CAPITAL-''X'' - Redemption lyrics

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Talking: Redemption, to extricate, to be released from debt, to make

Good. Redemption. Redemption. Redemption. Fuck you Schwarzenegger

Punk mutha fucka. Redemption

I've waited decades for my turn, now without concern

I'm a spit this fire, sit back and watch the world burn

Man this is for every cop, that's ever called me a spic

As I was pistol whipped, and beat with night sticks

And this is for every public pretender, that conned me into taking a deal

Made me think I was hitting the streets, but wound up behind bricks and steel

And this is for every judge, that sent me up state

Where I grew bitter and cold, filled with anger and hate

Man I've been misunderstood, from the second I came out the pussy

No I ain't no killa, but don't fucken push me

I've been plotting this, since my days in solitary confinement

Where I prayed to God, to show me the light through the darkness

Well to your dismay, my prayers have been answered

And since that day, my words have been spreading like cancer

No you can't stop it, cause truth always prevails

Man every letter of this verse, is like a bomb being mailed

To everyone that's wrote me off, and said I was worthless

A born loser, that served no purpose

And to every C.O. that told me to lift up my nut-sack

Spread open my ass-crack, and said I'd be back

Man fuck that, I'm over turning every sentence

Coming with a vengeance, and claiming my redemption

Man I was born guilty, in the eyes of my oppressors

Kept under surveillance, and under constant pressure

Man they've been feeding me lies, ever since I was an adolescent

Well now watch me flip the script and teach these fucks a lesson

Sure I've lied to survive, but I've never lied to myself

I know I'm going to heaven, cause I already been through hell

Lock down in a cell, a corporate slave

But now I'm rising, like Christ from the grave

And I ain't talking on some Bad Boy shit, or Roca-Fella

I'm talking Filiberto Rios, and Nelson Mandela

Malcolm-X, Karl Marx and Medgar Evers

I'm wielding my machete, till the dragons 7 heads are severed

I ain't just talking about, we need a change,

Man I'm breaking the shackles, handcuffs and chains

They tried to break me, but they just made me stronger

They thought they silenced me, but they couldn't have been wronger

I'm bringing the noise like Public Enemy, speaking the truth like Technique

Seeking vengeance for my people like an Arawak Chief

Talk is cheap, so I'm backing my words with action

Draw first blood, and we'll see what happens

Don't forget the golden rule, what goes around comes around

And keep in mind, that you can't keep a real nigga down

Like Q-Unique, vengeance will be mine

That's why I be coming at ya's like the judge, just gave me an asshole

Full of time

I got homicide on my mind, revenge pumping through my veins

For every inmate locked in the hole, literally going insane

Man I feel their pains, tears falling like acid rain

I know most of ya'll don't give a fuck, except for capital gain

So I spit with a ferociousness, that will rattle your brains

Make you see today's prisoners, are just like yesterdays slaves

Captured enchained, locked in a cage

Forced to work like third world children, that are under age

Housed in conditions, the ASPCA would find inhumane

Surrounded by TB, HIV and AIDS

365 days, could turn into a death sentence

But they keep on warehousing, inmates by the millions

I served13 years, and it made me worse not better

Cause their plan from day one, was to make me a repeat offender

But like Filiberto Ríos, I refused to surrender

Man they ain't never seen me, as anything more than a commodity

But now they're looking at me, like I'm their worst fuckin enemy

Armed with verses of truth, that reek of revolution

I got these fucks trying to raise, Willie Lynch from the grave

To try to regain control, of this runaway slave