I gotta free my mind (4X)
I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
Yeah, I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
Yeah? I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
From sand docks to auction blocks to R&B
from hip-hop, how many rappers flip-flop to get props?
Signed the dotted line but didn`t read through the costs
(When your album sits on the desk) That`s when ya lost!
Followed your label`s notion no promotion now you`re audi
And that`s the type of moves that make an artist act rowdy
Emcees fallin victim to financial, seduction
Then watchin creative weight extracted, like liposuction
Your A&R like C`n`R got many styles to suit ya
But if it`s false to me I`ve never been an ass smoocher
Since I don`t brainwash minds, with talkin nines and
how I shoot ya, it seems no multi-million dollar contract`s
in my future, I could swallow the bait and get gassed
like petroleum, but contracts break like Rock Steady
on linoleum, no wack`n in my format, no Grammy awards
Rap over break loops and samples, no R&B chords
On a mission from God, to make the concious souls nod
when I`m rhymin, I take tracks of coal and then
compress em to a diamond, I`m in the mindstate
to escalate, when all rappers participate
it`s fate for rap to elevate..
Chorus: repeat 2X
I gotta free my mind (yo as a matter of fact)
I gotta free my mind (we`re not goin out like that)
I gotta free my mind (we got the power to stay)
Other rappers, they went slip slidin away
You`re goin, downtown to leave your mark on the biz
You reminisce, you and your A&R was first friends
You got talent and you ain`t afraid to splurge hip-hop
Better thrills than Jordan alley-oops the pill but still
got verbals like murder, so call on Perry Mason
Twenty-five to life, is what I`m facin, for this fate`s in
the element of fine print I`ve read it and overseen
by judgmental pompous ass phonetics, the critic
I`m still the rapper for the rhymes that he expresses
or manifestes, no frontin, I wrote the shit while blunted
Take control, don`t be a fuckin fish on a pole
Label`sll leave you murdered in a river with no soul
it`s true, for what you say is what you do with the flow
For labels MC`s come and they go, but B.U.M.S.
we leave our mark for hip-hop`s devestation
In our strive to stay alive for my record`s elevation
Chorus
I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
Yeah, I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
Yeah? I gotta free my mind.. free my mind
