[00:00:00] Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) [Cover Version Tribute to Lupe Fiasco [00:00:20] First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:00:22] Shame at all the damage [00:00:23] The white man wine did [00:00:24] Ghost dance Trail of Tears [00:00:25] 5 million beers a year [00:00:27] And all that other crime did [00:00:28] More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:00:30] To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big [00:00:33] Say everything's hostile [00:00:34] Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels [00:00:37] Emaciated models [00:00:38] With coc*ine and blood pouring out their nostrils [00:00:41] They got to [00:00:41] Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life [00:00:44] Where everybody watch you [00:00:45] Straight hair high heels and a handbag [00:00:48] Crucifixes racism and a land grab [00:00:50] Katrina FEMA trailers [00:00:51] Human body sandbags [00:00:53] A peace sign and a pants sag [00:00:55] A money toss cause a 9 [00:00:56] Stripper mad dash [00:00:57] A friend request following a hash tag [00:01:00] Now everybody want it like a last laugh [00:01:02] A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [00:01:03] Purple Jordans or the mixed [00:01:05] Girl in your math class [00:01:06] Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad [00:01:08] But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad [00:01:11] War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat [00:01:13] Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [00:01:16] Live from the other side what you see [00:01:18] A bunch of nonsense on my TV [00:01:20] Heaven on Earth is what I need [00:01:22] But I feel I'm in every time I breathe [00:01:25] Reporting live from the other [00:01:26] Side what you hear [00:01:27] A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [00:01:29] Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [00:01:32] Cause freedom ain't free [00:01:33] Especially 'round my way [00:01:34] And we marvel at the state of Ottoman [00:01:37] Then turn around and treat [00:01:38] Ghana like a garbage can [00:01:39] America's a big garbageman [00:01:41] If you ain't know you're part and [00:01:43] Parcel of the problem [00:01:44] You say no you ain't and I say yes you is [00:01:46] Soon as you find out what [00:01:47] Planned obsolescence is [00:01:48] You say no they didn't [00:01:50] And I say yes they did [00:01:51] The definition of unnecessary-ness [00:01:54] Manifested [00:01:55] Say that we should protest [00:01:57] Just to get arrested [00:01:58] That goes against all my hustling ethics [00:01:59] A bunch of jail say its highly ineffective [00:02:02] Depart from Martin [00:02:03] Connect on Malcolm X tip [00:02:05] Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [00:02:07] To me the truth is more [00:02:08] Fulfilling than a meth hit [00:02:09] Or finding really fast internet [00:02:10] To have some sex with [00:02:12] It's all one song short of a set list [00:02:14] Couple croissants shy of [00:02:15] A continental breakfast [00:02:16] Or blowing out your birthday [00:02:17] Candles just to make a death wish [00:02:19] So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [00:02:22] Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [00:02:23] A whole culture boiled down [00:02:25] To giving you pokeno [00:02:26] I go as left as a heart in the chest [00:02:28] Cause the Horn of Africa is [00:02:29] Now starving to death [00:02:30] Live from the other side what you see [00:02:33] A bunch of nonsense on my TV [00:02:35] Heaven on Earth is what I need [00:02:37] But I feel I'm in every time I breathe [00:02:39] Reporting live from the [00:02:40] Other side what you hear [00:02:42] A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [00:02:44] Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [00:02:47] Cause freedom ain't free [00:02:48] Especially 'round my way [00:02:49] An all white Los Angeles [00:02:50] The dream of Mr Chandler [00:02:51] Hope and pray they take [00:02:53] Columbus day up off the calendar [00:02:54] South Central an example of God's gifts [00:02:56] So shout to all the mothers [00:02:57] Raising babies in SPA 6 [00:02:58] The projects of Oakland city [00:03:00] Detroit ghost towns [00:03:01] Monopolies on poverty [00:03:02] Where D-boy coke bound