Freedom (feat. Kano & Albert Woodfox)

Sippin' on Caipirinhas with the Christ Redeemer

Thinking there's nothing more freeing than to swipe a Visa

If freedom really is financial, docking yachts in 'Biza

With lobster broth beneath ya

Captain, what's the cost of Rica?

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 weighs 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 teach us

2 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 till opportunities are even

They try and kill the speech of our leaders

But this is for my kings and Latifahs

This is for my kings and Latifahs

This is for my kings and Latifahs

Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom!

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

Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom!

This is for my kings and Latifahs

This is for my kings and Latifahs

Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom!

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 40's

That when I had re-educated myself

And had accumulated enough experience and wisdom

Where I was able to define what kind 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