Common — Invocation Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2005

Hold on, hold on, Rash We tryna teach them how to rock with hip-hop I understand this is the jazz festival, but come on, man This is not hop-hop Hold on, there's this part on this, it's gon' come, bruh We gon' get 'em rockin' with this, check it out Yeah, yo, take that bitch back, Dummy Take it back like this, come on, we go... Envisioning the hereafter, listening to Steve Wonder On a quest for love like the Karriem drummer, uh Ah, I strike like lightning and don't need thunder Inhale imagination and breathe wonder Your lady, used to run up in her and G weed from her Dummy just summer, yo, yo Going forward seems like retreat I rewrite rhyme after rhyme and throw away beats Growing into my britches, outgrowing the streets A thin line between war and peace, whores and jeeps Ignore MCs like beeps, scribbling freedom on pages Third eye is like pink eye, seen and contagious Redeeming the ancients with ageless rhyme jargon Feel Mexican, hip-hop is my garden Don't give a fuck where you charting, certain shit I can't honor It ain't that you selling, it's your karma Rappers I monitor like a chaperone, you large but haven't grown Poetically perform live-bys, another rapper gone The stage becomes a catacomb, I rap like a mummy Not for money, coulda sampled Diana Ross a long time ago My mind of flow is like motor key 20 Youngblood said he had dimes, I prayed that he see twenty Hollering at the brothers, you gon' be a thug or a man? Flip drugs and get land I can see my man was tired as he described how the bucks hit him And said slugs was still stuck in him, when it rained, it fucked with him This bucket interrupt wisdom and asked when my album was coming It's here, it's here, it's here, it's here...