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An A&R told me that I use too many catchphrases Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

True story. I don’t remember his name, he was from Sony. This song sure doesn’t have any though.

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10 years

talib kwali. I love your songs im A rapper TOO AND I WANT BLOW UP TOO

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thanks bro

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What you know about the space you get lost in?
Your peoples can't hear you in the distortion
The desert is absorption Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

This line contains a reference to the TV show Lost In Space and jumps back to the desert metaphor I made earlier in the song. Also, “the desert is absorption” is a line from the book 2000 Seasons

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added at October 20th, 2013 22:10
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When the night is clear
You understanding just who put them there Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

This line is about having a personal relationship with God

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added at October 20th, 2013 22:08
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In a stars map what sky is this one?

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aya priceless
8 years

TALIB I LISTEN TO U EVERYDAY FOR WISDOM AND HUMBLENESS ALL THE WAY FAR IN GHANA AFRICA

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Yo, I call it reparations, but they call it extortion Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

Reparations is the idea that blacks should receive some money for what we went thru during slavery. America has paid reparations to Japanese people for atrocities against them during WWII but America has never been honest enough with itself to even deal with the idea of reparations for blacks who’s ancestors were forced here thru the slave trade.

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Reparations for African-Americans (unlike those paid to Japanese people by the United States or to Jews by Germany) is based on the idea that the decedents of slaves should be compensated for their ancestor’s forced labor during slavery, not for “what we went through.”

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In a age that the plague got bubonic proportions Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

The bubonic plague, significant here because it is also referred to as “black death”. An apt metaphor for what I felt was going on in our hoods. This plague swept thru Europe in the 14th century and killed about million people.

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Great lyric, but one suggestion. In the 14th century, the Bubonic Plague killed an estimated 25 million people, or 30–60% of the European population — so, larger-scale than what you are suggesting.

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I'm on a roll like Sonic Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

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Intellectuals embarrassed 'cause we discussin' Ebonics Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

There was a huge debate raging over the use of so called “ebonics” in schools. The ebonics program was brilliant, developed by teachers who realized the best way to reach kids was to show respect for the language they spoke in. That mission was misconstrued and presented in the media like teachers were teaching slang, and they weren’t. They were teaching english by acknowledging its natural evolution. Many so called intellectuals, especially black ones, rallied against Ebonics. As someone who plays with words for a living, I thought the program was great.

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Thai be havin' me drowsy, but I get mellow with the chronic Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

Those are outdated terms for weed. Back then we thought we were smoking chocolate thai and chronic in Brooklyn. We weren’t. We were smoking that Reggie Bush.

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Blood be flowin' through the streets like crimson tide in my eyes Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

So much blood in the streets it could form a red wave

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4 years

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned”
From Yeats' “The Second Coming”, he sees this same crimson (blood is red like crimson) tide (it is in the reflection of his eye). Chaos is ensuing and seeing this takes away your innocence

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The Warren commission Reflection Eternal – 2000 Seasons

A sore spot lyric for me, because it’s a mistake. I meant to say Kerner Commission. The Warren Commision was during JFK and about the Vietnam War. The Kerner Commission was during Johnson’s presidency and investigates the causes of race riots and the pathology of the oppressed. I mixed my commissions up. Lesson learned. From then on, I never made a historical reference in my lyrics without doing my research.

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You have more respect that I can give. I hope to amount to something even remotely similar. Conscious hip-hop is the truest blessed poetry I’ve heard and have luckily had the opportunity to create. I’m just some yungin from Vegas, but I think I’ve got the skills to meet you at the peak that surmounts Everest. An album is coming soon. Until then, I’d like to ask the privilege to cover your Masterpiece; as it, among the beautiful and elegant works of Seba Jun have led me straight. It would be my pleasure and respect to you in displaying my talent in your realm. Thank you for all that you’ve blessed us with; and to the blessed mic that could deliver such frequencies. In short, you have my respects, and maybe; just maybe, I’ll get the chance to meet you someday haha.

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Btw, I was still sleeping in the womb when this Masterpiece dropped (just a ‘98 kid). I swore I’d never sleep on you again lol

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I’m just now proofreading and seeing the spelling errors.. apologies.

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Political commentary, poetry, phrasing, flow, philosophy, imagery, references to history, art. Wordplay. Bridges. Just brilliant. Not an mc, hip hop head and true student of history and art in any form. I place this alongside the best that’s ever been made with words in the English language. That I’ve laid my eyes on or listened to. True art and reflection upon a specific vein of the human narrative but encompasses core dilemmas and issues faced by all humanity.

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