Talib Kweli Follow

Sonia Sanchez:
I don't remember the first time I heard Kweli
I don't remember what I was doing
There were no remembered witnesses to my doings
But it seems like I've known him forever
He who has moved through mornings and midnights
Through deaths and dawns
To document
Our bones - Our blood - Our lives
Listen, listen to his exactnings
Strumming myths from clouds
Listen, listen a man always punctual with his mouth
Listen to his revolution of syllables
Scooping lightning from his pores
Keeping time with his hurricane beat
Ask us to pick ourselves up
And become
Thunder

Talib Kweli:
They say you can't please everybody
Let's go - Yeah - Eh Dave you know what that sound like?
Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat
On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat
Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat
On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat

Yo, what becomes of a dream deferred
That never makes it to the world
To be seen or heard? Do it breave?
Do it got a heartbeat? Is it alive?
Do it leave? Only to become a star in the sky
I believe - Scratch that I know
This ain't my full potential
Only using 10 percent of my mental on instrumentals
But incidentaly
My energy heavenly
Can he be so ill
There ain't no pill or no remedy
The maker of memories
Possess the recipe to your fate
Make no mistake there ain't no escapin ya destiny
Especially when
Til death do us part
Like wedding rings
I'll be here forever put that on everything

Your Everything Man
Your Everything Man

Your Alpha & your Omega
Your beginning & your end
Your father, your brother
Ya lover, ya friend
The blood in the vein
That gets spilled and run thru the drain
That's right my flow one and the same
The joy and the pain
My name
Burner that destroy
The toy and the train
All city all night I'm enjoyin the fame
I'm a hustler, I'm a gangster
And a rebel with the rank of a general
In the battle between God and the devil
I lay claim to ya spirit - your religion - your belief system
I do your hittin your catchin and your relief pitchin
This kid proficient in every position
The man of your dreams and your nightmares
Commandin ya vision too
It's quite clear like light beer
Yeah I'm standing right here
I get you hot but stay cooler then the night air
I try to fit it in the same rhyme
But realize I can't be everything
To everyone
At the same time

Your Everything Man
Your Everything Man

Assorted:
The first time I heard em when I was in Japan
Seem like the 1st time I heard em was like on Reflection Eternal
Like when Kanye came out that's when I started listening, yeah, I hate to say that but
New York native, and a serious Talib fan
I came all the way from Puerto Rico just to see Talib Kweli
Him, Mos Def, all them. I need them out here in my life

Sonia Sanchez:
It's a rainy morning in New York City.