Akala《Fire In The Booth》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:09.06]Yes I grew up on the dole in a single parent family [00:11.49]Been through a little bit of tragedy [00:12.84]Yes I was around d**gs and violence [00:14.31]Before the day that I started secondary [00:15.90]And that's part of it [00:16.80]Not half of it [00:17.55]Get the picture the rest ain't necessary [00:19.14]Growin' up got a little caught up [00:20.52]But that ain't even half of my life [00:22.05]I was also given the knowledge of self [00:23.43]That is all we actually need to survive [00:25.14]If you saw me aged 9 reading Malcolm just fine [00:28.20]Teachers still treated me stupid [00:29.76]Students that couldn't speak English they put me in groups with [00:31.95]And the irony is [00:32.82]Some of the first man to give me schoolin' [00:34.53]You would call gangsters [00:35.91]But I already explained we know what the truth is [00:37.56]They used to say 'Don't be like me' [00:39.12]Yeah I got a name and dough on the street [00:40.74]Night time comes I can't sleep [00:42.30]And that's the part that rappers don't speak [00:43.80]We don't hit the road cause we are thugs [00:45.36]Don't come out the womb wanting to sell d**gs [00:46.95]If we got the right guidance and love [00:48.51]Would we fight people just like us [00:50.04]How could I knock the hustle to get by [00:51.60]How do you think I ate as a child [00:53.19]Judge no one done many things wrong [00:54.63]I just don't boast about it songs [00:56.19]But listen to my older bars [00:57.72]I was just as confused as you probably are [00:59.22]But you grow and you learn [01:00.15]Travel and f**k up [01:01.02]One too many man you know get cut up [01:02.52]One too many man that could've been doctors [01:04.14]End up spending their whole life boxed up [01:05.88]You learn if you study [01:07.11]It's all set out just to make them money [01:08.88]No cover it's all about getting poor people to fight with one another [01:11.70]So it's logical that us killing our brothers [01:13.41]Dissin' our mothers [01:14.10]Is right in line with the dominant philosophy of our time [01:16.38]But time is a cycle not a line [01:18.15]Comes back around you regain your mind [01:19.50]You be ready for the energy I channel in my rhymes [01:21.27]Remedy the pedigree the jeopardy of mine [01:22.59]When the world's this f**ked up lethargy's a crime [01:24.33]We can all fight with our brothers over crumbs [01:25.89]Far harder to fight the one who makes guns [01:27.42]We can all talk s**t and get two dollars [01:28.89]Far harder to be the one who seeks knowledge [01:30.57]If we understood economics [01:32.07]We'd know money's nothin' [01:32.97]Think nothing of it [01:33.75]Money is a means to get wealth not the wealth itself [01:36.75]Don't get confused I'm far from broke [01:38.52]All that you see me do I own [01:39.72]But I won't hang what I make around my neck [01:41.43]I know from where that the diamonds came [01:43.11]But I do quite literally own a library [01:44.67]That definitely costs more than your chain [01:46.41]And businesses and properties [01:47.76]Far from starvin' I eat quite properly [01:49.20]And I don't care just said it for the kids [01:50.79]Who need to know that you're not broke to listen [01:52.44]Don't know an asset from a liability [01:53.85]They've never been shown or told the difference [01:55.62]So they don't change situations [01:57.21]Richest man in Britain is Asian [01:58.65]That's significant not coincidence [02:00.27]Asian people build businesses [02:03.30]Giving out their culture for everyone's profit [02:04.89]Who run's Bollywood Indian people [02:06.42]Who owns our s**t [02:07.65]So we shake our arse and dance [02:09.44]As if racism just upped and vanished [02:10.97]But has it No it's right on course [02:12.57]You're beaten so bad you're trained to ignore [02:14.19]Let me not just make sweeping statements [02:15.90]Gimme a second I'll explain it [02:17.40]For small amounts of d**g possession there's more black people in jail in America than there is for R**e and armed robbery and murder all put together [02:23.52]You can say they're just locking up thugs [02:25.05]Imagine if they locked up every middle class kid that had ever held d**gs [02:28.41]Oh that's right that'd be your kids [02:29.76]Bigger than that what is going on with this [02:31.35]Prison in America's a private business [02:32.82]They get paid 50k per year per inmate by the State just wait [02:36.09]Also legally are allowed to use their prison