Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) Lyrics






[Verse 1]
First off say peace to Pine Ridge
Shame on all the damage the white man wine did
Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
And all that other crime did
More peace to the teachers of blind kids
To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
Say everything’s hostile
Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
Straight hair, high heels and a handbag
Crucifixes, racism and a land grab
Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags
A peace sign and a pants sag
A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
A friend request following a hash tag
Now everybody want it like the last laugh
A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
Stable is when the Ba’ath had Baghdad
But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
Cause that’s just more dinosaur for the Cadillac

[Hook]
Live from the other side what you see
A bunch of nonsense on my TV
Heaven on Earth is what I need
But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe
Reporting live from the other side what you hear
A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way

[Verse 2]
And we marvel at the state of heart of man
Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
America’s a big motherfuckin’ garbageman
If you ain’t know, you’re part and parcel of the problem
You say no you ain’t, and I say yes you is
Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
You say no they didn’t, and I say yes they did
The definition of unnecessary-ness
Manifested
Say that we should protest just to get arrested
That goes against all my hustling ethics
A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective
Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip
Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
It’s all one song short of a set list
Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace
Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino
I go as left as a heart in the chest
Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler
Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
South Central an example of God’s gifts
So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns
Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
It’s parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller
But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia
Cash rules everything around these niggas
As classrooms everywhere around me wither
Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
Of the extremes of America’s dream
Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa…

[Hook]





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  1. A.... S....

    Blowing out your birthday candle just to make a deathwish🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😷

  2. A.... 8....

    This song should be more popular. I hate what the industry does to promote trash. The fact this only has 6 mil view in 7 years is disgusting. Baby shark has billions though? It really makes me hate people sadly

  3. P.... J....

    This music is 4:20 minutes long

    Think about it

  4. S.... Z....

    t.r.o.y. sample, flames

  5. Y.... T....

    A little bit sacrilegious to use the beat of one of the greatest, if not the greatest Hip-Hop track ever made.

    Ultimately, it IS Biting.

  6. L.... B....

    HUMAN BODY SAND BAGS 🤔🤷‍♂️😂😂😂

  7. A.... H....

    One of the most underrated of all time smh

  8. V.... N....

    2020 anyone?!!!

  9. M.... ....

    하온이 때문에 옴

  10. �.... �....

    AMERICAN: NICE RAP
    CHINESE: GOOD RAP
    KOREAN: Anyeong nareul sogae haji

  11. c.... f....

    Dont ever dumb it down lupe. 💯💯💯

  12. P.... ....

    Top 5 period

  13. �.... ....

    안녕 나를 소개하지 이름은 김하온 직업은 트래블러

  14. M.... C....

    You a true hip hop head if you still listening to Lupe

  15. D.... M....

    How did this song slip by me!?? Damn..

  16. P.... F....

    There's parts of Manila like the video from thriller... But the us embassy reminiscent of a villa. #damn

  17. P.... F....

    Prophet Lu

  18. M.... H....

    It means so much to me that you mentioned Pine Ridge, the Lakotas and the Ghost Dance and that you thought of us.

    Pilámaya, Mitákuye Oyásin

    We're all related, thank you.

  19. M.... S....

    Why no YouTube video connection to Pete Rock and CL Smooth?

  20. I.... K....

    This song samples the same sample as Pete Rock and CL Smooth's *"They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)".*

  21. C.... R....

    Lupes are only hope

  22. C.... R....

    Chicago ave nd spaulding

  23. S.... D....

    America ain't garage it's the greatest country coming from Indian

  24. L.... C....

    I'm o.g this boy is way underrated i was gassed on joey badass Lupe the truth

  25. S.... P....

    Luuuuu , it shao khan, how reiden after you serious kick him triangle- rice friend Bruce Willis actor shit white hair dead raiden? Buy you Twitter fulls Luuuuuuuuu..kiss west anonymous fuck girl you commons im cold euro trash on get thera flu, why I ,shao Khan biatch I spanish jude Paris television

  26. P.... m....

    #Priddeous

  27. R.... M....

    He did this classic beat justice of Pete Rock and C.L Smooth song T.R.O.Y. and he was spitting some real facts about what is going on in the world. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017.

  28. C.... M....

    Fire fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 💯

  29. C.... W....

    Underrated artist , this is Kendrick before Kendrick, one of the best MC'S

  30. J.... ....

    Listening to this at 19 as opposed to 12 years old. Shit hits so different almost wanna cry idk might be wierd for that

    J.... ....

    Nah I feel it

  31. R.... T....

    ???: 안녕 날 소개하지 이름 김하온

  32. L.... ....

    We hear u lupe 🔥🔥 2019

  33. �.... ....

