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Keeping my overhead low, and my understand high
Itt post a track about spiritual fitness, mental and physical health, and or overall personal growth, positivity and rightousness ...





God has instilled in me... The will and endurance to take the pain... To get up... No matter how many times i fall down





...And if I ain't going to work, then I'm going to the gym
Yeah, bytch I'm that focused
Don't get it confused
I'm too spiritual to lose
It's worth every single bruise




They say you are what you eat, so I strive to be healthy
my goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy
cause true wealth comes from good health, and wise ways
we got to start taking better care of ourselves





But now I learned to earn 'cause I'm righteous
I feel great! so maybe I might just
Search for a 9 to 5, if I strive
Then maybe I'll stay alive
 
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Hey,
top priority
Peace before everything
God before anything
Love before anything
Real before everything
Home before anyplace
Truth before anything
Style and state radiate
Love power slay the hate
Truth killer, flaky face
Players say it to they face
Ain't afraid to major straight
Grace at the table straight
Flow greatest like the greatest lakes
Capes all greatest states
Quiet water major waves

Steer the course make a way
And come ashore on a greater day
Home grown from the greatest grain
Full flavor in the native strain
Now put that on your brainy brain
Full exposure to faith and slang
Minimum wage and major gains
Yasiin Dante to Bey
From day to night to day to day they came to play
We came to stay
get out the way...

Biatch, sunspot hot heat rocks
Brooklyn finest, preservation to beat box
Friend or foe poison or detox
When we rock the people a respond
priority
Peace before anything
God before everything
Love before anything
Real before everything
Home before anyplace
Truth before anything
Style and state radiate
Love power slay the hate,
priority...

Wikipedia said:
The Ecstatic was titled after Victor LaValle's 2002 dark humor novel of the same name. One of Mos Def's favorite novels, it was written about an overweight college dropout who fell into mental illness while living with his eccentric family in Queens, New York. According to Mos Def, the phrase "the ecstatic" was "used in the 17th and 18th centuries to describe people who were either mad or divinely inspired and consequently dismissed as kooks". The phrase resonated with him, as he believed no one else in hip hop had ever recorded an album like The Ecstatic. "I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way", he claimed. "I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody." He said "the ecstatic" also referred to "a type of devotional energy, an impossible dream that becomes reality but is discredited before it's realized. The airplane, a nutty idea. The telephone, the Internet. People who envisioned those were considered radical or extreme."

The Ecstatic was packaged with few liner notes and a two-sheet booklet featuring a photo of Mos Def taken using the Photo Booth software application. The front cover photo reproduced a still in red tint from Killer of Sheep, a low-budget 1978 film by Charles Burnett about African-American life in 1970s Watts, Los Angeles. According to Dale Eisinger from Complex, the "subtle and still-moving" front cover photo reflected the ideas of cultural justice and global inequality present throughout Mos Def's career while capturing the "sonic construction" of The Ecstatic's music. "The cover has hazy, dream-like movement", Eisinger said, "appearing as a non-narrative, loose collection of vignettes that are tangentially fascinating and incredibly powerful." For the back cover, a 1928 photo of the Moorish Science Temple gathering in Chicago was used, which Daulatzai interpreted as another element of Mos Def's "Pan-Islamic mashup" on the album.
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