Stay Around Lyrics - Ear Drum - Talib Kweli

Ladies and gentlemen 

Yeah, Kweli 

Won't you stay around with me? 

And please say the rhyme 

'Cause these rappers think that 

I'm in love with your state of mind 

'Cause you a favorite of mine 

And I know you on your grind 

I don't want to waste your time 

But baby, won't you stay around with me? 

And let my love, let my love and let my love 

Now Kweli, you should rap about this, you should rap about that 

Any more suggestions? You in the back, yeah you 

You should rap more on beat, you should rap more street 

And never ever get your mack on please, how bout you? 

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I like the way you're melodic it's 'cause you capture hypnotic 

Portraits and seem to make the average exotic 

Probably unite, I know you getting some love 

But you can't spit like a thug 

And you a blow, you make a hit for the club, word 

I don't like your voice, I don't like your choice of beats 

It 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-Tek 

Now he got nice tracks, them other dudes is type wack 

Yeah, people keeping it coming, I keep it bubbling 

Like the heat from oven boiling the water and the hate 

So they light my fire 

I got a mic empire, my own label 

I had to emancipate me-me like Mariah 

At some point I might retire, on some bullshit 

My legacy, horseshit like Mariah's 

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Illest flow found in the game 

Soothing like the sound of the rain 

It's the dude profound with the fame 

I refusing to be sounding the same 

Keeping the verses, deleting the curses 

Defeating the purpose when the people go on strike 

I'm in the street with the workers 

Speaking the words from a pulpit 

Like the preachers at churches 

Raise my hand, all the teachers get nervous 

'Cause they know I air 'em out 

And they ain't even really gotta hear me out 

Keep it dirty like pigpen, voice in the warrior's head 

Like [Incomprehensible] 

Clocking like Big Ben, old school slang 

Still find a way to innovate 

Pete Rock got 'em feeling great, the ladies say 

Won't you stay around with me? 

And please say the rhyme 

'Cause these rappers think that 

I'm in love with your state of mind 

'Cause you a favorite of mine 

And I know you on your grind 

I don't want to waste your time 

But baby, won't you stay around with me? 

And let my love, let my love and let my love 

Light the tip of the L, this heavyweight rap tipping the scale 

And we never let the system prevail real picturesque, missing the sale 

Never that, it's forbidden like the candy sisters lifting the veil 

I'm still leading the pack, these cats lacking 

Just because you be having a dragon don't mean you got the fire 

It ain't nothing to play with, it's sacred 

My pen is the paintbrush and dipping in paint plus 

Truth, love, joy, anger, hatred and anguish 

That's the spectrum of colors I paint with 

I don't feast at the banquet 

'Cause freedom is the set that I bang with 

Listen the conditions in my slum village is tainted 

I grew through the pavement 

Like the flower the girl drew in the paper 

The sky bluer and the [Incomprehensible] save you 

The rules of engagement that they use, attitudes of a slave 

Man got me stressed out losing my patience 

The moves that I'm making across waters 

Through contraband that I'm taking across borders 

Information never lost in translation 

Too many new words to be learned 

I'm spitting fire giving third degree burns 

Giving them heat stroke, hotter than rocking a P cote 

[Incomprehensible], all these rappers super like me so, we go 

Back in the days like reminiscing with Pete yo 

Ladies welcome to the Kweli show, she goes 

Won't you stay around with me? 

And please say the rhyme 

'Cause these rappers think that 

I'm in love with your state of mind 

'Cause you a favorite of mine 

And I know you on your grind 

I don't want to waste your time 

But baby, won't you stay around with me? 

And let my love, let my love and let my love 

Ladies and Gentleman, it's Talib Kweli 

Yeah, this Ear Drum y'all 

B-b-banging on your ear drum 

We got the incredible Pete Rock on the track like 

I like that, I like that 

I want to give an extra big shout to my man Dave Dart 

Holding me down as always and as usual 

And his new born son, Cannon, brand new to the world 

He's now down with Blacksmith 

Blacksmith is the movement 

Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady gang 

Talib Kweli, it's what it is, yeah