Kweli, Talib - Guerilla Monsoon Rap Lyrics

if they don't get you before i do i'm gonna crush your solar plexus

watch they'll fall like leaves deciduous trees

Is it me or does it sound a little bit more high pitch for what he did with Trina on her single B R Right

This was like Jordan, Kobe and Lebron all on the same team together.

When you’re surrounded by other elite emcees it feels like you’re in an all star game. Any given Sunday each emcee can body the others. I honestly dunno who’s the nicest between these three.

That beat never had a chance against these legendz !!!

"Guerrilla Monsoon Rap, smell the fumes, get in tune with it; when i attack your city, y'all gon' think Doctor Doom did it..." holy shit, Pharoahe!!!

This is ill fucking boom bap east coast shit!

Raaahhhhhh fuck yes OG vibes

Yeahhhh baby!

Sample: chy lites- never had it so good

I vividly remember this specific moment in hip hop. It was the year after the big Takeover-Ether battle, and everybody seemed to be collaborating with everybody. Nas and Jay both on the Scarface album. New golden child of production Kanye producing Scarface, Jay-Z, AND Talib Kweli. Talib having Xzibit, DJ Quik, Monch, Thought, Kanye, Smif-N-Wessun and everybody on his album. Eminem dropping the dopest song of his career and having everybody from Nas to Jay to Rakim to Gang Starr on his 8 Mile soundtrack. You had Missy Elliott workin' it, you had Snoop who was reinventing himself with Pharrell beats. And then Nas came with the Lost Tapes AND God's Son. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' had not dropped yet. It seemed like the mainstream and the 'underground', and the East and the West and the south, were all embracing each other and just making dope music. The possibilities for hip hop seemed endless.

And then it all went to hell

Man dope, do you have a blog ?! Interesting perspectives !

"Nann nigga competition, got to battle myself... got a crib wit a Grammy and a gat on the shelf" Talib Kweli beasted on this track, but Black Thought had the illest line right there.

A Mos Def or Common verse would've been the cherry on top.

Iconoclastic you know it 🙂😎

All these years later and I STILL CANT find this instrumental anywhere smfh.

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I like the canibus n papoose version

Eric Melendez Battle Pap went bonkers on that track....incredible delivery ...and bis spitting fire as well

Canibus actually recorded that freestyle before Pap took it and recorded more vocals without even asking, and Pap still got murdered by Canibus on the track

i miss the old kanye

me too, Since the late for class album i stepped out

Monch elite world class spitta

Who in the hell would give this a thumbs down? This song is nice. All MCs went the hell off, "smell the fumes/get in tune with it/when I attack your city/yall gonna think Dr. Doom did it". Mannnnnnnnnnnn...

D Hall Someone who just can't handle that hip hop was better, once upon a time!

Thought just went off on this.

Back in the day Kanye West received respect from nearly all of the hip-hop community, he ain't shit now. Real Heads know.

Underground_Roamer idk bout everybody respecting him some were just haters

i cant get over this sample kanye needs to come back he used to be a geniuse

shitty shoes > music

:-/

He still is

The 4th emcee is Kanye, he's the one doing the hook. BTW.

Its a kanye beat

@jvinson 4 mc s ,p.monch is talkin bout k.west. an this is def one of many of the rawest joints outta all these cats songs.

The coming of Yeezus.

No, the fall of Kanye West

Memories Sweet Memories I've been a Fan of this Man Since "97" Although At the Time I was too young to Grasp my mind around his Lyricism I Found myself Loving his Aggressive smooth Open Mic Delivery But once I got Older and Revisited his Music my Appreciation was even more Welcoming from "BlackStar" to "Gravitas" he's been Top Tier, His Track Record in terms of "Quality" & "Quantity" Could be Comparable To GhostFace Killah's Beast Shit Kanye Was Sooooooo Raw with his Production he still is Here and there but Years ago he only Brought it the Way ODB liked it lol Talib UNDERRATED Punchline Rapper Black Thought Slept on Rhyme Flower and Pharoahe is Just an UNFUKWITABLE BrainShattering Wordplay Specialist Overall Classic Track....Hell Even Canibus Had a Blend on this Shit Here......

Damn Talib released nothing but fire for like 5 years. Glad he was my favorite rapper at the time, 90s rap isn't shiny suits and Biggy v. Tupac for me. Tru head were here

+Jonathan Dudley Talibs still releasing nothing but fire... but hes technically not really a 90s rapper all of Talib Kweli albums have be released in the 2000s except for the Blackstar album which came out in '99.... this specific song from your so called favorite rapper at the time was released in 02 not the 90s lol

+Tyson Hook Talib was releasing on Raukus as early as 98 doing shows in Cincy and Ny before that. Some of us go beyond the albums. 12" press is what it was about

Jonathan Dudley amen bro!

True dat

my, introduction to hip hop in a nutshell

YaKuZa moon. Me too

even my homies in the bay' say you hella scared...

These 3 emcee's are so ill. Black Thought did his thing on this song. 

Could never go wrong with these 3 MC's. 

@boxybrown6900 Think of him as a gateway drug. Thats the basic idea i'm trying to convey.

@MatthewHoustonMusic How would todays youth not no about the golden era without lupe? Your given him too much credit.

