Lightworks Lyrics

[Intro: samples & Talib Kweli]
"This is Bendix, the tomorrow people"
Today
"What is the magic that makes one's eyes
Sparkle and gleam, light up the skies? (*Commissioner*)
The name of the game is lightworks"
J Dilla, Kweli, Q-Tip, ayo
Ayo, ayo, ayo, ayo


[Verse 1: Talib Kweli & Skillz sample]
Blast from the past, yo, I'm back from the get go
Let's go, let's go, rap is special
Ya'll dudes gas like snaps on the petro
Flashy, like the gun blast in the ghetto
Sparkling like fireworks when we light up the sky
We independent like the 4th of July, why?

We ask a question that you forced to reply ("Yeah")
To shine through the night, through the orange sky blue ("Listen up")
Rhyme for survival ("Listen up") It's BK
Like Big Jay or Skyzoo, fly with the haikus
A pro with the pro's, still worse with the verse
Dispersin' the hurt to rappers gotta work with the nurse
Made it through first thank Q-Tip for taking a verse
See how they all up in my mug like they takin' a purse
Now that's hard, like the population of Rikers
This here easy, it's lightwork
[Chorus: Dorothy Collins sample]
"The shine effect sparkle and gleam
Light up the skies
The name of the game is lightworks"
"Light up the spliffs
The name of the game is lightworks"

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]
Dilla still in here, Kweli he still in here
Abstract on the track for filming fulfillment's here
Watch ya back, boys, there's culture vultures everywhere
Walking the calm streets thinking that theirs peace in there
Draow, they blind sided up in they creepin' in
After the rush I'm drinking ice quarter waters to sustain
For the long haul advice is a order
My vertical up that no way on the way back
Competition, I eat that I'll get sneaker contract
I'll mary a vixon, she'll come with the tricks and
She'll take all my mansions and all of my riches
And leave me with the flatscreen and my new game device
And my little black book, my boys and my brand new life
Now I'm playing on my TV screen
Beating niggas down looking Bruce Banner green
Lookin' at the high score, do you want more?

[Chorus: Dorothy Collins sample]
"The shine effect sparkle and gleam
Light up the skies
The name of the game is lightworks"
"Light up the spliffs
The name of the game is lightworks"
[Verse 3: Busta Rhymes]
Check, niggas say my flow is bananas
Yes, flow's sicker then another nigga
Looking up another man's ass
Yes, you can have the mayonaise
Bust your head and bang bitches
Up they cope and cabanas
And leave with yo bitch
My niggas will lay you out on a canvas
My clique consists of red and blue flags
We full of bandanas

Thorough like desperados, Antonio Banderas
My D crash floors, diamonds, them shits
As clear as a sunny day not a cloud in a sky
My nigga, whereas, yours look like
"Da da da, skippity boop" period
I'm so serious, flows makin hoes delirious
You wanna find out?
Bitch jump on my dick if you curious
J Dilla the godfather of the funk dubious
While you niggas think you the cell
I be the cell nucleus

You's the stupidest
If you think that you can ever contest the kid
Get outta here with ya groupie ass
[Chorus: Dorothy Collins sample]
"The shine effect sparkle and gleam
Light up the skies
The name of the game is lightworks"
"Light up the spliffs
The name of the game is lightworks"

[Outro: Busta Rhymes]
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Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip and Talib Kweli make a song to the beat of Lightworks by J Dilla where the sample comes mostly from a Raymond Scott song of the same name.

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November 27, 2007
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