Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Uncle Usi Taught Me, artist - Brother Ali. Date of issue: 04.05.2017
Song language: English
Uncle Usi Taught Me |
| Mm-hmm |
| 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 the world wide massacre |
| No mask for the truth that animates me |
| See it and I speak it 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 |
| And how they want to preach human rights, its preposterous |
| Request from the audience spit that Uncle Sam Goddamn |
| Drawing out the round of applauses |
| I was rocking a capella before this |
| Because I know that rapping in Iran is lawless |
| Ahh sh-- 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 nobody 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 |
| Oh, here he 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 |
| This is how it go |
| Friday we greet each other at the mosque |
| But here there’s only one and the 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’ma 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 these raps |
| Is playing on every TV station they have |
| They jail people for that |
| The local rappers all start clapping back |
| Death threats all in my social media apps, hm |
| I started lookin' at the people that brought me here |
| Like, «what the hell y’all got me 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 |
| Oh, here y’all 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 |
| This is how it go |
| 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 see me coming |
| Want to take me home and they trying to feed me something |
| But I took the last 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 three days, wondering if I’m even safe |
| Finally got a seat on the plane |
| Now imagine my exhausted embarrassment |
| Got 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 |
| Watch where you 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 |