inmates as slaves [02:39.09]Cheap slave labour big corporations [02:40.62]They come out of jail can't get a job [02:42.33]So when we celebrate going to jail [02:43.62]We are LITERALLY CELEBRATING ENSLAVEMENT [02:45.45]Add to that that the hood that you're livin' [02:47.01]Engineered social condition that breeds crime by design [02:50.01]Where do you think you get your nine [02:51.75]You can say that they're just black [02:53.34]But I like to deal with facts [02:55.11]In the 1920s you would've found in America [02:57.21]Black towns [02:57.81]Prospering centres of economics and education to make you proud [03:00.99]But some people couldn't bear that the former slaves would not just lie down [03:03.87]So the KKK and other hate groups burnt those towns to the ground [03:07.17]Killin hundreds [03:07.86]If it ain't understood [03:08.67]You think you were always livin' in the hood [03:10.14]S**t it's only been sixty years [03:11.49]Since they hung blacks and burned 'em [03:12.60]And that was so cool [03:13.47]Day reel passes picnic baskets [03:15.03]Even gave kids the day off school [03:16.44]To go see a lynchin' [03:17.52]Have a picnic [03:18.00]It's fun to watch the little monkeys die [03:19.56]Then people act a little dysfunctional [03:21.21]You wanna pretend that you don't know why [03:22.92]If your colour means you can be killed [03:24.18]And you're powerless to get justice about it [03:26.07]Is it difficult to figure out how you would then end up feelin' about it [03:28.92]And that ain't excuses [03:29.97]Just dealing with the roots of abuses that make a reality [03:32.16]Where a generation of young men speak of ourselves as dirt casually [03:35.28]That's America [03:36.03]This Britain [03:36.78]Some things are similar [03:37.50]Some different [03:38.43]In this country the first enslaved were the working class [03:40.86]What's changed [03:41.61]Worst jobs worst conditions [03:43.26]Worst taxed look where you're livin' [03:44.49]You go to the pub Friday night [03:45.96]You will fight with a guy [03:46.77]Don't know what for [03:47.40]But won't fight with a guy suit and a tie [03:49.14]Who sends your kids to die in a war [03:50.73]They don't sell the kids of the richer politicians [03:52.44]It's your kids the poor british [03:54.03]That they send to go die in a foreign land [03:55.62]For these wars you don't understand [03:57.30]Yeah they say that you're British [03:58.35]And that lovely patriotism they feed ya [04:00.24]But in reality you have more in common with immigrants [04:02.58]Than with your leaders [04:03.27]I know both side of my family [04:04.86]Black and white are fed ghetto mentality [04:06.36]Reality in this system [04:07.77]Poor people are dirt regardless of shade [04:09.60]But with that said [04:10.32]Let's not pretend that everything is the same [04:12.66]When our grandparents came here to Britain [04:14.25]If you had a criminal record you couldn't get in [04:15.69]Yet that ain't protect them from all the stupid stupid abuses they would be livin' [04:18.83]Kicked in the teeth [04:19.62]Stabbed in the street [04:20.43]Many times fired bombed our houses [04:21.99]Put faeces through our letter box [04:23.37]And of course the cops did so much about it [04:25.50]Daily up to the 80s [04:26.64]People spittin' into my pram cause' I was a coon baby [04:28.80]But of course that has had no effect on why today we are crazy [04:31.53]And none of this was for any good reason [04:33.30]They were just dark and breathing [04:34.41]To ease the guilt now for all of this treatment [04:36.06]Constant stereotypes and needed [04:37.53]So if I celebrate how big that my d**k is [04:39.15]Bricks that I'm flippin' [04:39.93]Clips that I'm stickin' [04:40.65]Chicks that I'm hittin' [04:41.40]I'm playing my position [04:42.06]But if I teach a kid to be a mathematician [04:43.77]Messin' with the schism [04:44.46]How they gonna fill a prison when materialism is no longer our religion [04:46.89]What do you think we got now in Britain [04:48.45]Just like America private prisons [04:50.07]Prisons for profit [04:51.06]That mean when your kids go jail people make money off it [04:53.04]So keep environments that breed crime [04:54.78]Build more jails at the same time [04:56.25]Market badness to the kids in the rhymes [04:57.78]As long as rich kids ain't dying it's fine [04:59.43]Get 'em to the point where some are so lost [05:00.87]They actually believe that if they don't celebrate killin' themselves off [05:04.50]That it's because they're soft [05:05.49]Was Malcom soft [05:06.27]Was Marley soft [05:07.17]Tell me was Marcus Garvey soft [05:08.76]Well Was Mohammed Ali soft [05:10.26]Nah Nah I think not [05:11.67]But they want us to think that the road is cool [05:13.47]Being on road is all we can do [05:14.97]We don't control the wholesale productions [05:16.53]Who benefits from us movin' the food [05:18.21]Or thinking there's no way out of road life [05:19.65]But Malcolm X used to hustle out on the roadside [05:21.45]When Marcus Garvey organised more than 6million people [05:24.33]With no Facebook or Twitter [05:25.89]Why is this something you cannot equal [05:27.54]Shiiiiit [05:28.08]One of my homeboys did a ten straight in the box in yard [05:30.54]Now what's he doing [05:31.35]Passin' his doctorate [05:32.40]Don't tell me that it's too hard [05:33.69]Who trained you to believe that you're inferior [05:35.31]Sungbo Eredo in Nigeria are the remains of an ancient moat [05:38.73]Dug 1000 years ago [05:39.99]20 metres wide 70 down [05:41.49]Round the remains of an ancient town [05:42.87]That's 400 square miles around [05:45.00]400 square miles around [05:46.14]Please please don't believe me [05:47.46]It was a documentary on BBC [05:49.05]But we ain't studyin' history [05:50.79]Too busy watching MTV [05:52.38]And MTV said wear platinum [05:54.06]Now everybody wanna go and wear platinum [05:55.50]And MTV said pop magnums [05:57.18]Now everybody wanna go and pop magnums [05:58.68]If MTV said drink prune juice [06:00.36]You would start hearing that in tunes soon [06:01.80]'Hey Today I wore my Cartier [06:03.09]Is it now more important what I got to say ' [06:05.01]Oh and I drive a Mercedes by the way [06:06.36]So everybody listen to what I got to say [06:08.10]Huh does that make you all happy [06:09.63]Ahh but s**t my head's still nappy [06:11.10]Think for myself still some mad at me [06:12.78]But on the mic ain't not one bad as me [06:14.46]All of this here's good for the rhymes [06:15.78]Put us in the same place at the same time [06:17.16]And it's clear to everybody that I'm out of my mind [06:18.87]Some of these guys are runnin' out of their rhymes [06:20.40]Clear to everybody that has got ears [06:22.08]I'm the guy that they just might fear [06:23.43]They wanna get near but they can't have a peer [06:25.05]Ah dear I'm hard liquor you're just like beer [06:26.70]Front on the kid for another five years [06:28.23]Come to my shows and some cry tears [06:29.73]It mean that much to 'em it's a movement [06:31.53]I don't speak for myself but a unit [06:32.88]Black white man woman anyone that respects truth we put in [06:36.00]Dudes are like dinner with no puddin' [06:37.65]Yeah you're sweet but no substance puddin' [06:39.36]You could never ever be with a level on [06:40.77]Our songs get out played out there in Lebanon [06:42.42]We speak for the people properly [06:43.83]Not for the old fat guys in offices [06:45.42]And the girls love him it ain't fair [06:46.86]He can't even be bothered to comb his hair [06:48.57]Anyway that's enough kissin' my own arse [06:50.07]Back to the more important task of being so shower [06:52.83]I got half the hood screaming KNOWLEDGE IS POWER [06:54.90]And I ain't saying that will change rap [06:56.43]But I do know this for a fact [06:58.05]Right now there's a yout' on your block [06:59.22]With his hands on his balls face screwed up [07:01.08]Swear he don't care don't give a f**k [07:02.37]That he won't let nobody caught his block [07:03.90]But the words go in [07:04.98]Open your shackles [07:05.55]Because once that's happened there's no going back [07:07.05]Once you start to see what is really happening [07:08.97]Who the enemy you should be attackin' is [07:10.41]So READ READ READ [07:11.82]Stuck on the block READ READ [07:13.38]Sittin' in the box READ READ [07:14.91]Don't let them say what you can achieve [07:16.68]Cause when people are enslaved [07:17.73]One of the first things they do is stop them reading [07:20.01]Cause' it is well understood that intelligent people will take their freedom [07:22.89]Cause' if we knew our power we would understand that we can't be held down [07:25.74]If we knew our power we would not elevate not one of these clowns [07:28.89]If we knew our power we wouldn't get arrogant when we get two pennies [07:32.01]If we knew our power we would see what everybody sees that we're rich already [07:35.34]But never mind MCs go run for your mummy [07:37.08]I'm hungry I run for my tummy [07:38.49]That's enough back to worshipping money [07:40.29]I'm off back to the study