[00:00.00]I Am (Explicit) - Novel/Young/Ben Folds/Talib Kweli
[00:09.91]I am reverends' future black president
[00:13.95]I'm what you see rollin'
[00:15.09]Every day through your resident
[00:16.55]Windows tinted young and relentless
[00:19.31]To the cops
[00:20.07]I'm a suspect that fits the description
[00:21.82]But I am not a hoodlum I'm not an abuser
[00:24.55]I'm sort of a connoisseur slash entrepreneur
[00:26.58]
[00:27.11]I've seen a lot of people grow
[00:28.59]Some went some came
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[00:30.04]Rappers are next-generation sh*t
[00:31.70]But I am change
[00:32.76]At the age of 21
[00:33.74]They said I'd be non-existent
[00:35.23]It's that or pleading the trial or being convicted
[00:38.21]I guess since I'm alive then I beat the statistics
[00:40.91]Y'all can all kiss my a** when I am rich
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[00:44.92]I'm the sun I'm light
[00:46.08]I'm much more than your bling
[00:47.86]Or the shine off your ice
[00:49.03]I'm as free as a spirit I'm as fly as a bird
[00:51.54]I'm whatever I wanna be as long as I am heard
[00:54.21]Cause I am
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[01:04.73]I am I am I am
[01:08.13]Eternal to the light I am I am
[01:10.55]I'm a product of the ghetto my father's boy
[01:13.57]A brother to my sister
[01:14.83]My mother's pride and joy I am
[01:16.84]I am I am I am
[01:18.95]The king of all knights I am I am
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[01:21.57]I'm the blade of the knife
[01:22.96]That slaughtered the lamb
[01:24.21]The greatest sacrifice the son of Abraham
[01:26.66]
[01:27.24]I am C-E-O H-N-I-C
[01:30.39]B-K-M-C Talib Kweli
[01:33.24]My name roll off the tongue like L-M-N-O-P
[01:35.78]See I am at touch you can I'm me
[01:38.42]I'm not nobody's toy I'm not nobody's boy
[01:41.29]I am someone's man I am someone's joy
[01:44.08]I am the voice I am the truth
[01:46.76]I am the choice I am the proof
[01:49.41]Like my man from the D
[01:50.70]Gon' stand on my feet
[01:52.01]I am the branch from the family tree
[01:54.82]A baby to the leaves carriers of the seeds
[01:57.50]To carry on the name to make a man complete
[02:00.20]De La Soul said I am a beat
[02:02.23]I'm not a dream I'm not a fantasy
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[02:04.32]Right here in the flesh
[02:05.85]I am out of this world I am something else
[02:08.51]I am something lived I am something felt
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[02:22.18]I am I am I am
[02:24.10]Eternal to the light I am I am
[02:26.82]I'm a product of the ghetto my father's boy
[02:29.54]A brother to my sister
[02:30.80]My mother's pride and joy I am
[02:33.04]I am I am I am
[02:34.97]The king of all knights I am I am
[02:37.61]I'm the blade of the knife
[02:39.14]That slaughtered the lamb
[02:40.35]The greatest sacrifice the son of Abraham
[02:42.76]
[03:16.44]I am I am I am
[03:18.38]Eternal to the light I am I am
[03:21.08]I'm a product of the ghetto my father's boy
[03:23.80]A brother to my sister
[03:25.14]My mother's pride and joy I am
[03:27.22]I am I am I am
[03:29.13]The king of all knights I am I am
[03:31.94]I'm the blade of the knife
[03:33.31]That slaughtered the lamb
[03:34.62]The greatest sacrifice the son of Abraham