Talib Kweli - THE MANIFESTO

[decentlydopekid]

God gave us music so we pray without words.. that's mad deep

[Brothaninja]

talib shits on niggas lmao

[Heyhey2545]

I remember being blown away by this!! Kweli madd talented one love sohn!

[chris45322345]

how the fuck haven't I heard this before hahaha

[prolifik5]

"Even if it don't make sense, it's making dollars

It don't take a scholar to see what's going on around you"

[akn0ledge]

Classic.... if u don't like this fuck u

[Apolloflow]

Who the eff DISLIKED this?

[endtroducing420]

Should change the name to Reflection Eternal for this one, Hi Tek deserves the credit also

[10badness]

Got this on wax somewhere :)

[aar0n2388]

the devastating reverend Tom in the buildin

[GSOent]

-Im open mics 2 solutions i gotta collage of answers

[ineligible76]

THANK GOD FOR REAL MCEE'S LIKE TALIB KWELI!!!

[DirtyMekanic]

I miss these days. The Rawkus movement was the realest movement in Hip Hop at that time. Mos Def, Co Flo, Shabaam Shadique, Thirstin, A.L. Skillz, etc. Big up to real Hip Hop.

[merancio04]

five per-centers continue to prepare the time is near...

[illestchicano]

P diddy, jay z, n all those rich black folks don't care about their people. All the rich Latin, Mex etc don't care about their people. The system is programed that way. They make it difficult to help anyone else.

[illestchicano]

What everyone needs to understand is that there is no escaping selling out when you're just that good. You have to remember we live in a capitalist nation, so selling out isn't the crime. The crime is if you preach about helping your people and go live the good life while kids are starving on the streets. In order to reach a larger audience pac had to play the game. He was an intelligent man, for that reason, he was killed. His charisma made his message n belief system powerful.

[igotsusy]

La Musica non va salvata...è lei che ogni volta salva noi.

E ogni volta che mi arrabbio, me lo scordo.....

[xlmidi]

"back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth with gold"

-kweli

[6angelo9]

This is all how it started! this was the 1st time i ever heard kweli..and ever since then i stuck with real emcees & never looked back.

[Gremlin212332]

unreal....one of the best verses ever man

[nixonking1]

It's a Banksy(street artist from Great Britian) Stencil!

[travisirving2009]

raw hip hop, sick lyrics. One of my favorites of the lyricist lounge vol.I

[obieone87]

whos the one idiot who voted this thumbs down

[darrick1972]

Then they came with the Dr. Doom shit at the end. Classic Hip-Hop all around.

[darrick1972]

Not the album cover. Very, very early Kweli circa 2000 Seasons. A personal favorite.

[yandiggles]

kweli- a fucking genius

[siougn]

If you rhyme for the loot then you a prostitute.... classic

[SHROOMSLA]

pretty dope.

[arozinsk]

LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH

[papayi139]

2pac 25000000 views..this classic but 19000...The hip hop 10 comandments!!!!

[yandiggles]

@papayi139

pac was cool before all the teeny boppers, and retards got a hold of him.

[jdbankshot]

@yandiggles nah, i beg to differ. pac was a dancer with digital underground in 1990, in 1991 he drops 2pacalypse now, tryin to capitalize on the whole gangsta thang. dude always been a poseur & a phony. intelligent & articulate, but a sell-out from the git go.

[astumpe80]

@jdbankshot I agree, but 2pacalypse Now and Strictly for My NIGGAZ were good shit......he REALLY sold out with Me Against the World and everything there after....

[frrrrruuunkis]

nice...i forgot about this shit.....

[Krcmeek]

in what album is this track?????

[dreyah33435]

It's from Lyricist Lounge Volume 1...

[jordan10304]

Lyricist Lounge Volume 1

[beonnow]

its otrich season!!!!!!! thank you kwe

[GrifterUno]

The rules of real hip hop in a dope track!!!

[almahdi23]

id like that outro

[threepennyg]

my favourite solo kweli track

...supposidly no one can come close to me/only/family really know me/hip-hop's last hope like Obin wan kanobi

[xlmidi]

rawkus was the shit!!!!

[jcam96]

nigga dont sell crack cuz they like to see black smoke .niggaz sell crack cuz they broke

this is my all time talib joint right here

im from chicago ...hip hop lives

[queenjilla]

this song is sooooooooooo sick!!!lovin'it!

[gavkasso]

personally ithink this his greatest moment

[eryoco12]

where is this song??

in wich disco???

[gallegotica]

wath is cypha¿?

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[Eley69]

setting up the rules..

[Ad3mBot]

god he says so much shit in this! amazing!

[Johnny8109]

"Make sure you crew is as tight as you cos when em nigguhs fall off they goen bring U down 2"

I´ve lived by that statement since this song came out and i first heard it. Important to remember, stay true to real friends, fuck the ones that shit on U

[thepurist111]

icant believe i slept on him for years

[graffboy384]

i like the BANKSY piece they got fo the pic

[Discothek49]

"for my people still breakin, graff writin and rappin" TRUEschool

[eyebreeze]

the cypha is never complete! kweli be the man

[eyebreeze]

the cypha is never complete! kweli be the man

[sirjayrang]

i like immortal tech a lot, and altho i appreciate that immortal is better i listen to talib more, i feel that immortal preaches a lil too much

[MikeyMoTheMC]

One of the best Kweli Songs ever....super dope...

The whole lyricst lounge album is ridicoulos.

YouTube Mikey Mo's Theme

[iluvmewwzik]

This is like one of the realest tracks I've ever heard in my life!!!

[crey86]

Every wack mc from this era should listen to this song before breakfast every morning.

these are lyrics. Word.

[circaeternity]

kweli bEEn THe BesT foR yeARs:

cue:"my StanZAs gOT stamINA,YouR verses LACK vERTebrae"...on "GOOD TO YOU".

On thIS SOng hE says "ni**az sell CRACK COS they BREAK"....GET THE METAPHOR?????

[dexxxhunt]

One of the illest kweli joints ever!

[3rdWorldCrusader]

REAL HIP HOP!

[painet1776]

Immortal Technique is #1

Talib Kweli #2

[ksh576]

Wordsmith right here!

[joegar317]

Damn, I miss this album. This was the track that got me so into Kweli and put Reflection Eternal on the map for me. Classic shit.

[coko5]

2nd best rapper ever!!! 1st is stic

[Traumacode]

Talib Kweli/Madlib Liberation

[constitutionextreme]

sick track.. awesome image.. whered u get it

[Traumacode]

got it from google. must be a album-cover, sorry i forgot the name of the group.

[myhomeboy]

@Traumacode. The image is a "Banksy" art piece

[unabsurde]

@constitutionextreme : The image is from Banksy, british street artist.

[akn0ledge]

@unabsurde that dude got some raw shit

[onlylettersinname]

@constitutionextreme its on the lyricist lounge cd

[hiphopisntdead]

I love this track...man the way Talib was flowin' on this beat..it just had me man...good looking on the track

[ChooseTheSword]

Some of Kweli's best material right here... The stuff he's putting out right now is nice, but this, Black Star and Train of Thought are on a whole other level.

[er1115]

wow. thats what i'm talking about

[Jzarecta]

Incredible lyrics from Kweli, so much sense tight and wrapped into intelligent verses that speak the truth.

[MadHatHarry]

Either u wid it or u aint is wot it boils down...

All the real emcee's meet me outside...

kweli's the bomb word up !!!

[thebeatwontstop]

THE MANIFESTO!! love it the lyricist lounge no.1 baby

[bigstat12]

Dope........first saw this performed live in ATL 1998 @ the Kaya.