Project Jazz (Explicit)-Hell Razah/Talib Kweli/MF Doom

[ti:Project Jazz] [ar:Hell Razah] [al:Renaissance Child] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Project Jazz (Explicit) - Hell Razah/Talib Kweli/MF Doom [00:04.25]Renaissance Razah Rubies [00:08.44]Let's go tell 'em [00:09.55]I was born in the era of kings [00:11.14]Of h****n dreams [00:11.97]Now it be a Maccabee [00:12.97]Spreading my wings spread 'em [00:14.68]I ain't trippin' off material bling [00:16.00]I analyze off of Billie Holiday the queen [00:17.90]What was Marvin Gaye thinking [00:19.10]When he wrote that theme [00:19.92]A Trouble Man why his pops [00:21.31]Had a gun his hand damn [00:22.46]Hip hop go to way back then [00:24.39]Diddy used to sing doo wop [00:25.50]With two of his friends [00:26.42]I seen an oo wop when I was like ten [00:27.89]Excited by sin [00:29.04]I got my first gold front from Ben [00:30.60]Eighty nine I was into Rakim [00:31.99]For dropping gems [00:33.29]Most niggas learned a lot from him [00:34.93]Grandma used to cook [00:35.90]With sounds of Sam Cooke [00:37.11]Mid 60's my moms [00:38.09]Then moved to Red Hook [00:38.93]Same hood Al Capone was put [00:40.30]And got his rep as a crook [00:41.89]In them criminal books we don't look [00:43.07]A crack hit I could never forget [00:45.10]In '92 Mr Daily was hit by gun clips [00:47.19] [00:47.79]You had to pump if you wanted some kicks [00:49.58]The best product on the block [00:50.78]It was quicker to flip [00:51.40]We had whips but it wasn't legit [00:53.74]I reminisce Calvin Klein [00:54.86]He was running the s**t [00:55.94]'76 came a heavenly prince with one gift [00:58.31]To uplift by the name Charon Smith [01:00.11] [01:02.89]Dedicated to Miss Caroline Smith [01:04.40] [01:05.72]Special love and respect [01:06.76] [01:08.68]To real true pioneers yeah [01:10.36] [01:10.94]People like Ray Charles we in here [01:13.44]Barry White let's get back [01:15.94]Into the hall of fame come on [01:17.14]Yo yo it's like we all just beef and the strengths [01:19.13]Son is blind like a boxer that bleed in the ring [01:20.94]From a cut opened up above his right eye [01:22.95]Body all black and blue [01:24.09]Like the Brooklyn nice guy uh [01:25.29]Bobbing and weaving [01:26.00]And dodging the propaganda [01:27.30]My raps take it back like shopping at Alexander's [01:28.95] [01:29.47]My momma had the fly afro my father [01:31.49]Cooked for a week and left all us with the casarole [01:33.63]We didn't have much but with a little bit of love [01:36.05]Made due with the little bit we had yo [01:37.91]We in a new millennium [01:39.17]Granny still singing Hem Slow [01:40.42]Jim Crow's still keep the blacks po' [01:42.14]Look we blessed with the [01:43.15]Power to move people with music [01:44.45]It's the natural resources [01:45.30]And we use it to broadcast [01:46.40]And transmit live from hell [01:47.88]What don't kill you [01:48.91]Make you stronger I'm allowed to tell [01:49.93] [01:52.87]Hurry up hurry up hurry up man [01:54.94]Yo yo make sure you write it on the wall [01:58.06]Make sure it say Renaissance Child [02:00.03] [02:01.66]Talib Kweli MF Doom written for the babies [02:05.60] [02:06.46]Let's go [02:07.26]Vik slick talk with a cough full of North [02:08.94]Of course New York floss [02:10.01]Don't know and blew pork [02:11.31]Before you walk across look both ways [02:13.47]The third and the fourth of them nowaday old phase [02:15.09] [02:16.30]Kept a dog on a wooden leg and [02:17.60]Hustled all night in the fog on the red [02:19.47] [02:20.10]Even dressed like a bum and could beg [02:22.02]Instead use the other on the strength [02:23.05]What a good head [02:23.91] [02:25.02]Been bred to win since headspins [02:26.69]Ooh them gems [02:28.19]Spread too thin depends on who's losing [02:30.56]Heads do spin it's deaded now who's in [02:32.29] [02:33.29]Revenge all here enough [02:34.65]Combined slang to bang all year [02:36.45]It's on like it ain't never been on cordless before [02:38.47]Report for lawless ports is off shore [02:41.19]With horses hanging the tablets [02:42.87]Mating with rappers [02:43.48]Habits til they hate 'em and had it damn it [02:45.85]And it's gone with the wind dead wrong [02:47.26]A song with a spin and a grin [02:49.17]Out of style with the blow [02:50.03]Out for mild mannered smile [02:51.23]Like a foul wild Spaniard on the soul out [02:53.66]Vaughn the one you trick-a-don [02:55.41]Why stick it if you gotta slip a snicker on [02:56.44]Viktor Vaughn [02:57.21] [03:01.78]Yeah to all the Cadillac riders and it's on [03:05.46] [03:06.12]As it was in the beginning [03:07.52]So shall it be in the end [03:08.10] [03:08.72]All the fathers with the godfathers [03:10.28]Hip hop lives forever and ever [03:13.64] [03:14.35]And ever this is something you [03:16.83]Gon' be able to pass down to your babies [03:18.11] [03:18.96]From generation to generation that's right aight [03:24.00] [03:26.70]One love and we out of here