Learn Truth (Explicit)-R.A. the Rugged Man/Talib Kweli/Philip Wesley

[ti:Learn Truth (feat. Talib K] [ar:R.A. the Rugged Man;Talib ] [al:Legends Never Die - Single] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.52]Take a piece of America back [00:05.64] [00:06.33]It's called truth [00:09.63] [00:11.01]We the last of the vintage flowers, we carry it on our shoulders [00:13.88]I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer [00:16.81]When the freedom riders approach 'em, they appetizers for vultures [00:19.81]Soldiers of fortune are never no match for soldiers of culture [00:21.81]My flow is so f**king honest, you said you wanted to hear it [00:24.81]You're lying, 'cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits [00:27.87]The truth is too f**king ugly, and trust me, the sh*t's got layers [00:30.68]So touch me, you think you tough? [00:31.78]I'll leave you as toothless as rugby players [00:33.09]I'm sufi to soothsayers, discussing the true saviors [00:35.08]We move with the gangsters, you niggas sweeter than fruit flavors [00:37.71]The booth slayer, proving it's futile to hide from us [00:40.66]You misguided as missiles or suicide bombers [00:43.71]Taking orders from the Mullah, waiting for the karma to pull up [00:46.46]These stones are no match for bullets, Israeli ratchets are fuller [00:48.83]Got 'em racing to meet Allah like they're chasin em wit a cop car [00:51.76]Like there's honor in being a martyr and the terrorists are the rock stars [00:54.64]Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi [00:57.00]Still probably as popular as swastikas for Nazis [00:59.32]The cops protect the property properly when they crack your heads [01:02.62]Murderers get as cocky as Persius when the cracker dead [01:05.25]I wonder what be running through these crackers' heads? [01:08.14]And why niggas is spilling more blood [01:09.39]Than Cinicannti caps with the black and red [01:10.94]I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes [01:13.51]I'm having a funeral for the news 'cause the facts is dead [01:16.44]And trust is gone from the neo-cons to Barack Obama [01:18.94]America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom [01:21.24]Fix it and mix it up like marshall law for the octagon [01:24.49]I spit the fire 'til we burn down Babylon [01:25.41] [01:27.71]Take a piece of America back [01:29.71] [01:30.83]You will learn [01:32.45]It's called truth [01:34.57] [01:37.32]Death by suicide bomb, protestants, Bibles, a Koran, or Islam [01:40.44]From Genghis Khan to Vietnam I can smell the napalm [01:42.50]Rape victims, ripped stockings [01:43.81]Redneck clan members doing church bombings [01:45.18]Innocent foetus' being aborted with no options [01:47.05]Human governments ruin 'em [01:48.37]Worrying what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em [01:50.74]Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem [01:51.67]Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki [01:53.67]Adolf Hitler, to every murderous Nazi [01:54.98]To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every mafia atrocity [01:56.73]Child pornography, babies starving and dying in poverty [01:58.41]Serbians fighting Croatians in Yugoslavia [01:59.55]Muslim women being raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia [02:01.67]The 50 million killed in the second World War [02:03.86]The government's poisoning the minds and the bodies [02:05.73]Of the babies that are born poor [02:07.04]Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists [02:08.16]In religion there's always drama [02:09.04]Whether worshipping the profit Mohammed or Jesus [02:10.28]More pox than Napoleon's troops dying from typhus [02:11.84]From the Spanish flu to the black plague to the AIDS virus [02:14.84]Bodies in coffins, political extortions [02:17.21]Racist mobs murdering, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Usha Forkins [02:21.02]Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate? [02:23.95]The Catholic church claimed women were witches [02:25.95]And burned 'em at the stake [02:27.69]Pedophile predators attack [02:28.57]And .38 Berettas used by Ghandi's assassin [02:30.06]16 bullets in Malcolm, It happened uptown Manhattan [02:31.44]And the homicide, Reagan, '80s epidemic of crack [02:32.93]And soldiers in action dying in Iraq and never coming back [02:43.42] [02:48.16]And now let's... [02:49.59]Take a piece of America back [02:50.91] [02:51.78]You will learn [02:52.65] [02:53.96]It's called truth [02:54.71]It's called truth [02:56.65] [02:59.89]You will learn [03:01.26]It's called truth