What Is 'Beef'?
" Beef is not what Jay-Z did to Nas/ Beef is when workin' niggaz can't find jobs/ Beef is when crack babys can't find their mom/ cause they're in a pinebox, or locked behind bars/ Beef ain't a summer jam for hot 97/ Beef is the cocaine an aids epedemic/ Beef don't come in a radio edit/ Beef is in the judge thats calling you 'defendant'/ Beef comes with a long jail sentence/ handed down to you in a few short minutes/ Beef is when your girl comes threw for a visit/ talkin about, shes pregnant, by some other nigga/ Beef is high blood pressure an bad credit/ needing a loan for your home, but you're too broke to get it/ Beef is not what famous people do on a mic/ Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight/ When a solider ends his life with his own gun/ Beef is figuring out what to tell his son/ Beef is oil prices an GEO politics/ Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, an Gaza Strip/ Some beef is big, an some beef is small/ But what YOU ALL call beef, is not beef at all/ Beef is real life, happen, every day/ An it's realer then the songs you hear the d.j play.
~ Mos Def
" Beef is not what Jay-Z did to Nas/ Beef is when workin' niggaz can't find jobs/ Beef is when crack babys can't find their mom/ cause they're in a pinebox, or locked behind bars/ Beef ain't a summer jam for hot 97/ Beef is the cocaine an aids epedemic/ Beef don't come in a radio edit/ Beef is in the judge thats calling you 'defendant'/ Beef comes with a long jail sentence/ handed down to you in a few short minutes/ Beef is when your girl comes threw for a visit/ talkin about, shes pregnant, by some other nigga/ Beef is high blood pressure an bad credit/ needing a loan for your home, but you're too broke to get it/ Beef is not what famous people do on a mic/ Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight/ When a solider ends his life with his own gun/ Beef is figuring out what to tell his son/ Beef is oil prices an GEO politics/ Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, an Gaza Strip/ Some beef is big, an some beef is small/ But what YOU ALL call beef, is not beef at all/ Beef is real life, happen, every day/ An it's realer then the songs you hear the d.j play.
~ Mos Def
