We The People..
A Tribe Called Quest Lyrics


We don't believe you 'cause we the people
Are still here in the rear, ayo, we don't need you
You in the killing-off-good-young-nigga mood
When we get hungry we eat the same fucking food
The ramen noodle
Your simple voodoo is so maniacal
We're liable to pull a juju
The irony is that this bad bitch in my lap
She don't love me, she make money, she don't study that
She gon' give it to me, ain't gon' tell me run it back
She gon' take the brain to wetter plains, she spit on that
The doors have signs with, don't try to rhyme with
VH1 has a show that you can waste your time with
Guilty pleasures take the edge off reality
And for a salary I'd probably do that shit sporadically
The OG Gucci boots are smitten with iguanas
The IRS piranha see a nigga gettin' commas
Niggas in the hood living in a fishbowl
Gentrify here, now it's not a shit hole
Trendsetter, I know, my shit's cold
Ain't settling because I ain't so bold but ay

All you Black folks, you must go
All you Mexicans, you must go
And all you poor folks, you must go
Muslims and gays
Boy, we hate your ways
So all you bad folks, you must go

The fog and the smog of news media that logs
False narratives of Gods that came up against the odds
We're not just nigga rappers with the bars
It's kismet that we're cosmic with the stars
You bastards overlooking street art
Better yet, street smarts but you keep us off the charts
So motherfuck your numbers and your statisticians
Fuck y'all know about true competition?
That's like a AL pitcher on deck talking about he hittin'
The only one who's hitting are the ones that's currently spittin'
We got your missy smitten rubbing on her little kitten
Dreaming of a world that's equal for women with no division
Boy, I tell you that's vision
Like Tony Romo when he hitting Witten
The Tribe be the best in they division
Shaheed Muhammad cut it with precision
Who can come back years later, still hit the shot?
Still them tryna move we off the fucking block
Babylon, bloodclot
Two pon yuh headtop

All you Black folks, you must go
All you Mexicans, you must go
And all you poor folks, you must go
Muslims and gays
Boy, we hate your ways
So all you bad folks, you must go


Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.



Written by: Terence Michael Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, F. Frank Iommi, William T. Ward, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Malik Izaak Taylor

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TonyisToking

This album didn’t get the attention it deserved. When a legendary group drops an album comparable to their iconic classics, everyone needs to pay attention. Just shows how much the culture has changed.

Arthuro King

The culture has not changed, except to grow bigger. Tribe took 20 Years Off, you can't expect all the new kids to be checking for a Tribe album, that's no one's fault really. Also Tribe never had top commercial success to begin with, they were alternative to the mainstream

Keith Jambora

Agree.

Chris Heyward

@Arthuro King ummm I agree with you besides the last part.. They are literally one of the most influential rap groups in history wym they weren't fully mainstream??Literally almost every single album they dropped went platinum

James Gawronski

Tribe didn't ever get the hype they deserve but still influenced a ton of Hip Hop till this very day

ohhyeahhbaby1

Facts

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ALL- CAPS

This song is fucking legendary, a great political message with deep lyrics, insane production and lyrical delivery. Its almost perfect, Q-tip is a legend.

Liam North

happy to see the analysis, so many people goes over their heads, respect

John Hondo

Unpopular opinion but We Got it from Here is my favorite Tribe album. The timing of when this came out and the message was perfection to me.

Ethan Holliger

I completely agree, a lot of the tribe fans I've met consider it blasphemy, but there's something incredibly special here they may have overlooked

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