Talib Kweli - Chemtrails & m**m Wars (Remix) lyrics

[Intro: Isa Muhammad] I come from a time where it is about like bars n***a, where it's about like lyrics n***a, where it's about like saying some sh** n***a, some deep sh** n***a, some sh** about black people my n***a. You sh** about, you know, some some some esoteric spiritual type sh**, some sh** that goes into the essence of what it just means to just be black and just popping in America, you feel me? Like. Isa Muhammad n***a [Verse 1: Isa Muhammad] Incarceration, genocide, they k** you if you criticize They got your name and number n***a, intelligence centralized The homie Paper just got shot, I pray he make it through the night I know some n***as did some time, had to fly a couple kites I roll around my f**ing city feeling like I'm Michael Knight And Jesus Christ, you need a fight, Norris Cole is colder than the snow I always get the shot to go, I got the baddest b**h for sho' Bout to get out 10 or fo', and he come from coldest coast Lyrics caught the Holy Ghost, I travel 'round on golden spokes Naenae done hit them folkes, it's a [?] if you did not know Palestine and the occupation, evidently, but you can't taste it I'm in the booth on vacation, I feel like Wayne, it's a dedication Outer space on the reservation, [?] it's an a**a**ination The sh** I spit come from dark spaces like dark matter meets Darth Vader And elevated and meditated till you levitated Dronestrikes at your frontdoor, Inglewood forever more Chemtrails and m**m wars [Chorus: Isa Muhammad] And I ain't trippin 'bout no b**hes Nah, said I'd rather put the city on, n***a It's Inglewood forever, look Like chemtrails and m**m wars And I ain't trippin 'bout no b**hes bro Nah, uhuh, said I'd rather put the city on Word, it's Inglewood forevermore Uh, like chemtrails and m**m wars [Verse 2: Rick Ross] I'm the Charles Dickens for these young n***as Pray these scriptures pay my daughter tuition, it's my vision Ask me what I wanna be, and I said I'm a poet Survive a drive-by got me feeling heroic AK47's for the shock and awe Made a fortune, and no more smoking in those parking lots Your men see you through a different lens Ain't no love cause they k**ing even wives and friends Scholarships to school, they wanna know my race Took a trip to Egypt, then I chose my faith Field n***as would never suffer from sunburns One word, you still a n***a, take this whole verse Innercity n***as living by the Gotti rules To be on house arrest he made a lotta moves I'm prepaid for my next rhymes I'll let these n***as shine maybe next time [Chorus: Isa Muhammad] Your men see you through a different lens Ain't no love cause they k**ing even wives and friends Scholarships to school, they wanna know my race Took a trip to Egypt, then I chose my faith Field n***as would never suffer from sunburn One word, you still a n***a, take this whole verse Innercity n***as living by the Gotti rules To be on house arrest, he made a lot of moves I'm prepaid for my next rhymes I'll let these n***as shine maybe next time [Verse 3: Talib Kweli] You received my gift, like a present, so my presence is a charity The difference is it's clear, but I focus on similarities We in the trenches for our lives, these my soldiers in solidarity Your intelligence artificial, that's why you're filled with singularity Got that advice from my pops, it's a staple Like a plate of rice never, not religion, but a way of life Pick your battle, save your fights A wise man can play the fool, behave or pay the price Respectability is cool, but that don't keep me safe at night This is why I'm still evolve 'cause these policies'll k** us all Nah they can't k** us all, that's why they wanna build a wall But they don't steal and they don't rape and still get all Like they don't deal in raw, like they don't k** at all I'm a New Yorker, I saw the builings fall, they came because we built it first The bricks are falling I say, and [?], that's like the illest verse So for me to trust, you gotta get the f** up out your feelings first Now watch you go from "Feel the Bern" to built up with the Bildergbergs What the f** is feelings worth [Chorus: Isa Muhammad] And I ain't trippin 'bout no b**hes Nah, said I'd rather put the city on, n***a It's Inglewood forever, look Like chemtrails and m**m wars And I ain't trippin 'bout no b**hes bro Nah, uhuh, said I'd rather put the city on Word, it's Inglewood forevermore Uh, like chemtrails and m**m wars