What's Beef?

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If this has been posted before. I'm sorry.

Black Star

What's Beef?



[Talib Kweli]
Yo I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin

Middle Passages, I can't go back again

Battlin years of denyin history, lies with mysteries

Wives with misty eyes watchin their niggas be beaten viciously

Battlin the worldliness and North America

Ran by the river, only stoppin to pray

Shaped up predators

Terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their president

Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent

Ain't no hesitation they rob, a nation dissolved

While we sit back waitin to evolve

Those who would trade in their freedom

For their protection deserve neither

Fuck a name, fuck tradition

Religion - you learn Jesus

Turn the other cheek

Inherit the Earth, just stay meek

Fuck the way you speak

Try to walk, we chop off your feet

Fastforward to 2003, niggas beef

The psychology of children are slaves to run deep

[Mos Def and Talib Kweli]

Hell yeah, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

What's beef? hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

That's beef, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

It's always your own peoples

Sometimes it's your own peoples yo

Yeah yeah, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

What's beef? hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

That's beef, hell yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yo

It's always your own peoples

Sometimes it's your own peoples yo

[Mos Def]

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas

Beef is when workin niggas can't find jobs

So they tryna find niggas to rob

Tryna find bigger guns so they can finish the job

Beef is when the crack kids can't find moms

Cuz they end up crime box or locked behind bars

Beef ain't the Summer Jam for Hot 97

Beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic

Beef don't come with a radio edit

Beef is when the judge is callin you "defendant"

Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence

Handed down to you in a few short minutes

Beef is when your girl come through for a visit

Talkin bout "I'm pregnant by some other nigga"

Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit

Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to get it

And all your little kids is doin is gettin bigger

You tryin not to raise 'em around these wild niggas

Beef is when a gold digger got ya seat and a

A manicured hand out like "pay me nigga"

Or I'm telling your wife

Or startin up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life

Beef is when a gangster ain't doin it right

Another gangster then decided what to do with his life

Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic

Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight

Yeah, beef is not what Ja said to 50

Beef is more than Irv not bein here with me

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun

Beef is tryin to figure out what to tell his son

Beef is oil prices and geopolitics

Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip

Some beef is big and some beef is small

But what y'all call beef is not beef at all

Beef is real life happenin everyday

And it's realer than them songs that you get at Kay Slay

This has been a Black Star PSA

From Mos Def, Pretty Flocko, black Dante

And the Black Star embassy, B to the K

[Individual]

What's beef you ask?

Beef is the meat cut from a cow.

Those words aren't beef, cow meat is beef.

Quit trying to mislead our Che-Lives members (*.

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guilty as charged....will there be a "boot (* from CC" thread soon?

:lol: :cool:

[Hampton]

Ah, such a good song, espically around the time of the more recent stupid hip hop "feuds" that are only made up so the artists involved can sell more records and not being about the art.

It's also a nice opposite to Biggie's What's Beef (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Notorious-B-I-G/What-s-Beef.html)

[Shifty]

thanks for posting these lyrics..i just saw the performance of it on chappelle show...dope indeed =D

[Hate Is Art]

I'm lost on this song? What is beef exactly in the context and how is this song dope?

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The point is to show that petty conflicts (say between rappers) mean nothing, there are much worse things afflicting the world. Beef refers to a problem (With someone or something).