Word Is Bond Page #13

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It might just be

just some phrase

you blurted out,

you know,

but it sets the tone, you know?

I feel like people

like Ghostface

and people like Raekwon

do that really well, you know?

Just, like, even, like,

Bob Dylan

and the Beatles, you know?

They... the first phrase

that they drop

is just this heavy, like,

statement that just puts you...

puts your mind right...

you know, in the right place.

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[Anderson] Hey!

I be catching you staring,

be careful

The idle mind is a dangerous

place to be left in

But keep your eyes on me

Hey

Your heart

don't stand a chance

Yeah

It feels like

it's been far too long

Your heart

don't stand a chance

Your feet just wanna dance

Your eyes keep me

all in a trance

And let me ask you

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Bases loaded...

Hey, yo, Johnny, wake up, man.

I'm ready to do

my vocals now, baby.

[Johnny] Yeah, wake up.

Wake up.

This is the Telefunken

right here, man.

You know, I get in this booth,

man, and zone out.

Like, I'll cut

the lights off out there

and I wouldn't see nothing

past this glass.

I'm actually looking through

at Johnny right now.

Even though he's right here,

like,

it's taking me back.

One time, he said to me,

"What... what's this red stuff

over here?

I said, "That's

Diana Ross' lipstick."

[laughs]

Word up, man.

You know what I mean?

So yeah, I was kissing

on the mic that day.

I rubbed that sh*t

on my cheek.

Smack.

You know what I mean?

You know, I never believed

in writer's block,

but it'll be times where

you know, I'm stuck, so,

um, you know, you're listening

to the track, and, you know,

course, as the track

is rocking,

sometimes you know

how you want your rhyme to end,

so if I couldn't think of

how the rhyme

was supposed to start,

I definitely knew

how it was supposed to end,

so I would start on that bar

and work my way

all the way back

to the first bar.

Now,

I would never let nobody

know I was doing that

until I seen this thing on TV.

I think it was Martin Scorsese.

He said, "If you want

to write a good movie,

you start at the end

and work your way

to the front."

[distant siren wailing]

[John The Author]

They love me like religion

When I pull up

in the coupe

All I hear is "amen"

when I step up out the booth

I gave you niggas truth,

the whole truth

And nothing but it

The meek shall inherit

Everything they tried

to covet

Look me in my eyes,

see the anger in my soul

I gave you niggas goals

Through the rhymes

I done wrote

I gave you niggas guidance

from a spiritual alliance

And all I got in return

was a lyrical defiance

Messiah of writers,

they say that

I'm inciting riots

and they right

'Cause I'd be lying

if I said I wasn't trying

Vicious as a lion

in the jungle

With a mouth full of teeth

And a stomach

full of hunger

Boy, you better

feed him something

Look at all the pictures

I done painted

in these scriptures

Look at all the men

I done made out of knickers

Look at all the queens

I done made out of sisters

Look at all the road

I done paved out of inches

You can't argue with the fact

that, like, that kid

just said that,

both poetry-wise...

You can put it up

against anybody.

You can put that up

against Rumi

and you can put it up

against Shakespeare,

but then also,

like, spiritually

and cosmically,

it's evident.

It's all there.

The proof is all there,

and if other people

are able to grasp it,

then that's just what it is,

but even if

they never grasp it,

I know I saw

how it changed my friends.

I saw what it did

to the people that I love,

and I saw what it...

I know what it did to me.

[J. Cole] When you in

that zone and when you know

it's coming from, like,

a higher power,

it's like,

"Oh, I'm tapped in right now."

That feeling is, like,

priceless.

You know what I mean?

So, like, I'm forever

chasing that.

[Meechy Darko]

Twenty years of my life,

I had no windows in my room.

I was in solitary.

I was trapped, you know?

All your energy is bouncing

off these four walls

that are so close to you.

It's like you can't breathe,

you're suffocating,

but at the same time,

if you focus,

you can use that energy

and harness that energy

and get the f*** out of there,

and that's what we did.

For sure.

[Zombie Juice]

Deadass, I hung out

in a f***ing staircase

for years.

[Meechy Darko] Trying to

figure out what we're gonna do.

[Zombie Juice]

Nasty gray walls.

That's pretty depressing.

I try to tell myself

that I still don't got sh*t.

We don't got sh*t.

We still don't have sh*t,

though.

All we got is music.

DJ Shadow's "Nobody Speak"

playing

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I ain't lying,

kick a lion in his crack

I'm the sh*t

I will fall off

in your crib, take a sh*t

Pinch your mama

on the booty

Kick your dog,

f*** your b*tch

Fat boy dressed up

like he's Santa

And took pictures

with your kids

We're the best

We will cut a frowny face

In your chest,

little wench

I'm unmentionably fresh

I'm a mensch,

get correct

I will walk into a court

while erect

Screaming, "Yes, I am guilty,

motherfuckers, I am death"

Hey, you want to hear

a good joke?

Nobody speak,

nobody get choked

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Get running

Start pumping your bunions,

I'm coming

I'm the dumbest

who flamethrow

Your function

to Funyuns

Flame your crew quicker than

Trump fucks his youngest

Now face the flame,

f***ers...

[Styles P] Yeah,

Juices For Life 211,

we up in here,

Yonkers, New York.

We got wheatgrass,

fruits of all sorts,

protein powder, sea moss,

people.

You consider this

Cheers for healthy folks.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

[Jadakiss] What are those?

The knowledge is different

from when we first came in.

We was young boys from Yonkers,

you know, from the hood.

If you wasn't at home,

you was eating fast food

or snack foods or,

you know,

some type of bullshit.

It's the balance.

This is the equalizer.

I feel totally different.

I feel better.

- I feel healthier.

- Yo, what's these?

Armies or waves?

I feel like, um...

I feel like... I feel great.

I think it's hard to find

somebody that you could say

been spitting for a dub.

And we were spitting

before we was on.

But we been spitting

for a dub, legit.

I don't think you could find

a bunch of other people

you could say that about.

Very few.

There's definitely a few

you could say,

but not a bunch.

So at the end,

I think, with us,

I think that what sets...

sets us apart is,

we still getting better.

[ orchestral music

with hop-hop beat ]

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- Word is...

- [Jadakiss] Word is bond.

Word is bond.

Word is bond!

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