Content - Mos Def

"It's hip hop music, its good enough to speak for itself, and you gotta do right by it..."

Listen, beef is not what Jay said to Nas, beef is when the working folks can`t find jobs

steady tryna find niggaz to rob, tryna find bigger guns so they can finish the job

Beef is when the crack babies cant find moms cuz they in a pine box, or locked behind bars

Beef aint the Summer Jam for Hot 97, beef is the cocaine and aids epidemic

Beef don`t come with a radio edit, beef is when a judge is calling you defendant

Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence, handed down to you in a few short minutes.

Beef is when your girl comes through for a visit, to tell you that she`s pregnant, by some other nikka

Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit need a loan for your home but you too broke to get it

And all you little kids is doing is getting bigger, your trying not to raise `em around these wild nikkas

Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her, a manicured hand out like `pay me nikka...or I'm tellin' your wife or startin' up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life
Beef is when a gangster ain't doin it right, another gangster then decided what to do with his life

BEEF is not what these famous nikkas do on the mic...beef is what George Bush would do in a fight

Yeah, beef is what Jah said to 50 but Ro and Irv not being here with me

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun, Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son

Beef is oil prices, and geo-politics, beef is Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Some beef is big, some beef is small but what ya`ll call beef is not beef at all

Beef is real life happening every day, and it`s realler than those songs that you gave to Kay Slay

This has been a real nikka, P.S.A., from Mos Def pretty Flaco, Black Donte and the Black Star Embassy B to the K! - Mighty Mos Def