This the year of the Blacksmith
Talib Kweli K-1
Let's go!
Yeah, yeah niggaz don't listen
Back in the days we all used to listen!
Now [bad word] is so wack, nobody listen!
To that real hip-hop, yo listen!

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready here [bad word] listen!
Talib Kweli and I'm bangin on your [bad word] 
Somethin I wanna tell you
Now let me get up in it
Wait, wait, wait, wait
Wait just a minute

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Start repentin cause the endin is near
But don't, panic you can't function if you livin in fear
Pay attention you gotta listen to hear 
Wait just a minute
Who the [bad word] you think you talkin to?
Put you on hold, get a specialist to walk you through
Kweli, the flow captain to fast or slow rappin
I'm soul crackin, you ain't heard your [bad word] appear like closed captions
King of the bars and I'm goin hardcores
All my [bad word] from knowin God's laws
Bangin on the system, fightin my kind of war
Loud as a whisper, quiet as a lion's roar

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready here [bad word] listen!
Talib Kweli and I'm bangin on your [bad word] 
Now let me get up in it
It's for your spirits so, but y'all don't hear me though listen!
Get up, get into it and get involved listen!
There's a little somethin that I wanna spit for y'all
Somethin I wanna tell you
Now let me get up in it
Wait, wait, wait, wait
Wait just a minute

Get it now, get it fast, get it right
Get it big, get it live, get it done, get it tight

Somethin I wanna tell you
But you don't really hear me though
I, spit it clearly so it's live at your stereo
To your heart while it's beatin in your chest
I'm speakin to execs in the seat behind the desk
To your spirit nuttin weaker than the flesh
So while you try to keep it fresh you gettin deeper in the depth
Real hip-hop is missin from the shelf
Yep, it's what you felt when you listen to yourself
Only a few is makin cuts that finish
So before you spend your hard-earned spinach
Wait just a minute

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready here [bad word] listen!
Talib Kweli and I'm bangin on your [bad word] 
Somethin I wanna tell you
Now let me get up in it
It's for your spirits so, but y'all don't hear me though listen!
Get up, get into it and get involved listen!
There's a little somethin that I wanna spit for y'all
Now let me get up in it
Wait, wait, wait, wait
Wait just a minute

Yeah, you love the [bad word] out your speaker
I spit rounds like a 9-millimeter
The youth today they, frown at the teachers
They ain't down with no leaders, they don't wanna wait just a minute
They like "What [bad word]  Wait right there
I got reservoir dogs, you be missin a right ear"
Listen!
Get it clear, figure is my year
I'm everywhere makin appearances in niggaz nightmares
Hear the word, peep the flow, check the cadence
What you heard is a pro I'm so amazin
Don't front girl you know it's your favorite
New Kweli yo [bad word] out of patience

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready here [bad word] listen!
Talib Kweli and I'm bangin on your [bad word] 
Somethin I wanna tell you
Now let me get up in it
It's for your spirits so, but y'all don't hear me though listen!
Get up, get into it and get involved listen!
There's a little somethin that I wanna spit for y'all
Somethin I wanna tell you
Now let me get up in it
Wait, wait, wait, wait
Wait just a minute

Yo, don't it sound so good to ya?
Uhh, it's the return of the greatest y'all
Talib Kweli, BKMC, Blacksmith is the movement
Blacksmith is the music, what you ridin for?
What you livin for, what you dyin for?
Bangin' on ya' [bad word]  yeah.

Listen!!!