Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) [Tribute]-Cover Pop

[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) (Tribute)] [ar:Cover Pop] [al:2012 R&B Tributes Volume 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) [Tribute] - Cover Pop [00:20.48]First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:22.24]Shame on all the damage [00:23.32]The white man wine did [00:24.43]Ghost dance Trail of Tears [00:25.74]5 million beers a year [00:27.40]And all that other crime did [00:29.05]More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:31.38]To rebels in small cells [00:32.68]Keeping their mind big [00:33.82]Say everything's hostile [00:34.88]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels [00:37.44]Emaciated models [00:38.72]With coc*ine and blood [00:40.08]Pouring out their nostrils they got to [00:42.20]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life [00:44.38]Where everybody watch you [00:45.96]Straight hair high heels and a handbag [00:48.08]Crucifixes racism and a land grab [00:50.43]Katrina FEMA trailers [00:51.48]Human body sandbags [00:52.77] [00:53.59]A peace sign and a pants sag [00:55.36]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash [00:57.97]A friend request following a hash tag [00:59.98]Now everybody want it like the last laugh [01:02.19]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [01:04.42]Purple Jordans [01:04.88]Or the mixed girl in your math class [01:06.77]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad [01:08.94]But corporate jets really [01:09.92]Had to have that gas bad [01:11.66]War and they hope [01:12.53]They all fall from the ratatat [01:13.94]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [01:16.32]Live from the other side what you see [01:18.18]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [01:20.81]Heaven on Earth is what I need [01:22.78]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [01:25.16]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [01:27.41]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [01:29.93]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [01:32.21]Cause freedom ain't free [01:33.32]Especially' round my way [01:35.50]And we marvel at the state of heart of man [01:37.48]Then turn around [01:37.96]And treat Ghana like a garbage can [01:39.54]America's a big mother [01:40.94]F**kin' garbageman [01:42.04]If you ain't know [01:42.98]You're part and parcel of the problem [01:44.36]You say no you ain't and I say yes you is [01:46.68]Soon as you find out [01:47.68]What planned obsolescence is [01:48.34] [01:49.05]You say no they didn't [01:50.13]And I say yes they did [01:51.41]The definition of unnecessary-ness [01:53.73] [01:54.93]Manifested [01:55.84]Say that we should protest just to get arrested [01:58.04]That goes against all my hustling ethics [02:00.46]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective [02:02.76]Depart from Martin [02:03.86]Connect on Malcolm X tip [02:05.23]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [02:07.24]To me [02:08.15]The truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit [02:09.82]Or finding really fast internet [02:10.94]To have some sex with [02:12.54]It's all one song short of a set list [02:14.50]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast [02:16.67]Or blowing out your birthday candles [02:18.15]Just to make a death wish [02:19.35]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [02:21.41] [02:22.03]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [02:23.80]A whole culture boiled down [02:25.03]To giving you paquino [02:26.23]I go as left as a heart in the chest [02:28.38]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death [02:31.09]Live from the other side what you see [02:33.09]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [02:35.44]Heaven on Earth is what I need [02:37.74]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [02:40.07]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [02:42.43]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [02:44.80]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [02:47.13]Cause freedom ain't free [02:48.10]Especially 'round my way [02:49.53]An all white Los Angeles [02:50.72]The dream of Mr Chandler [02:51.84]Hope and pray [02:52.68]They take Columbus day up off the calendar [02:54.50]South Central an example of God's gifts [02:56.45]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 [02:58.91]The projects of Oakland city [03:00.27]Detroit ghost towns [03:01.04]Monopolies on poverty [03:02.34]Where D-boy coke bound [03:03.58]It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller [03:05.87]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa [03:08.27]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla [03:10.62]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday [03:11.96]Preacher's pedophilia [03:12.95]Cash rules everything around these niggas [03:15.27]As classrooms everywhere around me wither [03:16.90] [03:17.48]Hither you can be Mr Burns or Mr Smithers [03:19.93]The tyrant or the slave [03:21.16]But nowhere in the middle [03:22.47]Of the extremes of America's dream [03:24.52]Freud fighting Neo [03:25.65]Freddy Krueger refereeing naa [03:27.14]Live from the other side what you see [03:29.23]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [03:31.59]Heaven on Earth is what I need [03:33.80]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [03:36.17]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [03:38.49]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [03:40.93]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [03:43.21]Cause freedom ain't free [03:44.31]Especially 'round my way