    ㅇㄴ,ㄴㄹ ㅅㄱㅎㅈ. ㅇㄹㅇ ㄱㅎㅇ, ㅈㅇㅇ ㅌㄹㅂㄹ

  34. T.... ....

    Freud fighting Neo, freddy Kruger referee
    Craziest line!

  35. �.... ....

    Beat is damn good.

  36. f.... m....

    2020 anyone?

  37. M.... A....

    I found the lyrics to the song very interesting and well written. Fiasco was able to discuss many ideas, and how they relate to everyday economics. I used this song to write about the Economic concepts for my ECON 105 class, and received A.

  38. d.... s....

    F & L 2

  39. C.... R....

    Cant believe i never heard this song chi love we still rockn w u cuz. Peep chicago and spaulding my street in beg of video #lupelegend

  40. C.... M....

    Mann I love your jams

  41. W.... G....

    Pete Rock and CL Smooth

  42. M.... B....

    Depart from Martin and connect on Malcom x tip......Martin was controlled opposition to Malcom x brought to u by zionists...

  43. M.... B....

    #Top5DOA #SuperFacts

  44. J.... A....

    "Crucifix is racism and a land grab", deep...

  45. B.... W....

    Lupe fiasco is amazing and way underrated, but you don't have to put down other rappers to praise him. There's a need for light hearted rap and the heavy stuff, too.

  46. C.... M....

    Wow fabulous thanks

  47. B.... V....

    Not too many words but....SO GOOD. SO CHICAGO

  48. f.... o....

    And treat Ghana 🇬🇭 like a garbage cans? Damn if it true

  49. B.... B....

    FUCKING LUPE. LOVE U BRO. I DON'T KNOW WHY PETE ROCK ON SUM BULL SHIT. THIS SHIT 🔥 PLUS I STILL REMENISS OVER C.L. SMOOTH FA REAL

  50. G.... O....

    Chitown love

  51. K.... N....

    WHEN I WAS in Grade 9 i was Suprised how could my Big Brother Say " I Will Listen To LUPE til I Die" same year i got into him, 7 years Later i am the one saying that phrase everytime i play his songs.

  52. A.... ....

    Lupe is dropping so much knowledge in this song it's not even funny. Still playing it in 2019

  53. M.... S....

    Classic

  54. j.... w....

    Pete rock a hatin ass nigga he talekd shit about this smh

  55. B.... D....

    STRAIGHT 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  56. �.... ....

    김하온은 전설이다

  57. G.... e....

    Pete rock

  58. B.... B....

    This boy got skills!!!

  59. E.... C....

    Poverty is chocolate privileged is vanilla #Deepflows

  60. d.... b....

    The world dont like the truth lupe keep it up OG

  61. �.... ....

    김하온 싸이퍼 비트!!!

  62. f.... h....

    simpliciti......

  63. y.... s....

    He thru planned adolescence in a rhyme? Vocab crazy!!!!

  64. M.... G....

    freedom is not free do not believe the hype everything you must be pay this world rules the world.

  65. C.... L....

    Planned obsolescence, or built-in obsolescence, in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete (i.e., unfashionable, or no longer functional) after a certain period of time.

  66. L.... R....

    This is beautiful

  67. i.... l....

    6millionth view baby love u lupe

  68. S.... D....

    racist song it's not white man black people need to look at motion 99pecent of starving people are black

    S.... D....

    peace from india

    S.... D....

    Sourav Das exactly, not racists when it’s true.

  69. M.... H....

    FUCKING CLASSIC 😤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏🏾

  70. S.... M....

    1:48 "planned obsolescence", 4:04 "exotic car rental"

  71. i.... t....

    Better most people that try so hard to be lyrical nowdays

  72. D.... c....

    Illuminati noted the video length is 4:20 long

  73. I.... S....

    I can listen to lupe all day 1 of the greatest lyricists alive besides nas

  74. a.... ....

    They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)

    a.... ....

    Yeah it the beat

  75. �.... ....

    ??? : 생이란 이 얼마나 허무하고 아름다운가

  76. b.... m....

    Lupe is the truth

  77. �.... ....

    김하온보고 왔다

  78. A.... C....

    Still relevant to this day and I think if not forever.

  79. M.... F....

    Peace to all the Poor Righteous Teachers with Hearts and Words are worth more than Gold!

  80. M.... A....

    Still fucking great...

  81. S.... K....

    Best rapper to ever live

  82. M.... S....

    your right .. DAMN ...

  83. C.... D....

    Love the cartoon characters & effects

  84. �.... ....

    안녕 날 소개하지

  85. �.... ....

    안녕 날 소개하지

  86. c.... S....

    Reminisce Over You!

    c.... S....

    Yeah he simple the beat

  87. K.... P....

    Still here 2019!

  88. D.... R....

    2019 anybody?

  89. d.... b....

    I grew up to wu tang 2pac OutKast 50cent mobb deep