Talib Kweli - New Leaders lyrics

(feat. The Underachievers) [Verse 1: Talib Kweli] Welcome to the new age, where they're thirsty for that Kool-Aid Thirsty for the first on that page, really thirsty just to be fake Be the first to hate what you say, tryin to diss you callin you "gay" Such an urgent need to express yourself but really nothin to say Don't f** with us, we too tough, get high like you do d** Like spit me out, I'm chewed up - my life's chopped and screwed up I know you up in this club, I know you don't give a f** 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 it all, 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 gloss so the burner will shine when I'm poppin it off To top it all off your style is married to substance, you sound like it got a divorce That's why I block and unfollowin y'all, I done forgot what I'm followin 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 is so casually, they mistake what I do for havin beef I don't actually, wish anybody harm, now stretch your arms and clap for me [Hook: Talib Kweli x2] 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 I'm looking for some new leaders Got enough followers I'm looking for some new leaders [Verse 2: AK] 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 sh** 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 n***as 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 n***a 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, n***a [Hook x2] [Verse 3: Issa Gold] As I change the so called predestined course of my life Advance my sh** so now I travel at the speed of light Moving these intricate insecurities out of sight Moving myself onward 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 this unlimited figurative tree Of life, I tried to tell these n***as 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) [Hook x2]