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  • You know what free is nigga?

  • What's free?

  • Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be

  • Free is when the TV ain't controllin' what we see

  • Told my niggas "I need you"

  • Through all the fame you know I stay true

  • Pray my niggas stay free

  • Made a few mistakes but this ain't where I wanna be

  • Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my feet

  • Told my niggas, "I need you"

  • Stay up I know these times ain't true

  • Real life, stay free

  • Since a lad, I was cunning

  • Just got a pad out in London

  • I keep stackin' my money

  • I need a ladder by summer

  • AK shots, niggas duckin' stray shots

  • Been a Top Dawg, that's before the K.Dots

  • Crackin' in '06, immaculate showmanship

  • Talk it like you Mitch, disastrous on the strip

  • Holdin' on your bitch, coulda never sold you a brick

  • With them people you never been on a list

  • Mona Lisa to me ain't nothin' but a bitch

  • Hanging pictures like niggas swinging from his dick

  • We so different you thought these didn't exist

  • The Megalodon never seen on his wrist

  • I'm from the South where they never make it this rich

  • God is the greatest, but Satan been on his shit

  • Walkin' the pavement, I pray I'm illuminated

  • Over a decade and never nobody's favorite

  • Pot and kilo go hand in hand like we gamblin' huf

  • My amigo, a million grams and we countin' 'em up

  • You was dead broke, I let you hold a pack

  • You paid for it, but I fucked

  • Around and stole the track

  • Screaming "gang gang" now you wanna rap

  • Racketeering charges caught him on a tap

  • Lookin' for a bond lawyers wanna tax

  • Purple hair got them faggots on your back

  • Whats free?

  • Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be

  • Free is when the TV ain't controlling what we see

  • Told my niggas "I need you"

  • Through all the fame you know I stay true

  • Pray my niggas stay free

  • Made a few mistakes but this ain't where I wanna be

  • Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my feet

  • Told my niggas "I need you"

  • Stay up I know these times ain't true

  • Real life, what's free?

  • Fed investigations, heard they plottin' like I trap

  • 20 mil' in cash, they know I got that off a rap

  • Maybe it's the Michael Rubins or the Robert Krafts

  • Or the billionaire from Marcy

  • Ain't no way they got my back

  • Seein' how I prevailed now

  • They try to knock me back, uh

  • Lock me in the cell for all

  • Them nights and I won't snap, uh

  • Two-fifty a show and they

  • Still think I'm sellin' crack

  • When you bring my name up

  • To the judge just tell em' facts

  • Tell em how we fundin' all

  • These kids to go to college

  • Tell him how we ceasin'

  • All these wars, stoppin' violence

  • Tryna fix the system and

  • The way they designed it

  • I think they want me silenced (Shush)

  • Oh say can you see

  • I don't feel like I'm free

  • Locked down in my cell

  • Shackled from ankle to feet

  • Judge bangin' that gavel

  • Turned me to slave from a king

  • Another day in the bing

  • I gotta hang from a string

  • Just for poppin' a wheelie

  • My people march in the city

  • From a cell to a chopper view

  • From the top of the city

  • You can tell how we rockin'

  • Soon as I pop up we litty

  • Poppin' like Bad Boy in '94

  • Big Poppa and Diddy

  • And niggas counted me out

  • Like my accountant ain't busy

  • That's five milli' in twenties

  • Sit up in council, I'm dizzy

  • Phantom, five hundred thousand

  • Hundred round in a stizzy

  • Is we beefin' or rappin'

  • I might just pop up with Drizzy like

  • Whats free?

  • Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be

  • Free is when the TV ain't controlling what we see

  • Told my niggas 'I need you'

  • Through all the fame you know I stay true

  • Pray my niggas stay free

  • Made a few mistakes but this

  • Ain't where I wanna be

  • Before I'm judged by 12, put a 12 on my feet

  • Told my niggas 'I need you'

  • Stay up I know these times ain't true

  • Real life, what's free?

  • In the land of the free, where the blacks enslaved

  • Three-fifth's of a man I believe's the phrase

  • I'm 50% of D'usse and it's debt free (Yeah)

  • 100% of Ace of Spades, worth half a B (Uh)

  • Roc Nation, half of that, that's my piece

  • Hunnid percent of Tidal to boss it up with my G's

  • Smoke most of my niggas won't ever work together

  • You run a cheque up but they never give you leverage

  • No red hat, don't Michael and

  • Prince me and Ye

  • They separate you when you got

  • Michael and Prince's DNA, uh

  • I ain't like one of these house

  • Niggas you bought

  • My house like a resort

  • My house bigger than yours

  • My spou- (C'mon man)

  • My route better of course

  • We started without food in our mouth

  • They gave us pork and pig intestines

  • Shit you discarded that we ingested

  • We made the project a wave

  • You came back, reinvested and gentrified it

  • Took nigga's sense of pride

  • Now how that's free?

  • And the people stole their

  • Soul and hit niggas with 360's

  • I ain't got a billion streams, got a billion dollars

  • Inflating numbers like we 'posed

  • To be happy about this

  • We was praisin' Billboard but we were young

  • Now I look at Billboard like 'Is you dumb?'

  • To this day, Grandma 'fraid of what I might say

  • They gon' have to kill me Grandmama

  • I'm not they slave (Ha-ha-ha)

  • Check out the bizarre rappin'

  • Style used by me the HOV

  • Look at my hair free, care free

  • Niggas ain't near free

  • Enjoy your chains, whats your employer

  • Name with the hair piece?

  • I survived the hood, can't no Shaytan rob me

  • My accountant's so good I'm

  • Practically livin' tax free

  • Factory, that's me

  • Sold drugs, got away scot-free

  • That's a CC, E-copy

  • Guilt free, still me

  • And they expect me to not

  • Feel a way to this day

  • You would say y'all kill me

  • Sucker free, no shuckin me

  • I don't jive turkey

  • Say "Happy Thanksgiving"

  • Shit sound like a murder to me

  • Smoke free

  • All of y'all calling out toll free

  • Labels rob you for millions yet

  • You wanna put a hole in me

  • Sugar free, seasoned but I'm soft for you

  • Lay a hand on Hov, my shooter shoot for free

  • I promise World War three

  • Send an order through a hands free,

  • kill you in 24 hours or shorter you

  • Can't ignore the hand speed

  • On god, it's off the head this improv

  • But it's no comedy

  • Sign I fail, hell naw (Ha-ha-ha)

You know what free is nigga?

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