Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, Yummy Bingham - All of Us lyrics

(We must love and support each other)
We have nothing to lose but our chains
(We have nothing to lose but our chains)
Now you say that shit so loud
Them motherfuckers outside hear you
It is our duty to fight for our freedom!
(It is our duty to fight for our freedom)
It is our duty to win (It is our duty to win)
We must love and support each other
(We must love and support each other)
We have nothing to lose
(We have nothing to lose)
We have nothing to lose
(We have nothing to lose)
We have nothing to lose
(We have nothing to lose)
But our chains (But our chains)

Send this one out to to the mothers
(they neglected) to the
Fathers (they rejected) to the sisters
(disrespected) to the brothers (unprotected)
All of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
We send this one out to to the mothers
(they deceited) to the
Fathers (they mistreated) to the sisters
(they misleaded) to the brothers
(that get beated) all of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
This is happening to all of us

Yeah, if our struggle is a strain
Then the strain is dominant
My name is prominent for entertainment
That's laced with consciousness
But really it's just common
Sense like Lonnie Lynn
You don't need binoculars to
See the light coming
Through the dome like it's an oculus
The common myth that we're savages
With no history or accomplishments
Or knowledge of ourselves
They did a job on us
Considering the prediction of economists
Machines will do our jobs for us
The future for the working class is ominous
They got us indoctrinated through
A bitch's brew
A religion mixed in with abuse
Emotional we sit in pews, it's physical
We get the noose and hang ourselves refusing
To name ourselves
Refuse to change ourselves
When I talk about our past
It doesn't ring a bell
They make you hate yourself it take
Effort so check the method
They'll take you from your family
Your kids will never respect ya
Attach your sins to the black of
Skin we get the message
We start acting if we cracking the
Whip better than the oppressor, yes
Every problem can't be solved
At the ballot box
We unifying Africa like Gaddafi
That's what got Malcolm shot
They out to stop anybody with knowledge
That figured out the plot
On the balcony like Martin Luther King
I been to the mountaintop
The blue wall of silence
It's really the blue wall of violence
The good cops who retire and get fired
They screaming black on black as an
Excuse for you to not care
'Til the cops roll up in their SWAT gear

I tarried through the turbulent
Month of Ramadan
Sweating all through the night just
Like the Holy Prophet
Then reappeared on the stage in
BK with the Ummah
Shoulder to shoulder with J cole and Kweli
Just before Jehovah the God crowned me
The king with his goldie locket
Alhamdulillah, we've come really far
Ain't it? The little engine who could
Could power any car can't it?
The mothers in Chiraq say
The murders getting burdensome
The cries of the despised was
Heard flying out of Ferguson
The last days and times
The holy Quran and Bible
We on the last page and line
The verse with all the babies dying
Outside of the matrix
Inside of the spaceship but
The savior's blind or so it seems
Years after Noah was told
He would row upstream
The heavens bursted and the rains came
Retaliation for the sons of the fathers
Who worked the chain gangs
I hit that shmoney dance on the
Coffin of a crooked cop
In a Worldstar society where all we
Do is look and watch no intervention
Policemen beating elderly women
With evil intentions
On the highways and the byways
The police state be sprayed into
The backstreet to the driveways
Officer friendly is an enemy now
Looking at me sideways
Shit was all bad just a week ago
The view was just as sad just a peep ago
The cries of the
Asiatic ancient-semitic peoples
That propel Jay Elec from the
Pedestal to the steeple

To the mothers (they neglected) to the
Fathers (they rejected) to the sisters
(disrespected) to the brothers (unprotected)
All of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
We send this one out to to the mothers
(they deceited) to the
Fathers (they mistreated) to the sisters
(they misleaded) to the brothers
(that get beated) all of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
This is happening to all of us
To the mothers (they neglected) to the
Fathers (they rejected) to the sisters
(disrespected) to the brothers (unprotected)
All of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
We send this one out to to the mothers
(they deceited) to the
Fathers (they mistreated) to the sisters
(they misleaded) to the brothers
(that get beated) all of us
(all of us) all of us (all of us) all of us
This is happening to all of us

We've got to live
Live to the end (we gotta do, we do)
We've got to live (for our grandmothers)
Live to the end (and granddaddies too)
We've got to live (live for the babies)
Live to the end
(my brothers out there going crazy)