New Leaders Lyrics - Gravitas - Talib Kweli

Welcome to the new age where they're thirsty for that Kool-Aid 

Thirsty for first in that page, really thirsty just to be fake 

Be the first to hate what you say, trying to diss you calling you "gay" 

Such an urgent need to express yourself, but really nothing to say 

Don't fuck with us, we too tough, get high like you do drugs 

Like spit me out I'm chewed up my life is chopped and screwed up 

I know you up in this club, I know you don't give a fuck 

You told me what you don't like, you made that clear, now what do you love? 

There's gotta be more 

Some live the life of the rich, some people gotta be poor 

I've been through a door 

I will not sell you a dream, that's what the lottery for 

The music is clay, I shaped it, I molded it 

Like it was pottery or the mouth with the law 

Twist it like Robert Duvall, son, the godfather raw 

Free as the diamond you found on the floor 

Furnished the rhyme with the proper decor 

I burnished the nine in my mind with the galore 

So they burning with shaman, I'm popping the door 

To top off the law 

If your style is married to substance, you sound like you got a divorce 

That's why I'm blocking and unfollowing y'all 

I done forgot what I'm following for 

Enough about y'all, now back to me 

Ain't no academic leave, I'm not faculty 

These new slaves ain't ready for my masterpiece 

So when they hear me rap it's catastrophe 

Cause a casualty so casually they mistake what I do for having beef 

I don't actually wish anybody harm, now stretch your arms and clap for me 

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Wake up cause no you're not dreaming 

Catch up with us cause we leaving 

Got enough followers 

I'm looking for some new leaders 

I'm looking for some new leaders 

I'm looking for some new leaders 

Got enough followers 

I'm looking for some new leaders 

Ever since the day I was born, that marks the day I was chosen 

To rise above them all and be a leader, I'm like Malcolm X when on the podium 

Martin Luther with a dream, Rosa Parks on the bus 

Though as funny as it seems it remind me of us 

Through the money and the fame ain't shit gon' change for the light we adjust 

Do it for the children without a ceiling to live up under 

Times getting hard, that's why my niggas smoke that tropic thunder 

If all our people spreaded love instead of evil 

We would prosper our conscious to a level with no equal lethal 

Stay true, I gave you my oath 

What would the ancient God my nigga Thoth 

Through all the books and the screens I was taught 

I look at myself and pretend to learn the most 

Our leaders dead and gone, what's left for the believers? 

If you looking for the truth, one word: Underachievers, nigga 

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As I change the so called predestined course of my life 

Advance my shit so now I travel at the speed of light 

Moving these intricate insecurities out of sight 

Moving myself onward from the darkness into the light 

I take flight, it's goodbye to all the negativity 

That plague millions of young innocent souls like me 

Gave me the genius mind state necessary 

To feast off of this unlimited figurative tree 

Of life, I tried to tell these niggas that our purpose is to move it 

Something like Darwin's beliefs of humans in evolutions 

As I fall asleep on these social forms of materialism 

I wake up and go through more colors than your normal prism 

Would you rest my soul, I'm blinding me to a blurry of visions 

In light of me on what to cut with such gifted precision 

And now I'm truly livin' (bless up, bless up) 

And now I'm truly livin' (bless up, bless up) 

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