AkhapelaKhan - A Tribe Called Quest Lyrics

This a tribe, this a quest, I know what I can possess
Fighting the ones that suggest I need to look at my life and reset
After listening to spirits, being alone I started to fear it
Spend time with me in 2017, you'll start to hear it

We speak languages of the ancients
This English diagnosis of being crazy
Never erasing
They questioning us, like we the only ones
Impatient
We the ones out here, we not even chasing
They're coming at our doorsteps without any invitation

To the fitnah I have no more dedication If you bring up Islam, please
I'm not gonna have a one-sided conversation You think I'm the one with the most observations
What happens when the ones that memorize their Islamic knowledge and speak in compilations
Then you'll have real complications, that's real domination

I'm fascinated that one man got the caliphate waiting
May it pass by our time, may our kids be ready for the grind
That'll be the toughest times when the world will be in a bind
And what will be in the Muslims' mind? I may not have enough time to repent from my crimes

They'll start remembering just a couple of
Lines
The minute they start seeing the signs
Dajjal will come with fire and water
What they choose will fumble their mind
Cause he's the deceiver, the water is fire and the fire is water

He's gonna ask, do you wanna see your wife and daughter
Do you wanna see your sons, moms, and dads? And they'll put down their straps
When the bodies from the past start emerging from the grass
When you're giving your all, but they say from you I've seen nothing at all

Every day responding to the call In every way asking from the one above all
In my face with the LOLs In my room like a cell
On a pillow with a little hell Drop like Yusuf in a killer well
I still pick up how they speak, they wanna light a spell

How many shots will you take before you miss me
Dreams like, oh that's rich me
Beliefs and Allah that he will gift me
In this life or the next in both will be best
I work, I pray, I get knowledge, and I do poetry

Still they need more from me
Like I ain't got goals for me, shaitan takes his blows from me
It is not much to see growth for me, and it's not enough to hold my soul
I know let's get some henny, experienced women in my twenties

But I got goals, tryna be the next Machiavelli
You're self-centered, I try to be like this in a modern century
Do you understand when Christians say, the father sent me
Aight pop sent me, it's not an industry but I still got the side entry

I learned what dope mean, some people took it as become a dope fiend
Some people took it as become more me, there's no team, it's only me
Some people took it as I need to be more of a scene, and get on more screens
Some people took it as, let's exchange more pleasantries

Let's become more friends than enemies, let's not create more lessons
And the lesson be, we walk with light in life
But head down humble, disappointed in myself
The wealth ain't appointed to my work, the respect don't come from my turf

They said sharing is caring, now every time we share
It's like why you're really daring, my private life ain't for my eyes only
When I share, I want you to see what I see
And you realize why I always need, someone to hold me

If I had a team, I'd be forward, middle, and defense, and still play goalie
Day ones on the sidelines, like we'll play when we find time
I used to work on my sign, now I see God's sign
And I find an unseen lifeline in love, but they still think I'm wasting my time

I have to be home by nine, now if Maghrib don't align
Then I don't reach my destination on time
Fight or flight, they stop praying out of spite
Tobacco in the pipe, little something to feel a little light

For that, I drink a little Sprite, grab a tasty bite
Write it out, what I'm gonna say on the mic
A day in Jannah, mujhe na pakarna, kuch kam nahi karna
Yeah, kuch se nahi darna, made to the service

Swim away from the furnace, now I know my purpose