The Freedom Dance

[Verse 1] Yo twelve grand was my first brick sale I found twelve grand in Peaches safe, me and Miguel Karma circles right back around, all for that fish scale Tailor made for it, unfortunately, fit well And legend of the Saints Might just be redefined as misdirected restraint Cause' I was up in arms at the vision left in the frame Pullin back and aiming at shit that feathered away I missed and catch all the blame But hey, such is life The life they called a bitch is who I wanted for a wife, but when love wouldn't suffice Holding on and knowing my intent was always right Is how I found peace when I would roll over at night Like Alton rolling over in his grave, or shit he might Be rolling over in his cell but it don't pay enough to dwell So I put all that away and I reopen it in Hell The higher you can rise, from of the lower that you fell Who would've thought it? If Lucifer paging you would you call him? In a Continental, Lincoln filled with everything you wanted Draped in a leather bomber that he told you was a robe Only an angel could be this angelic in approach Level your hopes, level your fears, or swim in your tears Sandy beaches, gunpowder, invisible chairs Applause worthy for staying until they fade out This brown liquor make it clear a way out [Chorus] This is my freedom dance But don't dance with me Look at everybody else who took a chance with me See when I dance Dont dance with me Look at everyone who tried to hold hands with me See it feels So much better when you dancing on your own Your dance partners in the broken mirrors in your home So when I dance Dont dance with me Look at everyone who tried to hold hands with me [Verse 2] White man gave me coke White man gave me liquor White man gave me rope White man named me nigga Ropes tied around all our hope it was taken from me Hanging from a noose but that rope worth Laker money Gold on your scale and purple hearts on your resume So when the name of your flag, let us pray Pray that the God you praying to, looks like you in a sense And if he doesn't then that's you getting lynched Later Teddy Asked Satin if hell let me, a seat at this bar If God should say my reach was too far Was too far laying shoulder to shoulder on a white lion Or was it laying keys in my trunk KGB's in my trunk Can I breathe just for once, right Take a minute here just let me breath, like what the fuck, right Damn Listen, listen I asked you to let me breathe before we done, please I mean I went from, providing a cause, to survivor's remorse, to breathing free without a pot to pee on or pee in, right Blood in my eyes, but feeling good enough to run up and touch the sky Knowing nothings a surprise See it a mile away like Veronique in disguise X marks the birth certificate I never signed A boy genius bloodline, but I ain't never met him Maybe he in Johannesburg or maybe Beckham Or shopping out in Shortage Pardon my annoyance My 800 thousand should get him everything he wanted He ask about his daddy tell him everything important Meaning don't tell him nothing, leave me out them discussions Yo you remember Oushay writing raps about this neighborhood and all this coke craze Singing fuck the police and everybody obeyed You see the shit he went through Government followed him too Thank you South Central Yo you remember John with the glasses and the camcorder glued to his palms Wanting to tell the story of how everything went wrong In spite of what I did do, he made it out this shit too Thank you South Central Walking up and down, 56 me and yo yo In front of my momma house way after it foreclosed He looked at my condition and based on how I'm living and what I did to our block it's like if I became the logo But shit I got a bottle of Jack from up out of yo yo And chains don't link no more My momma broke those I know why the caged bird sings, but I ain't have range Till I was able to get out of the cage of my last name And naming everything this black boy done accomplished Nobody would ever believe if we being honest So daddy you finally understood The taste of letting go, I find to be just as good [Chorus] This is my freedom dance But don't dance with me Look at everybody else who took a chance with me Now when I dance Dont dance with me Look at everyone who tried to hold hands with me See it feels So much better when you dancing on your own Your dance partners in the broken mirrors in your home So when I dance Dont dance with me Look at everyone who tried to hold hands with me Freedom dance Dont dance with me Look at everyone who tried to take a chance Freedom dance [Refrain]