HICKORY

[Hook]

Oh my god what the fuck oh my god it's all love

Sometimes we do it for the kids other times we gotta do it for us

Somebody always wanna tell you you ain't doing enough

But if you listen to everybody you'll be looking all crazy and fucked up

[Verse 1: KOOL A.D.]

Every one is stupid, every one is dumb

Shout out to the moon, shout out to the sun

Peace to the ocean and shit. Pacific, specifically

But it's all the same ocean literally

Dog I'm greased up haters can't stick to me

Rollin' even if you can't picture me

Sticky green leaves, pussy smell victory

See me sittin' on the dock—hickory

Never really fuck with fuckery or dickery

Shout to Amaze 88

My grace slicker than Jefferson's Airplane, Starship, whatever mane

Stick with what's in front of me until I see a better plan

See me on Conan, next time Letterman

If not like I said "whatever man"

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[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

Hickory dickory dock

These haters want my victory stopped

Wish you would flock

These hits they consider me pop

My rapport with the fans more complicated than a mystery plot

My future brighter than your sisters reebok's

From uptown make you duck down like KRS used to

Fuck it duck down like Dru-Ha

Crush wild cuz you softer than a loofa

Black plus a watch still a rock thats a trutha

Reconzie the real homie you don't look too familiar

My familia we be hanging like mothafuckin Mr.Cooper

Never the ku klux

Niggas is important like a black man with a new tux

Cuz they sellin out for a few bux

Got this shit backwards like one girl two cups

When it comes to these rhymes who do you trust?

Im here forever fuck a buzzer, I ain't a crew cut

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[Verse 3: Boots Riley]

Full cup pasificts, drank tenacity

Hustle till the sundance not Butch Cassidy

I am a revolver semi-automactically

Yelling "fuck the police" quiet emphatically

Light the flames of the gasoline dreams

In flicker of the fire is power never seen

There's a hope for better dreams

Selling coke from Medellín

Tagging names on the wall and I hope each letter sings

I write with lead pipes and hammers

Words are my weapons and I better not stammer

Proving this is science and action is better

Shut down the city you can beat it like a banner

Campaigns reversed by champagne and cursive

Got pain in our purses, bartenders and nurses

You motherfuckers nervous when we put them out of service

Call security with curses cuz we taking what our worth is

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