Spike Lee Was My Hero Lyrics - A Dream Deferred - Skyzoo

[Featuring: Talib Kweli] 

[Hook: Skyzoo] 

I heard D's from my pillow, right? 

Made me lean out my window, right? 

Knew the scene from the get go, right? 

But Spike Lee was my hero 

Say you here by any means 

Tell 'em ditto, uh 

But Spike Lee was my hero 

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[Verse 1: Skyzoo] 

For the heroics, capes on to notice 

Waited for them to show it and traced all of the motives 

The motive beyond reason to pay us all in the open 

Like maybe all them below us is waiting for us to throw this 

If money talks in another kind of slang 

They hover by it again til you changing all that you've spoken 

Like "where the speech at?", tell em that you breathe that 

And shit is asthmatic the way they hang on the feed back 

Fuck em all until they know that you mean that 

And they're ripping up your drivers side, digging thru your g-pack 

Talking Hamsterdam and they don't believe that 

And hanging out my window helped me see that 

You know the scene, rubbing shoulders with the cast like I wrote the lead 

Shit I just wrote where we was at and put that over these 

Bad bitches want Isabel Marants 

And we all tryna give them what they want so you know the speed 

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[Hook] 

[Verse 2: Skyzoo] 

They said its rules to the shit 

Money that should be ours, the pursuance from the get 

I'm true indeed for a flip 

I'm due in need of a flip, but as true to me as it is 

I'm still, truly yours and truthfully for the win 

I'm still, doing more for you and me off the rip 

I'm built, by what I saw so usually what it is 

Is everything that it was, beautifully on the strip 

Standing underneath an awning and hoping to get a morning 

I swear they so belonging 

Of all of these wide bodies and whatever other callings 

Of all of these Nola Darlings 

The tug of wars on Strike Dunham and Dap Dunlap 

The Jesus Shuttlesworths and what it took to become that 

The phone booth can be where you change or where you pump at 

My heroes took turns wit who would run that 

So for all the Pierre Delacroixs, the Man Tans and Sleep-N-Eats 

And all the money from hand to hands that we can keep 

[Hook] 

[Verse 3: Talib Kweli] 

I live amongst the proud neighbors who bang louder than Al-Qaeda 

Moving them keys like Cal Tjader for the cheese like Sal's Famous 

Fiends looking for houses where the rock's probably cooking 

On the corners we BBQ on the block parties in Brooklyn 

The birthplace of Jordan, you wore them if you was hard enough 

Fucking with Nikes, why you think the Spike's so popular? 

The block is like a prison with night vision they watching us 

On top of us with binoculars to properly get the drop on us 

I'm topical like Clockers cause crack kills 

They making a movie, but I'm making black films with my rap skills 

They standing on the corners looking vexed, looking stressed 

Having to stoop to new lows like Brooklyn steps 

First fight in Fort Greene, got respected in Brooklyn Tech 

Spike's joint across the street, of course I was looking fresh 

Now I'm coming for what's mine, the hoarders call it extortion 

40 acres and a Porsche with more than 400 horses, yeah! 

[Hook] 

[Bridge: Skyzoo] 

One of the few who had his pops out the whole block 

Told me never to settle or let the dough stop 

Leave here with as much as you can hold Sky 

And point blank 'em if they ever come at yo' tie 

Made me follow every script that Spike ever wrote 

So how I write is cuz of them 

Rightfully so 

The irony of wanting everything I could be shown 

But seeing life like a Lee 

Rightfully so