Deli-i-i, deliver us
They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement
(Deliver us)
I call these rappers Baby Seals
Deli-i-i, deliver us
(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us)
What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggas love to forget
Deliver
'Keep it honest', our motto, these niggas keep it bottled
Drug suppliers is the health care providers
Deliver us
(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood)
It's like a gang, it's like a club or a set
You hear the congregation, this is the hostile gospel
You never know, they might've added in secret ingredients
So I'm reaching to the sky
(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us)
Stand on your own two, never covet thy neighbor's stuff
Deli-i-i, deliver us
DJ's stickin' to vinyl like fuck Serato
(We wanna live it up, please deliver us)
The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water
Deliver us, deliver
Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves
We living in these times of love and cholera
Deliver us
(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel)
What become of the vets?
Publisher: PEN SKILLS MUSIC
(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow)
Deliver
Deliver us
An entertainer or the author of the last chapter
Back to the topic we on, it all started at Rawkus
I start a conversation based on general observation
Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous
Be careful who you eatin' with and sleepin' with
Your topical norm a tropical storm, it's a fuckin' disaster
(What the people want? Please deliver us)
There ain't no love and no respect
Lord, can You deliver me?
(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel)
Deliver
(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us)
I can't do it on my own
(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us)
We still waitin' for the Congress to acknowledge this
You can't always just borrow and asks for favors, bruh
Deliver us
Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad rapper?
(I'm preaching to the choir, please deliver us)
The truth is hard to swallow, it'll leave you scarred tomorrow
'Cause they club you to death
Wires while I plead the fifth, can't trust a soul in the biz
Deli-i-i, deliver us
(T-t-this is the, t-t-this is the, this is the hostile gospel)
You ain't promised tomorrow, so get your paper up
And what the people say? We wanna live it up
Smack fire out these hoes, 'cause they snitch and tap
We got til it's gone, you think you on, you still hustlin' backwards
So they resort to the shortcuts
Like, "I bet they neighborhood ain't like this"
Deli-i-i, deliver us
Suppliers who ride around the block in the custom models
Deli-i-i, deliver us
Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination?
(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood)
Awaitin' trial, debatin' how the hell I got placed in this system?
'Cause they government feds
(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow)
Niggas got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan
That's why I'm spittin' freedom, we had enough of trigger squeezin'
(Deliver)
Hip hop's the new WWF
And what the people need? Hey, I got that, yeah
(I'm reaching through the fire, please deliver us)
(We wanna live it up, please deliver us)
Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang ourselves
(We wanna live it up, please deliver us)
Deliver us, deliver
Ballin' like he struck the lotto, you know who the cleanest is
Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled, watch hell unravel
A nigga keep it rich with the stitch and Greedy Geniuses
Deliver us
Deli-i-i, deliver us
Cakin' makin' narcotics outta household products
And also who you chiefin' with
(Deli-i-i, deliver us)
It's salvation that I need
And not take the hand of every man who make an offer
They couldn't find the words to describe me
We ain't workin' out 'til we exorcise the demons that's inside us
Songwriters: Larissa Conner, Paul Greedus, Talib Kweli Greene, Didier Marouani, Justin Smith
(Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow)
Expose the game, treat it like a bitch
I could call em' Navy SEALs
I'm not a hipster, but I flip it like a sneaker pimp
Deli-i-i, deliver us
All I need is to be free
Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle
Deliver
I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato
We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists, shit
They drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt
In these trying days and times
Deliver
(What the people want? Please deliver us)
To black kids wishin' they white kids when they close they eyelids
There are trials still to come
(People wanna live it up, please deliver us)
And what the people want? Please deliver us
Deli-i-i, deliver us
(Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood)
Hip hop is not a nation, take it to population
Karma's a bitch so watch your mouth and what you sayin', bruh
Deliver
White kids wishin' they black kids, and wanna talk like rappers
Lord, can You deliver me?
The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us
It's officially nigga season, these niggas is bleedin'
Deliver us
Deliver us, deliver
It's all backwards, it's identity crisis