Haze The Truth - Freedom Writers lyrics

rate me

Lyrical skill isn't measured on an income,

It's about the amount of wisdom.

Success is dependent on what you had to sacrifice,

It's funny, my mother could barely read or write.

After she gave me life

It took seventeen years for me to wake up

Most of my brothers still lack leadership

You can lead sheep to knowledge

But you can't make them read from it, so

We write for freedom, using hip hop as our voice for revolution

But the government keeps Che Guevara's hands in a glass jar

My head in a glass case or locked up behind bars

You can take my life but you won't touch my freedom

Pull the trigger, do you know what I become?

Without God you die twice

When you believe you receive eternal life

You can put me in chains

But you can't take my freedom

My freedom is a state of my mind

Put my body in a cage, release me free, yeah

You can put me in a case

But you can't take my freedom

Cus my freedom is a state of my mind

You can chase me but I'm writing free

Look, I am the reincarnation of Steve Biko

Nothing that I write is for myself,

This is for my people

If I could, I'd make all the money shared equal

Reparations, By any means necessary isn't just a phrase

This is how I'm living day to day

See I studied how the angels pray

So I deliver in a similar way

I'm battling the devil through my pages

It's the only way he hears what I say

I still carry my slave name I hold it sacred

Cus it makes me living proof of how my people made it

Never reach for famous, I deserve my recognition

Certain man become free when they stuck in prison

It's deeper than the chains we were given

Deeper than Nostrodomus visions were polluted by the Isms

Paralyzed in the devils system, so

I always use my pen to give free wisdom,

I hope you listen

I've been fighting since the day that I was born

I've been writing since the day I was warned of this cold world

Since the day I felt it dorm with my soul dwell

I've been out here fighting in the war with my loneself

Breaking barriers or different calibers

Did it by myself no label or manager

Unanimous decision, We the truth, can you handle us?

Had enough of distributing food on a baggin up

Manning up, writing for the freedom, time to bat them up

This is for my brothers doing years, aint adding up

Got to she'd a tear, for those who lost too

And rally up the troops

All the people in the battle for the man above

People in the industry, keep asking me for happy stuff

But, how can I make happy music when the world sad as fuck

Had enough of living in a world that seemed mad as fuck

Writing for my freedom, no scaly tucks

I feel it when I write

I feel it when I speek

The reason we alive

The reasons that we see

The path that we chose

The reason that we be

Writing to be free, for everyone, you and me

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