Uncle Usi Taught Me
Brother Ali
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Uncle Usi taught me Can't teach what you don't know Can't lead where you don't go Can't reap what you don't sow Can't fool the people no more You know me I'm a globe traveler, soul ambassador Reporting live from a worldwide massacre No masking the truth that animates me See it and I speak wherever it takes me I'm in the Republic of Iran at a conference Talkin' 'bout the cops and their nonsense And how they like to hunt black folk with no conscience Now they want to preach human rights is preposterous Request from the audience spit that Uncle Sam goddamn Drawing out a round of applause I was rocking acapella before this Because I know that rapping in Iran is lawless Ahh shit you know me though, anything for the people The clapping kind of tapped in to my fat rapper ego I fell into the trap plugged in my mac and let the beat go Didn't think that anyone would hear though, here we go Can't teach what you don't know Can't lead where you don't go Can't reap what you don't sow Can't fool the people no more Fridays we greet each other at the mosque But here there's only one and a government preacher talks Which struck me as odd but nothing could prepare me for A big ass mob chanting "death to America" It felt like somebody talking 'bout my mama, wait It's all real but I'mma still feel some type of way You mean the system and I'm with you on that But you got to be more specific than that You ain't talkin' 'bout the families getting whipped in the back I'm trippin' cause I've never felt defensive like that Okay so meanwhile footage of me spitting those raps Is playing on every TV station they have They jail people for that The local rappers all started clapping back Death threats in all my social media apps I started lookin' at the people that brought me here Like, "what the hell are y'all on man, I'm out of here" Can't teach what you don't know Can't lead where you don't go Can't reap what you don't sow Can't fool the people no more This that international gang-banging And my homeland hit Iran with the sanctions And my credit cards and telephone ain't happening But I can't imagine a better land to be stranded in Almost everyone that sees me coming Want to take me home and they trying to feed me something But I took the only forty dollars that I had And headed to the airport in a cab and there I sat Starving cause there's only one flight a day I can't even buy a ticket tryna find a way Somebody seen me on TV and recognized my face And let me write an email to my wife in the states I'm in the airport for three days, wondering if I'm even safe Finally got a seat on the plane Now imagine my exhausted embarrassment Get back to America, they interrogate me like a terrorist Really? Can't teach what you don't know Can't lead where you don't go Can't reap what you don't sow Can't fool the people no more
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Written by: Ali Douglas Newman
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