Close Edge - Mos Def

[00:00.66]Close Edge - Mos Def
[00:02.02]Pull up to ya spot on low
[00:03.36]Shine brighter than all o' them cats they got on glow
[00:06.37]Layin the cut like they not gon' know
[00:08.16]Cuz if I gotta make a move dawg they not gonna know
[00:10.6]This door marked private this is not fo' sho'
[00:13.11]It's Mos Def what you call real fo' sho'
[00:15.5]Is they what you call gangsta hell no
[00:17.87]They get a lil' pinch and go snitch to the po'
[00:20.37]They all talk fast and they all think slow
[00:22.76]I'm Mos Definite not think so
[00:25.27]Flood ya city with the black ink flow
[00:27.76]And my crew ain't scared to let them things go
[00:30.07]So stop with the nonsense like he conscious
[00:32.88]I'm just a wake dawg I'm doin' great dawg
[00:35.24]I don't play games so I don't playa hate y'all
[00:37.69]Get it straight or get the f**k up out my face dawg
[00:40.35]I'm like the second plane that made the tower's face off
[00:42.48]That shit that let you know it's really not a game dawg
[00:44.84]Your grind and my grind aint the same dawg
[00:47.14]I'm the catalogue you the same song
[00:49.9]So cool and ol' school like 84'
[00:52.19]The one ya lil mami windin' up her waist for
[00:54.65]The name that real niggaz got they hands raised for
[00:57.1]Me and Mini got ya block yellow taped off
[00:59.51]Don't push me (get off)
[01:00.66]'Cuz I'm close - To the streets
[01:03.08]To the beach the bitches the niggaz
[01:04.87]The women the children the workers
[01:06.23]The killers the addicts the dealers
[01:07.59]The quiet the livest the realest
[01:08.83]- And that's close
[01:09.93]Don't push me cuz I'm close
[01:11.88]To the edge back middle and front
[01:13.88]Strong back shit liftin' it up
[01:15.37]From the big and the small
[01:16.63]I'm like J Brown +Gettin' Involved+
[01:18.020004]But when I'm lettin' off around don't get in the cross
[01:20.7]Have ya preacher man speakin' low gettin' his cross
[01:23.03]Tell 'em wild cowboy not to get off they horse
[01:25.31]Before they find out the tailon is strictly enforced
[01:28.01]It's a real bad way to get ya name in the Source
[01:30.45]Testin' the limits of a dangerous force
[01:32.61]Ya ended up dumb famous and gone
[01:34.130005]Your people shoutin' out ya name in they song
[01:35.880005]Pourin' liquor on the day you was born
[01:37.81]Find paint to put ya face on the wall
[01:39.61]C'mon fall back there's no need for all that
[01:42.32]It's all good we all here goin' all out (all out)
[01:46.03]All day listen when this song say
[01:48.1]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close - To the streets
[01:51.490005]To the beach the bitches the niggaz
[01:52.94]The women the children the workers
[01:54.14]The killers the addicts the dealers
[01:55.31]The quiet the livest the realest
[01:56.47]- And that's close
[01:57.9]Don't push me cuz I'm close
[02:00.35]To the edge back middle and front
[02:02.07]Strong back shit liftin' it up
[02:03.54]From the big and the small
[02:05.19]I'm like J Brown +Gettin' Involved+
[02:06.56]Now get yours
[02:07.75]Bang da bang boom bang diggit
[02:09.74]Bang da bang boom bang diggit
[02:12.32]Bang da bang boom bang diggit
[02:14.72]Bang da bang boom bang diggit
[02:17.22]Bang da bang boom bang diggit