After These Messages (Explicit)

After These Messages (Explicit) - Talib Kweli/Madlib/Amani

Lyrics by：Talib Kweli Greene/Amani Greene/Homer Banks/Carl Hampton/Raymond Jackson

Composed by：Otis Jackson Jr

Produced by：Madlib

Let's make a toast to creator pros in the days of old

You play your role

Your lies'll ring out hollow like they plated gold

They say they know but just because they say it

That don't make it so

Maybe so but if it's less travel I'ma take the road

Let's make a toast to the life of the party and the greatest host

The greatest show on Earth

That take your souls dressed in the latest clothes

The natives so restless it's stressin' the pressure take a toll

They made us so the way to go is to break us off

And make us hope

Mother Earth is modest but she never has a veil to wear

They followin' my sister but weapons drawn when she conceal a hair

Through the malls of America

Past the Chick-fil-As and the Build-A-Bears

The fall of America was prob'ly triggered by the Trail of Tears

Or wait and I say so yeah

But you would know it thoroughly

Went from native and indigenous

To marginalized minorities our stories be inspirin'

The greatest songs you've ever heard

We used to hang from trees

Now they hangin' on our every word

The levees burst open when the storm is ragin'

We call our base and then pray before we hit the stage

Every performance sacred

These lyrics are them prayers them devils hate to sing

These miracles are waitin' on our spiritual awakening

The winter comin' got 'em huntin' for scraps

I'm ready for war I'm like a soldier with his gun in his lap

Under attack that's where we shine them cowards run to the back

We gotta become the good energy we want to attract

I'm singin' this message to you

Listen to my song

I'm singin' this message to you

Listen to my song

I'm singin' this message to you

Only way that I can

The only thing out of pocket be how they profit

At this point leniency not an option let's get it poppin'

Tired of seein' my people sobbin' least I'm goddess

They movin' ores like hemoglobin

I made a lie out of whoever settlement an island

I made a fire from a pen pad and perfect timin'

Reverse the curse worst come to worst

The pressure birth a diamond

This no church but we got gospels that are certain lament

Deemed impossible to rock the bull without tottlin'

Ya'll some toddlers where ya mom n'em

I'm in rare form say a prayer for him amen

Niggas dare score

All ya'll share of corn is drop gems and read airborne

Or sneeze out ya need for top ten uh

Thoughts we all got them the cause of all our sin

Look at the floor get your jaw knocked in

Wired up locked in the spirit hot is not zen

I fear this not what God meant

So languid a response yeah we prolly nearin' our end

Rearin' our head endearin' our dread

Stackin' bread we good money 'long as we not dead

**** what you feel in yo heart you ain't gotta fear what I said

Niggas equate a fear with the art

Like I just create and heal with the art

From what I can tell

They just tryna weigh a bill with the art uh

I'm singin' this message to you

Listen to my song

I'm singin' this message to you

Listen to my song

I'm singin' this message to you

Only way that I can