[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]
We fantastic, flippin' on tracks like gymnastics
Small brats get they ass kicked, me and Mos smash shit
Top gun like what comes after the, fist rockin' knife
Check the keys that get played on the roads/Rhodes of life
Yo, the rhyme is so heavy like a load off my chest
Drop 'em on these MC's, leave 'em broken like house pets
Priceless like the streets I'm on, my word is bond
You like Paula Abdul skat-kat compared to Sarah Vaughan
Sayin', "What did I do to be so black and blue?"
Got MC's sayin', "Damn! I gotta go on after you?"
Grab a microphone and do just what I have to do
A-yo, I'd like to stop and chat, but I'm just passin' through
You know I'd like to stop and chat, but I'm just passin' through
[Verse 2: Mos Def]
I'm on my way back to Lewis Avenue
Inside the Brooklyn and b-boy capital
Lot of cat chat be too black and radical
Say, my response is emphatically, "Yes!"
We emphatically fresh, you dramatically stressed
These MC's proceed to seize the presidential palace
And burn Babylon like a chalice!
Strive to maintain balance with the God-given talents
Articulate the article, eliminate the farcical
Black Star Line shine remarkable
They style ain't even comparable! (No way)
These so-called criminals is fictional
They make the party turn miserable
We document the memorable, then break 'em up like syllables
Stay down-to-earth like minerals (Wooooooh!)
Your style is foul like Dow Chemical
We five-dimensional — audio, visual, physical, spiritual, lyrical
Another world
[Hook]
Another world, y'all
We transmit another world
Another world, y'all
We transmit another world
Another world, y'all
We transmit another world
Black Star 'bout to shine, now what?
[Verse 3: Talib Kweli]
Yo, Mos! Ain't it a shame how these people treatin' life like a game?
Ain't gonna give you no fame by callin' out your name
Just explain how I do it and lead by example
Stay away from repetition, don't wanna sound like no sample
You can't handle this Messiah, my shit is classical
We get buck like Umfufu — "You treat me like animal!"
Just 'cause you got money don't mean you made it
Just 'cause you make it don't give you the right to be on that fake shit
Matter fact, stay out my face
I can't take it like them stupid big horse pills
Your defense is nil, my chatter shatter your force field
Kweli and Mos Definition with more lines than a petition
Yo, my mission is to break shit in half like intermission
Then get missin' with Hi-Tek in the wind like that
Costin' one million pounds 'cause it sounds so phat!
Lay you flat like the carpet
Take the tobacco out my spliff before you spark it
The only Thai I rock is Chocolate
Makin' profits like Spacely Sprockets, you can't stop it
To top it, we always gonna be black like markets
From the underground, look around and tell me what you see
Another picture painted perfectly by yours truly
[Hook]
Another world, y'all
Say what? Another world
Another world, y'all
Say what? Another world
Travellin' through time and space!
On the the Black Star Galactica
Yo! Another world, y'all
Another 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother world
Never, never, never soap opera
[Verse 4: Mos Def]
Whether you — Indian, Dominican, Jamaican or Bolivian
No matter what district, quarter or part of town you livin' in
I recommend you listen in to these distinguished gentlemen
Who take the proper measurement to represent!
Sorta home whose cornerstone is built on — way more than Benjamins!
Master MC carpentry
Talib put the Kweli in quality
Put the groundation down properly
You can't trespass the property
Ain’t takin' no break-in robbery
Got the home owner blast back policy — follow me?!
Descendant of the grand master armory
Where cats rock the Wallabee and Kangols
MC's exchange flows
The same goes on, they'll be here when we gone
Hope they heart stay strong for.. the other world
[Outro]
The other world, y'all
Say what? Another world
Another world, y'all
Say what? Another world
Another 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother world
Awaits you, awaits you, awaits you
Wake up!
Awaits you, awaits you, awaits you
Wake up!
Awaits you, awaits you, awaits you
Another, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother, 'nother world
Wake up!
Awaits you, awaits you, awaits you
Wake UP!
Awaits you, awaits you, awaits you
Wake up!
Awakes you, awakes you, awakes you
Wak-ey you, wake you, wake you
Wake you right on up!
Wake you right on up!
Wake you right on up!
Good mornin'!
Black Star Line wake you right on up!
Make you get on up!
Good mornin'!
Wake you right on up!
One-two, Black Star wake you right on up!
Good mornin'!
Wake you right on up!
Black Star wake you right on up!
Say what? Good mornin'!
Wake you right on up!
Black Star wake you right on up!
Say what? Good mornin'!
Wake you right on up!
Black Star wake you right on up!
Get up, get up, y'all
Get up, get up
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, let's make love tonight
Huh! Huh! Let's make love tonight
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Black Star shines tonight
