…[Talib Kweli] I write this as I sit in the Florida office of Governor Rick Scott, live from the capitol. It is 4am and I am…
…accommodations met. I am privileged to have a platform. As someone with privilege, I have a moral obligation to use it to shed light…
…gentleman do as well. I refuse to get caught in the distraction. I am not an organizer. I am musician. I know how…
On album Cataracts (2018)
…lost my faith... I thought it was too late. I wrote down the confession like a hook for a song: "When I stopped believing in…
…upon themselves I can't touch my toes to the mirage. If the ground is a foundation it is one evasive facade. I got lost and the only way that I…
…exactly how it is." I don't know what to say Say it But I still hear echoes that can only exist in empty places And whether they are hearts or tombs If the ghost that I…
…lost my faith... I thought it was too late. I wrote down the confession like a hook for a song: "When I stopped believing in…
…upon themselves I can't touch my toes to the mirage. If the ground is a foundation it is one evasive facade. I got lost and the only way that I…
…exactly how it is." I don't know what to say Say it But I still hear echoes that can only exist in empty places And whether they are hearts or tombs If the ghost that I…
…meaning Yeah, when I am where I'm supposed to be Don't know where it is, wondering if you'll be close to me I never thought I'd need…
…too true Never avoided my errors, I try to learn from it They want to put it in a verse to see what I can earn from it Or, maybe I…
…could become real as soon as I get in our car We're going on our first date tomorrow But you live 45 minutes away and I don't have…
On album Altered Reality (2020)
…[Chorus] I am living life But you can consider it a white lie I don't want to exist, I want to live And I live in a city full of angels But I…
…the next [Chorus] I am living life But you can consider it a white lie I don't want to exist, I want to live And I live in…
…[Chorus] I am living life But you can consider it a white lie I don't want to exist, I want to live And I live in a city full of angels But I…
On album Consider Violence (2010)
…wrong? Am I too pissed? Do I get too mad, when they shoot kids? 13 Hundred in three weeks that lost (...) So don't wave your…
…? Am I too pissed? Do I get too mad, when they shoot kids? 13 Hundred in three weeks that lost (...) So don't wave your white flag in…
…? Why do I exist If not to strike them down with an iron fist? Rather be feared as an evil demon leading war Than to protest all…
…for someone to come and take me Am I creative, or am I crazy? And if it wasn't for my baby I'd probably be dead in the bottom of an empty bottle…
…been getting from the mainstream? 'Cos I killed SB, then GRIME Daily? Laugh in the face of the last woman that played me You're lying if…
…you look in the mirror and say you ain't me I am you, we're all the same, G We walk the same streets, talk the same shit…
…[Hook: Blitzo] I can't feel a thing, I don't remember sh*t Is this a f*cking dream, or is this really it? I never knew…
…a ghost And I'm stressing, If I win, I'm hosting a blessing If I lose, I'm lost and I'm guessing I'm gone With a heart as cold and dark as…
But it's dangerous I'm drowning I lost my mind it was tossed around bounced off the ground Tracked it down cross the town in the lost…
On album The Dark Matters (2016)
…[Hook: Blitzo] I can't feel a thing, I don't remember shit Is this a fucking dream, or is this really it? I never knew…
…a ghost And I'm stressing, If I win, I'm hosting a blessing If I lose, I'm lost and I'm guessing I'm gone With a heart as cold and dark as…
But it's dangerous I'm drowning I lost my mind it was tossed around bounced off the ground Tracked it down cross the town in the lost…
On album Apocalypse LP
…the past on the shelf Lock the closet swallow the key Insight and foresight all I see Hook Is it possible were all a bunch of lost souls searching…
…hat with a taunt 2Pac told me if I got it better flaunt I hope I never daunt, I'd much rather haunt Shout out to pine 204…
…momentum If you harness it you own it You make the others look dumb Life is in control Don't fall in a hole You can dig yourself…
Covered in Vaseline, cause that's better than jergens lotion Cause it makes me feel like I'm 12 feet deep in that pussy I mean in…
GENITALS ARE MENS IF YOU EVEN DID EXIST I'D FORCE SOME SHIT THAT WOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO NOT EXIST "Now he's talking about raping…
…on my heyday Spit it in a gay way If I had a fucking job I could've got a mother fucking payday But I'm too crazy I'm gonna…
Covered in Vaseline, cause that's better than jergens lotion Cause it makes me feel like I'm 12 feet deep in that pussy I mean in…
GENITALS ARE MENS IF YOU EVEN DID EXIST I'D FORCE SOME SHIT THAT WOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO NOT EXIST "Now he's talking about raping…
…on my heyday Spit it in a gay way If I had a fucking job I could've got a mother fucking payday But I'm too crazy I'm gonna…
On album Seconds Away (2003)
…(I am trapped) Repeat 12X (I am...) Hey mom, look at me. No mismatched socks on my feet. Everything's in perfect order. There's…
…fight back with glares in sidewalk cracks. Life would be better if I could find this amusing, But every minute, another…
…toys and video games excite me And I play like it's all fine I hear them talking around me as if I don't understand Using words…
…and anywhere. And it's playing the game of hide and seek with itself. It gets lost, it gets involved in the farthest-out adventures, but in the end it…
…the man that looks you in the eye and says 'Oh come off it. I know who you are.' You come to the guru and say 'Sir, I have a problem. I'm unhappy, and I…
…the veil and realise that after all, when all is said and done, I am that I am, which is the name of god. And, when it comes to it, that's really rather funny. They say in…
On album ITANIMULLI: Call Me When You're Free (2011)
They give you life vests, take it off and you will drown At least that's what they try to teach ya They give you A and B, I don't…
…) Monsanto is in your town (And I ain't play'n) VERSE 3 (PARANOID) I am what I am, And that is all that I am And I am not capable of bowing to a man And I am…
…above your law And it doesn't even matter if I cross your bar (CHORUS) The first amendment is deader than a door nail Speaking…
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