[00:02.480]Hijabs, hoodies, afros, locks
[00:05.320]Teddy bear, liquor bottle shrines, rocks
[00:07.440]Tanks, prayer rugs, church pews,
[00:09.570]Mexican corn stands
[00:11.190]Blood, sweat, and tears, police batons
[00:13.190]Gas masks and bullets create graffiti on corners
[00:16.260]Murals that salute freedom
[00:17.820]or death for liberty
[00:19.130]Be it Inglewood or Egypt,
[00:20.700]Bedstuy or Baghdad
[00:22.190]Syria or Liberia, the west bank
[00:23.790]or the west side of Chicago
[00:25.600]Where food and liquor stores
[00:26.910]still occupy the block
[00:28.300]While police and community watchmen justify why they shot
[00:31.220]Emmit Till and Malice Green,
[00:32.600]Rekia Boyd and Trayvon Martin
[00:34.410]Better not wear that hoodie
[00:35.740]while shopping for a carton
[00:37.240]Or whatever they sellin in your food desert
[00:39.080]Cause your soul is dessert
[00:40.210]and will be dissected and consumed
[00:42.340]On the Fox evening news while we sing the blues
[00:44.990]The new Jim Crow caged bird sings
[00:47.370]Cause he's tired of occupying his misery
[00:49.430]and of our marching
[00:50.810]He wanna fly to a higher consciousness
[00:52.370]But his school on academic probation
[00:54.430]They gave him medicine,
[00:55.430]diagnosed him with a felony and mental retardation
[00:58.060]So he refuses to cease the firin, nobody's hirin
[01:01.110]In Illinois, 67 is the new age when you retirin
[01:04.490]Class lines have blurred,
[01:06.060]those who used to have, have not
[01:07.870]Pensions bein snatched
[01:09.120]Those who never have keep their hands stretched
[01:11.930]Social services being cut
[01:13.740]Sterilization clinics giving out pills to numb the womb
[01:16.740]Young girls referring to their vaginas as tombs
[01:19.240]Thinkin protests are temporary and trendy
[01:21.790]Well rock a t-shirt and carry a poster
[01:23.410]And two weeks later it's back to normal
[01:25.600]But they say times are changin'
[01:27.600]The revolution is becoming second nature,
[01:29.730]causes are combining
[01:31.100]People carrying torches,
[01:32.480]hope burning from their hands
[01:33.980]Attaching explosive devices
[01:35.540]cause they keep stealing their lands
[01:37.350]In the name of freedom
[01:38.790]Hijabs, hoodies, afros, locks
[01:42.160]Teddy bear, liquor bottle shrines, rocks
[01:44.240]Tanks, prayer rugs, church pews,
[01:46.780]Mexican corn stands
[01:48.270]Blood, sweat, and tears, police batons
[01:50.080]Gas masks and bullets create graffiti on corners