1-9-9-9 lyrics

Artist  : Common 
Song : 1-9-9-9



 Send "1-9-9-9" Ringtone to your Cell 

 (featuring Sadat X & Talib Kweli)  



"Still gettin mine, in the"
"ONE" "NINE" "NINE"
"NINE" 

*sample cut and played in background*



[Talib Kweli]

Yo, just relax, take it easy slow down

I had this, I had this friend of mine

Who just, you know, he was movin too fast,
yaknawimsayin?

I told him to slow down, he said the sun don't
chill

I said, I said still, I said still, you gotta

Just appreciate life, sit back, don't let it fly
right past you

No matter what go on I'm still gettin mine

No matter the year, no matter the place, no
matter the time



[Common]

Check it, it's like I'm fightin for freedom,
writin for freedom

These record company niggas I don't like when I
see em

My ancestors, when I'm writin I see em, and talk
wit em

Hopin in the promise land I can walk wit em

Shitted on, so many rappers it's like I'm in the
stall wit em

Molest concepts, start rhythm, paid dues, bought
wisdom

As legends fall my godmother answer heaven's
call

Preachers' daughters get fucked in the reverand's
hall

MC's reckless ?I ball? why y'all wanna go and do
that?

Must've thought I was solo, the name just ain't
the U-Ac

No mo', still together

Like in the ghetto photo wit one nigga in the
chair

Holdin liquor in despair, gang signs in the
air

I shine in spaces where time is just a glare

Hold the mic like a memory

Niggas say I'm nice wit metaphors but these are
similes

Street ministry, my poetry's a penitentiary,
track is visitation

Sentences is life, I'm like chief up in this
demonstration

Still...



"Still gettin mine, in the"
"ONE" "NINE" "NINE"
"NINE" 

*sample cut and played in background 4X*



[Sadat X]*in background during sample*

Check it out, everyday ha yeah

This how we gon' do it for y'all

Common Sense, Sadat X puttin something in your
ear

Something for you to grab

For the whole world, yaknowimsayin, but it ain't
free

It's a fee, check it out



You squirm wit this coughin, whippin cough

Six days of madness and you might throw me off

On this great ball of stress that they call the
earth

I'ma show y'all in rhyme just how much shit I
been through

And all the place I went to, always played the
low

It's like a competition, this mission here I'm
tellin you

Slip up and rhyme-ass niggas here is fellin
you

Crash courses, slow down you can't learn that
quick

'cause I'm the dead eye, wit the red eye, from
Chi to L-I

I thought y'all knew, every year I grew, I'm
still growin

And in a year or two I hope my girl'll be
showin

A male seed, praise God I name him Moses

I lead people I want him to, that's why I chose
this

Now is the glass half-full or half-empty

Common, why they tempt me?

The king of the simply, bore in mic

I always stay on top 'cause I give niggas what
they like

I know y'all hate that why I feel I owe y'all
everyday

If y'all hear it a thousand times, it's gon' be
the same way

The 'Dat-Father, go farther, why bother

Now I'm a peaceful man, I don't want no stress

You know I'm still...



"Still gettin mine, in the"
"ONE" "NINE" "NINE"
"NINE" 

*sample cut and played in background 3X*



[Common]

Yo yo, some get Range Rovers, some religion
change-over

Angel on my main shoulder tellin me remain
sober

Token nigga, game's over ain't no payola in
freestyle

In battles, I'm warring/Warren like a G-Child

Searchin for the child in me, this style in me

This release is like the piece that's now in
me

They tried to 'sassinate me god, like Martin on
the bal-cony

Lyrically I put a hit on em, 'cause I'm the
style-Nitty

Catch a flick at the Liquid Kitty

Tryin to get a chick to kick it wit me till the
tilt

Told her my Chamber's like Wilt

Built wit her for a sec, let her know I had
respect

Less than a hour she was givin me neck, yo I'm
still gettin mine...



"Still gettin mine, in the"
"ONE" "NINE" "NINE"
"NINE" 

*sample cut and played in background 4X*