Black Star - Definition Lyrics

Drop the new ish!!!!!!!!!!!

I come back to this song all the time through my entire entire life since I heard them around 16 or so. That's 21ish years! Never gets bad!

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WHEN MUSIC WAS THE $#!+..STILL🔥🔥🔥IN 2019

Wow.. whoever gve thumbs down.blind deaf and dumb.NO KNOWLEDGE OF SELF...PEACE GOD

You might have to be a real hip hop head to get this s---! Some s--- stays dope forever!

Since the last millennium he reigns a supreme MC. Mos Def’s cypher is prophetic in nature.

Lyrical overflow

What sample is this

Lawd, lawd have mercy
All nice and peace and true, follow me now, we say
Say Hi-Tek yes you're ruling hip-hop
Say J. Rawls yes you're ruling hip-hop
Redefinition say you're ruling hip-hop
Say Black Star come to rock it non...
Yo, from the first to the last of it, delivery is passionate
The whole and not the half of it, vocab and not the math of it
Projectile that them blasted with, accurate assassin shit
Me and Kweli close like, Bethlehem and Nazareth
After this you be pressing rewind on top your master disk
Shining like an asterisk for all those that be gatherin
Connectin like a roundhouse from the townhouse to the tenements
Cause all my Brooklyn residents, heavy regiments
Don't believe, here the evidence, where Brooklyn WHOA
See that? Bound to take it all kid, believe that
From where they sellin tree at, to where the police be at
Talib Kweli e-Kweli-ty yo tell them where we be at
Brooklyn New York City where they paint murals of Biggie
In cash we trust cause it's ghetto fabulous, life look pretty
What a pity - blunts is still fifty cents, it's intense
Tree scents is dominant can't be covered with incense
My presence felt my name is Kweli from the Eternal Reflection
People thinkin MC is short hand for Mis Conception
Let me meditate, set it straight, came to the conclusion
That most of these cats is featherweight, let me demonstrate
Walkin the streets is like battlin, be careful with your body
You must know karate or think your soul is bulletproof like Sade
Stop actin like a bitch already, be a visionary
And maybe you can see your name in the column of obituary
Third rate teacher readin and talkin about,
"I knew he'd amount to nothin"
Neighbors like, "He was the quiet type,
Who'd have thought they was frontin?"
Talkin Loud like you in RCA, get carted away
with body parts and treys, what a way to start your day
Yo it's like
One two three
Mos Def and Talib Kweli
We came to rock it on to the tip-top
Best alliance in hip-hop, yeah
I said one two three
It's kind of dangerous to be a emcee
They shot Tupac and Biggie
Too much violence in hip-hop, yeah
I said Manhattan keep on makin it (Bo!), Brooklyn keep on takin it (Bo!)
So relax we're takin it back, Redhook where we're livin at
Plenty cats be strugglin not hustlin and bubblin
It ain't about production and - what else we discussin?
When the cock crows, my crop grows, enable me to rock flows
Strivin for perfection ever since I was a snot-nosed
COLOSSAL, true original B-boy apostle
Standin on the rooftop with the, Zulu gestapo
You think you the shit
Somebody in the wings'll force you to quit
It could be your crew or click
Or some random kid you smoked Buddha with
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history
Of spittin the epitome, of stupidity - livin my life
Expressin my liberty, it gotta be done properly
My name is in the middle of e-Kweli-ty
People follow me and other cats they hear him flow
And assume I'm the real one with lyrics like I'm Cyrano
Still sippin wishin well water, imported, from Pluto
Three hundred and sixty millilitres for all our believers
In miles or kilometers, most cats, cannot proceed us
In the jungle with the leaders we the lions you the cheaters
A cypher, will complete us if we come through your receivers
You can play us and repeat us and then take us home and read us
(Line for line) Good Jesus, Mos Def and Kweli just
Make a pussy freeze up, thinkin we will ease

Yo if u play it on 1.25x is sounds better

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd!* ;)

Never get tired of hearing this track.

