Blackstar - What's Beef Lyrics

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(talib kwali):

Yo i was sold to a sick european by a rich african battle-man

Middle passages i can't go back again.

Battlin' years who denied history's lies

While mystery's wive's watching with misty eyes

Watching they niggas be beaten visciously

Battling this world is north america

Ran by the river only stopping to pray.

Change my predators:

Terrorists with ediquiette who vote and kill they president

Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent.

Ain't no hesitation involved a nation dissolved

While we sit back waitin' to evolve.

Those who'd trade they freedom for protection deserve neither.

Fuck a name fuck tradition religion you learn jesus.

Turn the other cheek inherit the earth just stay meek.

Fuck the way you speak you try to walk they chop off your feet.

Fast forward to 2003; niggas beef.

The psychology of choosin the slaves run deep.

Chorus:

Hell yeah yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

What's beef?

Hell yeah yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

That's beef

Hell yeah yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Its always your own people sometimes it's your own people

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(mos def):

Yo beef is not what jay said to nas

Beef is when working niggas can't find jobs.

So they try to find niggas to rob

Try to find bigger guns so they can finish the job.

Beef is when a crack-kid can't find moms

Cause they in a pine box or locked behind bars.

Beef ain't the summer jam on hot ninety-seven.

Beef is the cocaine and aids epidemics.

Beef don't come with a radio edit.

Beef is when the judge's callin you defendant.

Beef it come with a long jail sentence

Handed down to you in a few short minutes.

Beef is when your girl come through for a visit

Talkin bout her pregnant by some other nigga.

Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit;

Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to get it.

And all your little kids is doin' is gettin bigger

You try to not raise them around the wild niggas.

Beef is when a gold-digger got your seed in her

A manicured hand out like "pay me nigga

Or i'm tellin your wife

And startin up some foul rumors that'll ruin your life."

Beef is when a gangster ain't doing it right

And other gangsters then decide to do with his life.

Beef is not what these famous niggas would do in the mic

Beef is what george bush would do in a fight. (that's right)

Beef is not what ja said to fifty.

Beef is world and earth(?) not being here with me.

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun

Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son.

Beef is oil prices and geopolitics;

Beef is iraq the west bank and gaza strip.

Some beef is big and some beef is small

But what y'all call beef is no beef at all.

Beef is real life happenin every day

And its real-er than the songs that you gave to k-slay.

This has been a black star p.s.a.

From mos def pretty(?) placo black dante

From the black star embassy b to the k!

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