A Tribe Called Quest: We The People

A Tribe Called Quest

We got it from Here…Thank You 4 Your Service

We The People

We don’t believe you ’cause we the people
Are still here in the rear, ayo, we don’t need you 
You in the killing-off-good-young-nigga mood 
When we get hungry we eat the same fucking food 
The ramen noodle 
Your simple voodoo is so maniacal, we’re liable to pull a juju 
The irony is that this bad bitch in my lap 
She don’t love me, she make money, she don’t study that 
She gon’ give it to me, ain’t gon’ tell me run it back 
She gon’ take the brain to wetter plains, she spit on that

The doors have signs with, don’t try to rhyme with 
VH1 has a show that you can waste your time with 
Guilty pleasures take the edge off reality 
And for a salary I’d probably do that shit sporadically 
The OG Gucci boots are smitten with iguanas 
The IRS piranha see a nigga gettin’ commas 
Niggas in the hood living in a fishbowl 
Gentrify here, now it’s not a shit hole 
Trendsetter, I know, my shit’s cold 
Ain’t settling because I ain’t so bold but ay

All you Black folks, you must go 
All you Mexicans, you must go 
And all you poor folks, you must go 
Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways 
So all you bad folks, you must go

The fog and the smog of news media that logs 
False narratives of Gods that came up against the odds 
We’re not just nigga rappers with the bars 
It’s kismet that we’re cosmic with the stars

You bastards overlooking street art 
Better yet, street smarts, but you keep us off the charts 
So motherfuck your numbers and your statisticians 
Fuck y’all know about true competition? 
That’s like a AL pitcher on deck talking about he hittin’ 
The only one who’s hitting are the ones that’s currently spittin’ 
We got your missy smitten rubbing on her little kitten 
Dreaming of a world that’s equal for women with no division 
Boy, I tell you that’s vision

Like Tony Romo when he hitting Witten 
The Tribe be the best in they division 
Shaheed Muhammad cut it with precision 
Who can come back years later, still hit the shot? 
Still them tryna move we off the fucking block 
Babylon, bloodclaat 
Two pon yuh headtop

All you Black folks, you must go 
All you Mexicans, you must go 
And all you poor folks, you must go 
Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways 
So all you bad folks, you must go

2016, Writing credit: Terence Michael Butler, Malik Izaak Taylor, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Ozzy Osbourne,, William T. Ward, F. Frank Iommi.

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