Tu Sae Lyrics in English by Ana Tijoux, Talib Kweli, Plug

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Come, come, get close, j-j-join in

Come, come, stand up, stand up with your hands up, in the air

That art shares this movement that we carry, let no one stop it

Da-dale, bass drum and snare sound through the speaker

The snare that comes out with the rhyme of street culture

We carve the rhyme polishing every detail

We carry the steps locked in like a clave

My school, the one that elevates me, takes me, teaches me

Remember, my friends, what's kept us on equal footing since the 70s

millions of stars

Today we celebrate that they have left their mark, mark

When 'em rebels come back around, them devils start backin' down

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Pigs start crackin' down, see us and patted down

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Brrap! Go the rounds and the cats will wave a gat around

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Battin' down the hatches see the tears of the saddest clown

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Black and brown unity, protecting our neighborhoods

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By treating each other like neighbors where the flavor is good

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When it blends, you got served like Megan Good

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Colonizers lying through their noses like they're made of wood

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Jazz cats be studyin' Byrd like ornithology

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The rap cats will breakin' down the words like etymology

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The root of community is unity, plus communication

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That clarity will bring illumination

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Bust a move, and here's one just in case

On this track, bust a move

Dance it, feel it, live it

We love this culture that we carry, woah

With hands in the air

To the clouds for the music

Dance it, feel it, live it

We love this culture that we carry, woah

With hands in the air

To the clouds for the music

You know, know

And it comes out real, real smooth

You know, know

And it comes out real, real smooth

Yo, we used to fantasize about this rap shit

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Started on some brown and black shit

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We stay doin' it and doin' it like practice

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It's so many ears came to snatch this, the egg was hatched with

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So many styles we hip hippity hopped it

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On the beat that showed us where to chop it

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The business jumped in with the optics

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But the streets still told who got the props with

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We were recipients wanted all the gold like olympians

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So platinum plaques and we ain't ever goin' back to the trench again

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Livin' our dreams and don't wake us with the pinch again

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You, feel it, yo

Like what one feels, it doesn't stop, no, no

A domino that walks alone

It's a phenomenon on the rise, I detonate

This never-ending culture that lifts us up

The corner it fills with good life, lighting it up and healing it

Medicine straight to the vein, music-dynamite

Dance it, girl

We are five decades, son, son, son

It's fifty years of bass, bass, son

Of bass drum, snare, rhyme, DJ, graffiti, beatbox, MC, rocksteady

Bust a move, and here's one just in case

On this track, bust a move

And if you don't know now you know

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Dance it, feel it, live it

We love this culture that we carry, woah

With hands in the air

To the clouds for the music

Dance it, feel it, live it

We love this culture that we carry, woah

With hands in the air

To the clouds for the music

You know, know

It feels so good to me, real smooth

You know, know

It feels so good to me, real smooth

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panas — friends / buddies

Panas is Latin American slang for close friends, especially people you share trust and camaraderie with. In the lyric "Recuerda mis panas" ("Remember my friends"), it gives the song a distinctly community-minded, street-culture feel and is more colorful than the everyday word amigos.

Ana Tijoux and Talib Kweli throw a party for hip-hop's fiftieth birthday. The opening keeps pulling you onto the floor, "Ven, ven, pégate" (Come, come, get close), and "Somos cinco décadas" (We are five decades) counts the years since the bass drum, the snare, the graffiti and the DJs of the 70s. Tijoux raps about carving rhymes "puliendo cada detalle" (polishing every detail), while Kweli's English verses tie the culture to black and brown unity in the neighborhoods.

The hook "Tú sae, sae" (You know, know) is street Spanish for "tú sabes", and "Con las manos en el aire" (With hands in the air) is the instruction: "Báilalo, siéntelo, vívelo" (Dance it, feel it, live it).

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