Listen!!! (Amended Version)-Talib Kweli

[ti:Listen!!!] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Eardrum (Amended U.S. Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Listen!!! (Amended Version) - Talib Kweli [00:02.85]This the year of the blacksmith [00:03.75] [00:05.14]Talib kweli kweli k-1 k-1 [00:07.83]Let's go Listen [00:08.34] [00:09.09]Yeah yeah niggaz don't listen [00:10.78] [00:11.63]Back in the days we all used to listen [00:13.04] [00:13.88]Now sh*t is so wack nobody listen [00:15.32] [00:16.03]To that real hip-hop yo listen [00:18.24]Ladies and gentlemen [00:19.15]Get ready here it come listen [00:20.69]Talib kweli and I'm bangin on your eardrum [00:22.64]Something I wanna tell you [00:23.93]Now let me get up in it [00:25.07] [00:25.62]Wait wait wait wait [00:27.71]Wait just a minute [00:28.41]Friends romans countrymen lend me your ears [00:30.37]Start repenting cause the ending is near [00:32.14]But don't panic you can't function if you living in fear [00:34.82]Pay attention you gotta listen to hear [00:36.57]Wait just a minute [00:37.89]Who the f**k you think you talking to [00:39.68]Put you on hold get a specialist to walk you through [00:42.02]Kweli the flow captain to fast or slow rapping [00:44.56]I'm soul cracking [00:45.38]You ain't heard your sh*t appear like closed captions [00:47.03] [00:47.60]King of the bars and I'm going hardcores [00:49.05] [00:49.63]All my confidence comes from knowing god's laws [00:51.95]Banging on the system fighting my kind of war [00:54.74]Loud as a whisper quiet as a lion's roar [00:57.12]Ladies and gentlemen [00:57.81] [00:58.43]Get ready here it come listen [00:59.85]Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum [01:01.83]Something I wanna tell you [01:03.14]Now let me get up in it [01:04.40]It's for your spirits so [01:05.61]But y'all don't hear me though listen [01:06.84]Get up get into it and get involved listen [01:09.77]There's a little something that I wanna spit for y'all [01:11.67]Something I wanna tell you [01:12.71] [01:13.25]Now let me get up in it [01:14.60]Wait wait wait wait just a minute [01:17.34]Get it now get it fast [01:18.36]Get it right [01:18.96]Get it big get it live [01:20.08]Get it done get it tight [01:21.22]Somethin I wanna tell you [01:23.04]But you don't really hear me though [01:24.21]I spit it clearly so it's live at your stereo [01:25.95] [01:26.87]To your heart while it's beatin in your chest [01:28.97]I'm speaking to execs in the seat behind the desk [01:31.04] [01:31.82]To your spirit nutting weaker than the flesh [01:33.69]So while you try to keep it fresh [01:34.86]You getting deeper in the depth [01:35.74] [01:36.76]Real hip-hop is missing from the shelf [01:38.61]Yep it's what you felt [01:39.76]When you listen to yourself [01:40.72] [01:41.50]Only a few is making cuts that finish [01:42.89] [01:43.48]So before you spend your hard earned spinach [01:44.88]Wait just a minute [01:45.52] [01:46.41]Ladies and gentlemen [01:47.35]Get ready here it come listen [01:48.73]Talib kweli and I'm bangin on your eardrum [01:50.78]Something I wanna tell you [01:51.84] [01:52.43]Now let me get up in it [01:53.57]It's for your spirits so [01:54.68]But y'all don't hear me though listen [01:56.26]Get up get into it and get involved listen [01:58.45]There's a little something [01:59.62]That I wanna spit for y'all [02:00.72]Something I wanna tell you [02:02.24]Now let me get up in it [02:03.59]Wait wait wait wait just a minute [02:06.07]Yeah you love the sounds coming out your speaker [02:07.79] [02:08.38]I spit rounds like a 9-millimeter [02:09.66] [02:10.45]The youth today they frown at the teachers [02:12.65]They ain't down with no leaders [02:14.02]They don't wanna wait just a minute [02:15.21] [02:15.93]They like what ni**a wait right there [02:17.34]I got reservoir dogs [02:18.66]You be missing a right ear [02:19.98]Listen get it clear figure is my year [02:22.01] [02:22.58]I'm everywhere making appearances in niggaz nightmares [02:24.74] [02:25.67]Hear the word peep the flow check the cadence [02:27.28] [02:27.85]What you heard is a pro I'm so amazing [02:29.41] [02:30.45]Don't front girl you know it's your favorite [02:31.98] [02:32.75]New kweli yo they running out of patience [02:34.70] [02:35.30]Ladies and gentlemen [02:35.65] [02:36.42]Get ready here it come listen [02:37.68]Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum [02:39.89]Something I wanna tell you [02:40.76] [02:41.45]Now let me get up in it [02:42.54]It's for your spirits so [02:43.32]But y'all don't hear me though listen [02:44.70]Get up get into it and get involved listen [02:47.60]There's a little something [02:48.63]That I wanna spit for y'all [02:49.78]Something I wanna tell you [02:50.99]Now let me get up in it [02:52.51]Wait wait wait wait just a minute [02:55.00]Ladies and gentlemen [02:55.38] [02:55.95]Get ready here it come listen [02:57.10]Talib kweli and I'm banging on your eardrum [02:58.65] [02:59.18]Something I wanna tell you [03:00.99]Now let me get up in it [03:02.12]It's for your spirits so [03:03.04]But y'all don't hear me though listen [03:04.47]Get up get into it and get involved listen [03:07.04]There's a little something [03:08.11]That I wanna spit for y'all [03:09.29]Something I wanna tell you [03:10.59]Now let me get up in it [03:11.96]Wait wait wait wait just a minute [03:14.09] [03:19.02]Listen [03:19.17] [03:21.99]Wait just wait just wait just a minute