The Magic Hour - Talib Kweli

Last one to fall asleep, first one to wake up

(No doubt, you know how we do)

All nighters, 6:20 in the AM, man

It’s the magic hour

Doing it til the sunrise

I live my life in the sunshine

It was as beautiful as Hawaiian beaches

Usually it’s the students to be the truest teachers

(No doubt, you know how we do)

So gorgeous, this the magic hour, yeah

Start of a new day, it’s a new way

Get with the new way

Uh, back to the future like a delorean

Documenting the struggle I’m huddling with historians

Making a way back to Brooklyn like we the warriors

Told you this man’s story bordering on vainglorious

Heading to Cali for an education of Sonny Carson

And the need to police resurrection of Johnnie Cochran

Never accepted the rejection cause failure never an option

That’s the gospel like Mahalia, I’m a legend, I’ve been a problem nigga

They still asleep in this dormez-vous like Frere Jacques

Pardon my french like Remy Martin and Henny bottles

The chances of survival more shallow than winning lotto

The liquor that they swallow got them rattled, plenty Benny Blanco bravado

Look at 'em fronting for these models

La mujeres mulattos on the floor with the wobble wobble

Sipping moscato while selling themselves for follows

This shit is intense like a Pentecostal revival

I’m in these streets like potholes, where the guns make Illinois to Chicago

Bap bap bap like staccato

I spit it like I just finished gargling the velocity marvelous

Get your goggles, we hit it at full throttle

I’m praying for a better tomorrow, my candle is burning slow as cubanos

I’m seeing red like Ricky Ricardo

They tried to stop my product like an embargo, but see they wallow in their

sorrows

So they promises is empty and hollow, mahalo

Uh, live my life in the sunshine

Bust rhymes, beautiful as the sunrise

Plus side but the orchestra like I’m Sun Ra

Got with Alchemist like a wonder twin then we combine

The face of God got the finest features

And she listening if you tryna reach her

High Valyrian rap, looking for my Khaleesi

The ones that Ebro call minor league is the real fire breathers

Now let me teach you how to train your dragon

First rule they can’t be tamed cause they ain’t gon' have it

It ain’t no magic just actual facts and logic here

Hip hop will flourish with nourishment and the proper care