This Means You (Explicit) - Reflection Eternal/Mos Def

Sometimes you gotta be direct with the people y'know like

Give it to 'em (c'mon)

Yo

Give it to 'em

GET UP NOW

Yo we keep it type raw and know exactly what we fight for

When the nightfall come we in the right war

Cats who spill blood for a cause not just because

Defy the authority and follow God's law

Revolutionary entrepeneurswho make the fans

Clap they hands and stompin the floor not start the applause

(Ahhh ssssh Yeah ) Thank you very much without further adieu

Let me introduce the rest of my crew Mos Def

Yo I am the world renowned verb adjective adverb

Pronoun preposition suffix prefix

Original or remix sunburst and eclipse

Me and Kwe' combine like strands on a double-helix

My speech seasoned with dialect of my region

Booga-nam Brooklyn Bed-Stuy Eastern

Where youth and policemen they nah reach agreement

Pressure in the mornin pressure in the evenin

You need to get up right now

And move with this yes this means you

You you

Yeahh alright yeah alright yeah alright yeah

Alright yeah alright yeah alright yeah yeah-ehhhh

Uh uh uh uh yo yo yo

Things changed since we came out been some sh*t in New York

Niggaz stopped gettin jig in New York bloods and crips in New York

The Y-2-K celebration wasn't big in New York

Babylon live in New York should I keep a crib in New York

Or just V I to handle my B I

When with my A-Alikes we see with three eyes

Yo Kweli I agree I was thinkin the same thing myself

Smog in the city ain't no good for your health

Things changed in New York type strange in New York

Forty-Deuce don't look the same in New York

Just politics tricks and big games in New York

Switched trains a writer can't get fame in New York

Internet and Wall Street got paid in New York

Poor folks and workin class got slayed in New York

Even still everyday they make weight in New York

Flashlights lookin for a brighter day in New York

In New York they say it's - red hot

Will the temperature ease up Black I guess not

It's multi-lane traffic no sign for rest stops

No corner breaks put on your gloves and just box

No dance school to teach you to wop and bus stop

Better get up in the booth hop up and just rock

If you think it's like that it's not so just stop

All mankind time runnin down on one watch just watch

If you are just coming in I will

Say it once more so you can hear cause

You need to get up right now

And move with this yes this means you

You you

Yo Mos Def and Talib Kweli bring disaster to the industry

We best-sellin authors writin great chapters in history

These cats undercover like gay rappers dealin with mystery

My platinum grey matter spray batter that's specifically

Designed to make rappers break faster

Than eggshells in the mornin

Inhaled the divine in that's laid dormant

Water from the well STAY pourin

I answer back when I hear fate callin

Freedom fighter ready to

Attack at the crack of a new day dawnin

Way more than necessary skills f

Or the application

My flow is Great like the Lakes and it rocks like Applachains

My facts more than make up for what you lack in imagination

You more confused than

Tiger Woods when he made up Cabalaysian

I'm sayin

Break bounds like the jet Concorde

Win awards before I leave for my ( ) world tour

When they scream encore that's when they want more

Flow steadily whether I'm on or off shore

High potent zone coastin no jokin

Safecracker sniff gon' keep the joint open

Peep the focus high resolution high reception

My "Train of Thought" connectin with

My bredren from Reflection like

You need to get up right now

And move with this yes this means you again

You need to get up right now

And move with this yes this means you we goin

New York Philly

Chicago Detroit

Miami D C

L A The world

London Amsterdam

Paris Japan

Any place that a human being might stand we goin