[Intro: samples & Talib Kweli]

"This is Bendix, the tomorrow people"

Today

"What is the magic that makes one's eyes

Sparkle and gleam, light up the skies?

The name of the game is lightworks"

J Dilla, Kweli, Q-Tip, ayo

Ayo, ayo, ayo, ayo

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli & Skillz sample]

Blast from the past, yo, I'm back from the get go

Let's go, let's go, rap is special

Ya'll dudes gas like snaps on the petro

Flashy, like the gun blast in the ghetto

Sparkling like fireworks when we light up the sky

We independent like the 4th of July, why?

We ask a question that you forced to reply ("Yeah")

To shine through the night, through the orange sky blue ("Listen up")

Rhyme for survival, ("Listen up") it's BK

Like Big Jay or Skyzoo, fly with the haikus

A pro with the pro's, still worse with the verse

Dispersin' the hurt to rappers gotta work with the nurse

Made it through first thank Q-Tip for taking a verse

See how they all up in my mug like they takin' a purse

Now that's hard, like the population of Rikers

This here easy, it's lightwork

[Chorus: Dorothy Collins sample]

"The shine effect sparkle and gleam

Light up the skies

The name of the game is lightworks"

"Light up the spliffs

The name of the game is lightworks"

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]

Dilla still in here, Kweli he still in here

Abstract on the track for filming fulfillment's here

Watch ya back, boys, there's culture vultures everywhere

Walking the calm streets thinking that theirs peace in there

Draow, they blind sided up in they creepin' in

After the rush I'm drinking ice quarter waters to sustain

For the long haul advice is a order

My vertical up that no way on the way back

Competition, I eat that I'll get sneaker contract

I'll mary a vixon, she'll come with the tricks and

She'll take all my mansions and all of my riches

And leave me with the flatscreen and my new game device

And my little black book, my boys and my brand new life

Now I'm playing on my TV screen

Beating niggas down looking Bruce Banner green

Lookin' at the high score, do you want more?

[Chorus: Dorothy Collins sample]

"The shine effect sparkle and gleam

Light up the skies

The name of the game is lightworks"

"Light up the spliffs

The name of the game is lightworks"