-Performing "When We Move" from his upcoming new album,
"A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2,"
with a little help from Black Thought and Seun Kuti,
please give it up for Common!
[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪
-Yeah. Unh.
Let's move. When we move.
-215. Chi-town. Lagos.
-♪ Bouncing mystic ♪
♪ Realistic ♪
♪ And simplistic, spirits visit ♪
♪ How we livin' ♪
♪ It's intrinsic ♪
♪ Kismet kissed it ♪
♪ It's smeared like lipstick ♪
-♪ Colorful ♪ -♪ On our souls ♪
♪ A mouth full of gold or a drummer's roll ♪
♪ Stories get told about us ♪
♪ That's why things so blah without us ♪
♪ Wherever we are, you can feel the prowess ♪
♪ Whenever we move, yeah, we turn the style up ♪
♪ I'mma just get black powers flowers ♪
♪ Whether in the projects or the palace ♪
♪ Even when the pale horse tried to gallop ♪
♪ And stir, stir it up, we kept our balance ♪
♪ We moved in silence, we moved the loudest ♪
♪ Ancestors in my dreams moved the wildest ♪
♪ They prayed about us, praised and shouted ♪
♪ Picture this country being brave without us ♪
♪ A slave's nostalgia ♪
♪ Moved through the woods with vigor ♪
♪ When we got freed, the world moved with us ♪
♪ Now they want to change the boundaries, go figure ♪
♪ Used to call us, now we wanna be ♪
-Uh-huh.
-♪ We the rivers that move through the jungle ♪
♪ Yo, when we move, we make the world want to move ♪
-♪ When we move ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Unh. Yeah. What you say, 'Riq?
-♪ When we move ♪ -♪ Move ♪
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-215, let 'em know what it is, 'Riq.
I said...
♪ And who can move like this? ♪
♪ Let me see what I can do right quick ♪
♪ My people were made of whose likeness? ♪
♪ Poor fly brothers, they never flew like this ♪
♪ Pitch-black butterfly from the other side ♪
♪ Somebody's style was lost, it wasn't mine ♪
♪ I'm in a small demographic of real ones ♪
♪ Dealing with all things classic ♪
♪ The king's fabric, linen and silk ♪
♪ From the land of the solid gold honey and milk ♪
♪ The ones that built from the blood, soil, and sand ♪
♪ Black man ♪
♪ The world in the skin of his hand ♪
♪ Pop, then I stop when I shine beyond stellar ♪
♪ Mandela ♪
♪ Leader, truth-teller ♪
♪ The inkwell-dweller ♪
♪ I pen a New York Times Best Seller ♪
♪ When I move, y'all move in my way ♪
♪ BP Energy, I generate ♪
♪ How to never move weak, I demonstrate ♪
♪ Elevatin' my peeps when I stimulate ♪
♪ To my dimes and divas, full of nonbelievers ♪
♪ Vagabonds and heathens ♪
♪ Achievers ♪
♪ We ain't satisfied with dreamin' ♪
♪ Long as I'm still breathing, it's how I move ♪
-♪ When we move ♪ -Yeah, yeah. Come on.
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-I need y'all to make some noise right now, "Tonight Show."
-♪ When we move ♪ -♪ Move ♪
-Yeah!
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Whoo!
-We gonna take this to Nigeria right quick.
Let's get it. ♪♪
-Unh. -Unh.
Said... ♪♪
-Yeah.
We takin it world-wide, baby.
Yeah. Roots Crew. -One more time.
Ha!
Ha! -What them horns say?
Unh!
Yeah.
-Whoo!
-"Tonight Show," "Tonight Show."
-♪ When we move ♪
♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Unh. Yeah, yeah. Yo, yo.
-♪ When we move ♪ -♪ Move ♪
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Yo, 'Riq, let's take it to Nigeria.
Seun Kuti. -Yeah.
-♪ When they feel our pain like we do ♪
-Uh-huh.
-♪ When they hear our cry like we do ♪
-What you say, Seun? -Say what?
-♪ No one cares ♪ -No one cares.
-♪ No one cares ♪
-No one cares. -No one cares. But...
-♪ When we move ♪ -Yeah.
-♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Black joy is an act of rebellion.
-♪ When we move ♪
♪ The whole world follow in our path ♪
-Black joy is an act of resistance.
-Black love.
♪♪
-Yeah!
[ Cheers and applause ]