Absolute Power-Akala

[ti:Absolute Power] [ar:Akala] [al:Knowledge is Power Mixtape Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Absolute Power - Akala [00:10.11]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [00:12.59]But absolute powerlessness does the same [00:15.35]It's not the poverty [00:16.60]It's the inequality we live with everyday [00:18.69]That will turn us insane [00:20.29]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [00:22.66]But absolute powerlessness does the same [00:25.54]It's not the poverty [00:26.73]It's the inequality we live with everyday [00:28.79]That will turn us insane [00:30.03]In a scheme of livin' my life wasn't hard [00:32.61]But as far as Britain goes sh*t I practically starved [00:35.39]Sleeping in a track suit gas meter runnin' out [00:37.91]Electric cut off as well candles lightin' up the house [00:40.48]Lookin' in my momma's eyes I see how she feels [00:42.88]The strain and the pain of just paying bills [00:45.11]It ain't real and thats how I grew like so many more [00:48.38]And now it's part of who I am [00:49.73]I am very sure [00:50.88]You wanna know the rage I feel in my stomach [00:52.71]Knowing my mum and dad split up [00:54.00]When I was still in her stomach [00:55.50]And not everything that happened [00:56.58]I will put in sixteens [00:57.67]But I will tell you enough [00:59.01]So you will know what I mean [01:00.25]My boy's mother got cancer the same time as mine [01:03.32]His mother died and mine survived [01:05.32]The sh*t was f**ked back then [01:06.93]When I was like ten already had the mental strength [01:09.18]More than many grown men [01:10.78]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [01:13.19]But absolute powerlessness does the same [01:16.00]It's not the poverty [01:17.26]It's the inequality we live with everyday [01:19.31]That will turn us insane [01:20.95]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [01:23.33]But absolute powerlessness does the same [01:26.13]It's not the poverty [01:27.30]It's the inequality we live with everyday [01:29.38]That will turn us insane [01:30.54]This was a couple years after my step dad left [01:33.60]Did he really know the crazy mess that he left [01:35.84]'Cause mum done recovered from the lumps in her neck [01:38.16]For being poor and alone just couldn't cope with the stress [01:40.74]And I earn my big sis for [01:42.44]So much soul that night hattan left school [01:44.88]When she left home [01:45.87]I was thirteen by now [01:47.14]Still a little kid innocent [01:48.75]Next couple years though would turn him to a militant [01:51.16]That is the result of no food in the fridge [01:53.71]And every other day being searched by the pigs [01:55.88]F**k these patronizing teachers [01:57.38]Don't want my grades slip tryna emasculate me [01:59.84]Yeah turn me to a b**ch [02:01.17]And I don't mean a woman please lemme be clear [02:03.53]I mean a spineless man because what do they fear [02:05.87]More than a working class black male with a brain [02:08.69]When our energy is harnessed every changed [02:11.11]Look at Pac look at Marley look at Hendrix look at Garvey [02:13.92]This is the potential that is wasted on a daily basis [02:16.45]A racist classist world that we live in [02:18.86]Still we comin' from nothing but we educate millions [02:21.49]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [02:23.95]But absolute powerlessness does the same [02:26.79]It's not the poverty [02:27.93]It's the inequality we live with everyday [02:30.13]That will turn us insane [02:31.68]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [02:34.01]But absolute powerlessness does the same [02:36.81]It's not the poverty [02:38.08]It's the inequality we live with everyday [02:40.13]That will turn us insane [02:41.38]I understand why it scares you [02:43.07]It's like how dare you [02:44.47]Overcome obstacles that we have been careful to [02:47.12]Place in your way every step of the way [02:49.04]In this so called democracy where kids get sprayed [02:51.93]Blacks and the Asians Turks and the chavs [02:54.26]Crowded in council flats living like ants [02:56.92]And who's more confused than the poor white trash [02:59.47]Spouting the bullsh*t about they want their country back [03:02.06]It never was yours you should read more [03:04.24]What they did to brown people they did to their own poor [03:06.80]Peoples memories short so much that I'm seeing [03:09.59]Black and Asian kids cussing eastern Europeans [03:12.09]No pot to piss in makes competition [03:14.61]I fail to see how this is an effective system [03:17.31]Cats and dogs in America and Britain [03:19.82]Eat better food then most of humanity [03:22.07]We spend our technology only on killing [03:24.84]How is this more than sophisticated savagery [03:27.50]It's like it's said the world is a stage [03:29.51]Each person's just an actor with a part to play [03:32.01]Like the middle class kids kids of the rich [03:34.84]Have everything but yet still they pissed [03:37.30]On coke and ketamine strung out on heroin [03:39.88]I ain't generalizing look at the evidence [03:42.42]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [03:44.74]But absolute powerlessness does the same [03:47.56]It's not the poverty [03:48.84]It's the inequality we live with everyday [03:50.93]That will turn us insane [03:52.46]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [03:54.97]But absolute powerlessness does the same [03:57.65]It's not the poverty [03:58.94]It's the inequality we live with everyday [04:01.02]That will turn us insane [04:02.61]Go to Glastonbury any year you will see [04:05.21]Unlike carnival it won't be crawling with police [04:07.30]This is London the kids on the very next street [04:10.20]Had a very different life experience than me [04:12.67]In my experience they can't help but be smug [04:14.84]After a lifetime of what they think's just good luck [04:17.74]They're still more anxious and more thankless [04:20.39]Unearned privilege weigh's like an anchor [04:22.97]Why they copy what we do [04:24.13]Tryna' be what they not [04:25.63]They will grow up though and get better jobs [04:27.79]And maintain the system they claim that they hated [04:30.35]But they can't burn it down [04:31.33]They got a stake in this matrix [04:32.89]Hip hop is just a fad to them you didn't know [04:35.77]But to us this our living breathing soul [04:38.19]And yeah they might backpack in South America [04:40.29]Or even volunteer in an African village [04:43.01]But all said and done push comes to shove [04:45.60]And sh*t hits the fan they're middle class and British [04:47.98] [04:49.11]That's just how it is [04:50.53]Most rich black people are just as full of sh*t [04:53.10]So more concerned with their cars and jewels [04:55.50]But most of the worlds poor looks just like you [04:58.24]So more concerned with their cars and jewels [05:00.62]But most of the worlds poor looks just like you [05:03.28]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [05:05.61]But absolute powerlessness does the same [05:08.40]It's not the poverty [05:09.68]It's the inequality we live with everyday [05:11.72]That will turn us insane [05:13.33]Absolute power corrupts absolutely [05:15.73]But absolute powerlessness does the same [05:18.53]It's not the poverty [05:19.69]It's the inequality we live with everyday [05:21.79]That will turn us insane