[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
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