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TALIB KWELI lyrics : "Right About Now"

[Intro]
Yeah, this that new Kweli
I'ma give it to you before the bootleggers get hold of

it
You know what I'm sayin'?
I figure I put it out first, make some money wit' it

Why not, right?
Okay, 1-2


[Verse]
Yo I'm Brooklyn like the '90s
Brownsville and Bushel keep it grimey

When I'm from flatbush that's where you'll find me
In Brooklyn, Tek wit' Justin and Sadat
And Free and Sid from ???

Always catch me wit' Juju and Rubiks, we was truant kids
Dollar band nooseses
Jump bell, run, and never look back

Mr. Man kept the hammer in his bookbag
Rubiks introduced me to Black and Forte
DJ Enuff on Avenue K I go back a long way

Wit' Super Nat in Washington Square freestylin' everyday
Peformin' at Lyricists' Lounge who ate off Jean Grae
$#&@in' wit' Mood is how I met Hi-Tek

Black Star came in effect when Elijah gave my tape to Mos Def
Reflection Eternal was next on deck
My crew the best and we proved it

We knew our music was the Vanguard of a movement
Every Rawkus release was bangin', they on the come up
They was like $#&@ the radio 'til Pharoahe said "Get the $#&@ up"

Flex listened, jabbin' at Bryant
The next position was right about now we need the
radio hit written

While I hit the road
On tour to support the records since the day it was sold
Corey had me followin' the example of De La Soul

Common and The Roots to me these the sickest ^!$$%z
Get my figures wit' the Okayplayers and the Spitkickers
Rawkus got a deal with MCA, this the gray area

But let it stir for Music Cemetery of America
They tried to fool you by switchin' the name to Geffen
Now they Interscope's (*##$ and every artist who had a chance left 'em

Ain't no big surprise, wasn't no love there
Jimmy Iovine never signed me, I just kinda ended up there
But $#&@ that, literally it was my way or the highway

Hit the road with the Beastie Boys and toured Europe with Kanye
Gotta thank 'em for the love on the album
I knew out on "Electric Circus"

He'd get it by any means necessary like Malcolm
I dropped a single, shot a video, took control of my situation
Got a label poppin', it's a celebration ((*##$es)

Yo boy Free I had to get out
I put you on, that's where I'm at right about now


[Hook]
And if you're sayin' it's my time, you right about now
This what's goin' through my mind right about now

Hey yo, hey yo, it's time to write about now
And if you lookin' you can find it right about now
I put you on, that's where I'm at right about now

This what's goin' through my mind right about now
Yo, hey yo, it's time to write about now
And if you lookin' you can find it right about now


[Outro: Dave Chappelle {DJ cutting}]
That's right (*##$es, Talib Kweli

One of the baddest mother$#&@ers you've ever seen
That's right (*##$es, Talib Kweli
You're now rockin' with the best! I said it

The best! The best!
That's right (*##$es
You're now rockin' with the best! The best!

Talib Kweli
Where's-Where's my snares? Talib Kweli
Where's-Where's my snares?

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