00:30Peace, Essence Festival
00:33What's up, y'all?
00:35My name is Common
00:37And we so grateful to be here to share in this black music experience
00:41You know, I love hip-hop culture
00:46I love what hip-hop has done for all of us
00:50It's the essence
00:52And I'm gonna give it to y'all like this
00:55A yes, yes, y'all
00:57And you don't stop
00:58A to the beat, y'all
01:00And you don't stop
01:01A yes, yes, y'all
01:02And you don't stop
01:03A one, two, y'all
01:05And you don't stop
01:06A yes, yes, y'all
01:07And you don't stop
01:09A to the beat, baby, pop
01:10You don't stop
01:11A yes, yes, y'all
01:12And you don't stop
01:14A to the beat, calm, sense to be the short shot
01:16Come on
01:17I met this girl when I was ten years old
01:19What I love most, she had so much soul
01:22She was old school
01:23I was a shorty, never knew throughout my life
01:26She would be there for me on a regular
01:28Not a church girl
01:29She was secular
01:30Not about the money
01:31Studs mic checking her
01:32I respected her
01:33She hit me in the heart
01:35A few New Yorkers had dinner in the park
01:37She was there for me
01:39I'm there for her
01:40Pull out a chair for her
01:41Turn on the air for her
01:42And just cool out, cool out, cool out
01:44And listen to her
01:45Sitting on bone
01:46Wishing I could do eventually
01:48If it was meant to be
01:49Then it would be
01:50We related physically
01:51Mentally
01:52She was fun then
01:54I be geek when she come around
01:56Slim was fresh, yo
01:57When she was underground
01:58Original
01:58Pure, un-tampered, downed sister
02:00Ayo, essence
02:02I miss her
02:02A yes, yes, y'all
02:04And you don't stop
02:05A to the beat, y'all
02:06And you don't stop
02:08A yes, yes, baby, pop
02:09You don't stop
02:10A to the beat, S's festival
02:12Don't stop
02:13A yes, yes, y'all
02:14And you don't stop
02:15Yes, yes, yo
02:16And you don't stop
02:17Stop, stop
02:18Yes, yes, S's
02:20You don't stop
02:20A yes, yeah, yo
02:22You don't stop
02:22I might have failed to mention
02:25That this chick was creative
02:26Once dude got you
02:27But he altered
02:28A native
02:28Told her if she got an image
02:30A gimmick
02:30She can make money
02:32Only one that chooses
02:33The DJ Tommy
02:33See her in commercials
02:35She's a universal
02:36Used to only swing it
02:37With the inner city circle
02:39She be in the burbs
02:40Looking rock and dressed a hippie
02:41On some bull
02:42When she come to the city talking
02:44Popping glocks
02:45Serving rocks
02:46Hitting switches
02:47Now she's a gangster
02:48Rolling with gangsters
02:49Always smoking blunts
02:50Getting drunk
02:51Telling me sad stories
02:52Now she only
02:53With the funk
02:54Stressing her hardcore
02:56And real she is
02:57Really the realest
02:58Before she got into showbiz
02:59I did her
03:00Not just to say I did it
03:02But I'm committed
03:02But so many
03:04Is here that she's just
03:05Not the same
03:06Letting all them chumps do her
03:07I see Mark slamming her
03:08And taking her to the sewer
03:10I'ma take her back
03:11Hoping that
03:11Stop
03:12Who I'm talking about y'all
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