feat. Jill Scott. [Chorus: Jill Scott]. Can you speak your words of bedtime. I was just saying to myself the other day. Most of believing the magician. But you're bewitching. Because of this I must say. I (I). I (oh I). I. Appreciate what you give to me. Yeah (I). I (oh I). I. Appreciate what you give to me. [Verse 1: Common]. People say I got soul look at all the records I hold. The lives I've affected connect and control. With me in your basement your mama got blown. I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles. Through me the black experience is glorious told. From a school that's old bold so I rock gold. And platinum so cats I hold notes and cash for them. On streets I rap for them in ghettos I blast for them. Mash with them at the party and all. Peep the universal language that's embodying all. Put the Billie Holiday Bob Marley in y'all. Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all. System with the rhythm I up jump the boogie. Shame I rely on record labels to push me. Since the bush I been y'all way to escape. Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes. I am music. [Chorus]. [Verse 2]. You can feel me all over alive I help culture survive I opened the eyes of. many. Styles y'all wrote in the skies with your lows and highs open your mind to. hear me. . . . CLICK ABOVE TO VISIT OUR SPONSORS. . In the streets I beat cops and obsolete. On every station it's hot you can't stop my heat. I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat. On what's going on today yo I gots to speak. I take the stand yo you could feel me bam. Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan. Live I be killing it man. For how long I survived yo I'm realer than man. Got a soft side but I'm still a man. For me women cry and children dance I'm trying to eat. I could'a got a mil and ran. But like Sly for the fam still I stand. I am music. [Chorus]. [Verse 3]. I been here since the beginning. Beginning of time yo beginning of time. Deep in the mind of the ancient ones. Everybody love me like they do the sun. I shine at times yo at times I'm dark. You can't categorize me my mind's a art. Inside my heart it ain't about climbing charts. I'm the one you roll with when your ride is smart. The change that came the change that comes. I change with chords and I kick it with drums. Get blow with horns and did it on the one. Riffed for guitars for the Lord I sung. Spun around the world at parties and weddings. Wherever I go I create the setting. You know me from lessons or your pops collections. Whether whole or half stepping I'm a blessing. Yo I am music. [Chorus 2X].