*This is a track of Mr.Asthmatic. A remake of Mos Def's "Mr.Ni**a"
There are several metaphors I could give you about the situation but...
You don't wanna listen up
Most Arabs are seen to bearded yet clean cut, rich and flagrant huh??
They don't wanna listen up
I get it, I do..., some arabic dudes are arrogant fools and...
They dont wanna listen up
I seen white men do the same thing to a non-light man I mean..
You don't know wanna listen up
I dream of a better day wherever it may be carrying babies
They were born to live it up
Never in fear of the life, End it all like a movie, appearances typed
Put them all up in a bunch...
Credits roll on a debit toll so shredded oh...mode on getting doe..
They don't want to listen up...
Since Read was said to the Prophet To the Present Greed in Economics
They don't want to listen up...
Some are Poor Some are Rich Blind, stress is there no matter of which kind , investments scarce from the war stricken to the tall building mall children...bald eagle to falcon on pilgrimage, we really need a malcolm, how come we couldn't lead without one?
They don't wanna listen up
Oh man! Du Buy laddiddy dooda, follow the do ha la ti3bid buddha....
In 96 I was bumping Wu- out in Abu Dhabi tahareeyat made me duck down like Dru Ha
Babies Getting Stuffed out on Sukr while to the north babies getting Snuffed out for Kufr....
Bring A Martyr Back Like Marty McFly Proud he with God
They don't want to listen up...
What about Baghdad? eyes Bleeding he said, 'Heathen, you speak of What God now?'
They don't want to listen up...
I am lost in explaining what it is to be an Arab....We Had Love
They don't want to listen up...
Aladdin and Apu or Adam and Madame Eve, imagine or fathom the Abrahamic Steez....
They don't want to listen up...
I guess our history is just as much a mystery as yours and ours specifically and...
Realistically, you should visit the East, before you even listen to me...
They don't want to listen up...
That whole Ay-rab money thing that happened with Busta, was more about Culture
They don't want to listen up...
And I would expect the same if I was to use yours in vain....
I don't know what you expect me to say?
All Praises due to my beard? *fuck outta here...*
Just because I am pro-Arab people, does not mean I am pro-Arab government
We never had leaders...
And this one's for YOU
HOOK:
We call him Mr. Arab, Arab Jarab
Can I borrow a dollar a dinar holla
I will settle for a barrel of oil...
X 5
Yeah, so you know
If you can't be critical of yourself, you will never grow
And this one's for...all my Arab Jarab
Sandbos...Sell out...Arabs...
You know? And uhhh, to those that keep it real to the culture or try to...
Allah yihmeekom, 3ashat eedaykom, tibkoon bil Khair oo Salama inshAllah...
And all you fake ass leaders and fake ass MCs and so-called 'Jihadists'
