If You Can Huh! You Can Hear Lyrics - Mos Def

Hey, yo man, I think that dude's tryin to break into your car 

what? 

New york life, type trife 

That's why I'm tryin' to shine the light, yo 

Here it come, here it come, here it come, y'all 

Mos def, blessed with the breath of life so arise and give praises 

Turn my face to where the mighty sun raises 

My book of rhyme pages, filled with phrases that amaze 

I could go on for days 

First name Dante, last name Beze 

Build the house of tomorrow with bricks of today 

My foundation rests on Allah corner stone 

Shine the light through the mic to radiate your zone 

See, the world that we know is about to get finished 

I'm watching last days wind down to final minutes 

Got dreams of paradise and my whole fam' in it 

So I ain't got time to play no crime lieutenant 

Do you got time to play the crime lieutenant? 

See time is the asset, how you gonna spend it 

The way you handle yours will be well documented 

It's the raw authentic, sandalwood scented 

To make you bump the joint and in beyond city limits 

Twenty-first, no time to, approach a thing timid 

My name is mos def and this is how I get in it 

Hey yo, my man (huh?) 

Somethin' tight comin' through the pipe (what?) 

You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed 

To incline throughout space and time (yeah) 

You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?) 

Somethin' tight comin' on your right (what?) 

You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed 

To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah) 

If you can huh, you can hear it 

If you can huh, you can hear it, we in your atmos' 

Shine like black gold, burn like black coal 

Make a old timer roll up her sleeves, now that's cold 

Behold, the one and only has blessed my testimony 

Approach the ceremony authentic, never phony 

For delf, but never lonely, keep the kinfolk close 

Watch me rip it on pacific and atlantic coasts 

With the antidote, for the poisonous snake lies wit 

Only wimps put the hiss on tape 

You can't get on straight, this is dead on tape 

Accompanied by Shawn j. with the bid on bait 

Put the grid on plate, on the ear or tray 

Hot damn it captain Kirk and the Klingons say 

You can't sit on stage, you got to get on the m-o- 

T-i-v-a-t-e real life, ain't no freebie 

My seed can't be needy, no time for freaky-deaky 

I'm movin' on up like george and wheezy 

Who said that this was easy, they must have been treetop high 

Standin' yieldin' to our boldfaced lie, we all got to die 

So all got to try, to live life right 

In the sight of most high, to live life right 

In the sight of most high, to live life right 

In the sight of most high, to live life right in the sight 

Hey yo, my man (huh?) 

Somethin tight comin' through the pipe (what?) 

You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed 

To incline throughout space and time (yeah) 

You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?) 

Somethin tight movin' on your right (what?) 

You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed 

To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah) 

If you can huh, you can hear it yo, my man (huh?) 

Somethin' tight comin' through the pipe (what?) 

You heard the first time, the rhyme is designed 

To incline the pure genuine (yeah) 

You don't believe, lend a ear, yo my man (huh?) 

Somethin' tight movin' on your right (what?) 

You heard the first time, my rhyme is designed 

To incline, I hold the fold to shine (yeah) 

If you can huh, you can hear it 

If you can huh, you can hear it, we in your atmos'