Attack The Block Lyrics - Talib Kweli

[Intro - from the movie Attack the Block] 

You know what that is? I told you what that is, 

that's that alien 

Musta come from outer space trying to take over the earth, innit? 

Well it landed in the wrong place, though, you get me? The wrong place! 

This is the block, fam! Nobody fucks with the block, do you get me? 

Block! Block! Block! Block! 

[Sample from Dead Prez - " 

Hip Hop 

It's bigger than hip hop 

I ride for my niggas though 

And we gotta stay alive just to get it, yall 

The hood look like one big prison yard 

And death is the only visitor 

They don't want you at your best 

That means they're at their worst 

They wanna hear struggle bars 

You wanna kick a classic verse 

Niggas sleep with the fish like a pelican 

Get that snitch 'fore he tell again 

They killed Pac, he was too Machiavellian 

Stood out in the middle of a room like an elephant 

Because what he said was way too relevant 

Never ignorant, way too intelligent 

Now we got them running scared of the melanin 

Used to kick dust in the air, now we're settling 

Don't want you to vote like an alien 

Came here on a boat like Elian 

Gonzales 

but they want your dollars 

Gotta work them hours, it's so Gladwellian 

Ten thousand hours strong 

Just to keep the lights and the power on 

This new New York feels wrong 

Babylon here but the towers gone 

Victory so sweet, but all we ever 

Taste is sour, that's the agony of 

I really be in these streets 

While the only Harlem you know is a Japanese club 

I know Queens that'll rock them jewels 

Pulling out ninas 'cuz they rock them tools 

We on the Island of Staten 

Follow to Manhattan like a big fan of the Wu 

The Brooklyn you know is the [?] chick 

Spill your blood like a battle with Crips 

Youngsters looking up to the same game 

Hunger in my belly, got the same pains 

It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang 

In pursuit of the food, just to maintain 

It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang 

In pursuit of the food, just to maintain 

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