Brother Ali - Uncle Usi Taught Me lyrics

[Hook/Chorus] Mm-hmm Uncle Usi taught me Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more [Verse 1] You know me I’m a globe traveler, soul amba**ador Reporting live from the world wide ma**acre No mask for the truth that animates you See it and I speak it wherever it takes me I’m in the Republic of Iran at a conference Talking ’bout the cops and their nonsense And how they like to hunt black folk with no conscience And how they want to preach human rights, its preposterous Request from the audience spit that Uncle Sam Goddamn Drawing out the round of applauses I was rocking a capella before this Because I know that rapping in Iran is lawless Ahh sh– you know me though anything for the people The clapping kind of tapped in to my fat rapper ego I fell into the trap plugged in my mac and let the beat go Didn’t think that nobody would hear though, here we go [Hook/Chorus] Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more Oh, here he go Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more This is how it go [Verse 2] Friday we greet each other at the mosque But here there’s only one and the government preacher talks Which struck me as odd but nothing could prepare me for A big a** mob chanting (d**h to America) It felt like somebody talking ’bout my mama, wait It’s all real but I’ma still feel some type of way You mean the system and I’m with you on that But you got to be more specific than that You ain’t talking ’bout the families getting whipped in the back I’m tripping cause I’ve never felt defensive like that Okay so meanwhile footage of me spitting those raps Is playing on every TV station they have They jail people for that The local rappers all start clapping back d**h threats all in my social media apps, hm I started looking at the people that brought me here Like, (what the hell y’all got me on man I’m out of here) [Hook/Chorus] Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more Oh, here y’all go Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more This is how it go [Verse 3] This that international gang banging it And my homeland hit Iran with the sanctions And my credit cards and telephone ain’t happening But I can’t imagine a better land to be stranded in Almost everyone that see me coming Want to take me home and they trying to feed me something But I took the last forty dollars that I had And headed to the airport in a cab and there I sat Starving cause there’s only one flight a day I can’t even buy a ticket tryna find a way Somebody seen me on TV and recognized my face And let me write an email to my wife in the states I’m in the airport three days, wondering if I’m even safe Finally got a seat on the plane Now imagine my exhausted embarra**ment Get back to America they interrogate me like a terrorist Really? [Hook/Chorus] Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more Watch where you go Can’t teach what you don’t know Can’t lead where you don’t go Can’t reap what you don’t sow Can’t fool the people no more