[03:22.00]Hey
[03:22.00]Hey old bean
[03:22.00]And you to baby sweetness
[03:22.00]Yeah
[03:22.00]This is Pops
[03:22.00]And I'm back in the studio
[03:22.00]And I didn't have to break in this time
[03:22.00]I'm back as a special guest by special request
[03:22.00]And I want to thank my son for loaning me this microphone once again
[03:22.00]They may have to wrassle to get it back
[03:22.00]You know
[03:22.00]As a result of my son Common touring the world
[03:22.00]Pops has acquired a wonderful extended family
[03:22.00]From around the globe
[03:22.00]He has returned with positive messages to my earlobes
[03:22.00]From all my children From Mexico
[03:22.00]Brazil
[03:22.00]Italy
[03:22.00]Japan
[03:22.00]And of course in the motherland
[03:22.00]Even in the orient
[03:22.00]They know what I meant
[03:22.00]Nanaan
[03:22.00]Tanaan
[03:22.00]Tinaan
[03:22.00]Hanchinaan
[03:22.00]So I didn't come in here to give any shouts out
[03:22.00]I came to give praise and honor and to identify my children
[03:22.00]Who've been saying and doing the right things
[03:22.00]You know they sat on those nines of 1999
[03:22.00]And kept them from turning upside down
[03:22.00]And teaching the babies
[03:22.00]To love
[03:22.00]To be able to give love
[03:22.00]And to enter the new century with their own prophecy
[03:22.00]The century of amends
[03:22.00]You see I deal with the premise that all children are ours
[03:22.00]And that we all travel the same path
[03:22.00]It's just that we don't get there at the same time
[03:22.00]See you next lifetime
[03:22.00]See you next lifetime
[03:22.00]And to my children running around here
[03:22.00]Talking about how nice is they ice
[03:22.00]That they've already paid for twice
[03:22.00]What karat is they gold
[03:22.00]That was yours before you were done in the hole
[03:22.00]Or that crew from 1629
[03:22.00]Buy some land
[03:22.00]Think agriculture
[03:22.00]Beat that neighborhood
[03:22.00]Which you claim you love so dear
[03:22.00]Are you mankind or what kind of a man
[03:22.00]See
[03:22.00]Pops is straight out of the garden
[03:22.00]From when the world was starting brand new
[03:22.00]Hip Hop
[03:22.00]Hip Hop
[03:22.00]The language of the underground railroad
[03:22.00]In it's purest form
[03:22.00]Yeah true hip hop is just like the Underground Railroad
[03:22.00]If the message is not for you
[03:22.00]It can sit on your nose and your brain remain froze
[03:22.00]So when you see me traveling on a spiritual high
[03:22.00]I'm flying high with Cee Lo
[03:22.00]Or maybe watching my long's heart dancing to a De La flow
[03:22.00]Everybody knows there's no fruit on the tree with The Roots
[03:22.00]And Black Star said we are what we are
[03:22.00]The Knowledge Of Self Determination
[03:22.00]And my little homie KG
[03:22.00]Up there in Minnesota milking 10000 lakes
[03:22.00]Keep the heat on 'em
[03:22.00]We got to be kind to the growing mind
[03:22.00]So if your heart is real
[03:22.00]You will hear Big Will and Ms
[03:22.00]Lauryn Hill
[03:22.00]If your love is true
[03:22.00]You will hear Badu ism
[03:22.00]And you can't go right until you go left
[03:22.00]And get some ingredients from the music chef Jazzy Jeff
[03:22.00]Children
[03:22.00]I've traveled this globe
[03:22.00]North to south
[03:22.00]East to west
[03:22.00]And whenever my soul appears lost
[03:22.00]I turn to the musical stylings of a Tribe Called Quest
[03:22.00]Okay
[03:22.00]We ready to get out of here
[03:22.00]We ready to take it home now
[03:22.00]Just so everybody knows
[03:22.00]When Pops get ready to say something good
[03:22.00]I mean when it's time for me to lay it on the wood
[03:22.00]And it ain't no time for no shecky shecky
[03:22.00]That's when I turn to a Black Girl Named Betty
[03:22.00]Y'all looking for the only truth and it doesn't even exist
[03:22.00]I just come to give love and peace and honor to all my children