Memories Live (explicit)-Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek

[ti:Memories Live] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Reflection Eternal (Train Of Thought)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Memories Live (explicit) - Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek [00:02.05]Yo you know what we got to do man [00:04.31]We need to get a whole CD [00:05.73] [00:06.61]Get a collection of all the music [00:08.66]And everything we've ever done [00:10.21] [00:15.13](Bringing back sweet memories) [00:17.62] [00:20.35](Bringing back sweet memories) [00:22.14] [00:25.72](Bringing back sweet memories) [00:27.40] [00:32.11](Sweet memories) [00:33.40]Life living in Flat bush and going to house parties [00:35.36]Red lights bumping life is what you make it [00:37.24]Then sorry [00:37.59] [00:38.20]In my lifetime ain't done too many things [00:40.06]Better than watching your first son [00:41.75]Put his sentences together [00:43.52]Yo it kinda make me think of way back when [00:45.87]I was the portrait of the artist as a young man [00:48.50]All them teenage dreams of rapping writing rhymes on napkins [00:50.55] [00:51.43]Was really visualization [00:52.10]Making this sh*t actually happen [00:53.94]It's like something come through me [00:55.32]That truly just consume me [00:56.61]Speaking through [00:57.00]The voices of the spirits speaking to me [00:58.71]I think back in the day [01:00.02]I absorbed everything like a sponge [01:01.55]Took a plunge into my past to share with my son [01:05.16](Sweet memories) [01:06.25] [01:08.97](Bringing back sweet memories) [01:10.27] [01:14.68](Bringing back sweet memories) [01:15.66](Sweet memories) [01:16.29]Like thoughts out the back of [01:17.38]My mind going back in some time [01:18.63]Like when you used to cut [01:19.67]And had to go to the back of the line [01:21.41]Look back and you find tracks [01:22.26]That make you relax and recline [01:23.34]Now cats rap about packing a nine when they lacking divine [01:25.50] [01:26.01]Inspiration running out of topics of conversation [01:28.19]Well I drop it in the pocket because rock is my occupation [01:31.18]I do it remarkably [01:32.89]Spark up a leaf and possibly you could follow me [01:35.80]Tap into your chi [01:36.98]Utilize your spiritual faculty a [01:38.45]Ccurately use your memory [01:39.52]To help you see clearly then get back to me [01:42.20]Actually nothing's new under the sun [01:43.95]So when life be stressing me my remedy is [01:45.95](Bringing back sweet memories) [01:47.79]Like the faces that are woven in [01:49.66]The fabric of my consciousness [01:50.96]From cities where making 21's a big accomplishment [01:53.00] [01:53.58]Like when my people understood their prominence [01:55.54]And my past life visions of the continent [01:57.29] [01:57.94]Like the first time I saw KRS live rockin' it [02:00.73]I heard Resurrection by Common Sense [02:02.91]Dominant in my psyche [02:04.38]I chose my direction like Spike Lee [02:06.35]To speak my life through mics and I never take it lightly [02:09.17]It might be something you did to [02:11.20]Bring you down when you were high [02:12.54]But that karma's a b**ch you steady asking God why [02:14.39]Like when my parents first split up yo I was illin' [02:17.05]Seems like some years [02:17.77]They was together for the sake of the children [02:19.96]And I love them for that I don't know if they saw that [02:22.55]So I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:25.12]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:27.57]I'ma say it and convey it when the world play it [02:30.20] [02:34.90](Bringing back sweet memories sweet memories) [02:40.39] [02:45.39](Bringing back sweet memories) [02:46.71] [02:50.63](Bringing back) [02:52.04]Like black is beautiful names from the seventies [02:53.55] [02:54.27]Let me tap into your energy [02:56.36]Fields of dreams become my property [02:58.26]When I reach my destiny [02:59.44]Like a prophecy especially when I 'm [03:01.48](Bringing back sweet memories) [03:02.40]I got deep into my mind see I got a treasury [03:05.11]That float through my head like a sweet melody [03:07.55]What you telling me [03:08.60]Reflection is a collection of memories [03:09.81]Definitely this is how hip hop was meant to be [03:12.73] [03:13.53]Eventually I knew I'd run into Hi-Teknology [03:16.12]It was only a matter of time like centuries [03:18.27]Check the recipe or technique to [03:19.95]How it sound so sweet [03:21.32]I freak with word power my man speak with beats [03:23.39]If I could make it in New York [03:25.26]I figured anywhere I'd make it [03:26.77]Came to Cincinnati linked with Mood and we did Sacred [03:29.24]Hi-Tek beats became my favorite [03:30.81]Hussle on the Side was the cut [03:32.61]We started to put songs together like what [03:34.72]Traveled the world [03:35.87]Came back to the crib and hit the motherland [03:37.67]Yeah this year we put in work and got some other plans [03:40.23]In fact that's where I'll take the fam [03:41.62]When the Reflection joint is done [03:42.76]By the time you hear this [03:43.99]I'll be basking in African sun like wow [03:46.31] [03:48.41]Yes we made it we here