Eat To Live (Explicit) - Talib Kweli

Yeah this is a ghetto prayer

Prayin' for all of those who ain't got it

We gotta get it there we gotta get it here

Yeah the people starvin' for somethin' new we starvin' for it

My little man go to bed so hungry

Get up go to school with his nose runny

Come home with his nose bloody

His sister laughin' he like "What's so funny "

'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy

Nuttin' in the freezer nuttin' in the fridge

Couple of 40 ounces but nuttin' for the kids

Little man know they to eat to live

But he don't wanna leave the crib

The kid who punched him in his face

House right down the street from his

He went anyway more scared to face his moms

She'll beat him soon as she flip out seein' his face scarred

Walkin' past the d**e fiends with they smoke to the place of God

Hopes and dreams pourin' out the holes in they face and arms

Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat

He need energy so when he go to school he can compete

And keep up all he got is bodegas

But hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a now or later

Anyway grandma say Jesus'll be here any day

Good 'cause with nuttin' to eat it's gettin' hard to pray

Pray pray pray

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live listen

My rhymes got nutritional value

I get it how I live it's critical when the conditions allow you

Do you entrust the critics who doubt you

Try to write sh*t about you

But they can't make a living without you

Go hungry you gotta watch what the media feed you

And don't be a poisoned animal eaten either

It's harder than it sound 'cause nowadays

Put that swine in everything

The white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caine

They got pork in the toothpaste soda in the Sunny D

Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatin

In Africa they starvin' over here the food hurt you

Cows goin' mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu

It's too ill how the food kills it's like blue steel

Lies never set you free but the truth will

The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding

You can tell we eatin' good we gettin' fatter

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live listen