Gift of Gab

The gift of the gab, they have: BLACKALICIOUS, an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel. They are noted for Gift of Gab’s often «tongue-twisting», multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel’s «classic» beats.

•→http://genius.com=gift+of+gab⇐ / •→http://genius.com=blackalicious⇐

◊  ‘A  to  G’

◊  ‘Alphabet aerobics’  ↓

•→‘Make You Feel That Way’⇐   /   •→‘Way of the Light’⇐

♦  DJ Shadow   ⇓   ‘Midnight In A Perfect World’ (Gift Of Gab Mix)

Peep through the door
It seems as though the grass was much greener before
The dead life has been washed upon the sea shore
Money and greed deluded what is truly pure
And yet our flesh keeps screeching out for more

Now you’re trapped
A hole in the ozone about to make the world collapse
Pollution fills the air and minds with bullet twisted facts
Midnight is now upon us people righteous laws are coming back

Don’t turn your head away cause you can’t get away
Your mind is lost because your spirit has been led astray
Don’t ever say you gave it all if you ain’t gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it’s now approaching midnight

Panic’s in the air
Some jumping out of buildings others on their knees in prayer
Some cry out to the sky and yell they aren’t quite prepared
You looked god in the face and said forgive me all he did was stare.

Now you can run,
But where you gonna hide from all the power of the sun?
The cosmic repercussions of what human kind has done
No understanding of the fullness everything is simply one

Soon to be none again so that new life can come again
Illusions rule the mind your soul is never gonna end
So don’t pretend you gave it all if you ain’t gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it’s now approaching midnight

So I bid farewell.
No more good times or bad times, no more heaven no more hell.
Now brace yourself for impact it’s a half hour to twelve
Complete in total darkness empty space is where you’re left to dwell.

And all you had to do was live today for your tomorrow
But now it’s over and you’re drowning deep inside your sorrow
You could’ve led but instead you confirmed and chose to follow
So once again I bid farewell

There’s only seconds left you’d like to second guess
But through your foolish ways you’ve literally beckoned death
So just don’t say you gave it all if you ain’t gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it’s now approaching midnight

◊  Blackalicious  ↓  ‘World of Vibrations’

∇    ‘If I may’  ⇓   [«Nia»_1999]

[Erinn Anova (Chorus)]

Come along and reap
I need my song
We’re climbin’ over
Beneath the sea
March on
Time is almost gone
It’s all in me
No maybe

[Gift Of Gab]
Here we go again
Slip into my conscience, come along an take in
A story bout a battle, in this corner, Satan
Cunning, baffling, and jumping into half the drink
And suddenly disasters and catastrophe
And acting unrationally
Reacting savagely
To passionately
Bask in everlasting like escapes from just what its creating
Jeopardizin’ love
Look at all the people that you took advantage of
See your hypnotized
Rom be gone, take another cup
In consequences lurk
While the reaper got your shirt size
Nigga wack up
Times overdue for the birth of a power that the universe grew from

[Chorus 2X]

[Gift Of Gab]
You search for the answers outside
Refocus causin’ time and time again, backslide
You’ve noticed times before the presence of that «I»
But never did submit to it and let it apply
Whatever be his will in this present life time
Or essence like mine
Know the blessings you might find
If you let your higher power inside
Emerge and apply to every single thing in your balance
You will truly find
Who you really are
Die and become reborn
When God is present in your life than you can come reap on
And ain’t a storm that you can’t weather
You got a purpose you was born to create
Destiny is waitin’ for you
Arms open, take with ya
Knowledge bestowed by the great giver
Lakes, rivers
Mountains and steams
Now reality’s the dream wraitha
No more searchin’ for truth that was always wit’ cha
It had to hit ya through the struggle and the turmoil
Ya soul was planted and it sprouted out above soil
And let the sun shine freely down
At times it looked like it wouldn’t
But the plant came to flourish
Now it’s standin’ on solid ground

[Chorus 2X]

[Lateef]

Sun rises like water up in my eyes
I’m watchin’ changing times but like a changing tide
Tryna to keep my head above the ed if I could be

[Lateef & Erinn Anova]

The sun rises like water up in my eyes
I’m watchin’ changing times but like a changing tide
Tryna to keep my head up
Above the ed if I could be
Least
If I may

[Chorus 4X]