Learn Truth-R.A. the Rugged Man/Talib Kweli

[00:03.200] Intro: [00:03.700] Take a piece of America back [00:05.570] It's called truth [00:10.090] [00:10.630] Verse 1: Talib Kweli [00:11.140] We the last of the vintage flowers, we carry it on our shoulders [00:13.420] I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer [00:16.230] When the Freedom Riders approach them, their appetite is vulturous [00:18.710] Soldiers of fortune ain't never no match for soldiers of culture [00:21.460] My flow is so ******* honest, you said you wanted to hear it [00:23.990] You're lying, cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits [00:26.890] The truth is too ******* ugly and trust me the ***t got layers [00:29.590] You touch me, you think you tough, leave you toothless as rugby players [00:32.320] From sufis to soothsayers discussing the true saviours [00:34.830] We move with the gangstas [00:36.270] You *****s sweeter than the fruit flavors, the booth slayer [00:38.400] Proving it's futile to hide from us [00:40.310] You misguided as missiles so a suicide bombers [00:43.010] Taking orders from the mullah and waiting for karma to pull up [00:45.780] Their stones are no match for bullets, Israeli rachets are fuller [00:48.320] Gotta race to meet ***** like they chasing them with a cop car [00:51.000] Like there's honor in being a martyr and a terrorist is a rockstar [00:53.850] Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi [00:56.430] Still probably as popular as Swastikas for ****s [00:59.230] The cops protect the property properly when they crack your heads [01:02.280] Murderers get as ****y as Perseus when the kraken dead [01:04.930] I wonder what be running through these crackers' heads [01:07.420] So my *****s is spilling more blood than [01:08.980] Cincinnati caps, black and red [01:10.420] I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes [01:13.070] Having a funeral for the news cause the facts is dead [01:15.680] The trust is gone from the neocons to Barrack Obama [01:18.430] America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom [01:20.930] Fix it and mix it up, like martial Law for the Octagon [01:23.640] I spit the fire til it burn down Babylon [01:26.430] [01:26.920] Hook: [01:27.440] Take a piece of America back [01:30.750] You will learn [01:31.790] It's called truth [01:36.880] [01:37.290] Verse 2: R.A. the Rugged Man [01:37.740] Death by suicide bomb, protestants, Bibles, a Koran, or Islam [01:40.450] From Genghis Khan to Vietnam I can smell the napalm [01:42.230] Rape victims, ripped stockings [01:43.470] Redneck clan members doing church bombings [01:45.270] Innocent fetus' being aborted with no options [01:47.130] Human governments ruin 'em [01:48.880] Worrying what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em [01:50.460] Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem [01:52.430] Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiro***ma to Nagasaki [01:56.180] Adolf ******, to every murderous **** [01:58.260] To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every mafia atrocity [02:01.010] Child pornography, babies starving and dying in poverty [02:04.190] Serbians fighting Croatians in Yugoslavia [02:06.070] Muslim women being raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia [02:09.250] The 50 million killed in the second World War [02:11.400] The government's poisoning the minds and the bodies [02:13.220] Of the babies that are born poor [02:14.570] Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists [02:16.560] In religion there's always drama [02:17.840] Whether wor***pping the Prophet Mohammed or Jesus [02:20.030] Small pox to Napoleon's troops dying from typhus [02:22.500] From the Spanish flu to the black plague, today its AIDS virus [02:25.320] Bodies in coffins, political extortions [02:27.250] Racist mobs murdering, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins [02:30.830] Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate? [02:33.430] The Catholic church claimed women were witches andburned 'em at the stake [02:36.100] Pedophile predators attacking [02:37.840] .38 Beretta used by Ghandi's assassin [02:39.170] 16 bullets in Malcolm, it happened uptown Manhattan [02:41.780] And the homicide, Reagan '80s epidemic of crack [02:44.150] And soldiers in action dying in Iraq and never coming back [02:46.880] And now let's [02:47.660] [02:48.270] Outro: [02:48.770] Take a piece of America back [02:51.370] You will learn [02:52.750] It's called truth [02:54.070] It's called truth [02:59.930] You will learn [03:00.670] It's called truth [03:03.890] It's called truth [03:08.190] [03:08.750]End