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Meek Mill - What's Free feat. Rick Ross & Jay Z [Official Audio]
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Meek Mill
Meek Mill
Vocals
Rick Ross
Rick Ross
Vocals
JAY-Z
JAY-Z
Vocals
Vinny Venditto
Vinny Venditto
Keyboards
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Carlos Broady
Carlos Broady
Songwriter
Christopher Wallace
Christopher Wallace
Songwriter
Hal David
Hal David
Songwriter
Nashiem Myrick
Nashiem Myrick
Songwriter
Sean "Puffy" Combs
Sean "Puffy" Combs
Songwriter
Shawn Carter
Shawn Carter
Songwriter
Tarik Azzouz
Tarik Azzouz
Songwriter
Clemm Rishad
Clemm Rishad
Songwriter
Nicholas M. Warwar
Nicholas M. Warwar
Songwriter
Robert Rihmeek Williams
Robert Rihmeek Williams
Songwriter
William Leonard Roberts II
William Leonard Roberts II
Songwriter
Douglas "Voli" Martung
Douglas "Voli" Martung
Co-Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Douglas "Voli" Martung
Douglas "Voli" Martung
Editing Engineer
STREETRUNNER
STREETRUNNER
Producer
Tarik Azzouz
Tarik Azzouz
Producer
James "Jayme Be" Belt
James "Jayme Be" Belt
Engineer
William "Bilz" Dougan
William "Bilz" Dougan
Engineer
Colin Leonard
Colin Leonard
Mastering Engineer
Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton
Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton
Mixing Engineer
Anthony Cruz
Anthony Cruz
Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Intro]
You know what free is ****?
[Chorus]
What's free?
Free is when nobody else can tell us what to be
Free is when the TV ain't controllin' what we see
Told my ****, "I need you"
Through all the fame, you know I stayed true
Pray my **** stay free
Made a few mistakes, but this ain't where I wanna be
Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my V
Told my ****, "I need you"
Stay up, I know these times ain't true
Real life, what's free?
[Verse 1]
Since a lad, I was cunnin', just got a pad out in London
I keep stackin' my money, I'll need a ladder by summer
AK shots, **** duckin' stray shots
Been a Top Dawg, that's before the K.Dots
Crackin' in '06, immaculate showmanship
Talkin' like you Mitch, disastrous on the strip
Holdin' on your bitch, could've never sold you a brick
With them people, you never been on a list
Mona Lisa to me ain't nothin' but a bitch
Hangin' pictures like **** swin'in' from his dick
We so different, you thought these didn't exist
The Megalodon never seen on his wrist
I'm from the south where they never make it this rich
God is the greatest, but Satan been on his shit
Walkin' the pavement, I pray I'm illuminated
Over a decade and never nobody's favorite
Pot and kilo go hand in hand like we Gamble and Huff
My amigo, a million grams and we countin' 'em up
You was dead broke, I let you hold a pack
You paid for it, but I fucked around and stole the track
Screamin', "Gang, gang", now you wanna rap
Racketeerin' charges caught him on a tap
Lookin' for a bond, lawyers wanna tax
Purple hair got them faggots on your back
[Chorus]
What's free?
Free is when nobody else can tell us what to be
Free is when the TV ain't controllin' what we see
Told my ****, "I need you"
Through all the fame, you know I stayed true
Pray my **** stay free
Made a few mistakes, but this ain't where I wanna be
Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my V
Told my ****, "I need you"
Stay up, I know these times ain't true
Real life, what's free?
[Verse 2]
Fed investigations, heard they plottin' like I trap
Twenty mill' in cash, they know I got that off a rap
Maybe it's the Michael Rubins or the Robert Krafts
Or the billionaire from Marcy, and the way they got my back, uh
Seen how I prevailed and now they try to knock me back, uh
Lock me in a cell for all them nights and I won't snap, uh
Two-fifty a show and they still think I'm sellin' crack, uh
When you bring my name up to the judge, just tell 'em facts
Tell him how we fundin' all these kids to go to college
Tell him how we ceasin' all these wars, stoppin' violence
Tryna fix the system and the way that they designed it
I think they want me silenced (Shush)
Oh, say you can see, I don't feel like I'm free
Locked down in my cell, shackled from ankle to feet
Judge bangin' that gavel, turned me to slave from a king
Another day in the bing, I gotta hang from a string
Just for poppin' a wheelie, my people march through the city
From a cell to a chopper, view from the top of the city
You can tell how we rockin', soon as I pop up, we litty
Poppin' like Bad Boy in '94, Big Poppa and Diddy
And **** counted me out like my accountant ain't busy
That's five milli' in twenties, sit up and count till I'm dizzy
Phantom, five hundred thousand, hundred round in a stizzy
Is we beefin' or rappin'? I might just pop up with Drizzy like
[Chorus]
What's free?
Free is when nobody else can tell us what to be
Free is when the TV ain't controllin' what we see
Told my ****, "I need you"
Through all the fame, you know I stayed true
Pray my **** stay free
Made a few mistakes, but this ain't where I wanna be
Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my V
Told my ****, "I need you"
Stay up, I know these times ain't true
Real life, what's free?
[Verse 3]
In the land of the free where the blacks enslaved
Three-fifth's of a man, I believe's the phrase
I'm 50% of D'USSÉ and it's debt free, yeah
100% of Ace of Spades, worth half a B, uh
Roc Nation, half of that, that's my piece
Hunnid percent of Tidal to bust it up with my G's, uh
Since most of my **** won't ever work together
You run a check up, but they never give you leverage
No red hat, don't Michael and Prince me and Ye
They separate you when you got Michael and Prince's DNA, uh
I ain't one of these house **** you bought
My house like a resort, my house bigger than yours
My spou- (C'mon, man)
My route better of course
We started without food in our mouth, they gave us pork and pig intestines
Shit you discarded that we ingested
We made the project the wave, you came back reinvested and gentrified it
Took ****'s sense of pride, now how that's free?
When them people stole thee soul and hit **** with 360's (Uh)
I ain't got a billion streams, got a billion dollars
Inflatin' numbers like we 'posed to be happy about this
We was praisin' Billboard, but we were young
Now I look at Billboard like, "Is you dumb?"
To this day, Grandma 'fraid of what I might say
They gon' have to kill me Grandmama, I'm not they slave
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Check out the bizarre rappin' style used by me, the H-O-V
Look at my hair free, care free, **** ain't near free
Enjoy your chains, what's your employer name with the hair piece?
I survived the hood, can't no Shaytan rob me
My accountant's so good I'm practically livin' tax free
Factory, that's me
Sold drugs, got away scot-free
That's a CC, E-copy
Guilt free, still me
And they expect me to not feel a way to this day
You would say y'all kill me
Sucker free, no shuckin' me, I don't jive turkey
Say, "Happy Thanksgivin'", shit sound like a murder to me
Smoke free, all of y'all callin' out toll free
Label rob you for millions, yet you wanna put a hole in me
Sugar free, seasoned but I'm salt free
You lay a hand on Hov, my shooters shoot for free, I promise World War three
Send an order through a hands free
Kill you in twenty-four hours or shorter, you can't ignore the hand speed
On God, it's off the head this improv, but it's no comedy
Sign I fail, hell naw (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
Written by: Carlos Broady, Christopher Wallace, Clemmie Rishad, Douglas "Voli" Martung, Hal David, Meek Mill, Nashiem Myrick, Rick Ross, STREETRUNNER, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Shawn Carter, Tarik Azzouz
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