Talib Kweli - Attack the Block lyrics

[Intro - from the movie Attack the Block] You know what that is? I told you what that is, that's that alien, bruv, believe it! Musta come from outer space trying to take over the earth, innit? Well it landed in the wrong place, though, you get me? The wrong place! This is the block, fam! Nobody f**s with the block, do you get me? The B-L-O-C-K! Block! Block! Block! Block! [Sample from Dead Prez - "Hip Hop"] It's bigger than hip hop [Verse 1] I ride for my n***as though And we gotta stay alive just to get it, yall The hood look like one big prison yard And d**h is the only visitor They don't want you at your best That means they're at their worst They wanna hear struggle bars You wanna kick a cla**ic verse n***as sleep with the fish like a pelican Get that snitch 'fore he tell again They k**ed Pac, he was too Machiavellian Stood out in the middle of a room like an elephant Because what he said was way too relevant Never ignorant, way too intelligent Now we got them running scared of the melanin Used to kick dust in the air, now we're settling Don't want you to vote like an alien Came here on a boat like Elian Gonzales, but they want your dollars Gotta work them hours, it's so Gladwellian Ten thousand hours strong Just to keep the lights and the power on This new New York feels wrong Babylon here but the towers gone [Verse 2] Victory so sweet, but all we ever Taste is sour, that's the agony of I really be in these streets While the only Harlem you know is a Japanese club I know Queens that'll rock them j**els Pulling out ninas 'cuz they rock them tools We on the Island of Staten Follow to Manhattan like a big fan of the Wu The Brooklyn you know is the battleship chick Spill your blood like a battle with Crips Youngsters looking up to the same game Hunger in my belly, got the same pains It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang In pursuit of the food, just to maintain It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang In pursuit of the food, just to maintain