Talib Kweli
"The Blast (Remix)"

[Erykah Badu/background vocals]
(Talib Kweli)
Yo
Ah ah ahhh.
What's the matter with these damn
emcees [Kweli] (I don't know)
Come on baby if you feeling me
[Kweli] (yea)
Sit down with me, roll yourself a tree
(uh)
Now what the hell is going on in the
industry [Kweli] (I don't know)
Now don't the people want to feel
the beat [Kweli] (hell yea)
We talk about it every time we meet
[Kweli] (yea we do)
Would anybody like a cup of tea
(rock on, on on on)
Ba ba ba badum Badu

[Talib Kweli] (Erykah
Badu/background vocals)
It's the BK emcee (Kweli)
My rhymes is found in the veins of
ghetto folks who surrounded with
pain
Going to clubs drowned in the liquor
that's surrounding they brains
Want to be thugs on every record
got them sounding the same (hell
yea)
Ever since I first came to put it down
in this game
These people can't quite get there
tongues around my name
It's all for the good I'm still the same
with or with out the fame
But I'm saying the way you got my
shit pronounced, it's a shame
(umm umm umm) The first part is
Arabic (Talib)
That means the student or the
seeker
I never try to be no teacher or no
preacher
I just reach you through the speaker
Never beat you in the head
Cause all that preaching to the choir,
yo it's dead, word (umm uhh uhh)
Then you got (Kweli), let me put you
on
It means truth and knowledge from
the people of the Akan
Reaching you through the song, got
you rocking to the beat
Asking for Hi-Tek tracks, stopping me
in the streets (uhh uhh come on)

[Talib Kweli] (Erykah
Badu/background vocals)
Every body say it with me (Kweli)
Rock the party, my crew hot feel
these two shots
Like the blast from a double barrel
(shottie)
It's got to be my man HiTek and
Kweli
Who make your (body), start the
party
My crew hot, feel these two shots
Like the blast of a double barrel
(shottie)
It's got to be I got Badu rocking with
me (Kweli)

[Erykah Badu/background vocals]
(Talib Kweli)
What's the matter with these damn
emcees [Kweli] (I don't know)
Come on baby if you feeling me
[Kweli] (yea)
Sit down with me brought your self a
treat (uh)
Now what the hell is going on in the
industry [Kweli] (I don't know)
Now don't the people want to feel
the beat [Kweli] (hell yea)
We talk about it every time we meet
[Kweli] (yea we do)
Would anybody like a cup of tea
(rock on, on on on.)
Ba ba ba baa badu

[Talib Kweli] (Erykah
Badu/background vocals)
Yea you pronounce her name Badu
(Badu), love it you got to
Some try to hard to be some try to
hard not to
Be just who they is, what that
means that they not true [uhh uhh]
A sister put it down, let me show you
how I do (duu ehh uu ohh)
Chill oc cause we still drop the ill hip
hop
We stay true to what we do whether
you feel it or not
When you see me rhyming or
painting [uhh uhh]
I'm climbing I'm praying, I'm rising I'm
surviving
I'm staying alive, y'all know what I'm
saying
I come from a place where cats lust
papes (Kweli) [umm uhh]
Love hate, be in the clubs late [yea]
All our beliefs crush grape (come on)
Steady rhymes takes bust ish
straight
Upstate we puff grate and stay with
the sticky like duct tape
Always pushing my self and steady
knowing the ledge
Black man over 21 supposed to be
dead (ohh uu)
Open instead cause I looked up in
the face and laughed [uhh]
Give it a name money I'm having a
blast (umm um ohh oo)
Ain't that right

[Talib Kweli] (Erykah
Badu/background vocals)
Every body say it with me (Kweli)
Start the party, my crew hot feel
these two shots
Like the blast of a double barrel
(shottie)
It's got to be my man HiTek and
Kweli
Who make you rock your body, start
the party
My crew hot, feel these two shots
(hey)
Like the blast of a double barrel
(shottie)
It's got to be I got Badu rocking with
me (Kweli)

[Erykah Badu/background vocals]
(Talib Kweli)
What's the matter with these damn
emcees [Kweli] (I don't know)
Come on baby if you feeling me
[Kweli] (yea)
Sit down with me brought your self a
treat (uh)
Now what the hell is going on in the
industry [Kweli] (I don't know)
Now don't the people want to feel
the beat [Kweli] (hell yea)
We talk about it every time we meet
[Kweli] (yea we do)
Would anybody like a cup of tea
(rock on, on on on.)
Ba ba ba baa badu

Rock wit us uhh -Kweli
{repeats}

every body say it with me -Kweli
Rock the party, my crew hot feel
these two shots
like the blast of a double barrel -
shotie
Its got to be my man HiTek and -
Kweli
{fades out}