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A long brooding personal response to the ridiculous, ignorant and arrogant administration who took office early this year. This song aims to criticize the degrading path laid out to us by the current bogus president and how the voice of dissent from the people will not be silenced.

lyrics

(Verse One)

We keep on walking
Every time we hear the streets talking
Ignoring issues in the hood
And that’s just real talking

We talking bout the homies
And the politicians don’t want it
But in fact their main goal
Is the stock market

Elected leaders, they the
Feeders of big banks
People reject the idea
Up in they think tanks

They’d rather log on to Twitter
Embody public figures
Insulting slanders
Demanding they build a fixture

A wall dividing the building blocks
Of community
I’d rather have a candle vigil
With eulogies

For the victims of police and they
Brutal ways
Affordable housing we fighting for
In the bay

The same motto
“Land is Life” is the narrative
The public media has forgetten
Like a freakin sedative

The struggle in Dakota
For the Native Land
Donald Trump approve the plan
He don’t give a damn

And Betsy Devos is the answer
To our education?
Public schools under attack
Like the Arab nation

Designed to fail
Towards a pathway to privatization
Where the privileged get the access
To the education

And charter schools breaking through
As the standard school

Embodying the principles
Of a corporate tool

We need to fight back
To defend OUR FAMILY’s schools

Cause we 99%
And WE want it too!

(Hook)

So what’s the real motives
The Land of the Free is for the Freeloaders
America aint great and we all know it
The masses will revolt and we all know it (oh yea, we all know it)

So what’s the real motives?
The Land of the Free is for the Freeloaders
The rich are the masters and the slave owners
And liberation is on the cusp and we all know it

(Verse Two)

We keep on walking
Every time we hear the streets talking
Ignoring issues in the hood
And that’s just real talking

We talking bout the homies
And the politicians don’t want it
But in fact their main goal
Is the stock market
When Kaepernick took a knee
It exposed it all
The reacations to his words
Would make a grown man fall

When Lebron the biggest name
In freakin sports alone,
Speak his mind
To be met with a vandalized home

The biggest name is a victim

The word “nigger” was written

With black paint and conviction

Is Jim Crow what we live in?

American People are livid

This hatred that we live in

But who gets sent to prison?

It aint them, do you hear it?

In Berkeley they be fightin

The Alt-Right they be “rightin’

The contradictions they heightening

Organizations must tighten

Our bonds with one another

Brothers and sisters of color

Immigrants, muslims and women

and one another

ahhh,

How many times I gotta tell you

Power lies in the people

Many times I gotta tell you

That the cabinet’s see through

We all see what you plottin

The corporations is rotten

Where fake news is the topic

An orange bigot iconic

They writing bans on the travel

For immigrant it’s a battle

So lets take it to war

We need to settle the score

On the streets,

we need to take up the floor

Because we deserve more…

We deserve more

(Hook)

And the Land of the Free is for the Freeloaders
America aint great and we all know it
The masses will revolt and we all know it (oh yea, we all know it)

So what’s the real motives?
The Land of the Free is for the Freeloaders
The rich are the masters and the slave owners
And liberation is on the cusp and we all know it

credits

released July 29, 2017
Original track: "Land of the Free" from ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ by Joey Bada$$

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