Approximately Free (feat. Shavona Antoinette & Ray Angry)

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately

Look, this American history of thuggery

Put me right in the in the city of brotherly love

Where our sisters and mother'd be up on the auction block like it was Christie or Sotheby's

We were prized property and livestock

When the king cotton was the cash crop

In the red, white, and bluest backdrop

But we never got to see the jackpot

If I'm honest man, the birth of this nation began with us all in the sonogram

As the contraband

We worked and we waited but never quite got to the promised land

And I'm speaking the truth, regardless to what you've been teaching the youth

This go to whoever is still seeking the proof

We're dealing with more than a leak in the roof

A glitch in the system, a chink in the armor or just a depiction for sake of the drama

Or playing the victim of sins of the father who chartered the ships coming into the harbor

They did us too dirty to not be discussed

Beat us until we forgot we was us

So how could our liberty not be a must?

Okay, if I'm free then I'm not free enough Black thought

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately

We in the trap like muskrats, fuck that!

Handcuffed where the crust and the dust at

It's funny how it's only us that touch that

And you can trust black never gets cut slack

Free? What's that? Where dat at? Who's that?

I even think forward I gotta move back

And I'm civilized, why I gotta prove that?

Everything I worked for, I gotta lose that?

I'm in a fight like Mike with the zeitgeist

One thing I've never known is a nice life

Tipping on a tightrope and I don't like heights

And they never let a **** roll the dice twice

We ignite like flint when the match hit

I had been left for dead, but I'm not yet

Look at me, I'm still outchea

Boxin' with the shadow of a doubt is how I got here

And the team that I'm rockin with do not forget the truth or the consequence

We not convinced by these court documents

It's common sense why we're the opposites of optimists

Approximately sure of who we are

But absolutely more than mulignan

These complicated times is too bizarre

It's like we kinda close but no cigar, Twofifteen

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately

Almost where we could be

So close

Only free approximately