[Intro]
Birth
The starting of a n***a's place
Brought up in a land
Where ain't no motherf**ing rules
And n***as always dying from nothing
So sometimes in this society you gotta do f**ed up sh**
In order to be in a groove, serving
You know what I'm saying
But something in the back of my mind is like
Is like keep telling me
You know you gonna pay, Kokane
For the bad sh** and evil sh** you did to people
Maybe it might be a year from now
Maybe two years
But whenever it is
I gotta pay for that type of sh**
You know what I'm saying
[Chorus]
Cause
Some day I feel like my day is coming
Won't you free my mind
Free my mind
Free my mind
Some day I feel like my day is coming
Please free my mind
Free my mind
Free my mind
[Verse 1]
Yeah, the setting
Just a beat with a bump
Say let me call on me back to the year '71
My momma's in the delivery room
Waiting to push a motherf**ing menace out her womb
Now, I didn't know what poverty was
I was a decent little kid
At 12 I got my first buzz
I'm criminal free and un-wicked
But I can kick it
Even though I didn't stick it, wait
Cause when you supressed ya start to think
And like all black folks we always end up hatin'
Now I'm waitin' for a section 8, the section ain't
For there's never too soon and it's always to late
Now I'm beat breaking
I call it pop locking but the sh** is playing up
So I start to ruck it
That great love flow through ya mind
Money keeps flowing
Flowing all the time
Yeah I'm a big talking sh** for an adolecence
Slayers go floss a game and I didn't have no shame
Looking back on my life I give myself sum dap
Cause I k** more n***as than a concentration camp
And f** more b**hes than new kids on the block
But something in the back of my mind is like
Stop
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Release the tension
Now release the pain
Cause my surgeon general told me to wear my cap in the rain
Now everybody wants to be known
But they don't know where the future came from
Yeah
Cause everyone I envy all of a sudden pick up a fever
And they shooting down people like a hunter in duck season
But I don't dwell on it
And if I had to play it like poker I wouldn't fold on it
Panties on my pager, panties won't quit
Some show me love
But some be on a mission
Out to give me some I can't get rid of, b**h
Maybe I'm the flavor of the month you adore
Or maybe my royalty checks are bigger than the year before
Now it's Kokane this and Kokane that
b**hes all in my mix cause a n***a
Got my mega phone sack
Chronic sack
Give a b**h a hit
Cause motherf**ing Kokane makes the fly sh**
Now Lynn wants to know I got paid
But I overheard that she goes both ways
Or should I say A 'f** it' or B 'don't wear a jimmy'
Playing craps on my life
I might have something in me
But the j.d's control my inner thinking
No but I can still catch the fever
If the p**y ain't stinking
[Outro]
Some day I feel like my day is coming
Won't you free my mind
Free my mind
Free my mind