New Leaders - Talib Kweli, The Underachievers, The Under Achievers

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Clap clap clap clap clap clap for me hey

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Clap clap clap clap clap, now bring it back

Welcome to the new age where they’re thirsty for that Kool-Aid

Thirsty for first in that page, really thirsty just to be fake

Be the first to hate what you say, trying to diss you calling you «gay»

Such an urgent need to express yourself, but really nothing to say

Don’t fuck with us, we too tough, get high like you do drugs

Like spit me out I’m chewed up my life is chopped and screwed up

I know you up in this club, I know you don’t give a fuck

You told me what you don’t like, you made that clear, now what do you love?

There’s gotta be more, some live the life of the rich, some people gotta be poor

I’ve been through a door, I will not sell you a dream, that’s what the lottery

for

The music is clay, I shaped it, I molded it, like it was pottery or

The mouth with the law, twist it like Robert Duvall, son, the godfather raw

Free as the diamond you found on the floor, I furnished the rhyme with the

proper decor

I burnished the nine in my mind with the galore, so they burning with shaman,

I’m popping the door

To top it all off, if your style is married to substance, you sound like you

got a divorce

That’s why I’m blocking and unfollowing y’all, I done forgot what I’m following

for

Enough about y’all, now back to me, ain’t no academic leave, I’m not faculty

These new slaves ain’t ready for my masterpiece, so when they hear me rap it’s

catastrophe

Cause a casualty so casually they mistake what I do for having beef

I don’t actually wish anybody harm, now stretch your arms and clap for me

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Clap clap clap clap clap clap for me hey

Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap

Clap clap clap clap clap, now bring it back

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming (yeah), catch up with us cause we leaving

(yeah)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (uh)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming (no), catch up with us cause we leaving

(yeah)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

Oh lord

Ever since the day I was born, that marks the day I was chosen

To rise above them all and be a leader, I’m like Malcolm X when on the podium

Martin Luther with a dream, Rosa Parks on the bus, though as funny as it seems

it remind me of us

Through the money and the fame ain’t shit gon' change for the light we adjust

Do it for the children without a ceiling to live up under

Times getting hard, that’s why my niggas smoke that tropic thunder

If all our people spreaded love instead of evil

We would prosper our conscious to a level with no equal lethal

Stay true, I gave you my oath, what would the ancient God my nigga Thoth

Through all the books and the screens I was taught, I look at myself and

pretend to learn the most

Our leaders dead and gone, what’s left for the believers?

If you looking for the truth, one word: Underachievers, nigga

Clap clap clap clap

Clap clap clap for me uh (put your hands together)

Clap clap clap clap

Clap clap clap, now bring it back

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming (wake up), catch up with us cause we

leaving (catch up)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (uh)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming (wake up), catch up with us cause we

leaving (yeah, catch up)

Got enough followers (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

Got enough followers (what), I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

As I change the so called predestined course of my life

Advance my shit so now I travel at the speed of light

Moving these intricate insecurities out of sight

Moving myself forward from the darkness into the light

I take flight, it’s goodbye to all the negativity

That plague millions of young innocent souls like me

Gave me the genius mind state necessary

To feast off of mother’s unlimited figurative tree

Of life, I tried to tell these niggas that our purpose is to move it

Something like Darwin’s beliefs of humans in evolutions

As I fall asleep on these social forms of materialism

I wake up and go through more colors than your normal prism

Would you rest my soul, I’m blinding me to a blurry of visions

In light of me on what to cut with such gifted precision

And now I’m truly livin' (bless up, bless up)

And now I’m truly livin' (bless up, bless up)

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming, catch up with us cause we leaving

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (uh)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders

Wake up cause no you’re not dreaming (no), catch up with us cause we leaving

(yeah)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

I’m looking for some new leaders (ay), I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

Got enough followers, I’m looking for some new leaders (ay)

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