[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)] [00:11.61] [00:20.20]First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:22.08]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did [00:24.35]Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year [00:26.92]And all that other crime did [00:29.03]More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:31.17]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big [00:33.76]Say everything’s hostile [00:35.04]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models [00:38.42]With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to [00:41.62]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you [00:45.47]Straight hair, high heels and a handbag [00:48.27]Crucifixes, racism and a land grab [00:50.43]Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags [00:52.99]A peace sign and a pants sag [00:55.47]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash [00:58.01]A friend request following a hash tag [00:59.81]Now everybody want it like the last laugh [01:02.33]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [01:04.40]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class [01:06.94]Stable is when the Ba’ath had Baghdad [01:08.85]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad [01:11.18]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat [01:13.90]Cause that’s just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [01:14.83] [01:15.97]Live from the other side what you see [01:18.08]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [01:20.31]Heaven on Earth is what I need [01:22.67]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe [01:25.15]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [01:29.38]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [01:29.96]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay [01:32.17]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way [01:33.43] [01:34.74]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman [01:37.27]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can [01:39.60]America’s a big motherfuckin’ garbageman [01:41.88]If you ain’t know, you’re part and parcel of the problem [01:44.27]You say no you ain’t, and I say yes you is [01:46.56]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is [01:48.84]You say no they didn’t, and I say yes they did [01:51.16]The definition of unnecessary-ness [01:53.66]Manifested [01:55.72]Say that we should protest just to get arrested [01:58.00]That goes against all my hustling ethics [02:00.30]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective [02:02.79]Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip [02:05.08]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [02:07.45]To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit [02:09.68]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with [02:11.64]It’s all one song short of a set list [02:14.34]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast [02:16.87]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish [02:18.99]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [02:22.28]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [02:23.67]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino [02:26.59]I go as left as a heart in the chest [02:28.31]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death [02:30.03] [02:30.88]Live from the other side what you see [02:32.95]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [02:35.24]Heaven on Earth is what I need [02:37.49]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe [02:40.03]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [02:42.35]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [02:44.62]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay [02:47.06]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way [02:47.85] [02:49.35]An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler [02:51.77]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar [02:54.54]South Central an example of God’s gifts [02:56.40]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 [02:58.83]The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns [03:01.09]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound [03:03.43]It’s parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller [03:05.74]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa [03:08.12]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla [03:10.49]Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia [03:13.00]Cash rules everything around these niggas [03:15.22]As classrooms everywhere around me wither [03:17.53]Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers [03:19.95]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle [03:22.34]Of the extremes of America’s dream [03:24.44]Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa… [03:26.18] [03:26.95]Live from the other side what you see [03:29.05]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [03:31.24]Heaven on Earth is what I need [03:33.53]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe [03:35.92]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [03:38.35]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [03:40.70]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay [03:43.09]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way