"hostile Gospel Lyrics - Talib Kweli

Deliver us, deliver 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(Deliver us) 

And what the people say? We wanna live it up 

(Deliver) 

And what the people want? Please deliver us 

(Deli-i-i, deliver us) 

And what the people need? Hey, I got that, yeah 

I call these rappers Baby Seals 

'Cause they club you to death 

I could call em' Navy SEALs 

'Cause they government feds 

What become of the vets? 

They drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt 

There ain't no love and no respect 

It's like a gang, it's like a club or a set 

Hip hop's the new WWF 

What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggas love to forget 

We got til it's gone, you think you on, you still hustlin' backwards 

Your topical norm a tropical storm, it's a fuckin' disaster 

Back to the topic we on, it all started at Rawkus 

They couldn't find the words to describe me 

So they resort to the shortcuts 

Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad rapper? 

An entertainer or the author of the last chapter 

We living in these times of love and cholera 

Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous 

We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists, shit 

We still waitin' for the Congress to acknowledge this 

Deliver us 

(What the people want? Please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(We wanna live it up, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel) 

Deliver us 

(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood) 

(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow) 

You ain't promised tomorrow, so get your paper up 

You can't always just borrow and asks for favors, bruh 

Stand on your own two, never covet thy neighbor's stuff 

Karma's a bitch so watch your mouth and what you sayin', bruh 

I start a conversation based on general observation 

Hip hop is not a nation, take it to population 

Niggas got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan 

Awaitin' trial, debatin' how the hell I got placed in this system? 

Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination? 

They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement 

You hear the congregation, this is the hostile gospel 

The truth is hard to swallow, it'll leave you scarred tomorrow 

'Keep it honest', our motto, these niggas keep it bottled 

I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato 

DJ's stickin' to vinyl like fuck Serato 

Suppliers who ride around the block in the custom models 

Ballin' like he struck the lotto, you know who the cleanest is 

A nigga keep it rich with the stitch and Greedy Geniuses 

I'm not a hipster, but I flip it like a sneaker pimp 

Expose the game, treat it like a bitch 

Smack fire out these hoes, 'cause they snitch and tap 

Wires while I plead the fifth, can't trust a soul in the biz 

Be careful who you eatin' with and sleepin' with 

And also who you chiefin' with 

You never know, they might've added in secret ingredients 

Deliver us 

(What the people want? Please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(We wanna live it up, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel) 

Deliver us 

(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood) 

(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow) 

Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled, watch hell unravel 

Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle 

The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water 

And not take the hand of every man who make an offer 

To black kids wishin' they white kids when they close they eyelids 

Like, "I bet they neighborhood ain't like this" 

White kids wishin' they black kids, and wanna talk like rappers 

It's all backwards, it's identity crisis 

The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us 

Drug suppliers is the health care providers 

Cakin' makin' narcotics outta household products 

We ain't workin' out 'til we exorcise the demons that's inside us 

Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves 

Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang ourselves 

It's officially nigga season, these niggas is bleedin' 

That's why I'm spittin' freedom, we had enough of trigger squeezin' 

Deliver us 

(People wanna live it up, please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(We wanna live it up, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel) 

Deliver us 

(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us) 

Deliver 

(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us) 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood) 

(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow) 

In these trying days and times 

All I need is to be free 

I can't do it on my own 

Lord, can You deliver me? 

There are trials still to come 

It's salvation that I need 

So I'm reaching to the sky 

Lord, can You deliver me? 

Deliver us, deliver 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

Deliver us, deliver 

Deli-i-i, deliver us 

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