I like the Respiration verse overall but it's like if I was shooting hoops with Kobe and Wade. Yea I can make a few but imma look out of place next to hem dudes. Mos and Common have CLASSIC verses/hooks on there. Then you hear this dude talking about NBA salaries...
I'll never forget when I met this dude back when I was on my militant shyt. Kweli, Mos, Common, Badu, etc were gods to me. Me and a couple friends planned to drive from Michigan to Chicago to see a Kweli show at some club. During the ride my friends, who were dating, started fighting over some bullshyt as I was driving. The chick was sitting behind me and kicked my chair, that shyt almost made me crash. I pulled off the freeway and parked at a Burger King, told them ayo y'all can fight but I'm gonna leave you and go see brother Kweli kick some conscious raps
These fools get a hotel room and jump in bed. He's apologizing, she's caressing his dreadlocks, I'm sitting in a chair with my Walkman listening to D'Angelo before I decide I'm providing sex music for these nikkas so I turn on The Roots and bounce.
Anyway we get back on the road and they're still arguing. Must have stopped 5 more times at various restaurants.
Finally we get to Chicago but we're an hour late. By this time my friend is driving and he's lost. This was before GPS brehs. Now we're two hours late. He's saying we can still make it since Kweli prob went on late. We get there and the concert is over, people are leaving.
So my friend's gf decides to chill at a restaurant while I drag my breh to a bar. We get into the bar and see Kweli surrounded by 2 of the ugliest white women I've ever seen, whispering in their ears. At first I thought my black brother was being assaulted or something by these spawn of Yakub but then I realized he was groping and kissing on these linebacker ass looking bytches
I couldn't even order a drink brehs. I left utterly disgusted at seeing my hero touching these cac wilder beasts.
I swear on god one of them had on a FUBU bucket hat
I was done with conscious shyt for years after that...