Champion Requiem (Album Version|Edited)-Mos Def

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[00:00.00]Champion Requiem (Album Version|Edited) - Mos Def
[00:00.70]Bismillah ir Rhman ir Raheem
[00:02.44]Peace peace what's up y'all
[00:03.66]This is Mos Def
[00:04.68]And this is a message to the people
[00:06.65]If you see or hear goodness from me
[00:08.83]Then that goodness is from
[00:10.11]The Creator
[00:10.68]
[00:11.37]You should be thankful to
[00:12.23]The Creator for all of that
[00:13.72]'Cause I'm not the architect of that
[00:15.42]I'm only the the recipient
[00:17.90]
[00:18.62]If you see weakness or
[00:19.49]Shortcoming in me
[00:20.69]It's from my own weakness
[00:21.97]Or shortcoming
[00:23.24]And I ask The Creator and the
[00:24.43]People to forgive me for that
[00:25.81]Thank you Brooklyn Thank you World
[00:28.76]
[00:29.27]Yeah yeah there it is
[00:30.53]
[00:31.44]Turn my voice up in the top a little bit
[00:33.32]
[00:35.32]It feel good to be back
[00:36.52]
[00:37.14]What's up ochenta
[00:39.04]
[00:39.58]Yeah yeah ha
[00:42.00]
[00:43.28]It's the Black Dante
[00:44.13]In your headphones
[00:45.09]
[00:46.04]Speakerbox (freaky radio) freaky radio
[00:47.53](Everywhere on the dial) tell
[00:48.94]You a little bit about me
[00:50.16]
[00:50.85]For my hometown break down
[00:53.71]A little history for you
[00:55.69]Myrtle and Broadway Roosvelt projects
[00:57.82]Mossie projects
[00:58.64]Listen
[00:59.41]I stepped on the field from no
[01:00.99]League just home team
[01:02.11]I Jumped out the stands
[01:03.23]And I snatched the rock
[01:04.34]With the final seconds
[01:05.32]One to land on the clock
[01:06.68]Mos post up to throw up the
[01:08.44]Tie-breakin shot
[01:09.62]I put it through the net and let the
[01:11.06]World's jaw drop
[01:11.98]Then fled the arena before
[01:13.24]They called cops
[01:14.32]Tell the players and the coach
[01:15.43]I wasn't tryin' to blow spot
[01:16.86]But the way they was ballin'
[01:18.03]Made it difficult to watch
[01:19.30]I was taught when there's something'
[01:20.59]You can change around
[01:21.60]Keep quiet you got nothing' to
[01:23.01]Complain about
[01:23.33]
[01:24.09]You got work to do I don't know
[01:25.89]If that work for you
[01:27.09]But that's how Mos work it through
[01:29.07]And my work is personal
[01:30.79]I'm a workin' person
[01:32.01]I put in work I work with purpose
[01:34.21]I get it there on the water
[01:35.48]Air the surface
[01:36.33]You feel the impact
[01:37.52]Niggaz yeah it's workin'
[01:38.78]Listen God did not make
[01:39.95]Me a fearful person
[01:41.12]The only fear I have Is my
[01:42.90]Failure to adhear his path
[01:44.28]I would love it just to hear this back
[01:46.07]On the ghetto streets where y'all at
[01:48.00]On the ave's where the Jeep's go past
[01:49.75]In the coupes where the seats go back
[01:51.73]In the parties where it be so packed
[01:53.57]And the atmosphere be so black
[01:55.31]And them black thinggs be so phat
[01:57.19]If I could I would be so glad
[01:59.15]But if not I won't be so mad
[02:00.96]I'm still being a man still feeding my fam'
[02:03.05]And even if you don't see it my fam
[02:05.21]I believe that I am truly gifted
[02:06.97]
[02:07.57]Truly blessed
[02:08.81]I'm yours truly Brooklyn's own
[02:10.25]Mos Def
[02:10.98]I'm rockin the hard right ground
[02:12.29]Zero to far left
[02:13.25]I'm well balanced with immense talents
[02:15.99]Burn the script then flip it to
[02:17.43]Keep myself challanged
[02:17.89]
[02:18.49]And that's the mark of a true champ-ine
[02:20.69]That's whether I'm in or outside the ring
[02:23.16]No fights no tilte no crown or reign
[02:25.44]Feel my presence even when
[02:26.55]I'm up out this thingg
[02:27.93]Just trust that's what I'm about to be
[02:30.40]But until then settle in and rock with me
[02:32.93]Ha that's what its about to be
[02:35.75]Ghetto people look alive with me
[02:37.91]And say We 'gon stop by
[02:40.43]Then we just keep movin on
[02:42.79]Ghetto people look alive and
[02:45.07]Feel free we just keep movin on
[02:47.71]For Alliah Left Eye Jam Master Jay
[02:50.32]All the great hero's who have passed away
[02:52.76]Scott Laraque Big & Pac
[02:55.22]Feaky Tai Big L
[02:57.77]All the soldiers locked down in the cell
[03:00.17]Lock up the flesh
[03:01.27]But the spirit will prevail
[03:02.22]
[03:02.76]To our loved ones and deceased
[03:04.97]Dyin''' in the street or quiet in their sleep
[03:07.66]
[03:08.80](B I G )
[03:09.36]Rest in peace your livin in the mansions
[03:11.13]Of our memory Sans Marie
[03:14.19]Rest in peace your livin in the
[03:15.67]Mansions of our memory
[03:17.29]And that's real
[03:18.00]
[03:19.23]'Cause everything in life 'gon
[03:21.20]Come to an end
[03:22.50]
[03:24.21]Because it must and when it does
[03:28.30]I hope that y'all remember me
[03:30.92]With true respect
[03:32.56]
[03:33.68]And ghetto love
[03:36.10]Now raise it up
[03:38.59]'Cause everything in life 'gon
[03:40.82]Come to an end
[03:42.65]
[03:43.82]Because it must and when it does
[03:48.16]I hope that y'all remember me
[03:50.42]
[03:50.98]Black Dante from Myrtle and Broadway
[03:54.02]
[03:55.25]Yeah yeah y'all
[03:56.37]
[04:00.69]Let me hear it back
[04:01.70]
[04:22.66]Freaky radio (freaky radio) ha
[04:26.09]
[04:41.76]Freaky radio (freaky radio)
[04:43.30]
[04:44.53]Everywhere on the dial