Talib Kweli - Roll Off Me lyrics

Yeah, back in effect, let's go ahem, aiyyo
E'rybody goes through feelin like
The walls is closin in on you and
You just stress the hell out (yeah they do)
And you feel like you gon' explode
Youknow'msayin? (uh huh)
This right here is for
All y'all to know that
I know what y'all goin through man
(yeah, yeah)
I feel it myself (yeah, yeah I do)
I could relate, yeah turn this one up

Sometimes life make you wanna attack
And go off G
You wanna step back and I let it roll off me
Brooklyn, New York B, ain't nothin soft G
Yeah I get stressed but I let it roll off me
Flirtin with the fame but I
Let it roll off me
They love it when I'm losin but


I let it roll off me
Dirt on my name but I let it roll off me
Always keep it movin and I let it roll off me

Do it for my niggas with letters
Let's set it off B cops don't protect us
Protestors just get ignored B
Played out like musical theater
With best support
The investors and bankers havin
Sex in expensive orgies
I'm rappin on the corners like Abbey
Abdul and Common born when they was robbin
The grave at Tutankhamun
Way before Bush the USA been bombin
Cause whether ratchets or needles know
The shootin ain't stoppin
Niggas lootin, we ain't coppin a thing
And if I'm locked in the bing
A nigga not gonna sing i got a lot of things
On my mind, dollar signs, life on the line
What I write's so right for the time
The revelation like sight for the blind
Like when God cypher divine
Hand you lessons or when you
In the church havin confession
Or when you kneelin on the pew
Catchin the Holy Ghost or the cult
So fanatic they think suicide's the only hope
(no) they used to ask you "Who ya master?"
Now they ask you "Who your pastor?"
It's your allegiance that they truly after
They used to ask you "Who ya master?"
Now they ask you "Who your pastor?"
It's your allegiance that they truly after

That make you wanna go off B
But, I step back and I let it roll off me
Brooklyn, New York B, ain't nothin soft G
Yeah I get stressed but I let it roll off me

Talk the talk but to walk the walk is costly
Niggas got on they +Game+ face
Like Black Wall Street
Every single move I make is ballsy
Cause the shit it used to be a
Silent movie now it's a talky
The Feds cheesin like Milwaukee
When shit is Brew-in
When these niggas stage a coup for
The president I'm a shoo-in
But, ain't no political
Aspirations I'm persuin
I hate to ruin your dream but
Music is what I'm doin
I've touched more people in a verse
Than you do in 20 speeches
Whether state's blue like the water or redder
Than white people on sunny beaches
Sometimes I don't be understandin it
They looked at me and said that's
Why you the perfect candidate
Standin at the pulpit with a full clip
What I say real talk
Turn around and walk away with your bullshit
I'm like breed, yo I ain't to be fucked with
Only write the realest
Can't lie to the public

The sharp wick cut quick, killin 'em softly
They try to take me there but
You could never force me
Brooklyn, New York B, ain't nothin soft G
Yeah I get stressed but I let it roll off me
Flirtin with the fame but I
Let it roll off me
They love it when I'm losin but
I let it roll off me
Dirt on my name but I let it roll off me
Always keep it movin and I let it roll off me