Talib Kweli, The Underachievers - New Leaders lyrics

Nana nana nana ohohoh (status for life)
Nana nana nana ohohoh
Nana nana nana ohohoh (yeah)
Nana nana nana ohohoh (hey hey)
Nana nana nana ohohoh (yeah)
Nana nana nana ohohoh (come out)
Nana nana nana ohohoh (uh, ay, ay)

Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Clap clap clap clap clap clap for me hey
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Clap clap clap clap clap, now bring it back

Welcome to the new age where
They're thirsty for that Kool-Aid
Thirsty for first in that page
Really thirsty just to be fake
Be the first to hate what you say
Trying to diss you calling you "gay"
Such an urgent need to express yourself
But really nothing to say


Don't fuck with us, we too tough
Get high like you do drugs
Like spit me out I'm chewed up my
Life is chopped and screwed up
I know you up in this club
I know you don't give a fuck
You told me what you don't
Like, you made that clear
Now what do you love?
There's gotta be more, some live
The life of the rich
Some people gotta be poor
I've been through a door, I will
Not sell you a dream
That's what the lottery for
The music is clay, I shaped it, I molded it
Like it was pottery or
The mouth with the law, twist
It like Robert Duvall, son
The godfather raw
Free as the diamond you found on the floor
I furnished the rhyme with the proper decor
I burnished the nine in my mind with
The galore, so they burning with shaman
I'm popping the door
To top it all off, if your
Style is married to substance
You sound like you got a divorce
That's why I'm blocking
And unfollowing y'all
I done forgot what I'm following for
Enough about y'all, now back to
Me, ain't no academic leave, i'm not faculty
These new slaves ain't ready
For my masterpiece
So when they hear me rap it's catastrophe
Cause a casualty so casually they mistake
What I do for having beef
I don't actually wish anybody harm
Now stretch your arms and clap for me

Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Clap clap clap clap clap clap for me hey
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Clap clap clap clap clap, now bring it back

Wake up cause no you're not dreaming
(yeah)
Catch up with us cause we leaving (yeah)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (uh)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders
Wake up cause no you're not dreaming (no)
Catch up with us cause we leaving (yeah)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders

Oh lord ever since the day I was born
That marks the day I was chosen
To rise above them all and be a leader
I'm like Malcolm X when on the podium
Martin Luther with a dream, Rosa
Parks on the bus
Though as funny as it seems
It remind me of us
Through the money and the fame ain't shit
Gon' change for the light we adjust
Do it for the children without a
Ceiling to live up under times getting hard
That's why my niggas smoke
That tropic thunder
If all our people spreaded
Love instead of evil
We would prosper our conscious to a
Level with no equal lethal
Stay true, I gave you my oath
What would the ancient God my nigga Thoth
Through all the books and the
Screens I was taught
I look at myself and pretend
To learn the most our leaders dead and gone
What's left for the believers?
If you looking for the
Truth, one word: Underachievers, nigga

Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap for me uh
(put your hands together)
Clap clap clap clap
Clap clap clap, now bring it back

Wake up cause no you're not dreaming
(wake up)
Catch up with us cause we leaving (catch up)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (uh)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders
Wake up cause no you're not dreaming
(wake up) , catch up with
Us cause we leaving (yeah, catch up)
Got enough followers
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
Got enough followers (what)
I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)

As I change the so called
Predestined course of my life
Advance my shit so now I travel
At the speed of light
Moving these intricate insecurities
Out of sight moving myself forward from the
Darkness into the light i take flight
It's goodbye to all the negativity
That plague millions of young
Innocent souls like me
Gave me the genius mind state necessary
To feast off of mother's
Unlimited figurative tree of life
I tried to tell these niggas that
Our purpose is to move it
Something like Darwin's beliefs of
Humans in evolutions
As I fall asleep on these
Social forms of materialism
I wake up and go through more
Colors than your normal prism
Would you rest my soul
I'm blinding me to a blurry of visions
In light of me on what to
Cut with such gifted precision
And now I'm truly livin' (bless up, bless up)
And now I'm truly livin' (bless up, bless up)

Wake up cause no you're not dreaming
Catch up with us cause we leaving
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (uh)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders
Wake up cause no you're not dreaming (no)
Catch up with us cause we leaving (yeah)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
I'm looking for some new leaders
(ay) , I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)
Got enough followers
I'm looking for some new leaders (ay)

Nana nana nana ohohoh nana nana nana ohohoh
Nana nana nana ohohoh nana nana nana ohohoh
Nana nana nana ohohoh