Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)-Ghetto Playerz

[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) (Originally Performed by Lupe Fiasco) (Vocal Version)] [ar:Singer's Edge Karaoke] [al:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) (Originally Performed by Lupe Fiasco) (Karaoke Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) - Ghetto Playerz [00:20.44]First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:22.38]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did [00:24.65]Ghost dance Trail of Tears 5 million beers a year [00:27.28]And all that other crime did [00:29.00]More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:31.23]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big [00:34.01]Say everything's hostile [00:34.96]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels emaciated models [00:38.41] [00:39.02]With coc*ine and blood pouring out their nostrils they got to [00:42.21]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you [00:45.86]Straight hair high heels and a handbag [00:47.62] [00:48.20]Crucifixes racism and a land grab [00:50.64]Katrina FEMA trailers human body sandbags [00:52.46] [00:53.56]A peace sign and a pants sag [00:55.34]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash [00:57.25] [00:58.06]A friend request following a hash tag [01:00.08]Now everybody want it like the last laugh [01:02.39]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [01:04.72]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class [01:07.08]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad [01:09.21]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad [01:11.51]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat [01:14.07]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [01:15.68] [01:16.21]Live from the other side what you see [01:18.28]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [01:20.62]Heaven on Earth is what I need [01:22.98]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [01:25.34]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [01:27.71]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [01:30.01]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [01:32.37]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [01:34.47]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman [01:37.43]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can [01:39.81]America's a big motherf**kin' garbageman [01:42.36]If you ain't know you're part and parcel of the problem [01:44.51]You say no you ain't and I say yes you is [01:46.86]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is [01:49.10]You say no they didn't and I say yes they did [01:51.53]The definition of unnecessary-ness [01:53.45] [01:55.06]Manifested [01:55.60] [01:56.12]Say that we should protest just to get arrested [01:57.82] [01:58.36]That goes against all my hustling ethics [02:00.44]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective [02:02.34] [02:02.86]Depart from Martin connect on Malcolm X tip [02:05.42]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [02:07.16]To me the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit [02:09.99]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with [02:12.23] [02:12.82]It's all one song short of a set list [02:14.66]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast [02:16.99]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish [02:19.16]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [02:21.26] [02:22.23]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [02:23.90]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino [02:25.61] [02:26.15]I go as left as a heart in the chest [02:28.59]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death [02:31.10]Live from the other side what you see [02:32.60] [02:33.24]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [02:34.94] [02:35.50]Heaven on Earth is what I need [02:37.91]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [02:40.20]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [02:42.49]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [02:44.96]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [02:47.26]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [02:49.59]An all white Los Angeles the dream of Mr Chandler [02:51.94]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar [02:54.10] [02:54.64]South Central an example of God's gifts [02:56.70]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 [02:58.94]The projects of Oakland city Detroit ghost towns [03:01.14]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound [03:03.73]It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller [03:06.00]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa [03:08.35]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla [03:10.65]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia [03:13.12]Cash rules everything around these niggas [03:15.20]As classrooms everywhere around me wither [03:17.59]Hither you can be Mr Burns or Mr Smithers [03:19.92]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle [03:22.44]Of the extremes of America's dream [03:24.16] [03:24.73]Freud fighting Neo Freddy Krueger refereeing naaa [03:27.39]Live from the other side what you see [03:28.79] [03:29.31]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [03:31.10] [03:31.67]Heaven on Earth is what I need [03:33.96]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [03:36.38]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [03:38.63]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [03:41.05]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [03:43.35]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way