Diving for Pearls - SONS OF YUSUF, Jay Electronica

I was talking 'bout makin' a difference

They said it’s all business, repentence is key (Key)

Now we livin' in marvelous times

No questions, they stressin', depressin' our seeds (Seeds)

Hakuna Matata, no problems

اسمحلي يا بني إنك مو فاهم (Nah)

We walk on the land of the prophets (Whoa)

Might be growin' a beard like James Harden (Yeah)

Submittin' to God, it’s Islam (Islam)

I’m defendin' the peace like Mukhtar was

We divin' for pearls, you just divin' (Yeah)

Might call shotgun, no one is drivin', no

I was born in a warzone

Shit is maniacal, need some botanical

Natural, medical, shit

This is so undeniable

Horses and camels, I’m ridin' with honor

Wrapping my skull up, not wearin' no armor

My bodyguard is the Creator

When I say «Allah», I mean the one God

We came from Adam, the same father (Father)

The name is Abdul Rahman

Slave of the merciful, most compassionate

If you don’t know ask and get answers

You say «Amen» we say «Ameen» (Ameen)

You say «Hallelujah» we say «Alhamdulillah»

Akhi is my brother, Oukhti is my sister

This language has been here forever

Beautiful alphabet, you should learn Arabic

Islam is peace, logic, astronomy

No we don’t do politics

That’s a paradox

Grab my astrolabe and connect the dots

Ameen, Ameen

I’m with the Ūlama, like it’s Ramadan

Subtitles on, camp Arifjan

My name is hard to pronounce

Hakeem Olajuwon

Nouman Ali Khan

Rachmaninoff

The only one in class who didn’t eat pork

But the only one in class who went HAM

On the microphone

Substitute teacher used to piss me off

That’s not how you say my name for the thousandth time

That’s not a bomb, that’s a bong

I need a young Paula Abdul for a baby’s mom

Knows how to carry a sword like Ibtihaj

She could put on a hijab if she wants

Ya Salam

Back in the day my grandfather was a pirate

Looking for pearls and Rubies and gold and diamonds

Always had faith in myself like my father did

My only leader is Mohammad and All my people followed him

My pride is my everything but sometimes I have to swallow it

Like they were vitamins

We had lungs like aquamen

Diving hundreds of feet deep with no oxygen

We’ve been repressed for so long, since the Ottomans

Now we coming back so strong I’m taking care of it

Connecting with my ancestors like I’m channeling

The waking of the sleeping giant from the island

After a chain of events, they blame Mohammedans

We men of honor, as soon as we finish making Dua, we diving for pearls you just

diving

We divin' for pearls

You just divin'

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

Finally wakin' up from the American dream

Once was lost but now we been found by the prophesied Mahdi from Bedouin kings

We don’t fold, we don’t bend, we don’t break

Ever since birth been at war with the state

So if I don’t make it to the pearly gates

Then I’ll be wringing Satan’s neck in a fiery lake

I was raised on the Psalms of David

My ancestors came to this land on slave ships

My grandmother did a life bid on grave shift

And we was just tryin' not to get our head split

Ain’t no justice, ain’t no bygones

Crooked police, will get fired on

Turn that courthouse to no fly zone

Turn that precinct to a war zone

Mayday, mayday, Ricky Bobby

This ain’t me maybe, this is probably

This ain’t hate speech, it’s the Bible

Welcome to America, it’s survival

You could get a false charge or hit the lotto

You might as well just twist the throttle

Eye for an eye like Hammurabi

Ten thousand warriors, crowd the lobby

If it’s me or, either you then

It ain’t me so, it’s wasabi

Bow with those who bow, the true believers

Render to the Caesar what is Caesar’s

Kodak said you don’t believe in Jesus

Leave me no choice but give it to you like Yeezus

Don’t ever fix your lips like collagen and then say somethin' that I’m gon' end

up abolishing