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It's Talib Kweli in the place to be BrooklynMost definitely yaknowhatImsayin', Mount VernonAnd Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, the brothers who brought yaEscapism, Return Of The Mecca, Straighten It Out, The CreatorsYeah, right about now, we about to make historyThe track make you nod like smack through the needleNiggaz don't sell crack is they evilAmerica's build on the backs of my peopleCats say they packin' the heat but they actin' like Chino'Cause when it's time to bounce it back they fall back in the field thoughI went from crashin' the beat in the passenger seatDrivin' like many straight trees don't even mix coke with the HenneyFlow with so many styles ladies open all night like Denis24 hours party people soakin' in the Remy and Cris'The video is directed by Benny and ChrisTreat a pager like a website with plenty of hitsI tell 'em this, you gotta be at least a dime for a piece of mindI deal with porters and keys just like the leachious mindI like mature girls just now reachin' they primeKnow how to conversate to the man and don't eat no swineIf you ready to roll than we can rock shitMy niggaz so cold we hotSongtextePete Rock, murderville keep the joint on smashSee the don come through enough bray that cashTalib Kweli, he can speak to the massWhy the great minds think alike 'cause we keepin' it flySee we keepin' it fly till the day I die and you can't denySon we keepin' it fly, how we keepin' this flyBetter master your eye, 'cause we keepin' it flyBring it back to lifePsychedelic we sell it and niggaz jealous fellowsGo get your hate up get your weight up, I'm tellin' you straight upYou need to turn that frown upside down you use less musclesThe smile is easier than it sound, it's trueLookin' all crooked, I be tellin' these dudesThey should Straighten It Out on a Pete Rock track like C.L. SmoothSee we livin' in the Matrix way before the movieKids fiend before the camera screaming, just shoot meNow they scream a million miles away from the sunBut you still feel the heat when we packed us the way of the gunLike tape digs, raise kids to escape the slave shipsInstead they wanna pump weights not the stateBetter exercise take from work the rest get left insideAnd whips chicks and kicks money we specializeI be the respirator so hip hop is kept aliveSo many niggaz buggin' me, I need a fuckin' pesticidePete Rock, murderville keep the joint on smashSee the don come through enough bray that cashTalib Kweli, he can speak to the massWhy the great minds think alike 'cause we keepin' it flySee we keepin' it fly till the day I die and you can't denySon we keepin' it fly, how we keepin' this flyBetter master your eye, 'cause we keepin' it flyBring it back to lifeYou put light back to life 'cause these rappers ain't actin' rightThinkin' they cut like Mack the knife, rap the fightBattle right through the afterlife'Cause when you die make you look way past the lifeAnd high sight, I drop the type of rhyme to give the blind sightSparkle a shine bright like lemon lime, sprite up in the limelightYeah as we still at the track, you feel it when the chorus tackYou deal it twist a cap back with a skillet, official would kill it'This is fake the way we sill it as the great Pete Rock and KweliGot Pete to make you chicks knees knock to Pete Rock my lifeIt's the soundtrack other niggaz sound wackLike white kids tryin' to sound blackI spit on mics wet up the essence where L drowned atThis Guerrilla Monsoon Rap first comb rapSoon rap come through a crossroads and all these lost soulsWill stand out with stress signals like morse codePete Rock, murderville keep the joint on smashSee the don come through enough bray that cashTalib Kweli, he can speak to the massWhy the great minds think alike 'cause we keepin' it flySee we keepin' it fly till the day I die and you can't denySon we keepin' it fly, how we keepin' this flyBetter master your eye, 'cause we keepin' it flyBring it back to life Aus Songtexte Mania