(Talib Kweli) And what the people say? We live it up And what the people Please deliver us And the people need? Hey... I got that,
Kweli] I call these rappers baby seals, they club you to death I could call 'em Navy SEALs, they government feds What of the vets? They drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt There ain't no love and no respect, it's a gang it's like a club or a set the new WWF What do you rap or do you Niggaz love to forget We got til it's gone, you you on, you still hustlin backwards Your topical a tropical storm, it's a fuckin disaster to the topic we on, it all started at Rawkus They couldn't find the words to me so they resort to the shortcuts Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad An entertainer or the of the last chapter We in these times of love and cholera Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is We got maybe ten left say meteorologists, shit We still waitin for the Congress to this~!
Talib Kweli & singers in the background] What the people Please deliver us We wanna it up, please deliver us Th-th-this is the, is the, this is the hostile gospel I'm reaching through the fire - please us I'm preaching to the choir - deliver us Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill blood Your words rung hollow, we someone to follow
Kweli] You promised tomorrow, so get your paper up You can't always just borrow and asks for bruh Stand on your own two, never covet thy stuff Karma's a bitch so watch your mouth and what you bruh I start a based on general observation Hip-Hop is not a nation, it to population Niggaz got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Awaitin trial 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 hear the congregation; is the hostile gospel The truth is to swallow it'll leave you scarred tomorrow Keep it our motto, these niggaz keep it bottled I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus DJs stickin to vinyl "Fuck Serato" Suppliers who around the block, in the custom models Ballin like the struck the you know who the cleanest is A nigga keep it reeich with the and greedy geniuses I'm not a hipster, but I flip it a sneaker pimp the game, treat it like a bitch Smack fire out these hoes, cause they snitch and tap wires while I plead the You can't trust a soul in the biz, so be who you eatin with and sleepin with and also who you with You know they might've added in secret ingredients
[Talib a road that's seldom traveled, watch hell unravel Right the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle The single mother who raised her to bear the sacred water And not take the of every man who make a offer To black kids wishin they white kids, they close they eyelids Like, "I bet they ain't like this" White kids wishin they black kids, and wanna talk rappers It's all backwards it's crisis The industry inside us is vipers fangs 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 to bang ourselves officially nigga season, these niggaz is bleedin That's why I'm 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 can you deliver me? There are trials to come It's salvation that I So I'm to the sky Lord can you me? us... Deliver us, Deliver us, Oh, us us Ohhhhh us yes us, deliver us, deliver us Yeah yeah yeah, ohhhhhhhhhh... [ad to fade]