Mos Def - Murder Of A Teenage Life Lyrics
The murder of a teenage life
Fire from the cold steel
The heat from the brights
The temperature of flesh and the shortness of breath
The murder of a teenage threat
Skama like a new cocaine tobacco leaf
Ecstatic tabernists fire water and freaks
The murder of a teenage chief
My easy speaking is as easy as it seems to be
Hungry belly jamma busts off easily
Balloon bang. POP!
Hot as a bang spot in Bangkok
Colder than a pimp glock
Aim shot, the frame drops
Pressure pushed him to the earth like a rain drop
And how the preacher was saying
Remember!
Anyways they laid him in a stray box
Dark suit and gray socks
The neighborhood is all distraught
Candles lit the stoop at the park
Where the family and students are
Confused, in awe
They gape into each others arms
IT’S MURDER!
New absence from a mothers arm
Even the warmth from the mother’s arms
Couldn’t keep her son from harm
From standing where the gun was drawn
Over come, done and done. He’s gone…
MURDER!
Shells fell like a bell that rung
Blood bursts, body temperature fell and plunged
And by the time it took the medics to come
The breath eased out of his lungs
And his soul eased out of the slums
And the voice eased out of the drums
The sirens through their ears, they sung
MURDER!
Telephone wire, sneakers hung
MURDER!
For the Black and young
MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Aves they from
I am from the block the PRESIDENT DID NOT CAMPAIGN ON
Where the dollar that the working poor slave for is made on
Where hustlers stretch the yay long
And hustle hard for an outpost to trade on
Flip it over and make more
Where the blocks are yellow taped off
Where the young blood is trained on Obese to the Fakesoft
Where the pressure just stays on
But the lights and the heat don’t
The place where you witness the true power of street folk
And that’s where I’m coming from people
High post, low key
Eighth, o-z, and kilo
Law man, dope man
Adversary, amigo
Preacher man, pimp hand
Both folding their C-notes
A Black Fist clutching deliverance for the People
Young hand reach out, strong hand reach in
Slap the devil’s hand to make the fucker stop reaching
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Mos Def Murder Of A Teenage Life Comments
2019 still the coldest🔫
if anyone can get it instrumental version please !!!!!!
please anyone can give me this song by instrumental version !!!!!
Everyone came here for the instrumental 😂
This tho! Boy Mos was slept on.
Get this song instrumental version and i will give 9000000$
Can you get this beat ?
instrumental anybody
😇😇
snow glamour, snow glory
MrNoskizzle snow joke, snow game
I am from the block, the president did not campaign on / where the dollar that the working poor slaved for is made on / Where hustlers stretch the yay long / Hustle hard for an outpost to trade on...
Sounded better when mos def said it. Wack comment
only 1 dislike though :)
The piano reminds me of who shot ya.
he gets played on radio stations, features pop artists in his songs, and raps almost about nothing.
This son totally reminds me of Trayvon Martin.
I just wanna cry, when songs like this get overlookd for eny awards!!
Are you mad? Hip Hop never died...Its just underground.
TRAYVON MARTIN THIS SONG IS FOR YOU!!
True, gone but never forgotten.
lyrics speak volumes,this track cant be denied
@MalcolmHeardSB it looks like someone was trying to light it but didnt do very good lol
@goodest8 eminem? are u serious? and Dr. Dre? Im not saying he's bad but mos Def raps against almost everything dre raps about.
shakespear could have wrote the first verse
@CArdsadET The only purpose the dislike button is invalidation. It is completeley unnecessary and serves no meaningful purpose. I understand what you're sayin and you're right... but it was a bad invention to begin with. If you don't like something don't click the like button. I don't like everything I stumble upon but that doesn't mean I have to hit the dislike button, I just stop watching...
Peace
Spits it better than most
One thumbs down too many. instead of expressing your dislike for good music.... don't listen to it if you don't like it... Just sayin...
Peace
im so ready 2 c mos def gza eminem & andre 3000 do a song 2 a dr dre beat.....dat wil shut it all down....
