[00:00.00]Around My Way(Freedom Ain't Free) - Lupe Fiasco
[00:02.38]Yeah Great american rap resurrecccccccctttttttttt
[00:09.65]Rest in peace Young M Pourin live from the sound
[00:17.33]Uh POURIN LIVE FROM THE SET YEAH
[00:20.17]First off say peace to Pine Ridge
[00:22.20]Shame to all the damage that the white man wine did
[00:24.34]Ghost dance Trail of tears five million beers for years
[00:27.29]And all that other crime did
[00:28.89]More peace to the teachers of blind kids
[00:31.05]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
[00:33.89]Say everything's hostile
[00:34.94]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels emaciated models
[00:38.73]With coc*ine and blood pouring out their nostrils they got to
[00:41.99]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
[00:45.76]Straight hair high heels and a handbag
[00:48.21]Crucifixes racism and a land grab
[00:50.56]Katrina FEMA trailers human body sandbags
[00:53.54]A peace sign and a pants sag
[00:55.32]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
[00:57.82]A friend request following a hash tag
[00:59.91]Now everybody want it like a last laugh
[01:02.42]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
[01:04.39]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
[01:07.09]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad
[01:08.91]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
[01:11.47]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
[01:13.85]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac
[01:16.15]Live from the other side what you see
[01:18.17]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[01:20.53]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[01:22.82]But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe
[01:25.29]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[01:27.61]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[01:29.86]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay
[01:32.00]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way
[01:35.73]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman
[01:37.38]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
[01:39.61]America's a big motherf**kin' garbageman
[01:41.98]If you ain't know you're part and parcel of the problem
[01:44.23]You say no you ain't and I say yes you is
[01:46.65]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
[01:48.92]You say no they didn't and I say yes they did
[01:51.22]The definition of unnecessary-ness manifested
[01:55.88]Say that we should protest just to get arrested
[01:58.06]That goes against all my hustling ethics
[02:00.35]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective
[02:02.71]Depart from Martin connect on Malcolm X tip
[02:05.07]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
[02:07.31]To me the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
[02:09.93]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
[02:12.27]It's all one song short of a set list
[02:14.40]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
[02:16.70]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
[02:19.18]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace
[02:22.23]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
[02:23.70]A whole culture boiled down to giving you pokeno
[02:26.07]I go as left as a heart in the chest
[02:28.33]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death
[02:30.93]Live from the other side what you see
[02:33.04]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[02:35.30]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[02:37.62]But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe
[02:40.06]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[02:42.36]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[02:44.68]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay
[02:47.03]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way
[02:49.37]An all white Los Angeles the dream of Mr Chandler
[02:51.79]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
[02:54.43]South Central an example of God's gifts
[02:56.31]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in SPA 6
[02:58.61]The projects of Oakland city Detroit ghost towns
[03:01.14]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
[03:03.56]It's parts of Manila like the video for"Thriller"
[03:05.76]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
[03:08.16]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
[03:10.41]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia
[03:12.81]Cash rules everything around these niggas
[03:14.90]As classrooms everywhere around me wither
[03:17.41]Hither you can be Mr Burns or Mr Smithers
[03:19.85]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
[03:22.18]Of the extremes of America's dream
[03:24.50]Freud fighting Neo Freddy Krueger refereeing now
[03:27.03]Live from the other side what you see
[03:29.21]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[03:31.49]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[03:33.59]But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe
[03:36.24]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[03:38.52]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[03:40.83]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay
[03:43.19]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way
[03:46.62]Great American rap resurrecccccccctttttttttt
[03:53.67]Lupe on the check Uh Westside 'Til I die