That makes 2 of us sun!

Definition By Rapp Group BlackStar And High Definition By Rapp Artist Rick Ross Peep Game

Nothing beats Krs 1 The P Is Free orginal always sounds better

Canadian s notice an abortion free southern state, middle America is ISIS

The white Sox are going to the white house, shame. No team there

Two conversation s

"all nice and decent crew"

"You think you the shit? Somebody in the wings will force you to quit... it could be your crew or clique... or some random kid you smoke buddah wit"

Real shit

Classic

Indeed this is REAL HIP HOP! Nothin else like this album.

One of the best songs in music history. Just an amazing song. There both rapping on beat there flow is on fire

They most definitely did justice to BDP's 'The P is Free Remix'. Never heard another group re-do a track like them.

Young g'z this flow

Pure Hip Hop

Loooooooordd have mercy

underrated, under appreciated.

long overdue...these guys sound amazing together....the Black Star album was a classic headbanger...with heat and introspective lyrics...

One of the best songs in hip hop history period...imo....best duo since Outkast ATLiens..with dre and big boi

Mos def.......sick .....still sipping imported water from Pluto......yo!!!!

They should have never broke up.

Mos Def is MIA and Talib has been reduced to an angry twitter troll who does nothing but argue with folks all day.

Mos is a accomplished actor though 🤔

Funny shit I trolled TalibKweli before. That nigga was replying to everything lmmfaoooooo. He went off for three days and ended up reporting my account. #TRUESTORY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I miss this type of brilliance.

who is better mos def or talib kweli

Mos.....definitely!! Lol

This starts my weekend

I can say I'm happy I grew up in the 80's. Surfing through all these great music

True HIP HOP

Still some of the dopest shit laid down

rip. title too shitty to find on spotify. Good song but useless if you can't get it on spotify

Have found it on spotify, make sure your putting a gap between black and star i.e. Black star

yeah found it i'm retarded and was wasted

Damn I miss REAL MUSIC

CLASSIC!!!! 👍👍👍👍

hoo caught dat pokemon ting a like 0:37 wat

No joke this is one hell of album!!

Love Kweli but Mos is just stupid. Miss this era of hip hop

When the cock crows my crop grows
Enable me to rock flows
Travel for perfection ever since I was a snot nose

They performed in puerto rico just a few days ago both tali and mos. Bless em!

Still and always fire right here 🤓💃🤓

Thay dont make albums like this no more..used to bang this when tbe 6ers made the run to the championship..ohh the memories...

yellowman zungazungazunga zeng

Poetry Pt 2 (BDP)

Skip Harv The p is free remix shun

Skip Harv https://youtu.be/3HwWwVT3B5U

Nicky Krystals I was calling this song Poetry PART 2 because the flow is more so like Poetry than The P Is Free (Remix)

Skip Harv word! Don't know wtf happened to HIP-HOP smh shits sad nowadays

I go nuts when the redefinition comes on right after this!

Hip hop will never be the way we remembered it, kids these days don't know hip hop, big up to the days of way back

Real ones are the only ones that kno bout this shit.

2:46 - 3:07 // the flow is ridiculous

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Everyone in these comments is an idiot there is no one saying "skrt" every 5 seconds so this song is trash.

bars...

the epitome of stupidity

lovely.....❤

real tubed sound is the reason I bought this amp. thanks for the comparison.

Hip Hop in it's PUREST FORM!

What does it mean?

Listen to this and Tekagay 69 and notice the difference.

@Robert Spears not commercialized, verses are hard and not stupid, no singing, classic BDP beat from 1987

Even tho Talib is a fucking trolling ass clown on twitter this is still an iconic ass fuckin record

75 ppl don't know wtf Hip Hop sounds like

killed it

u kno what i want? a brand new album from these dudes with hi-tek, madlib, preemo, kev brown, 9th wonder, marco polo, ahwlee, nottz, hazel beats.

hip hop heads dream

now your dream came true... with madlib as producer

Mr Lif, Esoteric, Smut Peddlers

Don't give me false hope.

