No Caliphates (feat. Talib Kweli)

Wait a minute, slow down

We can go later

We can go lay down

We can go way up

Madri sh3abalik, but I use my second language so all of y’all understand us, eeh

Came from the desert akhi

Drilling for oil, the pollution has got us smokin’

The news made all the immigrants move, and now the world is watching

Arab with an attitude dressed like Qadaffi

Asalaam Alaykum like Muhammad Ali

Me and my brother we’re like Shaq and Kobe

Tell em’ where we come from, they Islamaphobic

You got Wiz Khalifa, Mia Khalifa, but no caliphates

They only wanna check my bags

Muslim on the plane

Even when I’m grocery shoppin’ I’m still a target man

They label me a boogie man then they make a Muslim ban, damn

I’m not a terrorist I’m a tourist

Soon as they find out I’m an Arab they start jumping to conclusions

Hand me the bag Fauré Le Page

Just got back from Hajj feel like Malik Shabazz

Wait a minute, slow down

We can go later

We can go lay down

We can go way up

Walking the block with a bop cause I’m caught in the beat

Old lady clutching her pearl so watch her crossing the street

This black power so awesome to see

My man’s sister got em switching up

These coon ass n****s see em bitchin’ up

Respectability don’t stop a copper who wanna shoot

They killed Martin Luther in a civil rights suit

The ego has an appetite for it’s own version of the truth

Your absence of evidence not proof

These bars is empirical and harder than a criminal

Far sided bubble never subtle or subliminal

These artists is far too cynical to be spiritual

You don’t really get it though you thinking never critical

Strong man arguments

Dissing a ???

These consequences require fixes like Ray Donovan

I never use the language of oppressors and the conquerors

A task tell the tales of a crime like eastern promises

Wait a minute, slow down

We can go later

We can go lay down

We can go way up