Common Sense - 6th Sense

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The revolution will not be televised
The revolution is here
Yeah, it's Common Sense, with DJ Premier
We gonna help y'all see clear
It's real hip-hop music, from the soul, y'all
Yeah, check it, yo

The perseverence of a rebel I drop heavier levels
It's unseen or heard, a king with words
Can't knock the hustle, but I've seen street dreams deferred
Dark spots in my mind where the scene occured
Some say I'm too deep, I'm in too deep to sleep
Through me, Muhammed will forever speak
Greet brothers with handshakes in ghetto landscapes
Where a man is determined by how much a man make
Cop Cognacs and spit old raps with young cats
with cigarettes in their ear, niggerish they appear
Under the Fubu is a guru, that's untapped
Want to be in the rap race but ain't ran one lap
Ran so far from the streets that you can't come back
You tripping with nowhere to unpack, forgot that

Chorus: (Scratched by DJ Premier with variations):

"This is rap for real, something you feel"
"And you know, yes you know"
"Rap for the black people"
"Heeeeyyyy, heeeeeyyyy"

In front of two-inch glass and Arabs I order fries
Inspiration when I write, I see my daughter's eyes
I'm the truth, across the table from corporate lies
Immortilized by the realness I bring to it
If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music
My music, you either fight, fuck, or dream to it
My life is one big rhyme, I try to scheme through it
Through my shell, never knew what the divine would bring to it
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want millions
More than money saved, I wanna save children
Dealing with alcoholism and afrocentricity
A complex man drawn off of simplicity
Reality is frisking me
This industry will make you lose intensity
The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I'm Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit

Chorus

Somedays I take the L to gel with the real world
Got on at 87th, stopped by this little girl
She recited raps, I forgot where they was from
In 'em, she was saying how she made brothers cum
I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected
How many dead folks this art resurrected
How many nations this culture connected
Who am I to judge one's perspective?
Though some of that shit y'all pop true it, I ain't relating
If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hating
I just want to innovate and stimulate minds
Travel the world and penetrate the times
Escape through rhythms in search of peace and wisdom
Raps are smoke signals letting the streets know I'm with 'em
For now I appreciate this moment in time
Ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes, it's like

Channel: Music
Uploaded: April 5, 2008 at 11:16 am
Author: mdynasty607

Length: 00:05:19
Rating: 4.96
Views: 15852

Tags: hip-hop rap common sense dj premier premo classic hiphopswordsmen conscious real

Video Comments:
syazwankhan (September 30, 2008 at 6:48 am)
Common is the rapper but premier is the producer..he got skills in making real hip-hop beats
banana2877 (September 28, 2008 at 1:14 am)
この曲が一番好きです！
nzrecords (September 27, 2008 at 12:37 am)
True rap!
Juhozzi (September 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm)
REAL HIP HOP. COMMON IS THE KING
ozzyjama (September 10, 2008 at 6:17 pm)
common sense iz d best truest lyricist alive nowadays including Immortal technique nd talib kewali nd some otherz
ANTIracist123 (September 18, 2008 at 11:58 pm)
there r loads of alternative hip hop artists who have some amazing lyrics. the ones ur namin are quite well known
stuckLikeglue (August 30, 2008 at 7:31 pm)
this is a great song! common before he lost his sense!
nsrrr19 (September 12, 2008 at 5:03 am)
what do you mean he lost his sense. his last two albums were great. its just that he considers kanye the "new premo"...which is depressing.
fore1er (September 21, 2008 at 12:13 am)
you dummy
he used to be called common sense, but took of the sense bit cos of some legal shit lol
nsrrr19 (September 21, 2008 at 6:13 pm)
oh. i knew that...i just didnt realize that stuckLikeglue was making a pun =[

my bad.