Talib Kweli - Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 Lyrics

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Deliver us deliver

Deli-i-i deliver us

(Deliver us)

And what the people say? We wanna live it up

(Deliver)

And what the people want? Please deliver us

(Deli-i-i deliver us)

And what the people need? Hey I got that yeah

I call these rappers Baby Seals

'Cause they club you to death

I could call em' Navy SEALs

'Cause they government feds

What become of the vets?

They drugged up they fucked up they in debt

There ain't no love and no respect

It's like a gang it's like a club or a set

Hip hop's the new WWF

What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggas love to forget

We got til it's gone you think you on you still hustlin' backwards

Your topical norm a tropical storm it's a fuckin' disaster

Back to the topic we on it all started at Rawkus

They couldn't find the words to describe me

So they resort to the shortcuts

Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad rapper?

An entertainer or the author of the last chapter

We living in these times of love and cholera

Synonymous with the apocalypse look up the clouds is ominous

We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists shit

We still waitin' for the Congress to acknowledge this

Deliver us

(What the people want? Please deliver us)

Deliver

(We wanna live it up please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(T-t-this is the t-t-this is the this is the hostile gospel)

Deliver us

(I'm reaching through the fire please deliver us)

Deliver

(I'm preaching to the choir please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(Just keep it real with us you scared to spill your blood)

(Your words rung hollow we need someone to follow)

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You ain't promised tomorrow so get your paper up

You can't always just borrow and asks for favors bruh

Stand on your own two never covet thy neighbor's stuff

Karma's a bitch so watch your mouth and what you sayin' bruh

I start a conversation based on general observation

Hip hop is not a nation take it to population

Niggas got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan

Awaitin' trial debatin' how the hell I got placed in this system?

Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination?

They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement

You hear the congregation this is the hostile gospel

The truth is hard to swallow it'll leave you scarred tomorrow

'Keep it honest' our motto these niggas keep it bottled

I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato

DJ's stickin' to vinyl like fuck Serato

Suppliers who ride around the block in the custom models

Ballin' like he struck the lotto you know who the cleanest is

A nigga keep it rich with the stitch and Greedy Geniuses

I'm not a hipster but I flip it like a sneaker pimp

Expose the game treat it like a bitch

Smack fire out these hoes 'cause they snitch and tap

Wires while I plead the fifth can't trust a soul in the biz

Be careful who you eatin' with and sleepin' with

And also who you chiefin' with

You never know they might've added in secret ingredients

Deliver us

(What the people want? Please deliver us)

Deliver

(We wanna live it up please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(T-t-this is the t-t-this is the this is the hostile gospel)

Deliver us

(I'm reaching through the fire please deliver us)

Deliver

(I'm preaching to the choir please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(Just keep it real with us you scared to spill your blood)

(Your words rung hollow we need someone to follow)

Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled watch hell unravel

Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle

The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water

And not take the hand of every man who make an offer

To black kids wishin' they white kids when they close they eyelids

Like "I bet they neighborhood ain't like this"

White kids wishin' they black kids and wanna talk like rappers

It's all backwards it's identity crisis

The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us

Drug suppliers is the health care providers

Cakin' makin' narcotics outta household products

We ain't workin' out 'til we exorcise the demons that's inside us

Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves

Enough dope to slang ourselves enough toast to bang ourselves

It's officially nigga season these niggas is bleedin'

That's why I'm spittin' freedom we had enough of trigger squeezin'

Deliver us

(People wanna live it up please deliver us)

Deliver

(We wanna live it up please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(T-t-this is the t-t-this is the this is the hostile gospel)

Deliver us

(I'm reaching through the fire please deliver us)

Deliver

(I'm preaching to the choir please deliver us)

Deli-i-i deliver us

(Just keep it real with us you scared to spill your blood)

(Your words rung hollow we need someone to follow)

In these trying days and times

All I need is to be free

I can't do it on my own

Lord can You deliver me?

There are trials still to come

It's salvation that I need

So I'm reaching to the sky

Lord can You deliver me?

Deliver us deliver

Deli-i-i deliver us

Deliver us deliver

Deli-i-i deliver us

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