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Hostile Gospel, Pt1 (Deliver Us)
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Talib Kweli
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Intro:
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Deliver us, deliver us (yeah)
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Deliver us, deliver us (what, yeah)
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And what the people say? We wanna live it up
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And what the people want? Please deliver us
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And what the people need? Hey
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I got that, yeah
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Verse 1:
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I call these rappers baby seals, cause they club you to death
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I could call em Navy SEALs, cause they government feds
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What become of the vets? They drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt
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There aint no love and no respect, its like a gang, its like a club or a set
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Hip hops the new WWF
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What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggas love to forget
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We got til its gone, you think you on, you still hustlin backwards
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Your topical norm a tropical storm, its a fuckin disaster
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Back to the topic we on, it all started at Rawkus
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They couldnt find the words to describe me so they resort to the shortcuts
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Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad rapper?
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An entertainer or the author of the last chapter
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We living in these times of love and cholera
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Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous
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We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists, shit
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We still waitin for the Congress to acknowledge this
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Chorus:
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What the people want? Please deliver us
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We wanna live it up, please deliver us
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Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, this is the hostile gospel
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Im reaching through the fire please deliver us
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Im preaching to the choir please deliver us
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Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood
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Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow
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Verse 2:
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You aint promised tomorrow, so get your paper up
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You cant always just borrow and asks for favors, bruh
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Stand on your own two, never covet thy neighbors stuff
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Karmas a bitch so watch your mouth and what you sayin, bruh
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I start a conversation based on general observation
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Hip hop is not a nation, take it to population
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Niggas got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan
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Awaitin trial, debatin how the hell I got placed in this system
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Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination?
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They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement
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You hear the congregation this is the hostile gospel
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The truth is hard to swallow, itll leave you scarred tomorrow
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Keep it honest - our motto, these niggas keep it bottled
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Im the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus DAmato
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DJs stickin to vinyl like fuck Serato
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Suppliers who ride around the block in the custom models
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Ballin like the struck the lotto, you know who the cleanest is
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A nigga keep it rich with the stitch and Greedy Geniuses
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Im not a hipster, but I flip it like a sneaker pimp
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Expose the game, treat it like a bitch
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Smack fire out these hoes, cause they snitch
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And tap wires while I plead the fifth, you cant trust a soul in the biz
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So be careful who you eatin with and sleepin with and also who you chiefin with
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You never know, they mightve added in secret ingredients
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Chorus:
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What the people want? Please deliver us
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We wanna live it up, please deliver us
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Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, this is the hostile gospel
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Im reaching through the fire please deliver us
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Im preaching to the choir please deliver us
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Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood
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Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow
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Verse 3:
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Freedoms a road thats seldom traveled, watch hell unravel
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Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle
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The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water
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And not take the hand of every man who make an offer
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To black kids wishin they white kids when they close they eyelids
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Like I bet they neighborhood aint like this
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White kids wishin they black kids, and wanna talk like rappers
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Its all backwards, its identity crisis
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The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us
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Drug suppliers is the health care providers
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We cakin makin narcotics outta household products
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We aint workin out til we exorcise the demons thats inside us
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Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves
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Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang ourselves
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Its officially nigga season, these niggas is bleedin
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Thats why Im spittin freedom, we had enough of trigger squeezin
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Chorus:
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People wanna live it up, please deliver us
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We wanna live it up, please deliver us
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Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, this is the hostile gospel
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Im reaching through the fire please deliver us
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Im preaching to the choir please deliver us
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Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood
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Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow
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Outro (sung):
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In these trying days and times
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All I need is to be free
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I cant do it on my own
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Lord can you deliver me?
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There are trials still to come
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Its salvation that I need
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So Im reaching to the sky
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Lord can you deliver me?
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Deliver us
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Deliver us, yeah
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Deliver us, ooh
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Oh, deliver us
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Deliver us
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Deliver us
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Deliver us, yeah yeah yeah
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