[Intro: Killah Priest]
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Wassup, whats the deal?
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Feel so good tonight, heh heh
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Yo, this is the album right here, yeah
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Killah priest, I'm back
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I'm feeling good too
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Yeah, yeah
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Up in the house (yeah, waddup brooklyn)
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Right about now (waddup new york)
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Yo man (waddup cali)
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Yo (waddup midwest)
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I'm just ready to get into this
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Yeah (count em all down)
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So intimate
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I just cant believe I'm seein it with my own eyes on paper
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[Killah Priest]
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Yo, yo, yo
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Welcome to Black August
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This is the portrait of a poor kid
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That came to fortune
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Back before when
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I had nothin
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Just a pad busting dope rhymes like coke lines
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I carefully laid them out, then seperate them
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Then I would lace one
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It made my face numb
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Struck from a bass drum
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Then I would pass the pad like glass to my man
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And he would take some
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He used to shake from
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Overdosin, we both endulgin
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Eyes were bulgin, remaining focused
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But the brain was frozen
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It's the same as smokin
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We would just stand, just stare
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Film would appear, and tapes would start rollin
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It took us way back like a-tracks, it's so amazing
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My man used to say that, this ain't rap
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'Priest, your lyrics, are too vivid'
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'They more like pictures, you can feel it'
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'Yo, you gifted', it flows like liquid, mystic
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I never witnessed such things as beautiful
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As unusual, like a musical
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[Chorus: Killah Priest]
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So say 'Black August', and that's the chorus
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It's so gorgeous, it's so beautiful, unusual
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And 'member y'all this is no rap
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These are moments captured on a kodak
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So hold that
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So say 'Black August', and that's the chorus
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It's that gorgeous, it's so beautiful, unusual
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And 'member y'all this is no rap
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These are moments captured on a kodak
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So hold that
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(So hold that, so hold that, don't hold back)
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[Killah Priest]
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Yeah, yo, yo
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Music fallin
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Like leaves in autumn
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I hope you caught one
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Please hold it close to you
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It's for the pupils, of the new school
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It's chicken noodles
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It's vitamins, rice and beans
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A nice cusine, you like it steamed
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Or broiled?
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Grab it like soil
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This mic is royal
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My pens a needle, my arms a notepad
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My thoughts a dope bag, my rooms a coke lab
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I cooked up tunes
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My homie smoked tash, and used to throw cash
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Out of born fishes, they want the raw lyrics
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Shoot or sniff it, you call it
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Alcoholics listen
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Smiling, while nodding off, mumblin
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'This kid has talent'
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Then pass out, while spillin they quarts
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Then open up another gallon
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I smoke from a chalice, who wanna challenge?
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I spoke inbalanced
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Priest the magic man
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Presto, there goes your ghetto
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Colored, increase your level
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You gotta love it baby
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[Chorus]
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[Killah Priest]
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Yeah, uh huh, yeah
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I get em with the rhythm
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Twist em, spittin like exorcism
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A poets wisdom, give em vision, dialect
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Just listen, to productions
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Let it flush your system keep discussions
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To a minimum, watch me I'm winnin em
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Those imprisoned from the bling-bling
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Locked up like sing, sing
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Until I ginseng root
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Right into it like a fruit again
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Sight to the blind, speech to the mute, yeah
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[Talking: Killah Priest]
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It's all day man
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I can't believe what I'm hearin
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You know what I'm sayin?
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What I'm seein, it's beautiful
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I could go all day long, it's the life
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Yo, I could just keep going (Priest)
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Yeah, check it out, yo (Killah Priest, baby)
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[Killah Priest]
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My heart is jaded, star gazin, R rated
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Nickel-plated, manipulated
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It gets better when it ages
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So amazing, I say 'Amen'
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So majestic, emotions like a slow record
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It's like a epic, or a shiny necklace
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Catch me at the guestlist
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At Black August, check my performance
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I'm brainstormin, rain pourin, no need for umbrellas
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I'm tryna tell ya, best seller
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Thoughts angelic, soft like velvet
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Take off my helmet, the warriors home
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Like Centurions in Rome
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You know what I mean? I just zone
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I could go all day with this
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Just gimmie- where the hook at?
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[Chorus]
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[Fade out]
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Black August (Daylight)
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