"Tribute" - Yasiin Bey / by Mustafa Gouverneur

The new Blackstar song produced by Madlib featured in Dave Chappelle's Netflix special 'The Closer'.

[Verse: Yasiin Bey]

This is for my favorite band of human beings

The faithful, the graceful, the tragic, the classic

The evidence of things unseen, the book of life

The mansions of the moon, the bones of Firuan

Recently discovered and everything but note

The doubter's doubts about it never made unsure, life!

The gift, peace out the pressure

Can't remember how you came

Or win a bet on how you'll exit

From the start, the only thing certain is the end

Promise to all and none, knowing not when

Heartbreak from yesterday a fret for tomorrow

I leave you now filled with anxiety and hollow

If you pray don't worry, if you worry don't pray

My homie told it to me just the other day

From the tall castle walls to the mean teeth streets

I hope you get what you are

And that you are what you need

Ameen...

Written by Talib Kweli Greene, Otis Lee Jackson, Yasiin Bey

Performed by Talib Kweli & Yasiin Bey

Courtesy of Talib Kweli & Yasiin Bey