Lets try new It's a long time coming! Let me try something new Hey yo Ski! you ever do, man? on! Yo, we doing it for?
[Talib Kweli - 1] is for all the day-trippers and the hipsters Whores and the Spiritual leaders practicing all the laws of The teachers who read the the back of a G? That be bustin off Dalai Lama's or flashing the of the boosters With the shooting, the thugging and all the booning and and all the crooning, and and auto-tuning, alive You be tellin, peddlin' to consumers I'm helping to see through it get with new movement, move it!
Feel the cold Still I'm standing right Even the summer days
[Talib Kweli - 1] I'm a product of Reaganomics From the blocks where he rocking a feds J Electronica drop and make this a if he promises the heart is whether or Mohammad of where the Mosque is (word) They for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion you rent an apartment? Is the burning Korans So that we can defend The end us with a hash tag, a trending topic You take the freedoms that we invite in the game Then you disrespect the you ask them to die in vein In a desert praying for The music's a drug, and they tend to take it to vein It for the well-behaved The soundtrack for when you're but its more for when you've felt afraid More than average rapper So you sort of the way The is like a cage, you a slave, that's why they lovin' you This is the book Eli that start with a K-W.
[Talib Kweli - 2] I do it for the trappers, rappers the Backpackers, the the n-ggas, the the victims of ghetto I do it for the families, of humanity Emcee's, endangered species like I do it for the of my children! They the hope for the Karma approaches, we gon' be food for a flock of The end of the Ain't nothing left but the and the freedom freedom writers like Bob Moses the chosen, writers like ? For my block, my borough, my hood, my city, my state, My obligation is to my is so clear! yeah, we save them, this opportunity so rare! We do it so big over here that it's no To the punks, bitches, the chumps, the snitches, the sneak in the We let them live with all they're weak and lame The bozo's and joker's, promoting when speaking my name