@jcolekendricklamar You are INSANE fam!" Lupe Fiasco is the greatest lyricist of all time"???????????GET the fuck outta here man, i 'm done......Oh, and go peep Big Daddy fucking Kane, Rakim, G Rap etc.. cats from 20 yrs ago who's lyricism would kill 99% of rapper/"MC's" out today! Aye that's your opinion, but i can't take you seriously no more b. NAS????? Is he not on Lupe's level either? WOW...i'm out bruh, you win...SMH

You sleeping on Lupe Fiasco tho.

@cnoyes82 AZ, MOP, NAS, WU TANG, TALIB, MOS, ROOTS, ORGANIZED KONFUSION, OUTKAST, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL, BLACK SHEEP, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, SOULS OF MISCHIEF, PHARCHYDE, PUBLIC ENEMY , EPMD, MAIN SOURCE, MIC GERONIMO, BLACK MOOON,SMIF N WESSUN, HELTAH SKELTAH, LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND, REDMAN, DEL, OC, BIG L, 2 PAC BIG PUN, BUSTA SOLO SHIT, DMX, JAY Z, FUGEES, LL, KANE, RAKIM (ALL PUT OUT SOLID SHIT IN THE 90'S) AND IM LEAVING OUT ABOUT 10-20 OTHER ARTIST!!!!. 90'S RULE

@TheCardsfan2 Don't be a sheeple and blame my opinion on the media. Fact remains, lupe bridged the gap for todays youth. Him, Cole and kendrick. If it wasnt for them, a lot of people MY AGE would have no idea about the golden age. Sadly. And this cd is dope for sure...but its not F&L....F&L is one of the best albums, content, flow, and beat choice wise. Beats are a huge part of a song..id know, im a producer lol.

@MatthewHoustonMusic what's that mean? The Roots haven't made any good albums? Pharoe Monch hasn't made any good albums(Stress, the 2nd Organized Konfusion joint was bananas!!) AZ's Doe or Die is classic...Aziatic is pretty damn good too. And this Talib cd is classic in itself.LUpe aint the only MC makin hot albums. That's just what the media tells you

@MrCommenterguy not a new MC out that "kills" Jon Connor!!! His beats can be suspect at times, but lyrically he's never weak. Check out "Keep goin Reek" from Reek Da villain. THat's probably the hottest joint on that mixtape, he got more, but that one sticks out for me....

@TheCardsfan2 Its not about who can rap with lupe...aint nobody making albums like F&L and the cool

one of yes best beats definitely, this shit is so hard

"Yo, I hit these emcees with the grip of death like I was a Vulcan
Ain't a lot of "ifs" an "ands", it's just straight talkin
It's hard to swallow at times, so take portions
Bitin off more than you can chew, create offense"

Black Thought is a fucking lyrical problem.

Immaculate Mic i think its create orphans*

"Rappers are spitting nails into their own coffins"

Tried to tell 'em since "do you want more?"

@TheCardsfan2 Lupe is ill, but yeah your right his last album was shit.. still think he's one of the best emcees out no doubt.. J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T definitely the future of hip-hop..

@TheCardsfan2 Kendrick Lamar is the truth

@TheCardsfan2 You're right, Lasers was trash!!

Hope i dont offend any Lupe stans, but who on this song can't hang rhyme for rhyme w/Lupe? If dude came out in the early 90's he'd be just another MC. Shit AZ>>Lupe IMO...Dude supposed to save hip hop? I got more hope in Jon Connor, Reek Da Villain, Kendrick Lamar, JCole, etc... Lupe's new album is commercial garbage. I'm sure some stans will come after me for this.....

@tibiasuckness
Yeah, Buckwild is dope too.

@Andanijano kanye west beats 2001-2005 were pure dopeness. And MBDTF has pretty dope production too.

@jvinson theres kanye in it too lol

@ytowngreeneboy he did, the sample he used was I never had it so good by the chi lites

@goatslayer100 kanye made the beat...i could b wrong

@jvinson I think Kanye did the intro?

@rgrove319
It goes like this: Preemo, Pete Rock, RZA, Dilla, Large Professor, Dr Dre and then maybe Kanye.

@jvinson kanye west, pharoahe monch, talib kweli, black thought =4 emcees...

There are only 3 emcees on this song, but at the 1:24 mark Pharoe Monch says, "These 4 emcees came to get down. Who was the 4th emcee supposed to be? Common maybe?

Kanye West is on the hook and made the instrumental. Talib was Kanye's mentor back in the day

jvinson no theres another version wit canabis at the end

@tlofee STRAIGHT UP & THROUGH DA ROOF....

KANYE!!!!

SICK RIDDIM Bless...

Dope MCs.

Black Thought and Pharoahe Monch in the SAME TRACK!!!, Hip-Hop heads bow down, Pure Greatness

Kweli
Monch
Black

some of the greatest lyricists of ALL TIME,
incredibly underrated MCs.

AND Kanye on the beat!

TheLastBarbedWire to be fucking honest

Check out rapid eye movement. That will blow your mind.

SeriousDonnie, came here to say the same thing. Shit is unbelievable. Monch and Thought's verses are fuckin nuts.

Kweli has a dope guest spot on that album, too.