Free tha Block

It's a whole lot of them, I'm just trying to be me
 No slave to the lender 'cause I gotta be free
 Did two last month, now I'm trying to do three
 They say pressure bursts pipes, I want the ball in OT
 It's on me, take it back to where I started
 Did it all without a father so my daughter gonna go farther
 Nah, I don't beg pardon, standing on what I said
 Don't hear what they say, I believe what I read
 Inferred on their heads, if you're scared, get your money back
 99 plus the young boy, that's a hundred pack
 I just dropped it off at the store, know I'm coming back
 Jury just handed down the verdict
 Can't stomach that, vomit that
 Numbers on my back like a running back
 Guarantee I'm running back, hood full of 100 rats
 Hit, stick, fumble that, we be where the trauma at
 Buy the block, build it back
 Anything in between I'ma pummel that
 Four hundred years behind, I can't waste time
 I be taking off from the baseline
 Nah, they ain't give it to me, had to take mine
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Nah, they ain't give it to us, had to take ours
 We're slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Great Dane, greyhound down for my dogs
 Lock arms with my brothers, hit the streets for a cause
 Lost my OG at the hands of the laws
 Eight minutes and forty six seconds, you've been immortalized
 I'm mortified, more of y'all ain't horrified
 Televised genocide? Nah, we won't let it ride
 Army tank, my soul is fortified
 !2 won't gun me down before my daughter turns five
 Judge me by 12, visit daddy in a cage
 I rather live as a free man than die as a slave
 My people down bad, we're earning minimum wage
 But we done been stressed forever, we're gonna make it shake
 I can't respect a system that is antiquated
 This world's cold-blooded, we're acclimated
 I know they hate it, slave ship to ownership
 But I'm a free man now, I found myself in Him!
 Four hundred years behind, I can't waste time
 I be taking off from the baseline
 Nah, they ain't give it to me, had to take mine
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Slowly on the rise, had to stay down
 Nah, they ain't give it to us, had to take ours
 We're slowly on the rise, had to stay down