In The Red

[Talib Kweli] Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Here we go, are you recording? Aiyyo Tone are you uh uh on? Let it bump, they love it in the red Reflection Eternal, that other shit is dead Yes, let me know if you alive Put your hands in the air, let me know if, bring it live Hey! C'mon, hey! I love music Music is the river, we floating, we get to live it Like the souls of those swept away crossing the Mississippi Honorary spokesman, my focus is so scary Vocalist for the hopeless, I'm championing my city Cracks in the levee, we catching the last ferry Apply this application that's crashing your BlackBerry "Rock Steady" like Aretha, it's got heavy What's that about cat and mouse, Tom and Jerry? Commissary get commissioned, the prison no sanctuary For the locked up, every relationship adversary Ain't no replacement, so make a statement before you buried We very legendary already, no need to worry Pay attention to the music, led your hazard to bury Mixed for transistor radio speakers, Marvin married His daughter in sort of a quest for a father figure Adding E to the end of his name, you got the picture yet? The little Stevie Wonder was killing 'em at the shows Best songwriter since Smokey and Quincy Jones Gill Scott and Last Poets turned they poems into song Everybody know that my favorite Nina Simone Rest in peace Michael Jackson, I think I need a "shamon" Paid attention to his lyrics, he wished we leave him alone {"Leave me aloooone"} Huh, Leave him alone Huh, leave him alone James Brown and Michael Jackson was working until they gone On tour just so they could make payments on they homes Everybody cried when Usher sang him a song Joe Jackson was promoting his label, he know he wrong Shame how our heroes are broke, we call 'em stars That's because when they falling to Earth, they falling hard Everybody balling hard but they sound wack If you in the resistance then this your soundtrack Let it bump, they love it in the red Reflection Eternal, that other shit is dead Yes, let me know if you alive Put your hands in the air, let me know if you alive