Talib Kweli - Turnt Up lyrics

rate me

Hey yo Fed what’s up bro?

What’s up with me?

You know what's up with me man

I'm trying to get paid in full

Check this out right

Since Javotti is the label

And I'm talking over this def beat right here

I think we should turn it up

We got my man

Thinking of the master plan

But there’s nothing but cash inside my hand

Wanna dig into my pocket

My prophet is heaven sent

I dig deeper, you know I represent, represent

Yeah, money over bitches

My sisters go over everything

My bands will make you dance,

They acting just like a wedding ring

Far above the hate and the jealousy

That the cheddar bring

Trying to get away from the 85ers like Evelyn

Ride with me you got‘em leaking like Nene

Got‘em leaking like Wiki

These monkeys biting like hickeys

Cause they’re seeing what I’m doing

Filling them with confusion

Cutting just like a truant

I’m fluent just like a student

Of the romance languages

Only the diamonds hang with us

My meal is decorated with garnishes

Just like your wages is

The crib’s outrageous but really it's no joke

The girl of your dreams be coming over to smoke

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Drop it! Stop it!

With all the soap operas and the soap boxes

Turnt up, turnt up, turnt up, for the people

You can feel the heat from your speaker,

My sound will darken your features

Run it down like a zebra,

I move with the speed of cheetahs

I’m from Brooklyn where

The heat is the size of a two-litre

I ain’t asking for no followers

I'm looking for new leaders

Is hard not consuming all the bullshit they feed us

Intravenous like a cord

To the womb from the fetus

Been hard since I started reading

Alliteration is literally littered

Through my DNA swimming all through my semen

So every time I bust

Babies begin being born

Talk turns tough till them toasters that's tucked get

Drawn like a picture

Picture a perfect painting

Police profiling people peacefully praying

Lay the law like leaders

The lazy is lollygagging

On my grind getting guap

Guess green is the new black

Meet me at the bar we throwing a few back

Hopped out the car you know who blew that loud

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Drop it! Stop it!

With all the soap operas and the soap boxes

Turnt up, turnt up, turnt up, for the people

Hey yo we drink good smoke good

These cats wearing funny hats like the pope would

I come in looking quite clean in the loafer

So hood might scheme up to no good

You no crook Gosling in the Notebook

I got the birds on the wire like I know I know Wood

I still rep POCs like I'm supposed to

Coming live from death row like I know Suge

My rhymes like a laser beam so focused

I’m in the ring, so lean I need a foam cup

I ain't lying bare teeth so ferocious

Maybe I’m lying bare feet in the ocean

On the beach fall asleep on the floating

To the beat so unique like a potion

I love music I’m complete in my devotion

I’m complete in my devotion

Turn it up!

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Turn it up loud, turn it up loud

Drop it! Stop it!

With all the soap operas and the soap boxes

Turnt up, turnt up, turnt up, for the people