The Perfect Beat-Talib Kweli/KRS-One

[ti:The Perfect Beat (Amended Version)] [ar:Talib Kweli/KRS-One] [al:Eardrum (Amended U.S. Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Perfect Beat - Talib Kweli/KRS-One [00:10.31]Talib this is crazy yo this is crazy [00:13.96] [00:15.72]Hah what'chu doing [00:18.23] [00:21.13]Throw your hands up c'mon [00:23.03] [00:25.66]BK to BX and every place in between it's all 7-18 like [00:29.59] [00:31.69]Grand concourse whassup [00:33.12] [00:34.32]We got beats to the rhyme and the rhyme is so fresh yo [00:37.40]So what'chu got 9's and tecs [00:39.06]You no threat It's the beat [00:40.95]How you get your cake don't matter [00:42.80]It takes heart the lyrics been replaced with the swagger [00:45.56]I stay sharp enough to slash your face like a dagger [00:48.21]The actors been replaced with the rappers [00:50.16]The rappers been replaced with the actors [00:52.03]See how they try to stay on the beat the pig [00:54.32]Route when he walking down the street to the beat [00:56.76]Woop sound of da police [00:59.03]What is the life of a true hip-hopper the beats [01:02.08]Peace love unity living proper with the beats [01:05.02]In any endeavor whatever we will prosper with our beats [01:08.01]Some cats are real other are impostors with beats [01:10.95]We the realest livest the rawest [01:12.72] [01:14.00]Survivors with beats [01:15.68]We avoided the cops we focused on beets [01:18.33]Spitting all we saw was stacks of rhymes written elite [01:21.69] [01:22.32]Way too smart for the system of course [01:25.04]We know a smart free black man just pisses 'em off [01:28.03]What they like is when we glisten and gloss [01:30.36]Flashing millions but still taking a loss [01:32.94]Bump the beat yeah all in the street [01:35.66]Talib yo I think it's 'bout time to speak [01:38.63]Word [01:39.26]Watch me take it there life ain't no christmas there [01:41.68]Hell yeah it's crystal clear when kweli and kris is here [01:44.43]Searching for the perfect beat I went to east dayt' [01:46.87]It's crazy and fugazi how they slaves to they release date [01:49.07] [01:49.66]They try to look away they're scared to look inside [01:52.22]Asking why like a guy who look for god up in the sky [01:55.16]Searching high and low behind the doing inside the drawer [01:57.75]Little did he know that the beat was trying to find a flow [02:00.64]Stuck in limbo how low can you go [02:02.99]A punched hole through your stomach lining like tylenol [02:05.72]Build all kind of rolled metaphors and similies [02:08.31]That'll have you doubting my competitor's abilities [02:11.05]My whole body is a spiritual facility [02:13.24]Rock a vest after a lyrical killing spree [02:15.55]The illest delivery later for the talk we need action [02:18.54]Silence is golden but the violence is platinum [02:20.66]When you rapping to the beat [02:21.70]Boom bap who's that [02:24.15]KRS-one bring the beat back [02:26.57]The perfect beat we seek that knowledge of mind we speak that [02:30.32]We don't speak weak crap over weak tracks [02:32.87]Move that we speak boom bap live in the club [02:36.31]We can show and prove that [02:37.66]It ain't old school or new school it's true school rap [02:40.59]Beat you 'til you're blue and black true dat [02:42.66]It's better beat win again work the street [02:44.29]Moving again insert the heat [02:45.60]Looking again for the perfect beat [02:46.86]Don't look in the book to learn to eat [02:48.42]Write up a hook learn to speak [02:49.64]Never be shook follow the heat [02:51.07]Forever they look weak [02:52.08]TK you must speak [02:53.55]Teaching 'em how to eat to live they cheap [02:55.38]And their pimp is pleading the fifth [02:56.52]Bleeding as if they going to war [02:57.75]Everytime they leaving the crib [02:58.87]Sneakers and whips police be peeping the strip [03:00.52]You see 'em walking the beat [03:01.81]Believing the pimps who eating the shrimps [03:03.12]So John's walking the street [03:04.31]Looking for a sweet face in each case [03:06.17]Trying to get they heartbeat racing and the dark meat be tasting [03:09.00]So delicious my description so good to the beat [03:12.05]It's lifted right from the sounds that you hear in the hood when you sleep [03:14.90] [03:15.42]Bring the beat back [03:17.13]All that whackness we don't need that [03:19.40] [03:20.41]You gotta bring the beat back [03:22.05] [03:22.65]All that whack garbage we don't need that [03:24.90]Bring the beat back all that weakness we don't need that [03:28.22]Selector bring the beat back bring the beat back [03:31.75]Selector listen [03:33.35] [03:37.85]Yeah DJ Rhettmatic [03:41.32] [03:44.16]Talib Kweli [03:45.17] [03:47.24]Hip-pop