Freedom - Mistah F.A.B., Dj.Fresh

In light of what’s going on in America today

I just want to ask a couple of questions

What’s freedom

I got a lot of white friends some rich and some poor

Some I grew up in the hood they my people for show

When I look at them naw man I don’t see color

I see my family see my friends see my sisters and brothers

But systematically speaking with a different facade

In a judicial system that where all my people get fried

But three strikes be the same as getting lynched on trees

We pull up in the same car and police pick on me

I guess I’m guilty til I’m innocent never given the benefit

My black skin automatically mean that I did the shit

And they don’t need no witnesses and even if you witnessed it

If they want me guilty they’ll find a way to make convictions Stick

But if you just look back

In America at political prisoners like the prat and go look three

Asada and Monia they want you locked they uh never free ya

Whats freedom

Something that a black man in America never feels

Freedom

They give us all freedom of speech but say the wrong thing You getting killed

freedom

Our ancestors sang I want to be free free

Freedom

And as long as we’ve been the slaves we’ll never be free

Free as the water in my aquarium horoscope

What is freedom black man

Is that rhetorical we don’t like when Neo had to go meet with The oracle

As the world turn music is louder that oracle

All these voices in my head of people that’s dead

I could write a book impose a letters all from the feds

Or the state and I hate the fact they never be back

White privilege is real you could never be black

No matter how hard you sag and you use the word nigga

You never understand the hardships of me and my niggas

Imagine me and Copefield as a killer and crook

They start no evidence all just how you look

And in my book I speak on the streets that I stay

How they ain’t no different than the streets in L. A

How they ain’t no different than the streets in the A

How police want to kill a man and leave him like Freddie Gray

What’s freedom

Something that a black man in America never feels

Freedom

They give us all freedom of speech but say the wrong thing You getting killed

freedom

Our ancestors sang I want to be free free

Freedom

And as long as we’ve been the slaves we’ll never be free

Peace king need ya’ll to use your vision

What’s the difference between a plantation and a prison

What’s the difference between a slave and a inmate

It’s no difference one picking cotton one making license plates

A slave master and a warden a NBA owner got his top slave Scoring

A NFL owner treat his players like Madden on the sticks bro

You see how they did my cousin Marshawn Lynch though

Hate a black man standing for up black people

Shouting out real Africans to them that was evil

He was just a black man being a real black figure

But they like no matter what man you still a nigga

They be feeling like you think you tough

A bad boy with some money oh you think you Puff

Made it out of Def Jam what you think you Russ

Laughing at your little money like he think he us

Freedom

Something that a black man in America never feels

Freedom

They give us all freedom of speech but say the wrong thing You getting killed

freedom

Our ancestors sang I want to be free free

Freedom

And as long as we’ve been the slaves we’ll never be free

Freedom