Stay Around

And I know you on your grind
Keep it dirty like pigpen, voice in the warrior's head

I grew through the pavement

And let my love, let my love and let my love
I don't want to waste your time

I don't want to waste your time
Won't you stay around with me?
You should rap more on beat, you should rap more street
Still find a way to innovate
'Cause these rappers think that
At some point I might retire, on some bullshit
And I know you on your grind

That's the spectrum of colors I paint with
I'm in the street with the workers
Giving them heat stroke, hotter than rocking a P cote

It sounds like it's forced, and what was up with 'Back up offa me'?
And I know you on your grind
I'm in love with your state of mind
Like the flower the girl drew in the paper

And please say the rhyme
It ain't nothing to play with, it's sacred
Just because you be having a dragon don't mean you got the fire
Too many new words to be learned
Probably unite, I know you getting some love
'Cause these rappers think that
'Cause you a favorite of mine
And we never let the system prevail real picturesque, missing the sale

Back in the days like reminiscing with Pete yo
Speaking the words from a pulpit

Pete Rock got 'em feeling great, the ladies say
Never that, it's forbidden like the candy sisters lifting the veil
I had to emancipate me-me like Mariah
My legacy, horseshit like Mariah's
I like that, I like that

Any more suggestions? You in the back, yeah you
Like the heat from oven boiling the water and the hate
Keeping the verses, deleting the curses
Ladies and Gentleman, it's Talib Kweli
I don't want to waste your time
Ladies welcome to the Kweli show, she goes
So they light my fire
'Cause these rappers think that
Truth, love, joy, anger, hatred and anguish
Blacksmith is the movement
And they ain't even really gotta hear me out
But baby, won't you stay around with me?
Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady gang

Clocking like Big Ben, old school slang
I'm still leading the pack, these cats lacking
Illest flow found in the game

Defeating the purpose when the people go on strike
And please say the rhyme

I ain't like that, man you should get with Hi-Tek
Now he got nice tracks, them other dudes is type wack
The sky bluer and the [Incomprehensible] save you
Man got me stressed out losing my patience
I'm in love with your state of mind
Listen the conditions in my slum village is tainted
I'm spitting fire giving third degree burns
Won't you stay around with me?
Soothing like the sound of the rain
I like the way you're melodic it's 'cause you capture hypnotic
And you a blow, you make a hit for the club, word
Now Kweli, you should rap about this, you should rap about that
We got the incredible Pete Rock on the track like
Yeah, people keeping it coming, I keep it bubbling
Like the preachers at churches
And let my love, let my love and let my love
But you can't spit like a thug
Holding me down as always and as usual
But baby, won't you stay around with me?
Information never lost in translation
'Cause you a favorite of mine
B-b-banging on your ear drum
And please say the rhyme
And never ever get your mack on please, how bout you?
Won't you stay around with me?
I don't feast at the banquet
I want to give an extra big shout to my man Dave Dart
And let my love, let my love and let my love

'Cause you a favorite of mine
Like [Incomprehensible]

Portraits and seem to make the average exotic
The rules of engagement that they use, attitudes of a slave
He's now down with Blacksmith
I don't like your voice, I don't like your choice of beats
My pen is the paintbrush and dipping in paint plus
And his new born son, Cannon, brand new to the world
Raise my hand, all the teachers get nervous
It's the dude profound with the fame
'Cause freedom is the set that I bang with
Light the tip of the L, this heavyweight rap tipping the scale
I'm in love with your state of mind

I refusing to be sounding the same
Yeah, this Ear Drum y'all

The moves that I'm making across waters
[Incomprehensible], all these rappers super like me so, we go
Through contraband that I'm taking across borders
I got a mic empire, my own label

But baby, won't you stay around with me?
'Cause they know I air 'em out