Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)

Yeah, yeah

Great American Rap resurrect

Rest in peace, young Ash

Brought live from the set

Uh, brought live from the set, yeah

First off, say "Peace" to Pine Ridge

Shame at all the damage that the white man wine did

Ghost Dance, Trail of Tears, five million beers a year

And all that other crime did

More peace to the teachers of blind kids

To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big

Say everything's hostile

Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models

With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to

Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you

Straight hair, high heels and a handbag

Crucifixes, racism and a land grab

Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags

A peace sign and a pants sag

A money toss 'cause a nine stripper mad dash

A friend request following a hashtag

Now everybody want it like the last laugh

A Michael Jackson jacket or a Daft mask

Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class

Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad

But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad

War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat

'Cause that's just more dinosaur for their Cadillacs

Live from the other side what you see

A bunch of nonsense on my TV

Heaven on Earth is what I need

But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe

Reporting live from the other side what you hear

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

'Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

And we marvel at the state of Ottoman

Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can

America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman

If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem

You say, "No, you ain't," and I say, "Yes, you is"

Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is

You say, "No, they didn't," and I say, "Yes, they did"

The definition of unnecessary-ness

Manifested

Say that we should protest just to get arrested

That goes against all my hustling ethics

A bunch of jail **** say it's highly ineffective

Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip

Insert Baldwin to similar the separate

To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit

Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with

It's all one song short of a set list

Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast

Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish

So absurd, word to Chief Bone Necklace

Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino

A whole culture boiled down to giving you pokeno

I go as left as a heart in the chest

'Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death

Live from the other side what you see

A bunch of nonsense on my TV

Heaven on Earth is what I need

But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe

Reporting live from the other side what you hear

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

'Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

An all-white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler

Hope and pray they take Columbus Day up off the calendar

South Central an example of God's gifts

So shout to all the mothers raising babies in SPA 6

The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns

Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound

It's parts of Manila like the video for "Thriller"

But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa

If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla

Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia?

Cash rules everything around these ****

As classrooms everywhere around me wither

Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers

The tyrant or the slave, but nowhere in the middle

Of the extremes of America's dream

Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, nah

Live from the other side what you see

A bunch of nonsense on my TV

Heaven on Earth is what I need

But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe

Reporting live from the other side what you hear

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

'Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

Great American rap resurrect

Lupe on the check

Westside till I die!