[mos def]
  Bismillah ir rahman ir raheem *
  
  If you can hear me ladies and gentlemen
  Then i'm very happy that you came here..
  
  Ooh-ooooooooooohhhh, ooh-ooooooooooooooohh-wheeeee!!!
  That was for brooklyn..
  Ha ha, we get it everytime
  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? (hmmmm...)
  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 caause 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 socities 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-ooooooohhhhhhhhhh!
  That was for you - and brooklyn too!