Talib Kweli: Stay around

Ladies and gentlemenKweli![Hook]Won't you stay around with me?...And please say the rhymeCause these rappers think that I'mIn love with your state of mindCause you a favourite of mineAnd I know you on your grindI don't want to waste your timeBut baby won't you stay around with me?...And let my love (and let my love)And let my love[Verse 1]Kweli you should rap about this, you should rap about thatAny more suggestions? You in the back, yeah youYou should rap more on beat, you should rap more streetAnd never ever get your mack on please, how bout you?I like the way you're melodic, it's cause you capture hypnoticPortraits and seem to make the average exoticProbably unite, I know you getting some love, but you can't spit like a thugAnd you a blow, you make a hit for the club, wordI don't like your voice, I don't like your choice of beatsIt sounds like it's forced, and what was up with "Back Up Offa Me"?I ain't like that, man you should get with Hi-TekNow he got nice tracks, them other dudes is type wackYeah, people keeping it coming, I keep it bubblingLike the heat from oven boiling the water and the hateSo they light my fire...I got a mic empire, my own labelI had to emancipate me-me like Mariah...At some point I might retire, on some bullshitMy legacy, horseshit like Mariah's...Illest flow found in the game, soothing like the sound of the rainIt's the dude profound with the fame, I refusing to be sounding the sameKeeping the verses, deleting the curses, defeating the purposeWhen the people go on strike, I'm in the street with the workersSpeaking the words from a pulpit like the preachers at churchesRaise my hand, all the teachers get nervousCause they know I air them outAnd they ain't even really gotta hear me outKeep it dirty like pigpen, voice in the warrior's head like ??Clocking like Big Ben, old school slang still find a way to innovatePete Rock got em feeling great, the ladies say[Hook]Won't you stay around with me?...And please say the rhymeCause these rappers think that I'mIn love with your state of mindCause you a favorite of mineAnd I know you on your grindI don't want to waste your timeBut baby won't you stay around with me?...And let my love (and let my love)And let my love[Verse 2]Light the tip of the L, this heavyweight rap tipping the scaleAnd we never let the system prevail, real picturesque, missing the saleNever that, it's forbidden like the candy sisters lifting the veilI'm still leading the pack, these cats lackingJust because you be having a dragon don't mean you got the fire...It ain't nothing to play with, it's sacredMy pen is the paintbrush, and dipping in paint plusTruth, love, joy, anger, hatred and anguishThat's the spectrum of colours I paint withI don't feast at the banquet, cause freedom is the set that I bang withListen the conditions in my slum village is taintedI grew through the pavement, like the flower the girl drew in the paperThe sky bluer and the ?eye's? save youThe rules of engagement that they use, attitudes of a slaveMan got me stressed out losing my patienceThe moves that I'm making across watersThrough contraband that I'm taking across bordersInformation never lost in translationToo many new words to be learned, I'm spitting fire giving third degree burnsGiving them heat stroke, hotter than rocking a P coteAt ??, all these rappers super like me so, we goBack in the days like reminiscing with Pete yoLadies welcome to the Kweli showShe goes...[Hook]Won't you stay around with me?...And please say the rhymeCause these rappers think that I'mIn love with your state of mindCause you a favorite of mineAnd I know you on your grindI don't want to waste your timeBut baby won't you stay around with me?...And let my love (and let my love)And let my love[Outro]Ladies and Gentleman, its Talib KweliYeah, this Ear Drum y'allB-B-B-B-Banging on your ear drumWe got the incredible Pete Rock on the track like...I like that, I like thatI want to give an extra big shout to my man Dave DartHolding me down as always and as usualAnd his new born son, Cannon, brand new to the worldHe's now down with Blacksmith, Blacksmith is the movementJean Grae, Strong Arm Steady gang, Talib KweliIt's what it is, yeah