[Hook] You can clip my wings, shackle and chain me Back straight standing tall a child of God, and I'm Free! Spit in my face, hold me down I'mma keep my feet firm to the ground, cause I'm... Free! [Verse 1: Pharoahe Monch] Your A&R's a house n***a, the label's the plantation Now switch that advance for your emancipation MC's are the field like pick cotton for real I pop blocks like beat street with a notch and a k** They take the strongest of slaves to compete in a track meet For the King of the city sang songs of back streets Choruses of c**aine tales and black heat Only to trade n***as like professional athletes! Don't take that merchandising, snatch that publishing Practice that black a**, ship you to London By way of France, Germany, Dublin A railroad to underground like Harriet Tubman While ya'll stay struggling we smuggle MC's through the streets Till we bubbling on mix CD's, hustling Clans see me on the block and say freeze I say f** You! I'm a man, I'm Free! [Hook] You can clip my wings, shackle and chain me Back straight standing tall a child of God, and I'm... Free! Spit in my face, hold me down I'mma keep my feet firm to the ground, cause I'm... Free! [Verse 2: Pharoahe Monch] I give birth to verses in churches with no confession So please pardon my post-partum depression A-list MC to spit it in C-Sections For immature minds that get it with each lesson Three-fifths of a man a** jigga with no plans How you discussing publishing figures without a band They got digital codes on our music for them to scan So even when you sample a snare you paying the klan So google Pharoahe Monch, search Triskaidekaphobia I'll explain why these city banks Wachovia I'll peep the future in my sleep, to be honest man We never had a mutual relationship with Washington Why? Because I believe they put the virus in the latex Condoms that they sell us, call it safe s** What I spit, not only causes a glitch in The Matrix But another form of terrorism that they ain't even faced yet! [Hook] You can clip my wings, shackle and chain me Back straight standing tall a child of God, and I'm... Free! Spit in my face, hold me down I'mma keep my feet firm to the ground, cause I'm... Free!