Bar Prep Lyrics (Part II)
Black Thought In Action
- Life is hard in general / and we can't complain if things are hard - Talib Kweli
- He caused earthquakes / just from / ex-per-i-ments / some thoughts got lost / not knowing where it went - GZA
- The half-truth is a whole lie - Fly Union
- Stay fluid even in staccato - Mos Def
- I saw The Wizard when the curtain fell - Talib Kweli
And my new mantra for the Bar...
- I'm exhausted but I'll never ever forfeit - Black Thought
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Rap Lyrics Appropriate For Bar Prep
Saul Williams
It was a cold night. Not cold like the Winter/ just cold like an energy / was in the air I generally / don't like. / The Driver had to dip / so he left me in the whip / turned round said "You know you're on your own, right?" - Black Thought
In order of progress from Start to Finish during this two-month marathon of study...
- I'm workin' while the Boss relaxin' - Black Thought
- I'm the shaky hand that touched George Foreman in Zaire - Nas
- Bone gristle poppin' from continuous grindin' - Mos Def
- Everybody knows me like the Contra code for extra men - Wale
- Cuttin' up bodies and talkin' to the pieces - Notorious B.I.G.
- I know where I'm goin' even when it's dark - The Roots
- I'm half dead / never felt more alive - Peedi Peedi
- Who's gonna stop us? Not a god damn one o' ya - The Clipse
Three from Lil Wayne:
- I like brain so I f*ck with a whole lotta nerds
- If it's bullsh*t you want, it's bullsh*t I share
- I do what I do and I do it right
And my favorite, by Saul Williams:
These words are not tools of communication
They are shards of metal
Dropped from eight story windows
They are waterfalls and gas leaks
Aged thoughts rolled in tobacco leaf
The tools of a trade
Barbers barred, barred of barters
Catch phrases and misunderstandings
But they are not what I feel when I am alone
Surrounded by Everything and Nothing
And there isn't a word or phrase to be caught
A verse to be recited
A man to de-fill my being in those moments
I am blankness, the contained center of an "O"
The pyramidic containment of an "A"
I stand in the middle of all that I have learned
All that I have memorized
All that I've known by heart
Unable to reach any of it
There is no sadness
There is no bliss
It is a forgotten memory
A memorable escape route that only is found by not looking
There, in the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless
They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness
But then...
Who else can speak of thoughtlessness with such confidence?
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