Much appreciated, real effin hip hop. You know you really feel it when your head is bobbin throughout the whole song 🎶😎

Real hip hop

true original bboy apostle..

i remember listening to this recently while i was gaming and all the little kids were like what is that garbage. i just shook my head and said kids these days, lol. apparently unless lil wayne is on the song or rick ross is grunting in the background kids don't like it

Tyus Hammett Turns out different people enjoy different things.
Who knew?

Tyus Hammett
What makes your comment even funnier is that you replied to a comment talking about narrow minded people that only listen to 3 rappers.
Then you come back with this...

Hip hop is only two very old artists to you....

banklikefrankwhite1 Oh damn i can go on forever on you buddy. lmao "just because you dont like him doenst mean a fan cant" that aint Hip-Hop, wheres the emceeing? lol only reason why i dont like them is because they changed the game, into something shitty, if i didnt bash on them then i would sweet talk them, mainly Lil Wayne, overrated! Tell me why so much people dislike him?

banklikefrankwhite1 And people do enjoy different things, some peope choose to listen to wack ass music, did you know one of waynes rhymes made the top 10 list of the most nonsense bars ever?

Fuck those kids.

Still sipping wishing well water imported from pluto
360 milliliters for all the believers!

Secret message there.

yeah ur cuckoo

Fuck!!!! Mos can't be touched

Why have they never followed this album up?

+Quej Nindler That would be dope!

+Shelton Hardy yea, and talib fell off unfortunately

That's true to a point, but this album came out back in 1999.  They could of did a follow up between then and now.

+Daniel Barnes Because you can't top perfection. They understand this.

They’re making a new one now I think, probably because it’s been 20 years

Goddammit. So fuckin' good.

The one person that disliked this... SMH

It was probably an accident. Slip of the hand, felt like a noob, never logged on YouTube again...

@Mia DigiLove That's an excellent explanation..lol

Kweli overtakes the beat constantly, too many lyrics to spit lol

jdspencer60 mos def and talib kweli feed off each other and go back and forth. They both lyricists.

Goin' HAM - defined right here

Not really

@TouchMulaGANG lmao i just did (:

@FreshPrince4123 thats stupid.. just o cop the a;lbum then lol

"my name is in the middle of EQUALITY"
talib is sick. mos def is dope. BLACKSTAR=GREATNESS!!

I am a big fan of the "LAWD". Bless the lawd!!!!!

i bought redmans new album instead of this one a few days ago
redman is one of my favourites of all time, but you have no idea how bad i regret my decision.

No regrets...it's REDMAN! Black Star is Dope!

BEST ALLIANCE IN HIP HOP!

Would have loved a collab between Black Star and Gang Starr.

now this is what hip hop today should be....hollah!!!

twinkletoes2217 Check our Joey Bada$$. Hip-hop's not dead.

this is true hip hop right here

Yeah, I used to think it was ok not to buy tunes until I realised just how many people didn't want to pay a penny for even tracks they loved. That's not a love of music. Music will end up being shaped by the parasitic behavior of not buying trax. It's OK to get free versions if one is on the bones of their ass, so to speak, or teenagers who have nuthin'.

@serjjohndarinshavo how bout you fucking buy it?

THIS is the DEFINITION of HIP-HOP.

Arguably the best track on the album. The beat, melody and Mos and Kweli's rapid-fire lyrics. It doesn't get much better than this.

Ginga absofuckinlutly!!!!!! Music today is garbage. I was like 16 when this came out.

They are on tour right now. They will be at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on July 31st Check it, ya dig! Love this song, always have since it was released. I loved how Mos Def was the voice of Gangstalicious on the first and second season of the Boondocks! Love Mos Def! Loved him on Dave Chapelle show too! Shout out to Mos Def and Talib Kweli

hey can you please put on "b boys will be boys" on youtube? i can find it no where