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who's playin'
This new album produced by Swizz Beats, Pharrell, and Timbaland
Correction again, this album is executive produced by the Dragon, Pharrell

Freedom

Jurassic 5

Power in Numbers [Bonus DVD]

2002

when the word freedom's involved

[Akil]
Yo, my forefathers hung in trees to be free (Rest in peace)
Got rid of slavery but still kept

Cloth caught on a jut
In lots of endless circles
Surrounded by cultural hurdles
Lies practiced in rehearsals
Real things are in obscurity
Vanity paired

been ran by racist fucks
White folks tryna embrace our culture why they ain’t embracing us?
They ain’t gon be happy till we spew out all this rage in us

ya
People think we're the drinks and they're the cup holder
You think I give a fuck about a cancel culture
You can't take my culture then go

And to me, we have a culture that, uh
Is surpassed by, by, by, by no other civilization, but we don't know anything about it
So again, I think I've

making this breathtaking shit out of the 
shit we make. then, it ain't shit no more, all taken 
and gone in us by us in charter at the nature theater

(okay)
To his album we ride we so mob (okay, yeah)
I throw lives and lowest to live
For my loaf of bread the people's player
I did what the culture

a decent living
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom
From unfair competition and domination by monopolies

want
No want, no more bondage
For it's a long time he's been in slavery
Mama no want, no want no want
No more pain, pain and worry
For it's a long time

for us to be easy  
with that jailed  
imagining. we've 
been held too close  
by that too long 
in all that air they  
steal in our eyes  
while we

This the Outro on the
Album Of The Year
When truth seekers meet gate keepers with loaded heaters
Haters never check us it's tricky like my Adidas

Bloodline

Lil Wayne

500 Degreez

2002

(okay)
To his album we ride we so mob (okay, yeah)
I throw lives and lowest to live
For my loaf of bread the people's player
I did what the culture

trying to shine a light
In a subtle way so that they will not be blinded by
The statements that I make when I'm asked why I create
God gives me the gifts

to function while surrounded by assumptions
We fixate on pop culture cuz we tryna find our home
White people coined the phrase but we screaming when in rome
We

and Jacob in the motherland
I'm Moses posin' against the king freein' his people
I'm Babylon tryna reach God by buildin' a steeple
I'm the strongest man

We should stand together in unity
To free the people that we put in captivity
40 million people are subject to slavery
Even more if we count those

Black Still

Scarface

Deeply Rooted: The Lost Files

2017

Following the faith of our very own oppressors
No justice, just us
Look at how the aftermath of slavery today still affects us
Our kids educated by

strangers, by pop culture, by police, by educators, by authority figures, by everyone. 

Being Black in America means being compared to whiteness,

mean it ain't jacked
This that inner city culture molded next to that crack
Those who couldn't play ball could find they solace in that
Find they

serenity
Let it be relatively echoing in your sincerity
The sacrificially given labouring by the African
Women who carry us, marry us, bury us and blurry

rappers make you comfortable
Culture shock
Y'all gon have to deal with me
Wait until my album drop
They thought we was one and done
If you offended by my

love, that is slavery

I shared all my dark secrets
Everyday I'm surrounded by my demons
The way you played me, god damn your such a genius
I drop

Apparently no one's aware or cares that it's embarrassin', it's arrogance
Our greatest enemy was always slavery and terrorists
And now it's people in