Freedom Writers Lyrics - Singles - Haze The Truth

Knowledge is Power... 

[El Lyrikah] 

Lyrical skill isn't measured on an income, 

It's about the amount of wisdom. 

Success is dependent on what you had to sacrifice, 

It's funny, my mother could barely read or write. 

After she gave me life 

It took seventeen years for me to wake up 

Most of my brothers still lack leadership 

You can lead sheep to knowledge 

But you can't make them read from it, so 

We write for freedom, using hip hop as our voice for revolution 

But the government keeps Che Guevara's hands in a glass jar 

My head in a glass case or locked up behind bars 

You can take my life but you won't touch my freedom 

Pull the trigger, do you know what I become? 

Without God you die twice 

When you believe you receive eternal life 

[Renee Soul] 

You can put me in chains 

but you can't take my freedom 

My freedom is a state of my mind 

Put my body in a cage, release me free, yeah 

You can put me in a case 

But you can't take my freedom 

Cus my freedom is a state of my mind 

You can chase me but I'm writing free 

[Logic] 

Look, I am the reincarnation of Steve Biko 

Nothing that I write is for myself, 

This is for my people 

If I could, I'd make all the money shared equal 

Reparations, By any means necessary isn't just a phrase 

This is how I'm living day to day 

See I studied how the angels pray 

So I deliver in a similar way 

I'm battling the devil through my pages 

It's the only way he hears what I say 

I still carry my slave name I hold it sacred 

Cus it makes me living proof of how my people made it 

Never reach for famous, I deserve my recognition 

Certain man become free when they stuck in prison 

It's deeper than the chains we were given 

Deeper than Nostrodomus visions were polluted by the Isms 

Paralyzed in the devils system, so 

I always use my pen to give free wisdom, 

I hope you listen 

[Renee Soul] 

[Haze] 

I've been fighting since the day that I was born 

I've been writing since the day I was warned of this cold world 

Since the day I felt it dorm with my soul dwell 

Ive been out here fighting in the war with my loneself 

Breaking barriers or different calibers 

Did it by myself no label or manager 

Unanimous decision, We the truth, can you handle us? 

Had enough of distributing food on a baggin up 

manning up, writing for the freedom, time to bat them up 

this is for my brothers doing years, aint adding up 

got to shed a tear, for those who lost too 

and rally up the troops 

all the people in the battle for the man above 

people in the industry, keep asking me for happy stuff 

But, how can I make happy music when the world sad as fuck 

Had enough of living in a world that seemed mad as fuck 

Writing for my freedom, no scaly tucks 

[Renee Soul] 

I feel it when I write 

I feel it when I speek 

The reason we alive 

The reasons that we see 

The path that we chose 

The reason that we be 

Writing to be free, for everyone, you and me 

Freedom Writers...