Freedom? Song Lyrics
Freedom? by Busta Rhymes [Intro: Nikki Grier]
Woah, oh
Oh, yeah yeah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah
[Chorus: Nikki Grier]
Eye for an eye, knee for a knee
You declared war âcause you donât want peace
You just want sheep, and we are not asleep
Blood on your hands, blood on our streets
Oh, our tears in the night
Another stolen life
âCause color is all you see
Tell me, is that free? Yeah
[Verse 1: Busta Rhymes & Nikki Grier]
We are not created equal, no
Could give a f**k if I offend a couple people, yo (Tell me, is that free?)
What the f**k are you watchinâ us never in the sequel for?
Let me wipe these tears and speak the truth to all my people, oh
f**k is we doinâ? Where we goinâ wrong?
That a twelve year old gotta sing this type of sh*t up in his songs
Gotta pick up his pops and his moms
The younginâ braver than a lot of these niggas thatâs armed
Watch all my people that they tryna trample
Itâs time to form and get to lead âem by every example
In the bathroom, you wash your faces with us
You ainât ready for tradinâ places with us
My heart hurt bad
And I talk my sh*t like this with my kids, they be lookinâ for dad
Energy transfer, kids look at me mad
Gotta still be the source of hope, though itâs hurtinâ me bad
[Chorus: Nikki Grier]
Eye for an eye, knee for a knee
You declared war âcause you donât want peace
You just want sheep, and we are not asleep
Blood on your hands, blood on our streets
Oh, our tears in the night
Another stolen life
âCause color is all you see
Tell me, is that free? Yeah
[Verse 2: Busta Rhymes]
Look all the sh*t my people been through
Think I donât want my kids to live too?
Canât imagine them parents copinâ
In they arms with a breathless body they holdinâ
God bless the tear of every mama cryinâ
Children leave the house wonderinâ if today they dyinâ
The nerve to say thereâs bigger fish worth fryinâ
If you ainât with us, better know we riotinâ
And while youâre frontinâ, you just walk about
If we ainât fightinâ for whatâs right, then what we talkinâ âbout?
And while I fight with all my might, now let me sort sh*t out
Inspire folks, become the activist they talk about
Allah blessinâ every soul thatâs fallen
Snoop Dogg and others told me to accept my callinâ
Prayinâ to Jesus hanginâ on your wall and
Black man hopinâ he make it home tomorrow morninâ
[Chorus: Nikki Grier]
Eye for an eye, knee for a knee
You declared war âcause you donât want peace
You just want sheep, and we are not asleep
Blood on your hands, blood on our streets
Oh, our tears in the night
Another stolen life
âCause color is all you see
Tell me, is that free? Yeah
[Outro: Nikki Grier]
I wanna know
Do you really believe?
Do you really believe that weâre free?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna know