(feat. Jean Grae)





[Intro: Jean Grae]

That is great

Good for you! Okay, get out of the way though

Ehehe, thank you

Excuse me, excuse me



[Jean Grae]

Been a long time (yes) shouldn't have left you

Without a dope beat to step to

Say - uhh, shouldn't have left you

without a dope beat to step to, sayin

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) C'mon, the word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Yeah, y'know you heard of that

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Ohh! Uh, you know the word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Yes, I know you heard of that



Psychopath, ride a tricycle in a biker's club

Mike Tyson face tatted addict, like it tough

Hey scatterbrain, don't get your grey matter punched up

'til you hunched, talk-talkin like you punch drunk

One love - two maybe if I'm drunk enough

Naked watchin three, painted ladies do the bump and grub

Mean muggin Jean - the Heebs call meshugenah

Bookin her in the Catskills like "Look at her rap skills!"

He's rockin a backpack, a nerd in the rat pack

Jean Martine de Begerac, you heard of her murder rap

I murder rap, you learn it, confirm it and burn its audio

Music for your convertible, music for burnin cardio!

Don't use it for burners - they'll find me in your stereo

and blame me for the murder sock me up and get me carried off

I know I said murder befo' - murder murder, FUCK IT murder

Make it fo', insert a learning curve

Mine is so high you get vertigo, assertive girl a-fern to blow

Eternally superlative, blindfolded learn to drive

at night up on a girder bridge, heard a "NO!"

Talib dirty nervousness, yes the boys are back

Oh yes the boys in black, the boy's a {motherfuckin} rap star

Teeny rock star, minus the f'real and all the cop cars

Rocks off, lock bars with the realest (hach-too) in the spot

Really y'all should get on your knees and just pray for forgiveness sayin



[Chorus: Jean Grae]

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) I said the word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Uh oh, you heard of that

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) I said the word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Uh oh you heard of that ohh

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) I said uh oh

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Oh yeah you heard of that ohh

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) I said uh oh

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Oh yeah you heard of that, ohhhh



[Talib Kweli]

I'm a, man of God who asked the Devil for some face time

It's shade time you never see him comin cause you fake, blind

The mainline, Bloods are wavin flags like K'Naan

The Crips throwin gang signs, the Beast in the street

there to keep like a canine, and low like the bassline

Jean and Kwe' think alike like great minds

The crown is on my head, what makes you think that you can take mine?

They know they'll never win but still they racist like a hate crime

Runnin track like Tyra in (Higher Learning)

We bleeding gasoline so we keepin the fire burnin

We speedin like Valvoline and we speak fo' a higher purpose

You believe in magazines that deliver entire sermons

Give me some Vasoline cause your shit is dryer than deserts

You never fired a weapon in your life! So

picturin yourself as a gangster the only way that you shootin

My intelligent design is a product of evolution

Psychotic, erotic, catch phrases just to, get at your girl

Create solutions for a digital world

So baby even when I'm spittin game I'm addin on

Rappers goin hard pure for the dope, I got an acronym for Capricorn

{?} And Prepared, Rigorous, Innovative

Captivatin, Ordinary, Regular, Nigga just

throwin daily your chick goin crazy yo

Handle her like Chelsea Lately

Rockin the fresh kicks like you felt her baby

We'll wait until you done bein whack

We got every hand up from the front to the back

If you wonderin why you just dressin funny in rap

You need attention dog, there ain't no more, money in rap

So if you're mixin with GarageBand, videos on the Flip cam

I'm a big fan - you got more (Hart) than (Bret - The Hitman)

But shit damn, it's the pinnacle, it gets no better

I'm boastin, but still stay humble

Never spinnin, I'm always coastin



[Chorus - first half with ad libs]



[Jean Grae]

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) I said uh oh

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Oh yeah the word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) The word is back

(UH OH! UH OH! UH OH!) Yessir the word is back



[fades out: "Yes, the word is back..."]