"Mirror, mirror on the wall
Tell me, mirror, what is wrong?
Can it be my De La clothes
Or is it just my De La song?"
"All I need is one mic"
"In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness,
Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives"
"Honey check it out, you got me mesmerised"
"I'm not your average MC with the Joe Schmoe flow
If you don't know me by now, you'll never know"
"Party People, get low, get funky!"
"It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail"
"Get 'em up, Get 'em up, WHAT?!"
"Yeah, you pronounce my name *KWELI*"
"Back in elementary, I thrived on misery
Left me alone, I grew up amongst a dying breed"
"I be the street hit
The brotha yo momma freak wit"
"Once in a blue moon, I might stumble across thoughts like...
What's the meaning of life? It triggers foresight"
"I was a child of the 80's, growing up in the 90's,
A small black child of Power, you couldn't find me"
"Difficult preaching is posdnuos' pleasure
Pleasure and preaching starts in the heart"
"You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion
Happiness, living on tha streets is a delusion"
"Can you picture my prophecy?"
"She got a... condition of the heart, a heart condition,
so as a kid... she had to adapt, to smarter living"
"I had this bad bitch in town, She was WO!"
"Are we living in a dream world?
Are your eyes still green girl?"
"Yeah nigga what, what a surprise
Get ya sumn', make a nigga close both of your eyes"
"Yea,
They coming for me, they running up
I'm on my balcony, seeing through the eyes of Tony
They say we homies, but I see hatred
Do not they not know brotherly-love is sacred?"
"I wanna be as free, as the spirits of those who left,
I'm talking Malcolm, Cold-train, my man Yousef"
"y raps do laps around tracks and adapt
To any enviroment, I'm the comma comma Chamelion"
"Lights out, so peaceful, stressless,
things used to seem so restless"
"From the first time I saw you, infatuation
Pulled to the side to provide conversation
Wild reputation but you were so cool
Any old fool knew that you was a jewel"
Zion I - Bird's Eye View (discussing Hip Hop). Other lines provided for the context.
