Styles P - Testify Lyrics
{"Testify!"}
[Styles P:]
Time I testify, listen
Why Malcolm get killed by the N.O.I.?
And why nobody flip when Martin was killed?
Why Mandela did all them years
All that blood, all that sweat, and all them tears?
And I can name thousands more
that died in the struggle from Mr. Wallace to Mr. Shakur
That's why I stay influenced to "Kick in the Door"
Bring the White House dudes around the blacks that's poor
Notice that it's "unity" in "opportunity"
Make a lil' cash, now the block is screwin me
Brand new E-Class, cops pursuin me
Lookin at my gun, they wanna see me spark it
But I'm the Ghost and if I could vote it would be for Sharpton
Yeah~!
[Chorus:]
[S.P.:] {tes-ti-fy} [Kweli:] {tes-ti-fy} equality
{"Testify!"}
[S.P.:] {tes-ti-fy} [Kweli:] {tes-ti-fy} equality
[Talib Kweli:]
Yeah, yo, yo
We never stop like the news watch
Still tryin to fill the void of Biggie and Tupac
We on them avenues with the red and the blue tops
Dudes hot to shoot cops from the rooftops
Too many snitch niggaz TESTIFY
Warrior kings sent to the bing and left to die
Girls confuse sex with love so they extra dry
And got birth control stuck to they necks and thigh
Whoa, it ain't a game, they want the blacks all killed off
Our caps all peeled off, nigga this real talk
What's ill is y'all niggaz still caught up in them battle raps
There's beef in the hood, +Escaladin+ like Cadillacs
Monkey on your back livin like a junkie
Addicted to a dream, wanna die for your country
Tear down the prison walls, set everyone free
From freedom fighters to Askari X to Pimp C
[Chorus]
[Talib Kweli:]
Yeah... kids slip in the clip and aim
for the fortune cause the fame ain't shit to gain
They get stuck on whips and chains, so freedom slip they brain
And psychologically that shit's insane
Now that's crazy, a function of raisin the crack babies
Sell it back to them cats freebasin back in the 80's
(C'mon) Disco shit, nigga cock the toast
Hi-Tek on the track and we rock with the Ghost
[Styles P:]
Damn right I make gangster music
But I still spit poetry like Langston Hughes did
Pressures of the ghetto might make you lose it
Grab AK's and go and make the news kid
Might lose control, but not my soul
Won't sell for the white man to buy me some white gold
Sell for the black man, to buy me control
P, Tek and Kweli, the shit come from the soul y'know?
[Chorus]
[scatting to the end]
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Styles P Testify Comments
Peep my vid lol freestyle - i stayed high , should have linked it lol
Damn right I make gangster music but I still spit poetry like Langston Hughes did the pressure from the ghetto might make you lose it 🔥🔥🔥🔥😉😉😉
Such a classic by 2 of NYC's Greatest
This song made me into who I am
A Tribe Called Quest "Luck of Lucien" vibe.
I know this old but come on ! Real lyrics 2019 👊🏽🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Classic record!!!🔥
sounds like luck of lucien by ATCQ
great song great album
All I can say classic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽🔥🔥🔥
My Lord ,the one and only ,looking at ting you wanna see me spark it ,testify he is the best out and out ,
🔥🔥
Pressures of the ghetto might make you lose it! Too real..
We never stop like a news watch..
Makes me think everytime I hear a classic like this
🔥🔥🔥🔥
I still bump this joint. ! timeless music right here. talib and P
10 years later they hit us with the 7 EP. Long overdue from the power of this track alone!!
playaflywill27 What? Put me on
Jetanium styles and kweli put an album out called the seven
Jetanium my bad playa. I didn't get a notification bout this. Hope you've heard the Seven EP they both put out
powerrrr
I always thought this was released as a single and had a video to it. IDK why.
very underrated album especially first 10 songs
classic album
James Afflack LOL, there’re only 12 tracks on the album.
James Afflack yez
@playaflyJOE27 Fa real! I was in work release when this shit came out. Definitely held a nigga down up in that piece!!!
LOL nah it was meh. I'm a big Styles P fan but Time Is Money is easily his worse album. It only had 12 songs but I only like 8 of em. The middle of the album sucks LOL. Favorite Drug, Who Wanna Problem, The song with Jagged Edge, & Can You Believe it are soft commercial garbage. Could haven been easily switched out for songs he had on mixtapes then the album would have been great.
big tune
you can feel a black power soulful positive type of vibe on this trackand I'm first to comment in 2016!!
This beat is sick
Billy Brooks- Forty Days
Love this collabo. Straight up therapy.
It got that spirit on it!
This got that timeless sound to it!!!! That shit you keep on repeat!!!' Testify
Billy Brooks "Forty Days"
This shit is BANGIN!!!!!!!!
Hi tek laced this one
Hi tek is the shit ...I wondered what happened to him?😉
luck of lucien >
See you when I get there.
B.I.G!!
Dope as hell!
love tha lyrics n dis a soulful track
TRUE HIP HOP SHIT.... STILL BANG DIS....
Hi-Tek...yeah!!!
dope!!!!!
this is hi-quality hip hop !!
I was listening to "leave a message" so had to check out this whole album "time is money"... dope If you love Talib check out "thieves in the night" off blackstar's album
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