[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]
Shots fired
You say your block is like The Wire, I am not inspired
Real Gs try to stop the violence
They're not aspiring to live in food deserts, lacking proper diets
I start a riot every time I voice the unheard
Rhyming in the rough 'til the diamond got unearthed
Old Earth, like the boy got some nerve
White liberals feigning concern
We born in killer hospitals with doctors who would abuse us
Carry boxcutters, there was other popular usеs
At the hardware store, a buck fifty wеnt a long way
Fat cash for the Krylon paint
Wait, you're feeling froggy then leap like amphibians
Evolutionary, this apeshit you see me in
Revolutionary and flier than cloud city and
Superman the man wearing capes like Calrissian
Toxic, see how they marketing carcinogens
Got them African dancing like Aunt Vivian
Jamaicans to the Haitians to Puerto Ricans, Dominicans
Trini's and the Bajans 'cause Brooklyn like the Caribbean
The birds chirp, I get it straight from the source now
Gentrification, the neighbors is getting tossed out
My crew is all city, your name just got crossed out

[Verse 2: Yasiin Bey]
Uh, Mumia, Ali, savant style
January 32nd, Lee Hooker style
Reservoir, go a happy birthday, now calm down
Snot bubble trouble, gun bullets get womp-womped out
Brush your teeth, study your art, bait and master more
Put 'em on their ass like they got a dry pamper on
Tell Satan he's a liar and a dummy
I would do it but he run every time he smell me comin'
Mad 'cause God and beautiful babies love me
I make his favorite suit look bummy, black and comely
Yummy, wipe the jelly all across the tan tummy
They feel it even when they can't touch me, stunning
They say he nutty, buddy, they can't tell me nothing-othing
It's a heartrending work of staggering fun crushing
Scarface chains so Miami got drapes drawn
Halloween, egg yolk, mustard gassing their face off
Frankenstein at town square, the lady caught a seizure
He had the nerve to perm the whore they said made his weave from
Yuck, you suck, I don't
They know boogeyman, weathercam, sucker juice, stay home
Icy roads, school closed
Way out way raw, way warm, way cold
Yonders, yonders
Wanders