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Yes Sir, I Will

Crass

Christ the Bootleg

1999

an expression of that,
Everything that we write is a love song.


*
We look for alternatives,
But the enormous power of the media makes it so difficult

Hiphop Declaration of
Peace guides Hiphop
Kulture toward freedom from violence
And establishes advice and protection for
The existence and development

on
To me and you
Two thousand years of abuse
He died
So you can't choose
How to be you
Free will
For real
Blood spilled
For you
So
This is how it goes
Get in

I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Search of Freedom

1968

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came

as
The greatest demonstration for freedom in
The history of our nation five score
Years ago, a great American
In whose symbolic shadow we stand
Signed

Losing My Religion

Kirk Franklin

Losing My Religion

2015

There's room at the cross for everyone, even me

Well, my sins are now clean
The loss now redeemed
Religion is a prison but truth sets us free
Helps us

in harmony
I said, I have a dream of many colors in harmony 
Divided we fall, united we’re free.

Our foundation built on soiled ground
Treaties

hundred thousand bodies on the pile?
With a foundation of millions?
It’s the American way, baby (Hahaha)
I make a killing
Racks on racks on racks, got that

refugees
In their own fathers land
No freedom of expression
Killings here and there
UN where ona dey
Americans why ona mute?
EU hide their face
Oh lord come

White Privilege, Pt. 2

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

White Privilege II

2016

a luxury
Hip-hop is not a luxury
What I got for me, it is for me
What we made, we made to set us free
What I got for me, it is for me
What we made, we

I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee Unforgiven

Architect and build it, you can see it

Hey,

say, when I play I say them
I don't know what makes me say
What I say, when I play
I don't know what I say when I play it

It's free expression because

and limiting American progress
Sigh
Believe what you want
I don't believe there's any preventing this stuff
It's like Asimov in Foundation trilogy books
Limit

Untouchable

Eminem

Untouchable

2017

your tail light is blew, out
We know you're hidin' that Heidi Klum
On you another drug charge, homie, it's back inside for you
And just in case

way launching a mix tape
Campaign in which he would sell his music or
Give it away for free on the streets
In this way he could hone the hard and raw

built from the stolen labor of African Americans. Since
its inception, the white dominated music industry has depended
on black expression as a free

Hey there you, looking and talking at me
My soul's made of iron, it was forged in the fire
It's mine and it's gonna stay free

The eagles fly high

Painstakingly breaking through the foundation
Working to illuminate God's creation and set Satan free
Peanut butter flavored American spirit cigarettes
Looking

persuasive stimulation
For gradual, subliminal, mental emancipation
You feel free? Well, that's too bad, congratulations
I thank God, because since day one,

like my heritage, American, the Civil War
Afterwards, we forgot the folks we fought it for

To build up who built this country from the bottom floor

defense
We're being exterminated, not kidding

It's time for free humanity to rise up and stamp out the evil running our lives
Rewrite stolen history

foundations imperative
Seek the wisdom find your own definition

*Chorus*
(Te Awanui and Donald)
Can you define for me
The definition of hiphop
Maybe you've

Chaos born from courage of the youth 
Foundation for an opera of pestilence 
Harvested from a desire to mirror
The scenes of neighbouring lands

Singin' my fears
Why are you here
The Native Americans would say
You have a message for me this day
Be kind, be kind, I'm tryin' to change my mind
I'll be