(Talib Kweli) And the people say? We wanna live it up And what the people want? deliver us And what the need? Hey... I got that,
[Talib I call these rappers baby seals, cause they you to death I could call 'em Navy SEALs, they government feds What become of the vets? drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt There ain't no love and no respect, like a gang it's like a club or a set the new WWF What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggaz to forget We got til it's gone, you you on, you still hustlin backwards topical norm a tropical storm, it's a fuckin disaster Back to the we on, it all started at Rawkus They couldn't find the words to describe me so resort to the shortcuts Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad An entertainer or the author of the chapter We living in these of love and cholera with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists, We waitin for the Congress to acknowledge this~!
[Chorus: Talib Kweli & singers in the the people want? Please deliver us We wanna it up, please deliver us Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, this is the hostile I'm reaching through the fire - please us I'm preaching to the - please deliver us Just it real with us, you scared to spill your blood Your rung hollow, we need someone to follow
[Talib You ain't promised tomorrow, so get paper up You can't always just borrow and asks for bruh Stand on your own two, never thy neighbor's stuff Karma's a bitch so watch mouth and what you sayin bruh I a conversation based on general observation Hip-Hop is not a nation, it to population Niggaz got a lot to say when locked the belly of Satan trial debatin how the hell I got placed in this system Am I a victim or just a of indoctrination? They exploit it and use me like a movie with product You the congregation; this is the hostile gospel The truth is to swallow it'll leave you scarred tomorrow Keep it honest our motto, niggaz keep it bottled I'm the who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato DJs stickin to like "Fuck Serato" Suppliers who ride the block, in the custom models Ballin like the struck the you know who the cleanest is A nigga it reeich with the stitch and greedy geniuses I'm not a hipster, but I flip it like a pimp Expose the game, treat it a bitch Smack fire out these hoes, cause they snitch and tap wires while I the fifth You can't trust a in the biz, so be careful who you eatin with and sleepin with and who you chiefin with You never they might've added in secret ingredients
[Talib Freedom's a that's seldom traveled, watch hell unravel Right before the eyes of the soldier who in battle The single mother who raised her daughter to the sacred water And not take the hand of every man who make a To kids wishin they white kids, when they close they eyelids Like, "I bet they neighborhood like this" White kids wishin they black kids, and wanna like rappers all backwards it's identity crisis The industry inside us is vipers with trying to bite us suppliers is the health care providers We cakin, makin narcotics household products We ain't workin out 'til we exorcise the demons that's us Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to ourselves Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang It's nigga season, these niggaz is bleedin why I'm spittin freedom we had enough of trigger squeezin
[Outro: In these tryin days and All I need is to be I do it on my own Lord can you me? are trials still to come It's that I need So I'm to the sky Lord can you me? us... Deliver us, Deliver us, Oh, us us Ohhhhh us yes Deliver us, deliver us, us Yeah yeah yeah, ohhhhhhhhhh... [ad libs to