get into?

I steady the flow, ready to blow like snotty tissue

They snitching like Donnie Brasco, I’m counting like Monte Cristo

The ghetto full of betrayal like Iago and Othello

Your fellow neighbor will slay you, they’ll smoke you like cigarillos

Police, want that info, they’ll grill 'em like Portabellos

I’m murdering instrumentals cause I rap with the conscience

Of felons, killers and monsters, so revealing and honest

We’re still feeling the promise, some nights I kill 'em with kindness

Hitting like Muhammad Ali, you more like Tatyana

All this is probably Karma, you dishonored the father

Whether it’s God almighty, or the almighty dollar

We follow the prophets like Islamics or the Dalai Lama

Your bullet points so hollow they could probably pierce body armor

Look in the scope, my people still a target

Smile on my face, tears of a sad clown

Feeling out of place as I whistle a cab down

If I tip extra, can I huff a cig?

Blow my smoke out the window

Dropping ashes on the bridge

Uh, I’m in New York now, like Akeem and Semi was

Tryna get the lobby door open from a semi-buzz

I just wanna go to the slum and throw my money

On the floor like the Notorious B.U.M., uh Build a home, teach a class, start a revolution

Free the mind, heal the body, talking evolution

This that black Elohim Anunnaki rap

That Farrakhan Hakeem Olajuwon Qaddafi rap

I dedicate this to my niggas in New Orleans

Rocking black and gold stocking caps

And fleur-de-lis Shockey hats, I’m in the coat room

Screaming «Who that?»

On the double

Serving gumbo with a shovel, dog, I’m on another level

Me and Kweli come together like two pieces of metal

We magnetizing the ghetto

Yeah, now here’s the memo, I’m a rebel without a cause

A bezel without no flaws and shorty, you straight

Bet you look way better without no drawers

Let’s sweat out this alcohol, bet I’m about to ball

And never let up, look how I just crept up without applause

Fed up with all the frauds and left y’all without a job

The center of attention, this is clever, I’m Pau Gasol

Really though I’m LeBron, really don’t got my mind

On this new school of rappers, I will really go Columbine

And throw up the diamond sign, boy you know I’m a shine

Flow is in Ramadan cause couple years ago

The game had they pajamas on but now they on my dick

Man, I should throw a condom on Ay, cause a nigga coming raw like I ain’t got one on And I ain’t stopping nor copping no pleas

I just lock and load squeeze

Dog, I’m on a higher level, I’m on top of nosebleeds

Niggas say they sick but when they rock they don’t sneeze

Like the nigga on the block

Waving his Glock but won’t squeeze, please

Hold your applause until the ceremony end

Yours truly, truly blessed, yet again a noble pla-anted

Super magic, abracadabra kid

Mysterious master Jim, blacker pen, arrowhead

With the long barrel stem, and his apparel fresh

Harbor lights shining out the black power grid

With the Black Power grip, and pure power don’t power trip

Push the cellar ceiling up and make the tower tip

The Gladwell point and Babylon polish

All about nothing where it’s all about the dollar

And mansions on the fault line of a shaky market

The devil at the dancehall thirsty for a partner

Get off him, there is not a parcel or a portion

Or a measure of a fortune more awesome

Gorgeous, the funky Four Horsemen and one more

With Hi-Tek on the score, once more, of course

You’re welcome, thanks

Appreciation for your participation

Special dedication

Celebration, bitches