-Performing the title track
from their new album, "Glorious Game,"
give it up for Black Thought and El Michels Affair,
featuring Kirby.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Okay, I'm too Black for y'all to erase ♪
♪ Shoot too straight for y'all to retrace ♪
♪ Too abstract for y'all to replace ♪
♪ You all would be safe but y'all are deep fake ♪
♪ Too fake for me to waste time ♪
♪ Too two-faced for me to say fine ♪
♪ I'm the one-man army, Ason ♪
♪ The baseline is we just ain't the same kind ♪
♪ Gloves and mask off, time to blast off ♪
♪ Baton I'll pass off, rhyme your ass off ♪
♪ If we clash, I'll haul the trash off ♪
♪ I'll haul the cash off and ball in Nassau ♪
♪ That's all, it ain't too much talk ♪
♪ All y'all chumps, it ain't enough chalk ♪
♪ Y'all thought the name was just Thought? ♪
♪ Come on, I'm too strong for y'all to cut short ♪
♪ You see light like mine once a lifetime ♪
♪ When some young chump becomes an icon ♪
♪ But somehow they'll cut down the flight time ♪
♪ Unless you puts that heat down the pipeline ♪
♪ My mind is hard to explain ♪
♪ Call y'all all aboard for this train ♪
♪ I float like a nautilus, mane ♪
♪ Damn, I love this glorious game ♪
-♪ Hey, pimpin' ain't dead, baby ♪
♪ Mackin' ain't dead, baby, I swear ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
-Swear to God.
-♪ Pimpin' ain't dead, baby ♪
♪ Mackin' ain't dead, baby, I swear ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪ -Talk to 'em.
-♪ I might take my fur off and walk like ish, baby ♪
♪ I might put my game on and take your chick, baby ♪
♪ I might put my fur on and talk my ish, baby ♪
♪ I might put my game on and take your chick ♪
-♪ Okay, I'm proof that we all should get free ♪
♪ Direct from the streets of S.P. ♪
♪ Who alone tryna be the next thing? ♪
♪ For real, I'm just tryna be the best me, so ♪
♪ No gas, I'm high in octane ♪
♪ Which icon am I if not flames? ♪
♪ Aw, damn it, guess who not lame ♪
♪ And locked the block down before the blockchain ♪
♪ Stop playin', the stakes is too high ♪
♪ Some say life's a bitch, then you die ♪
♪ Patience brings all things in due time ♪
♪ If you's a real one, well, that's a true sign ♪
♪ My time the valuable kind ♪
♪ Take these words to rendezvous by ♪
♪ I drop psychological lines ♪
♪ Y'all style on the comical side ♪
♪ Seekers, keep this close to your chest ♪
♪ Weakness killed this culture, more or less ♪
♪ Y'all project such a snorefest ♪
♪ No paycheck, just exit stage left ♪
♪ My mind is hard to explain ♪
♪ I contain one marvelous brain ♪
♪ Call y'all all aboard for this train ♪
♪ Damn, I love this glorious game ♪
-♪ Hey, pimpin' ain't dead, baby ♪
♪ Mackin' ain't dead, baby, I swear ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪ -Swear to God.
-♪ Pimpin' ain't dead, baby ♪
♪ Mackin' ain't dead, baby, I swear ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪ -Talk to 'em.
-♪ I might put my fur on and talk my ish, baby ♪
♪ I might put my game on and take your chick, baby ♪
-Talk to 'em, Kirby.
-♪ I might put my fur on and talk my ish, baby ♪
♪ I might put my game on and take your chick ♪
[ Vocalizing ]
♪♪
♪ Hey, these are the glory days ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
♪ These are the glory days, I swear ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪ -Get up.
♪♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
♪ These are the glory, ha ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
♪ These are the glory, ha ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
♪ These are the glory, hey ♪
♪ These are the glory days, baby ♪
♪ These are the glory days ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh. Thank you, bud.
Thank you, man. -That's the way to do it.
-That's how -- Fantastic.
That's how you do it right there. Come on.
Black Thought, El Michels Affair, Kirby!
"Glorious Game" is out now.