Hey hey heyyy man

I strike the empire back

I strike the empire back

F**k the empire

High flyin like the millenium falcon piloted by han solo

I never roll for dolo frontin on me's a no-no

Understand doin this for my family

Ha ha check it out y'all

Yo I'm tryin to make a dollar out of what makes sense

Add it up told my daddy I'd be a rich man

You never know when your fate gon' switch hand

Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand

I was a young boy -who dreamt about being a big man

On small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan

Gotta handle business properly boost up my economy

Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property

Yesterday was not for me but nowaday it's time for me

The streets is watchin me I watch back that's the policy

Movin along my oddesey like blood through the artery

Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless

Let those who make the exodus seekin the north beacon

From beatin and hog-eatin from punishment all season

From hands cracked and bleedin -cotton thorns in your palms

It's for y'all that I sketch these songs and it goes

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow

I fear no man because faith is the aarow

My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow

We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano

Kweli is you wit me

Whattup whattup

Let's make it happen

I *burn*through your argument with action

My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin for a brighter day

When y'all wanna leave y'all right away

Shout it out from east-west

From south to northern

From cakalak'

To california

From the coldest

To the warmest

To the borders

'Cross the waters

Understand

And know that I love you

We got love in the place

Shout out to all the queens

All the seeds

To all the teams

That's gettin cream

From outlaw

To emcee's

Make it happen

Do your thing

Understand

And know that I love you

Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen

Guess who the illest mc in the atmosphere yeah the soul controller

Who roam the frontier like a buffalo soldier

I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna

Never disrespect no women cause I love my momma

These cats be givin us praise but it ain't that accurate

I give it up to god all that love and attachment get

Scary well-prepared with the shears when it get hairy

Like how these n***az is lookin like some fairies

And singin like canaries to the beast

And anybody who will listen to em clearly

Y'all don't hear me though even when I'm comin through in stereo

You make a mockery of what I represent properly

Yo why you startin me I take that s**t straight to the artery

Intellectual property I got the title and the deed

I pay for rent with the tears and sweat and what I bleed

Mc's imitate the way we walk the way we talk

You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought

Plus your flow a little bit off you come across soft

Back in the days n***az like that on stage got tossed off

Need to get crossed off the guestlist

It's like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit

To get the message

Sometimes your sunshine get snatched like a necklace

When you get too drunk on power and your drive get reckless

Check it mc's in my face after I slug you then I hug you

If I gotta dead you know it's only cause I love you

Shout it out from east-west

From south to northern

From the richest

To the poorest

To the elders

In the coffins

Livin native

Dyin for it

Understand

And know that I love you

Yea yea we got love in the place

Shout out from up top

To the middle

To black bottom

Sky high

Whether you colder than December

Or hotter than July

It don't stop 'til we complete this

And know that I love you

Keep this fly

It's so much to life when you just

Stay black

10x

My people my people my people people p-people

8x

My pe-ople oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh oh-ohh