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Common( Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. )



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Common( Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. )

The Remedy

the remedy
Common featuring q-tip

Yo, we all got different things that we got to deal with. we always are
Trying
To put the blame on something else rather than sometimes looking at
Ourselves, recognizing a lot of the stuff that happens, sometimes it has to do
With other things...but if we look within ourselves, we could prevent a lot of
This nonsense sometimes, y'know. it's about
Relating back to the essence y'know what i'm sayin', where it all stems from.
I'm-a do my
Thing over this drum, like a native tongue.
Verse one q-tip:
Do what you will, if you feel that your steeze is real
Complicated with the skills over reel to reel
Brown skin is what i feel, my mind and body's appeal
Is to the no-frill mills, who hear the beats to chill
Constantly, i'm hearing black americans just sneering
Looking for a leader who can fill us up with ether
Hitting us up with great emotional chat
About the fact
That the black
Is constantly held back
Like 50 tracks back in a relay race
And the white team's ahead
So let's keep up the pace
And i be needing something that could feed my logical taste
At the end of the race is there a paradise place?
Yo, we can't get involved in what the next man is doing
Material gain we put too much in persuing
'yo duke, i need this dope so we can step to this party'
But we can all mardi grati
Minus that shit in our body
'what that got to do with that'
'cause kid that's the essence,
Your physical presence
Embodies every lesson
You can't run the rolls royce if the engine is busted.
Can't even life the knife to cut the mustard.
What we need to do first
Now listen to this verse
Let's concentrate on our spiritual plate.
Recognize your existence in this vast blue space
From a tiny cloud of blood
To the human beings with taste, sight, touch, smell
And sound
Let's deem it profound!
And prioritize this cause it was allah's wish
'allah? i'm god'
'no i ddon't believe that. that's a mystery'
'if god is so good why does shit be happening to me?'
There's divinity within
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Because we come from the divine
A force that's not seen but yo we feel it every time
When the wind blows, and the earth turns,
And the rain drops, and the babies cry
And the birds fly, and the grounds quake,
And the stars gleam, yo
So many things are evidence of its existence
What we need to do is link it with persistence,
Hear me out, yo
Once we recognize that, we can move ahead
Native tongues, common sense yo he's hip-hop bred...
Common:
From the spiritual world my former life has developed
First person i lost close to me was stella
Some of my mellows
Lost their mothers and their brothers
For them i feel empathy
But i ain't pouring out fuckin' hennessee
I pour my heart out when i see dot out on the deck
Knowing two weeks ago he slapped-boxed with death
I hear of niggas dying in the wind and on the news
But when it's somebody you know it hits you
And emotions get bruised
I ain't been in your shoes,
I won't judge you for knocking
Because the spirit of the ghetto says 'you gotta!'
They snatch you again from rock flippin'
Give back into the neighborhood, you better start kickin'
Stickin' stores
On the strip
I'm tired of arabs giving me my change back
Devil bomb my yesterday
My tomorrow he never gave back
I lay back, looking at the ceiling
Wondering what can i do
So my homie won't have to be dealing
Not cause you serving and i'm rapping i'm better
Just different pieces to the puzzle of black life
That we gotta put together, to better ourselves
Cause families we gotta raise
No matter how long the money
Shorter become the days
Men become like women
And no difference in the season
If you got popped five times
You breathing for a reason
Let's put this five, ten year come-up plan in progression
Before we count our papers
Count our blessings





Common( Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. )
Miscellaneous 1
Album songs
1.Drivin' Me Wild
2.Blue Sky
3.Raw (How You Like It)
4.Ghetto Dreams
5.Sweet
6.Lovin' I Lost
7.Gold
8.Cloth
9.The Dreamer
10.The Believer
11.Celebrate
12.Windows
13.Pops Belief
14.1 2 Many...
15.Can-i-bust?
16.High Expectations
17.I've Been Thinking
18.Resurrection '95
19.The Bitch In Yoo
20.The Remedy (Modify)
21.Come Close To Me
22.Reminding Me (Of Sef)
23.Any Given Sunday
24.A Film Called
25.8 Minutes To Sunrise
26.Act Too.. The Love Of My Life
27.Nag Champa
28.1-9-9-9
29.Electric Wire Hustler Flower'(feat. Sonny (P.O.D.)
30.Come Close'(feat. Mary J. Blige
31.New Wave'(feat. Laetitia Sadier
32.Between Me, You & Liberation'(feat. Cee-Lo
33.So Cool
34.I Got Right Ta - Featuring Pharrell Williams
35.Play Your Cards Right
36.Geto Heaven, Pt. 2
37.Aquarius (Clean)
38.Be
39.Pops Rap III... All My Children
40.Universal Mind Control (UMC)
41.Punch Drunk Love
42.'Between Me, You and Liberation'
43.The Sixth Sense
44.Electric Wire Hustler Flower - Featuring Sonny Of P.O.D.
45.One-Nine-Nine-Nine
46.Stolen Moments Pt. 2
47.Stolen Moments Pt. 1
48.Make My Day
49.Sex 4 Sugar
50.Announcement
51.Changes
52.What A World
53.Everywhere
54.Love Is
55.The Hustle (Clean)
56.Car Horn
57.U, Black Maybe
58.Tekzilla
59.Like They Used to Say
60.The Light - Album Version Edited
61.Universal Mind Control (UMC) - Album Version (Edited)
62.Testify - Album Version (Edited)
63.The People - Album Version (Edited)
64.Soul Power - Album Version (Edited)
65.Gladiator - Album Version (Edited)
66.Inhale - Album Version (Edited)
67.Start The Show - Album Version (Edited)
68.The Game - Album Version (Edited)
69.Break My Heart - Album Version (Edited)
70.It's Your World - Part 1 & 2 (Edited)
71.The Food
72.The Food - Live (Explicit)
73.Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) - Album Version Edit
74.The Bitch in Yoo (live at Tramps 1996)
75.'Come Close' Remix (Closer) Main
76.Come Close (Main)
77.1999 (Street Version)
78.Like They Used to Say (Radio Edit)
79.I Want You (Radio Edit)
80.Love Is... (All My Love)
81.The Sun God
82.I Used to Love H.E.R. (radio edit)
83.Stay Schemin (Remix)
84.The Ladder
85.City to City
86.The Light (remix)
87.Come Close - Edited Album Version
88.Come Close (Edited)
89.Come Close (Boojoo Bayou remix)
90.Come Close (Boozoo Bajou remix)
91.Come Close - Album Version (Edited)
92.The 6th Sense (clean)
93.Soul by the Pound (Thump mix)
94.The Corner (radio)
95.Come Close (album version)
96.Glory (From the Motion Picture 'Selma')
97.Announcement (Sped Up)
98.Food
99.The Corner - Album Version (Edited)