[Mos Def]

Hey, hey, heyyy man

I Strike the Empire Back..

I Strike the Empire Back..

Fuck the Empire!!

High flyin like the Millenium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo

I never roll for dolo, frontin on me's a no-no

Understand? Doin this for my family

Ha ha, check it out y'all



Yo I'm tryin to make a dollar out of what makes sense

Add it up, told my daddy I'd be a rich man

You never know when your fate gon' switch hand

Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand

I was a young boy -- who dreamt about being a big man

on small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan

Gotta handle business properly, boost up my economy

Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property

Yesterday was not for me but nowaday it's time for me

The streets is watchin me, I watch back, that's the policy

Movin along my oddesey like blood through the artery

Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless

Let those who make the exodus seekin the North beacon

from beatin and hog-eatin, from punishment all season

from hands cracked and bleedin -- cotton thorns in your palms

It's for y'all that I sketch these songs, and it goes..

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow

I fear no man, because faith is the aarow

My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow

We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano

Kweli is you wit me? (Whattup whattup?) Let's make it happen

I *BURN* through your argument with action

My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin for a brighter day

When y'all wanna leave y'all? Right away



Shout it out from East-West (from South to Northern)

From Cakalak' (to California)

From the coldest (to the warmest)

To the borders ('cross the waters) understand..-ac