"COMMUNITY" lyrics
NARCY, Niko Is & Talib Kweli Lyrics
(feat. Dave Chappelle, Mo Amer, Donnell Rawlings & Issa Ali)
Tell you the truth, I didn't want to get in the booth
But Donnell pushed me
He said, "Dave, you the Mack, if you attack this track
You'll get so much pu$$y."
So here I am, in my very own shack
Trying to get my closest niggas to relax
Welcome, it's summer camp 2020, we out in Yellow Springs
Doing it lovely
I told Dave Chappelle, we never going to fail
Big fish to fry, they swimming in with the whales
My words like water, I hope you're listening well
We locking up your phones, this vision isn't for sale
Summer camp love, the hate couldn't relate
What hurt more, the crucifix or the nails?
Doppleganger hang, gang gang, all hail
Couldn't buy my soul if you sold yours to hell
So I told Mo Amer, "Let's go, I'm a flow savage"
Fashion week, I'm in Paris with Yasiin eating sandwich
We speak the language, you can keep the fame and anguish
MashAllah, I serve these bars like Kamala Harris
While Niko burn the Palo Santo
I'm trying to make a mill like Donnell's condo ("I'm rich, Beyatch!")
Someone better sign them pronto
I'm Sir Kush-A-Lot, my brother's keeper like Mustafa
I did shrooms with Dave Chappelle, I'm never going to fail
Raised in heaven, make sure the Devil knows it as well
Forever rolling an L, I'm made like Esperanza
How he drink from the same spring as Tecumseh?
Then I heard God laugh, so I had to broadcast
Colours
I'm too revolutionary, somebody go tell Luminary
We need a podcast
So we can talk raps in Iraqafella Ball Caps
They don't get the picture—that's Mathieu with the camera
Tell the record label, I need mo like Amer
Eyeballs stressed because I'm Lysol fresh
Smoke OG with Jarobi—this a Tribe Called Blessed
I went from low life with the Ayak
To river ninja with the kayak
Fuck Hollywood—this is Kweliwood
Born real from the streets to the cornfield
OG Charlie Bernet—I'm Marsha Warfield
My eyes steel like the great four-fifth
Standing up for George Floyd with the 846
Ain't none of this happen without Dave
Michelle Wolf looking like Meredith from Brave
Getting better every day like we never left the stage
Because freedom is no fear, and we never been afraid
From chilling with Obamas to building with Mo Amer
Now we know farmers who get it with no commas
Pay homage
You put it up for the 'Gram, but are you happy?
I'm walking up to Dave like, "Great party, Gatsby."
It's packed with people—me and Ashy Larry sipping Casamigos
FaceTiming with Jim Carrey
We at the shack with needles dripping 'til we fully hydrated—feeling magnifico
Touching down in Africa for concerts like the Black Beatles
Black people, we the moral conscience
Ask Niko—we celestial like foreign objects
We gotta record a jam and do it for the people
Set up the mic, call Federico
How a comedian can test so many residents
And the White House only testing those who come around the president
We dye the fabric of the nation with the black magic
We hit a lick and get the C.R.E.A.M. like Fat Travis
[?]
I was eating fried chicken on a private
Big homie told me this is to inspire you
Wasn't easy, gotta go through the fire too
Fuck working for the man, we gon' hire you
Urkell told me my flow was dope
Peace to NARCY from Montreal to the O
In the sky, moving so fast it looks slow
They gave me shit, but like fertilizer, I grow
Skin black, already done been through hell
Came out victorious—melanin prevail
Mandela bars—27 years jail
Them zoning niggas tried to shut us down, but they failed
Steve Arrington told me leave nothing in the well
At Glen Helen, almost got arrested by the trails
Peace to Chef Dave—lobster mac and
Dripping on the low, this is wellness flow...
But Donnell pushed me
He said, "Dave, you the Mack, if you attack this track
You'll get so much pu$$y."
So here I am, in my very own shack
Trying to get my closest niggas to relax
Welcome, it's summer camp 2020, we out in Yellow Springs
Doing it lovely
I told Dave Chappelle, we never going to fail
Big fish to fry, they swimming in with the whales
My words like water, I hope you're listening well
We locking up your phones, this vision isn't for sale
Summer camp love, the hate couldn't relate
What hurt more, the crucifix or the nails?
Doppleganger hang, gang gang, all hail
Couldn't buy my soul if you sold yours to hell
So I told Mo Amer, "Let's go, I'm a flow savage"
Fashion week, I'm in Paris with Yasiin eating sandwich
We speak the language, you can keep the fame and anguish
MashAllah, I serve these bars like Kamala Harris
While Niko burn the Palo Santo
I'm trying to make a mill like Donnell's condo ("I'm rich, Beyatch!")
Someone better sign them pronto
I'm Sir Kush-A-Lot, my brother's keeper like Mustafa
I did shrooms with Dave Chappelle, I'm never going to fail
Raised in heaven, make sure the Devil knows it as well
Forever rolling an L, I'm made like Esperanza
How he drink from the same spring as Tecumseh?
Then I heard God laugh, so I had to broadcast
Colours
I'm too revolutionary, somebody go tell Luminary
We need a podcast
So we can talk raps in Iraqafella Ball Caps
They don't get the picture—that's Mathieu with the camera
Tell the record label, I need mo like Amer
Eyeballs stressed because I'm Lysol fresh
Smoke OG with Jarobi—this a Tribe Called Blessed
I went from low life with the Ayak
To river ninja with the kayak
Fuck Hollywood—this is Kweliwood
Born real from the streets to the cornfield
OG Charlie Bernet—I'm Marsha Warfield
My eyes steel like the great four-fifth
Standing up for George Floyd with the 846
Ain't none of this happen without Dave
Michelle Wolf looking like Meredith from Brave
Getting better every day like we never left the stage
Because freedom is no fear, and we never been afraid
From chilling with Obamas to building with Mo Amer
Now we know farmers who get it with no commas
Pay homage
You put it up for the 'Gram, but are you happy?
I'm walking up to Dave like, "Great party, Gatsby."
It's packed with people—me and Ashy Larry sipping Casamigos
FaceTiming with Jim Carrey
We at the shack with needles dripping 'til we fully hydrated—feeling magnifico
Touching down in Africa for concerts like the Black Beatles
Black people, we the moral conscience
Ask Niko—we celestial like foreign objects
We gotta record a jam and do it for the people
Set up the mic, call Federico
How a comedian can test so many residents
And the White House only testing those who come around the president
We dye the fabric of the nation with the black magic
We hit a lick and get the C.R.E.A.M. like Fat Travis
[?]
I was eating fried chicken on a private
Big homie told me this is to inspire you
Wasn't easy, gotta go through the fire too
Fuck working for the man, we gon' hire you
Urkell told me my flow was dope
Peace to NARCY from Montreal to the O
In the sky, moving so fast it looks slow
They gave me shit, but like fertilizer, I grow
Skin black, already done been through hell
Came out victorious—melanin prevail
Mandela bars—27 years jail
Them zoning niggas tried to shut us down, but they failed
Steve Arrington told me leave nothing in the well
At Glen Helen, almost got arrested by the trails
Peace to Chef Dave—lobster mac and
Dripping on the low, this is wellness flow...
