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[00:00.000]Champion Requiem (Album Version|Edited) - Mos Def
[00:00.700]Bismillah ir Rhman ir Raheem
[00:02.440]Peace peace what's up y'all
[00:03.669]This is Mos Def
[00:04.689]And this is a message to the people
[00:06.659]If you see or hear goodness from me
[00:08.839]Then that goodness is from
[00:10.119]The Creator
[00:11.379]You should be thankful to
[00:12.239]The Creator for all of that
[00:13.729]'Cause I'm not the architect of that
[00:15.429]I'm only the the recipient
[00:18.629]If you see weakness or
[00:19.499]Shortcoming in me
[00:20.699]It's from my own weakness
[00:21.979]Or shortcoming
[00:23.249]And I ask The Creator and the
[00:24.439]People to forgive me for that
[00:25.819]Thank you Brooklyn Thank you World
[00:29.278]Yeah yeah there it is
[00:31.447]Turn my voice up in the top a little bit
[00:35.326]It feel good to be back
[00:37.146]What's up ochenta
[00:39.586]Yeah yeah ha
[00:43.286]It's the Black Dante
[00:44.136]In your headphones
[00:46.046]Speakerbox (freaky radio) freaky radio
[00:47.536](Everywhere on the dial) tell
[00:48.946]You a little bit about me
[00:50.856]For my hometown break down
[00:53.714]A little history for you
[00:55.694]Myrtle and Broadway Roosvelt projects
[00:57.823]Mossie projects
[00:58.643]Listen
[00:59.413]I stepped on the field from no
[01:00.993]League just home team
[01:02.113]I Jumped out the stands
[01:03.233]And I snatched the rock
[01:04.343]With the final seconds
[01:05.323]One to land on the clock
[01:06.683]Mos post up to throw up the
[01:08.443]Tie-breakin shot
[01:09.623]I put it through the net and let the
[01:11.063]World's jaw drop
[01:11.983]Then fled the arena before
[01:13.243]They called cops
[01:14.323]Tell the players and the coach
[01:15.433]I wasn't tryin' to blow spot
[01:16.863]But the way they was ballin'
[01:18.033]Made it difficult to watch
[01:19.303]I was taught when there's something'
[01:20.593]You can change around
[01:21.603]Keep quiet you got nothing' to
[01:23.013]Complain about
[01:24.093]You got work to do I don't know
[01:25.893]If that work for you
[01:27.093]But that's how Mos work it through
[01:29.073]And my work is personal
[01:30.792]I'm a workin' person
[01:32.012]I put in work I work with purpose
[01:34.212]I get it there on the water
[01:35.482]Air the surface
[01:36.332]You feel the impact
[01:37.521]Niggaz yeah it's workin'
[01:38.780]Listen God did not make
[01:39.950]Me a fearful person
[01:41.120]The only fear I have Is my
[01:42.900]Failure to adhear his path
[01:44.280]I would love it just to hear this back
[01:46.070]On the ghetto streets where y'all at
[01:48.008]On the ave's where the Jeep's go past
[01:49.758]In the coupes where the seats go back
[01:51.738]In the parties where it be so packed
[01:53.577]And the atmosphere be so black
[01:55.317]And them black thinggs be so phat
[01:57.197]If I could I would be so glad
[01:59.157]But if not I won't be so mad
[02:00.967]I'm still being a man still feeding my fam'
[02:03.057]And even if you don't see it my fam
[02:05.217]I believe that I am truly gifted
[02:07.577]Truly blessed
[02:08.817]I'm yours truly Brooklyn's own
[02:10.256]Mos Def
[02:10.985]I'm rockin the hard right ground
[02:12.295]Zero to far left
[02:13.255]I'm well balanced with immense talents
[02:15.994]Burn the script then flip it to
[02:17.434]Keep myself challanged
[02:18.493]And that's the mark of a true champ-ine
[02:20.693]That's whether I'm in or outside the ring
[02:23.162]No fights no tilte no crown or reign
[02:25.442]Feel my presence even when
[02:26.552]I'm up out this thingg
[02:27.932]Just trust that's what I'm about to be
[02:30.401]But until then settle in and rock with me
[02:32.931]Ha that's what its about to be
[02:35.750]Ghetto people look alive with me
[02:37.910]And say We 'gon stop by
[02:40.430]Then we just keep movin on
[02:42.790]Ghetto people look alive and
[02:45.079]Feel free we just keep movin on
[02:47.719]For Alliah Left Eye Jam Master Jay
[02:50.329]All the great hero's who have passed away
[02:52.768]Scott Laraque Big & Pac
[02:55.228]Feaky Tai Big L
[02:57.777]All the soldiers locked down in the cell
[03:00.176]Lock up the flesh
[03:01.276]But the spirit will prevail
[03:02.766]To our loved ones and deceased
[03:04.976]Dyin''' in the street or quiet in their sleep
[03:08.806](B I G )
[03:09.366]Rest in peace your livin in the mansions
[03:11.136]Of our memory Sans Marie
[03:14.196]Rest in peace your livin in the
[03:15.676]Mansions of our memory
[03:17.296]And that's real
[03:19.236]'Cause everything in life 'gon
[03:21.206]Come to an end
[03:24.215]Because it must and when it does
[03:28.303]I hope that y'all remember me
[03:30.923]With true respect
[03:33.682]And ghetto love
[03:36.102]Now raise it up
[03:38.592]'Cause everything in life 'gon
[03:40.822]Come to an end
[03:43.822]Because it must and when it does
[03:48.162]I hope that y'all remember me
[03:50.981]Black Dante from Myrtle and Broadway
[03:55.258]Yeah yeah y'all
[04:00.697]Let me hear it back
[04:22.669]Freaky radio (freaky radio) ha
[04:41.769]Freaky radio (freaky radio)
[04:44.539]Everywhere on the dial