Fire In The Booth Freestyle-Akala

[ti:Fire In The Booth Freestyle] [ar:Akala] [al:2011年5月欧美新歌速递2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fire In The Booth Freestyle - Akala [00:11.07]Yes I grew up on the dole in a single parent family [00:13.19]Been through a little bit of tragedy [00:14.32]Yes I was around drugs and violence [00:15.50]Before the day that I started secondary [00:17.40]And that's part of it [00:18.54]Not half of it [00:19.23]Get the picture the rest ain't necessary [00:20.67]Growin' up got a little caught up [00:22.03]But that ain't even half of my life [00:23.55]I was also given the knowledge of self [00:24.92]That is all we actually need to survive [00:26.87]If you saw me aged 9 reading Malcolm just fine [00:29.79]Teachers still treated me stupid [00:30.82]Students that couldn't speak English they put me in groups with [00:33.18]And the irony is [00:34.44]Some of the first man to give me schoolin' [00:36.12]You would call gangsters [00:37.27]But I already explained we know what the truth is [00:39.03]They used to say 'Don't be like me' [00:40.54]Yeah I got a name and dough on the street [00:42.36]Night time comes I can't sleep [00:43.85]And that's the part that rappers don't speak [00:45.42]We don't hit the road cause we are thugs [00:47.06]Don't come out the womb wanting to sell drugs [00:48.62]If we got the right guidance and love [00:50.14]Would we fight people just like us [00:51.63]How could I knock the hustle to get by [00:53.19]How do you think I ate as a child [00:54.85]Judge no one done many things wrong [00:56.28]I just don't boast about it songs [00:57.91]But listen to my older bars [00:59.36]I was just as confused as you probably are [01:01.02]But you grow and you learn [01:02.02]Travel and f**k up [01:02.71]One too many man you know get cut up [01:04.22]One too many man that could've been doctors [01:05.60]End up spending their whole life boxed up [01:07.22]You learn if you study [01:08.80]It's all set out just to make them money [01:10.37]No cover it's all about getting poor people to fight with one another [01:13.26]So it's logical that us killing our brothers [01:14.97]Dissin' our mothers [01:15.56]Is right in line with the dominant philosophy of our time [01:17.81]But time is a cycle not a line [01:19.83]Comes back around you regain your mind [01:21.20]You be ready for the energy I channel in my rhymes [01:23.01]Remedy the pedigree the jeopardy of mine [01:24.35]When the world's this f**ked up lethargy's a crime [01:25.98]We can all fight with our brothers over crumbs [01:27.61]Far harder to fight the one who makes guns [01:29.11]We can all talk sh*t and get two dollars [01:30.63]Far harder to be the one who seeks knowledge [01:32.55]If we understood economics [01:33.92]We'd know money's nothin' [01:34.70]Think nothing of it [01:35.51]Money is a means to get wealth not the wealth itself [01:38.11]Don't get confused I'm far from broke [01:40.01]All that you see me do I own [01:41.45]But I won't hang what I make around my neck [01:43.01]I know from where that the diamonds came [01:44.46]But I do quite literally own a library [01:46.17]That definitely costs more than your chain [01:47.67]And businesses and properties [01:49.41]Far from starvin' I eat quite properly [01:50.69]And I don't care just said it for the kids [01:52.59]Who need to know that you're not broke to listen [01:54.10]Don't know an asset from a liability [01:55.45]They've never been shown or told the difference [01:57.09]So they don't change situations [01:58.64]Richest man in Britain is Asian [02:00.34]That's significant not coincidence [02:01.78]Asian people build businesses [02:03.42]Not by flossin/going out shoppin' [02:04.92]Giving out their culture for everyone's profit [02:05.73]Who run's Bollywood Indian people [02:08.04]Who owns our sh*t [02:08.91]So we shake our arse and dance [02:10.49] [02:11.22]As if racism just upped and vanished [02:12.73]But has it No it's right on course [02:14.23]You're beaten so bad you're trained to ignore [02:15.84]Let me not just make sweeping statements [02:17.17]Gimme a second I'll explain it [02:19.04]For small amounts of drug possession there's more black people in jail in America than there is for rape and armed robbery and murder all put together [02:24.23]You can say they're just locking up thugs [02:26.68]Imagine if they locked up every middle class kid that had ever held drugs [02:29.14] [02:30.23]Oh that's right that'd be your kids [02:31.41]Bigger than that what is going on with this [02:33.04]Prison in America's a private business [02:34.50]They get paid 50k per year per inmate by the State just wait [02:36.74] [02:37.64]Also legally are allowed to use their prison inmates as slaves [02:40.72]Cheap slave labour big corporations [02:41.67]They come out of jail can't get a job [02:43.85]So when we celebrate going to jail [02:45.41]We are LITERALLY CELEBRATING ENSLAVEMENT [02:47.13]Add to that that the hood that you're livin' [02:48.69]Engineered social condition that breeds crime by design [02:51.57]Where do you think you get your nine [02:53.28]You can say that they're just black [02:54.59]But I like to deal with facts [02:56.34]In the 1920s you would've found in America [02:59.00]Black towns [02:59.67]Prospering centres of economics and education to make you proud [03:01.42] [03:02.57]But some people couldn't bear that the former slaves would not just lie down [03:04.86]So the KKK and other hate groups burnt those towns to the ground [03:08.71]Killin hundreds [03:09.15]If it ain't understood [03:10.16]You think you were always livin' in the hood [03:11.91]Sh*t it's only been sixty years [03:12.97]Since they hung blacks and burned em' [03:14.24]And that was so cool [03:15.17]Day reel passes picnic baskets [03:16.11]Even gave kids the day off school [03:18.19]To go see a lynchin' [03:19.32]Have a picnic [03:19.89]It's fun to watch the little monkeys die ( ) [03:21.48]Then people act a little dysfunctional [03:22.79]You wanna pretend that you don't know why [03:24.39]If your colour means you can be killed [03:26.01]And you're powerless to get justice about it [03:27.51]Is it difficult to figure out how you would then end up feelin' about it [03:30.80]And that ain't excuses [03:31.78]Just dealing with the roots of abuses that make a reality [03:33.78]Where a generation of young men