Universal Magnetic

[Mos Def]

Yeah, ha ha ha

A-B-boys rock the world

CD's and tapes help generate papes

E-F is the important Def

G-good, H is what style be

When I grab the microphone and MC

Roll off the tongue like L-M-N-O-P

And when I am done you will agree

Mos Def represent most definitely

Jesus what I used to rock it in '83

Drank up all the Kool-Aid at the block party

Used to wish I could break the Rock Steady

Wash this be the brown shoe on TV

But now it's not dis and it's on like THIS

My name is Mos Def, this is good as it gets

Baby I make you rub your lips like sardines and grits

My what still hits even when the record skip

Even when the record skip

Even when the record skip

I don't quit, I don't quit

We bout to make this one a sure hit

Sean J. make the party people feel it

(Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce a very

Interesting young man that has traveled from very far

Away to be with us tonight)

[Mos Def]

Ha ha ha, what uh-huh

There is such a place, that creates such a melody BROOKLYN

No ladies it's a ?living G?, it's a living G, it's a living G

LOVE LIKE THIS

Recognize all area crew, whether you speak Japanese or Goony Goo

Goo

Son when I come through, other rappers boo-hoo

Cuz they know they style's soft like baby doo-doo

I will continue, to hit like a fifth of stolen Naya

Puttin jokers on ice to get the cream like Breyer

No secret, Mos Def is the one that hunts a Mya

I get in my stance and set the dance on FIRE

Spread out my wings and I take the world HIGHER

Peace to the fam magnetic in the Chi

Job-on, top Sean and my man Ahtu

And all my other clan who reside in the Zoo

Got a celebrated oatmeal broadcast crew

Mos Def gon keep it naked like Um Fu-Fu (EDDIE!!)

Put it here to the tape like crazy glue

So when they bounce out of speakers they stick to you

The way that I communicate is non-typical

But high level like a 3-D visual

I hold the mic extensive, exhibit level and dimension

I radiate the space like a up-right bass

Son I leave crews laced and escape wit no trace

Sound official like the finish time at a horse race

Here to put it in place, for the nine-uno-seis

Mos Def set the pace, make your fam give chase

Raise your hands in the air, everybody get wit it

Universal Magnetic b-boy, scientific

It's like that and you don't stop

It goes onto the rhythm you don't stop

Raise your hands in the air, everybody get wit it

The Universal Magnetic B-BOY, scientific y'all

You don't stop, it goes onto the rhythm bust it

Baby it's in my chromosomes to ROCK

Microphones sets who wanna test the M-O

Best to leave that *nigga* alone

I make no bones or poems about droppin bars

I make the world full swing under the Mos Def YES

I ring the alarm like tennis sore

My style hella-raw, I keep it raw bone like Skeletor

And you should go and tell your clientele

That they need to get The Message like Melle Mel

I got the -- locked like a Death Row show

And if I ain't a b-boy, Premier never used a bell (ding ding)

So tell your boy, (what) crew to retire

Before I make they *ass* catch fire like Richard Pryor

Nondescriptive fiendin for riches, callin earths *bitches*

But most of y'all brothers is livin wit your mothers

Your Boogie Man yankin up your covers

Sharper than some new box cutters, on Parkay's and butters

And Stevie Wonder's, to make you run and tell the others

The beat lovers, and play my jam like the numbers

Son I rock the globe like I rocked your boat

I'm bout to tap it on your shoulder cuz you got to know

Now raise your hands in the air, everybody get wit it

The Universal Magnetic b-boy, scientific

Like that, and you don't stop

It goes onto the rhythm you don't stop

And raise your hands in the air, everybody get wit it

Universal Magnetic B-BOY, (hooo!!) scientific

You don't stop, it goes onto the rhythm you don't stop

Raise your hands in the air, everybody get wit it

Universal Magnetic b-boy, scientific

Like that, and you don't stop

It go onto the rhythm you don't stop

Now raise your hands in the air everybody get wit it

The Universal Magnetic in a b-boy stance