please let me testify (Testify Freestyle)

[Intro: James Baldwin]

If we were White

If we were Irish

If we were Jewish, if we were Poles

If we had, in fact, in your mind a frame of reference

Our heroes would be your heroes, too

Nat Turner would be a hero for you instead of a threat

Malcolm X might still be alive

But, you know, when the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles

Or the Irish, or any White man in the world

Says, "Give mе liberty, or give me dеath"

The entire White world applauds

When a Black man says exactly the same thing, word for word

He is judged a criminal and treated like one

And everything possible is done

To make an example of this bad nigga

So there won't be any more like him

[Verse 1: dread scott]

I talked to god, but he ain't tell me much

The devil gripping on my shoulder with a healthy clutch

I muscle up because the shells'll bust

The block is hot, that's why them cells see us

Ayo, it's death before dishonor, never call a judge your honor, bruh

Behead the king and make a soccer ball for my commoners

My UZI weigh a Huey new-ton, you can check the barometer

But Kamala would rather see us in a cell like mitochondria

We lighting candles every week, a different Hanukkah

Police is on the the streets, they rolling deeper than the mafia

An ounce of weed is all they need to put it in ya yamaka

But we know who really moving the keys like a Yamaha

[Hook: dread scott and Honey Cone]

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (I got the shotgun, I got the briefcase)

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (It's all in the game though, right?)

Please let me testify

[Verse 2: dread scott & JAY-Z]

I'm outta kindness

I'm tired o' spineless liars, your highness, your iris biased

We riot 'cause testifiers accuse us and gentrify us

I'm shooting, don't test this fire, I prove it with rocket science

I ain't rocking with the master's plan, from three fifths, we still half a man

I'm packing in my bag again, they pack us in the back of vans

Attacking on Afghanistan, they strapping for the Taliban

But slap me with a half a mill' for bail because I'm African

[Hook: dread scott and Honey Cone]

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (I got the shotgun, I got the briefcase)

Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (It's all in the game though, right?)

Please let me testify