Freedom - KRS-One

Feel this, a new experience

And your approach to the lyrics

To the beats and the rhymes

KRS

After 19 years of rocking, how do you rank me?

Poorly or greatly?

I’m no Johnny-Come-Lately

It’s the people that pays me

G-O-D is what raised me

To think that you could blaze me, you must be more than crazy

Radio is Fugazi, XM satellite plays me

Criticism don’t faze me, being rich don’t amaze me

These princely rappers, they gettin' parked like Paisley

I’m two times the effects like Scoop and Crazy Drazy

I know that no man out there could save me

So I save myself with knowledge of self and that God gave me

No coulda shoulda or maybe

I’m in 2024 with the adult version of your baby

The path of life is so wavy, you can not be lazy

Or mindless like a ship sailing eternal gravy

Through hip-hop we speak so plainly

So let’s unite and sail through life as a navy

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

Another day (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

The only way (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)

All these people looking at me

Walking with me, staring at me

This is how we work, flash film glaring at me

Little children very happy, I’m signing books CDs

Now I’m signing t-shirts, and yeah my hair stay nappy

Living giving advice on living your life

Oh no, you don’t have to be stopped

I’m talking walking working

Inserting energy for certain, not an average person

Temple of hip-hop to hold the over boulder

Money folder for soldier, big up Tony Toker

I don’t bridge or poker, not a sauna soaker but come on over

Let’s make a plan to get free as we can

Cruisin' the span of this land in a new range rover

Get out the city my friend, they have no pity my friend

The way we treat each other is silly, my friend

When you consider the millions of men and women and children

We gotta raise the quality of living

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

Another day (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

The only way (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)

Music don’t make me, I make it then make it

Make sense, don’t it?

And if it don’t, you should spend some more contemplation on it

Moments of time spent honing my rhymes

Sent from only the divine, my purpose is mine

And mine alone to define despite your prospective vision

Or skeptic criticism or messed-up definition

I’m a servant of God, don’t ever mistake it

And your fate for all that faking, you can never escape it

I’m faceless and raceless, my message is ageless

I’m within all faces the same like with hatred

The Matrix was fake but how they make it so tight?

It’s a Mahalia Jackson, imitations of life

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

Another day (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)

It’s just another day for me (beats rhymes living a life)

The only way (in these times it’s gotta be life)

freedom (yeah, living)