A Long Way

I’ve come such a long way I could never go back Thought it was forever uh Turned into a throwback Freedom goes a long way But you’d never know that A letter to my past life Things are looking up now And ever since I stepped away it seems like I been up now if you ever were to see me bet you’d take your head and duck down Never had to go this way but now I walk round like wassup now I’m up now, and you don’t wanna go there with me promise Fear nobody turn a nigga lights out like he Amish America been living in a white lie that’s honest The rest of us been stuck up in the matrix like Keanu A rapper turned an activist the answers I wish I knew Call up Malcolm X and MLK and tell em slide through It’s not about me, it’s not about you I’ve come a long way to find we still gotta fight too, that’s right dude Blame corona when I’m masked up and running through the White House I’m coming out it stacked up On my Robin Hood I’ll be giving back what they taxed us Pour a little something to celebrate hold your glass up Sweet revenge man that’s nothing I could pass up Present day I’m unchained a bullet for your massa Every nigga is a star got that NASA Rap and sell drugs to go to school that’s our FASFA How we come in first when they always call us last up I’ve come such a long way I could never go back Thought it was forever uh Turned into a throwback Freedom goes a long way Freedom goes a long way I promise that I’m never harming nobody I was driving home he act like I was hiding a body Black is beautiful and powerful, so powerful it make em call for back up So powerful it make em hold the strap up The system one of many ways they blatantly attack us Throw us in the jungle with ourselves that’s how they trap us It turns into a hustle just a crab in a barrel, how much a dollar cost got you staring down the barrel of a gun That’s why we all feel it every time we lose one any day could be your daughter or your son You know we see them lights flash and all we know is run Guilty of not trusting in the system that we’re from So I’d rather hop the fence, ain’t facing an offense I look at twelve as killers cause it’s never self defense Niggas lose their life for your job to pay the rent But someone’s kid not coming back, shit got me bent Lately say alive if you ask me how I’ve been Had a chip on my shoulder bout this shit since I was ten And as I got older realized it never end As tryna find a way to stay alive became a trend I’ve come such a long way I could never go back Thought it was forever uh Turned into a throwback Freedom goes a long way Freedom goes a long way