What’s Real

[Chorus: Talib Kweli]

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

I'mma start this story, my influence so enormous

Got that shit you love to sing along with like every line is the chorus

I'm born in Brooklyn like Biggie, I'm born in Brooklyn like Jordan

I'm born in Brooklyn like Tyson, you don't live this, you just a tourist

We ride or die for them corners, fuck your private life they spy on us

When they catch us man it's like practice for the new tactics that they try on us

Them cops are lining them coffers, why we get shot we lying in coffins

They want my demise cause when I arrive they stop for lines so often

Nigga just stop, you might as well forfeit, we like Shia LaBeouf so lawless

Still recognize real, real recognize real like the car I'm driving you foreign

My diamond cut so flawless, no not jewels, I'm talking 'bout songs, bitch

So if they after me like I'm Lauryn, I just tell the feds that I'm Moorish

We walking, all the girls is talking

Generally they butt fucking naked just like the Book of Mormon

We see the trees for them forest, my name ring them bells like a doorman

Y'all niggas game is so corny, that's why you grill them hoes just like Foreman, boring

[Chorus: Talib Kweli & Res]

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

Paper chasing we on that grind, reputation on the line

Crazy, borderline - pay me, on time

Crazy, borderline - pay me, on time

Crazy, borderline - pay me, on time

Explore and discover what most fear, I will never wait till the brush clear

Swear I will never get stuck here, America, fuck yeah

Measure my career in dog years, my passport got them dog ears

I set sail, travelling the world like Jesus was doing in his lost years

I might give you the pill like Morpheus, I'm like the P.E. logo in the cross hairs

Standing out cause there's nothing but whores here, pimps rock crocodile like false tears

Bring it on through your force field, I'll be giving you nothing but the raw deal

What I say on display is the purest skill, I'll be giving y'all niggas what's more real

What's more real, what's more real? I got chicks fighting like floor sales

You gossiping bloggers all fail, like at the yardstick measuring your tall tales

And you on all fours you small scale, all in between the legs like a dog's tail

You are what you eat, you don't want no beef, you completely vegan like all kale

[Chorus: Talib Kweli & Res]

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

What's real? Do you know?

What's real? Let me show ya

[Outro harmonies: Res]