Independent (Amadeus Remix)

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T do you know what that means?
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T it's Talib Kweli Greene
I write my own rhymes, I write my own checks
And if you're looking for that good I got it on deck
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
(This is the Amadeus Remix)

Came with the, rawness on Rawkus
LP had official recordings
Corey Smyth had a Blacksmith office
I was, writing books of poetry like Bert Padell
I saw the wisdom when the curtain fell
Wanna sell like Jay Z, E-40 and Master P?
I respect labels like Stones Throw, ABB
Who stay independent as fuck
Like Def Jux
Nature Sounds, BBE, Babygrande nigga [?]
Duck Down my nigga what?
Drew How what's up
I'm from Brooklyn all day put your lighters up
I saw J Grand at Asylum
We take it back to making records days, 'cause he's a vet like I am
I am legend like Mister Cee
What you calling for is victory
Blacksmith making history
And the music influenced by Hieroglyphics
My niggas from the bay stay so sick with it

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T do you know what that means?
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T it's Talib Kweli Greene
I write my own rhymes, I write my own checks
And if you're looking for that good I got it on deck
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
(This is the Amadeus Remix)

(Ay) Keep it live for ya'll niggas
Kweli in the -house like Suave or Swisha
Flow so vivid
Ain't no gimmicks
Go everywhere cause I know No Limit
So So Def, my life is like a movie
This the storyboard
Down in H-Town with Cory Mo
No I'm not from Houston but I Rap-A-Lot
Bun B holding me down I'm going back a lot
Word, major label product steady sinking like a bag of rocks
Stinking like a bag of socks on laundry day
Kweli stay away from the corporate rap
That's a corporate trap
Real niggas don't fall for that
Word, we in the building now there's nothing they can tell us
Bad Boys, the Ruff Ryders and the Roc-A-Fellas
The Slip-N-Slides, the Cash Money and G-Units
Keep moving the music we love to see you do it

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T do you know what that means?
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T it's Talib Kweli Greene
I write my own rhymes, I write my own checks
And if you're looking for that good I got it on deck
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
I'm my own man, I'm my own boss
(This is the Amadeus Remix)