Freedom

[Verse: Kano] Sippin' on caipirinhas with the christ redeemer Thinkin' there's nothin' more freein' than to swipe a Visa If freedom really is financial, dockin' yachts in 'Biza With lobster broth beneath ya, captain, what the cost of Rica? Uh, still seas run deep Alarm clocks kill dreams while our children sleep This free country seems fuckery ‘cause it's built on grief And you can't roam free with your skin non-bleached This black makes me proud, this crown weights me down When your possessions got you trapped, you can't Waze it out Declutter, see underneath the shades and gowns Can't take drip with you when you grace the ground These days locked down will tеach us Two metres, me and my quarantina Ain't seen Gucci for months And that's a weight of my shoulders for Deyontay reasons But four walls can't box me in, I'm a quantum leaper What is freedom? This microphone for me, so I can flow and speak reason No one's really free 'til opportunities are even They try and kill the speech of our leaders But this is for my kings and Latifahs [Chorus: Kano] This is for my kings and Latifahs This is for my kings and Latifahs Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom [Interlude: Albert Woodfox] We didn't just survive We prospered as human beings We found a way to develop moral principal and values And disciplines that made us better human beings [Chorus: Kano] Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom This is for my kings and Latifahs This is for my kings and Latifahs Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom [Outro: Albert Woodfox] So, freedom isn't about your external situation or your environment? Well, it gives you the ability to control your environment, you know That's what freedom is, it's the ability, like I said To take your philosophical views or your theoretical views Or your personal views or whatever and make it real, you know Move it from within yourself to outside yourself Like I said, I think I achieved mental and emotional and philosophical freedom When I was around in my early forties That's when I had re-educated myself And had accumulated enough experience and wisdom Where I was able to define what kind of person I wanted to be for the rest of my life But at the time, also time that I realised that there were limitations to what I could achieve Because I was physically still in prison