[ilingku:045]
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[ti:Take, Hold, Fire]
[ar:Mr. Lif]
[al:Mo' Mega]
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[00:00.000]Take, Hold, Fire - Mr. Lif
[00:03.070]Take my check
[00:03.810]Take my intellect
[00:04.470]Take my self-respect
[00:05.710]Ban my dialect
[00:06.620]Hang me from a tree
[00:07.880]Slice my neck
[00:08.800]Take my head as a monument
[00:10.050]Of the hatred of opposites
[00:11.420]Take the time to sell my culture
[00:12.900]Count how you profited
[00:14.030]Take a break
[00:15.010]Take two
[00:15.750]What's it gonna take to make you
[00:17.799]Understand the man I equate to
[00:19.698]I create crews
[00:21.228]One thousand, two thousand
[00:23.478]F**k it, bring the whole
[00:24.558]Central housing
[00:25.498]Take a trip to free brothers
[00:26.738]From penitentiaries
[00:28.077]Judges steady handing out centuries
[00:30.097]That ni**a got life for
[00:31.327]Growing w**d
[00:32.017]Ah! See the plan?
[00:33.287]He could never be a man
[00:34.757]Never get to help his fam
[00:36.107]Just like Apartheid
[00:37.377]That didn't die back in '91
[00:39.057]Parents were subject to
[00:40.317]Interference
[00:41.567]If they caught you late
[00:42.657]Trying to raise a son or daughter
[00:44.227]They'd use a gun or a knife as
[00:45.847]They summoned slaughter
[00:47.227]And I wish I could ring
[00:48.477]The blood out of your clothes
[00:49.927]Give you back your afros
[00:51.246]And your strong black nose
[00:52.656]But what's done is done
[00:53.846]Who's gone is gone
[00:54.946]Once again, the sun illuminates
[00:57.096]Bodies at dawn
[00:58.166]And I yawn and grow weary
[00:59.486]Succumbed to old theory
[01:01.066]That strips my wits of thoughts
[01:02.516]I used to hold dearly
[01:03.656]So clearly the gold nearly
[01:05.276]Ended existence
[01:06.436]A young brother who hungers,
[01:07.996]Lying there shiftless
[01:09.396]A rich brother who hovers,
[01:10.756]Hoarding his riches
[01:11.956]A fatal divide
[01:13.376]Acts of the colonized
[01:14.626]It's a worldwide unwise data
[01:16.656]That leaks when we speak
[01:18.396]Repeats 'till decency depletes
[01:19.906]Then leaks through our moral
[01:21.606]Fabric forming havoc
[01:23.156]We're left reminiscing
[01:24.366]What was written on a tablet
[01:26.096]It's a path we've forgotten
[01:27.396]Lost in our heads
[01:28.626]And I know they're listening
[01:29.696]So P.S. f**k the feds!
[01:39.944]And I know they're listening
[01:40.803]So P.S. f**k the feds!
[01:42.543]Hold weight, hold water,
[01:43.793]Hold your head above the latter
[01:45.223]While I'm at it,
[01:46.093]Hope your story holds a little
[01:47.543]When it matters
[01:48.603]The mold inside his holding cell
[01:49.812]Became proof of the leak
[01:51.081]Now he holds his tongue
[01:51.951]Behind his teeth in a room
[01:52.951]With police
[01:53.861]One call alloted, tried to
[01:55.081]Holler at his cousin
[01:56.181]Who couldn't hold his liquor,
[01:57.561]Let alone hold the discussion
[01:59.031]20 seconds in he pass out
[02:00.661]On the hold button
[02:01.771]'Till his quarter ran out with
[02:03.051]The dreams of ever holding
[02:04.021]Something
[02:04.621]No, it isn't folklore
[02:05.861]Yes, it's morbid
[02:07.041]If he hold heat, he'd probably
[02:08.461]Hold grudges, not horses
[02:09.851]We grew up in the hold
[02:11.221]It now hit it
[02:12.331]When hold it down meant
[02:13.381]It was better to hold the crown,
[02:14.741]Not the image
[02:15.431]You bow to a gimmick,
[02:16.681]You bound to hold back
[02:17.691]The incentive
[02:18.110]Which your friends will hold
[02:19.060]Against you
[02:19.700]When you haul back to the village
[02:21.150]Fall back, crawl back to the killers
[02:23.190]Who couldn't hold a candle to
[02:24.530]The actual definition of"illest"
[02:28.659]Little man said I was fired
[02:30.069]Under artificial fire up in the sky
[02:32.019]Florescent tungsten hovered
[02:33.549]Over cubicle design
[02:34.948]Interrupted just before final
[02:35.978]Synaptic nerve could fire
[02:37.627]And I lost count right as I got up to
[02:39.247]The last digit in Pi
[02:40.447]What a fiery piece of trash
[02:42.287]Why, I ought to fire the boomstick
[02:43.596]In your face and tell the tribe
[02:45.115]That it was magic
[02:46.025]You tried to take my soul
[02:46.915]But now it's
[02:47.575]Fire in the hole
[02:48.604]And I'm fired up
[02:49.274]Walking through the office
[02:50.264]Firing automatics
[02:51.204]You didn't start the fire
[02:52.604]You simply sparked it
[02:53.614]Next time you light a fire under
[02:55.094]My a** better hope that you're
[02:56.154]Flame retardant
[02:56.973]Arson is in my bent heart
[02:58.253]You're begging to see the
[02:59.153]Billow
[02:59.483]Of the smokes of the fires of Odin
[03:00.983]Enter the fire starter
[03:02.502]See, every little monotonous moment
[03:04.182]That I punched the clock
[03:05.172]Was equivalent
[03:05.532]To furnace fuel
[03:06.452]In the form of a
[03:07.262]Fiery rock
[03:08.142]Welcome to trial by fire measured
[03:09.142]In Celsius
[03:09.842]You can fire me from the job
[03:11.232]But I promise I'm walking out
[03:12.362]The office healthiest
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