What's Beef lyrics

Artist  : Black Star 
Song : What's Beef
 
(Talib Kwali):

Yo, I was sold to a sick European by a rich
African Battle-man,

Middle passages, I can't go back again.

Battlin' years who denied history's lies,

while mystery's wive's, watching with misty
eyes

watching they niggas be beaten visciously

Battling this world is North America, 

ran by the river, only stopping to pray.

Change My Predators:

Terrorists with ediquiette, who vote and kill
they president,

Their capacity for evil so evident, and
prevalent.

Ain't no hesitation involved, a nation
dissolved,

while we sit back waitin' to evolve.

Those who'd trade they freedom for protection
deserve neither.

Fuck a name, fuck tradition, religion, you learn
Jesus.

Turn the other cheek, Inherit the earth, just
stay meek.

Fuck the way you speak, you try to walk, they
chop off your feet.

Fast forward to 2003; Niggas beef.

The psychology of choosin the slaves run
deep.



Chorus:

Hell Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

What's Beef?

Hell Yeah, yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

That's Beef

Hell Yeah, yeah yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Its always your own people, sometimes it's your
own people

X2



(Mos Def):

Yo, Beef is not what Jay said to Nas,

Beef is when working niggas can't find jobs.

So they try to find niggas to rob,

Try to find bigger guns so they can finish the
job.

Beef is when a crack-kid can't find moms,

cause they in a pine box, or locked behind
bars.

Beef ain't the summer Jam on Hot
Ninety-Seven.

Beef is the Cocaine and AIDS epidemics.

Beef don't come with a radio edit.

Beef is when the judge's callin you
defendant.

Beef, it come with a long jail sentence, 

Handed down to you in a few short minutes.

Beef is when your girl come through for a
visit,

talkin bout her pregnant, by some other
nigga.

Beef is high blood pressure, and bad credit;

Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to
get it.

And all your little kids is doin' is gettin
bigger,

You try to not raise them around the wild
niggas.

Beef is when a gold-digger got your seed in
her,

A manicured hand out, like, "Pay me
nigga,

Or I'm tellin your wife,

And startin up some foul rumors that'll ruin your
life."

Beef is when a gangster ain't doing it right,


And other gangsters then decide to do with his
life.

Beef is not what these famous niggas would do in
the mic,

Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight.
(that's right)

Beef is not what Ja said to Fifty.

Beef is world and earth(?) not being here with
me.

When a soldier ends his life with his own
gun,

Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his
son.

Beef is oil prices and Geopolitics;

Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip.

Some beef is big, and some beef is small,

But what y'all call beef is no beef at all.

Beef is real life, happenin every day, 

And its real-er than the songs that you gave to
K-Slay.

This has been a Black Star P.S.A.

From Mos Def, Pretty(?) Placo, Black Dante,

From the Black Star Embassy B to the K!

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