The Show

[Intro]

Five something in the morning going on six

It's daylight, sunrise time

Time to free yo'self, free your soul, free your mind

Ladies, free that ass, yeah

Coast to coast it's the most, we don't brag and boast

We just leave 'em comatose

It's your boy Talib Kweli

[Verse 1]

Yeah, flow is tight though I got a couple screws loose

It's cuckoo, my rep in this game is bigger than Bruce Bruce

Who you? Your name smaller than five grains of couscous

It's the highest caliber, your caliber is deuce deuce

Shoot, y'all niggas can't hang like a loose noose

I get on stage, niggas in my ear like a Bluetooth

And that's the triple truth Ruth, they lips is loose like

The Señor Love Daddy in the bulletproof booth, kuff

My rhymes is full of truth, and the business full of lies

Try to look a Masai kid in his eyes for the flies

And tell him how he fucked up our environment daily

The only thing we know about Africa is from Nas or Belly

But go off like a Hutu or Tutsi, from Rwanda or Burundi

Over drums like Babatunde Olatunji

Saying nigga just to keep our teeth white, like Paul Mooney

Fighting spiritual wars, like the Shi'ite or the Sunni

Yo, our music went from tap dance to the lapdance

Try to get me to sell out and that's a fat chance

You see black faces in my rap pages

Larry Davis, Angela Davis or Ossie Davis

[Chorus]

Yeah, welcome to the show, it's Talib Kweli, so amazing

Live from California it's the Madlib Invasion, let's go!

[Verse 2]

This exercise in freedom is called The Liberation

I keep it fly by a process of elimination

When it come to paying the kid, sometimes it's hesitation

Til I make 'em check it in like they got reservations

But there ain't no reservations about copping this

Even though it's free for the people there ain't no stopping this

Popping fresh, caking up, I'm breaking up the, monotonous flow

That can't write or plant life like a botanist grow

A new crop and just roll, it up, blow it out whoa

Excuse the cockiness though, I'm just showing out, no

You can't go without this, now what'chu know about that?

Now what'chu know about... now what'chu know about... {*to fade*}