Distractions Lyrics - Talib Kweli

Nowadays we be rocking glasses for fashion 

And fucking with life a fraction 

Covered in Max Factor, hustling ass-backwards 

As sure as Hi-Tek look like Richard from Last Dragon 

Your focus on bogus rappers got you caught up in distraction 

Distraction. Who fucking who? Who cares? That's distraction 

You wish it was you, don't you - why you asking? 

Try to break the law of attraction 

Get a piece of my attention like a fraction of a ration 

Or a measly little morsel 

They suck your blood and you believe in the immortals 

We nocturnal like a sleeping disorder 

See the water drawing away from the shore 

This ain't no ordinary storm 

We killing for a humanitarian cause 

But have yet to show up in Darfur 

The Arab Spring is what it's called 

But it's looking at the pride before the fall 

They say it ain't about the spoils of war 

But turn around and tell you how much more the oil will cost 

Steal the land from the Native American and call the missiles Tomahawks 

Make him a mascot, dress up like him for sport 

As a final assault to his beautiful culture 

Scavengers, feasting on the dead like a vulture 

Snacking; how you keeping up with my rapping? 

You barely keeping up with Kardashians 

You caught up in distraction 

It's the living proof - you try to make the truth elastic as Mr. Fantastic 

We recycling these rappers 

Truthfully, these niggas is plastic 

Coming through the front door blasting 

I ain't talking bout them e-mails 

That you always send to the masses 

That somehow end up in my trash bin 

My niggas got the aim of sharpshooters and the hearts of assassins 

All this war, all this life, all this passion 

The game is distraction 

Give a fuck if the President wear a flag pin 

Rhyming is deep as holes Chilean miners are trapped in 

Or the cracks in the earth under Asia Minor causing disasters 

My Deep cuts way above your minor infractions 

Talk to rappers like children cause that's how they acting 

They holding their hands like minors in traffic 

The captains of industry and the leaders of status quo 

Have a deep-seeded fear of change 

For them it's strange - they wanna go 

Back to the 50's, they asking for a return 

But them days is much blacker, for lack of a better term 

We adapted to the times, but this culture we had to learn 

Came about as natural as a perm on a pachyderm 

These fascists have had their turn 

We packing them German burners, them Lugers 

The next shooters waiting for Superman, they get nothing but Lex Luthor 

America's nightmare, vivid as Fred Kruger 

Our heroes are dead to us 

Spirit that bled through us 

Endear us with the spirit so the flow is so foolish 

What you hearing is precision 

The people so thirsty, what they seeing is mirages 

But this passion Photoshopping and your YouTube collages 

Coming through like Collossus 

Exposing the false prophet 

Taught how to do the knowledge so I'm never off-topic 

A lie is like a potion 

First it gets you open 

Then you swallow whole straight for the truth 

Fuck the chaser, skip religion and the politics 

And head straight to the compassion 

Everything else is a distraction 

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