Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem      If you can hear me, Ladies and Gentlemen   Then I'm very happy that you came here      Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, we   That was for Brooklyn   Ha ha, we get it every time   You got me on? Ohh      Shout out to all of my crew, East-West, North-South   All the continent, Europe, all abroad international   Bring it in, bring it in, bring it in, bring it in   It's a lot of things goin' on y'all      21st century is comin', 20th century almost done   A lot of things have changed, a lot of things have not, mainly us   We gon' get it together right? I believe that   Listen, people be askin' me all the time      Yo Mos, what's gettin' ready to happen with Hip-Hop?   (Where do you think Hip-Hop is goin'?)   I tell 'em, "You know what's gonna happen with Hip-Hop?   Whatever's happening with us"      If we smoked out, Hip-Hop is gonna be smoked out   If we doin' alright, Hip-Hop is gonna be doin' alright   People talk about Hip-Hop like it's some giant livin' in the hillside   Comin' down to visit the townspeople, we are Hip-Hop      Me, you, everybody, we are Hip-Hop   So Hip-Hop is goin', where we goin'   So the next time you ask yourself where Hip-Hop is goin'   Ask yourself, where am I goin'? How am I doin'?      'Til you get a clear idea   So, if Hip-Hop is about the people   And the Hip-Hop won't get better until the people get better   Then how do people get better?      Well, from my understanding people get better   When they start to understand that, they are valuable   And they not valuable because they got a whole lot of money   Or 'cause somebody, think they sexy      But they valuable 'cause they been created by God   And God, makes you valuable   And whether or not you, recognize that value is one thing   You got a lot of societies and governments      Tryin' to be God, wishin' that they were God   They wanna create satellites and cameras everywhere   And make you think they got the all-seein' eye   Eh, I guess the last poets wasn't, too far off      When they said that certain people got a God Complex   I believe it's true   I don't get phased out by none of that, none of that   Helicopters, the TV screens, the newscasters, the      Satellite dishes, they just, wishin'   They can't really never do that   When they tell me to fear they law   When they tell me to try to      Have some fear in my heart behind the things that they do   This is what I think in my mind   And this is what I say to them   And this is what I'm sayin', to you check it      All over the world hearts pound with the rhythm   Fear not of men because men must die   Mind over matter and soul before flesh   Angels for the pain keep a record in time      Which is passin' and runnin' like a caravan freighter   The world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked   But God is sufficient in disposin' of affairs   Gunmen and stockholders try to merit my fear      But God is sufficient over plans they prepared   Mos Def in the flesh, where you at, right here   On this place called Earth, holdin' down my square   'Bout to do it for y'all, and y'all at the fair      So just bounce, come on bounce   B-b-bounce, b-bounce, b-bounce-bounce   And just, just step two three   Just step two three and      Step two, two three and   One two three and four   One two three and four   Once again      All over the world hearts pound with the rhythm   Fear not of men because men must die   Mind over matter and soul before flesh   Angels for the pain keep a record in time      which is passin' and runnin' like a caravan freighter   The world is overrun with the wealthy and the wicked   But God is sufficient in disposin' of affairs   Gunmen and stockholders try to merit your fear      But God is sufficient over plans they prepared   Mos Def in the flesh, where you at, right here   On this place called Earth, holdin' down my square   'Bout to represent in your whole atmosphere      'Bout to represent in your whole atmosphere   To your atmosphere, to your atmosphere   Oh ooh   That was for you and Brooklyn too