In the Red - Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek

Can you feel it?

Can you feel it?

Here we go, are you recording?

Aiyyo Tone, is it ah, ah on?

Let it bump, they love it in the red

Reflection Eternal, that other shit is dead

Yes, let me know if you alive

Put your hands in the air, let me know if bring it live

Hey, come on, hey, I love music

Music is the river, we floating, we get to live it

Like the souls of those swept away crossing the Mississippi

Honorary spokesman, my focus is so scary

Vocalist for the hopeless, I’m championing my city

Cracks in the levy, we catching the last ferry

Apply this application that’s crashing your Blackberry

Rock Steady like Aretha, it’s got heavy

What’s that about cat and mouse, Tom and Jerry?

Commissary get commissioned, the prison no sanctuary

For the locked up, every relationship adversary

Ain’t no replacement, so make a statement before you buried

With very legendary already, no need to worry

Pay attention to the music, led your hazard to bury

Mixed for transistor radio speakers, Marvin married

His daughter in sort of a quest for a father figure

The little Stevie Wonder was killing 'em at the shows

Best songwriter since Smokey and Quincy Jones

Gill Scott and Last Poets turned they poems into song

Everybody know that my favorite Nina Simone

Rest in peace Michael Jackson, I think I need a shamone

Paid attention to his lyrics, he wished we leave him alone

(Leave me alone)

Huh, leave him alone

Huh, leave him alone

James Brown and Michael Jackson was working until they gone

On tour just so they could make payments on they homes

Everybody cried when Usher sang him a song

Joe Jackson was promoting his label, he know he wrong

Shame how our heroes are broke, we call 'em stars

That’s because when they falling to earth, they falling hard

Everybody balling hard but they sound wack

If you in the resistance then this your soundtrack

Let it bump, they love it in the red

Reflection Eternal, that other shit is dead

Yes, let me know if you alive

Put your hands in the air, let me know if you alive