Tribute

[Verse 1: Yasiin Bey]

This is for my favorite band of human beings

The faithful, the graceful, the tragic and the classic

The evidence of things unseen, the book of life

The mansions of the moon, the bones of Firaun

Recently discovered and everything but new

The doubter's doubts about it never made it untrue

Life the gift, peace after pressure

Can't remember how you came or win a bet on how you'll еxit

From the start, the only thing certain is thе end

Promised to all and none know not when

Heartbreak from yesterday, and fret for tomorrow

I leave you now filled with anxiety and hollow

If you pray don't worry, if you worry don't pray

My Umi told it to me just the other day

From the tall castle walls to the mean teeth streets

I hope you get what you want

And that you want what you need

Ameen

Life is beautiful

Even when the world is wack

So much beauty, we forget to be reminded

That you can be anywhere and find it

Try it

I promise I'm not lying

Try it

And if you don't see in your environment

Then take a look insides it, try it

Try it

You can be anywhere and find it

I promise I'm not lying

Try it

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

Riders at the storm

Wise enough to warn the people about the evil that be going on

Way before the money gone

Money is the root of, huh, you know the rest

Will later love of it

Got you investin' in your death

I stay tourin' 'cause I'm live in the flesh

They make computer music

They tried to make a copy of me the computer blew in

They raised in the age of the enlightenment

But little did they know that they was slaves to they environment

The Dogon tribe of the stars without telescopes

When you have no god you start sellin' folks

I tried tellin' folks they attitude was bellicose

There's so much more in life to rap about than sellin' coke

You could tell that it's dope  because I'm squad official

They irrelevant cause they intelligent it's artificial

The scar tissue on my face tell the folklore

We launch missiles into space to fight the cold war

Star light, star bright, get the ark right

Cut my story on the screen at the ark light

Stand clear of the beasts and the troglodytes

Tryin' to start a fight like Della Reese in Harlem Nights

We got the floater culture vultures tryin' to copyright

But they copy wrong... we are not alike

Life is beautiful

Even when the world is wack

So much beauty, we forget to be reminded

That you can be anywhere and find it

Try it

I promise I'm not lying

Try it

And if you don't see in your environment

Then take a look insides it, try it

Try it

You can be anywhere and find it

I promise I'm not lying

Try it