Mos Def - Beauty in the Dark (Music video by SOSA REAL)
LOL, if only youtube showed us names and adresses, nobody would dislike this video ;)
@makpak EXACTLY.
@makpak
Check out Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; MTV completely ignores both esteem and self-actualization while intellectual music has it all.
mother. fucking. king.
@Quran871 Nas? And @1nqual, I think thats what makpak meant when he said "happyness". Mos is Def top 10 Dead or Alive.
@Laecken666 lupe fiasco
hell yeah!! 77,262 views and no dislikes. thats peace. this man gives it all in everything. cd or a concert, SMASHES IT!!!
@CartoonAccordion thanks bro
anyone can recommend me some active good rappers like mos def and aotp?
What world do live in where lil wayne and 50 cent are famous and mos def only has 70,000 views on youtube
less comments more lisening
he is one of the best
@seattletyrida dude when the deep voice kicks in, i instantly get sprung and cum. real talk.
"I am from the block the president did not campaign on, where the dollar that working poor slave for is made on, where hustlers stretch the ye on, hustle hard for an outpost to trade on."
Mos is too ill!!!
This song made the hairs on my whole body stand up, holy shit it's too good.
like lupe says the words of a scholar are worth 1000X the sword of a martyr
Just to let you know we don't give a shit about the fakes rappers of nowadays and Hip-Hop is the type we're listening every fucking day..
I listen to redman, he dont have sad angry music. Im just sayin. i dont wanna listen to lil wayne and his lillypop shit. i know very well that there was songs about hoes, pussy money back in the day and i also dont approve of that.
i geuss i fit in the catagory where the song has to be lyraclly there or i wont be interested.
Just a few days ago i was humming a lada gaga song? i slapped my self a few times, the lady in the car next to mine thought i was fucked, so she jumped the red light? lol.
this is crazy, the nuptunes produced this shit. i mean NERD and mosdef in the same album, thats just straight sexy
Conscious speaking
word!!! i totally agree, mtv really sucks and the way i see it, all those so called artist like souja boy and the ppl that got them on rotation are industry prostitutes and theyre just in it for the money, and i really hate that ppl havent understood yet what misci is supossed to be about, words, like u said, are powerful, i wish ppl would undrstand.
we should quit watching mtv (thats what i did) and all those media that are trinna makin a prostite out of our culture.
shout outs from mexico!
i love all of mos def's tracks, but if someone would come along and touch the quality up, they would be perfect. i tried playing some songs in my car and they were sounding like shit, and i even have a good system.
where i can find this instrumental ???
yes, it is.
No one does it like mos def. Oh baby I like it raw
If u fukz wit this then youtube "Costa aka Capo" N peep the track "Listen", also... listen to "Gov'z Greazy", N listen to "Freedom".
Now I know this is straight from the soul.
nice song, but I like some of his other songs more... the beat, though.. oh man, listen to this shit with headphones on, it's nasty.
this shit is true hip hop, mos def strait fucken fire on this track, fuck this shit sends shivers up my spine
thats the truth
you know a song is good when it sends shivers up your spine... amazing music
This is FIRE!
produced by pharrell
I am from the block the PRESIDENT DID NOT CAMPAIGN ON
Where the dollar that the working poor slave for is made on
Where hustlers stretch the yay long
And hustle hard for an outpost to trade on
Flip it over and make more
Where the blocks are yellow taped off
Where the young blood is trained on Obese to the Fakesoft
Where the pressure just stays on
But the lights and the heat don't
The place where you witness the true power of street folk
And that's where I'm coming from people
This music is underrated because people would rather hear 50 cent and dance to shit and be happy.
MONEY MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY.
SEX MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY
I listen to this music only because i take music very seriously. Words speak louder than money and hoes, and understanding life makes more sense than politics.
these rapper are dealing with the biggest gayest organisation "mtv", but MTV is only giving what people want "happyness"
Smoke a Blunt, put this album on, Don't Talk, Just Listen on blast. No words for the experience.
awesome flow awesome beat
nice one
best tru3 magic track. so grand
yet another powerful track....5 stars
deep mos track . . . 5 stars