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Witness (Maxi​-​Single)

by Emcee Jermaine

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Witness 04:38
WITNESS Verse 1 I got that numerous luminous verses for a human to assume it’s just gonna render many rappers humorous I need a witness for the way that I be doing this shoutout to my family and everybody booming this rhymes for the resolute music for the musically destitute what I do is think/write/execute a far cry from what they send to us in bubble wrap ain’t no earthly way you can rebuttal that frontin with their attitudes stuntin with their platitudes nothing that can do to slow up something of this magnitude some of y’all might even painstakingly relate to me cause I won’t always take it where you think it may be safe to be just so that you know it every song ain’t gone be smiles and doing cartwheels but glad somebody speaking their mind that’s how your heart feels and what you witness is the proof in every sentence and fronting on the truth is like a conflict of interest senseless Verse 2 I got an axe to grind facts to find and unless I’m moving forward can’t relax my mind see for me the plot thickens the clock’s tickin’ and if my brain tells me to chill my heart will not listen see this isn’t about me the individual yea I’m trynna come come up but to see the people with me is residual some may see success as in the hood with jeep lexus to me it’s something like deep in the hood with free breakfast do big events annually for the families and do some sessions with the parents on how not to eat reckless see what I look like asking you support my music and not returning back that energy so you can use it I know that what you do is coming back to you like deja vu and if you don’t believe in that they probably played y’all too but if you get it possibilities are limitless if you feel the need please re-visit or exhibit this Verse 3 I write for those who died fighting for their rights and hung nameless and we barely think about them cause they ain’t become famous and I’m writing for the people who have no concept what hell is they won’t ever dare to dream they’re busy building someone else’s and the ones walking around having the ill grill sinister cause when they’re alone bet you they feeling real miniature plus I’ve got a son and I won’t ever be explaining son don’t take my songs to heart your dad is only entertaining I’m a stickler trynna paint a vivid picture of a vista where we have our sovereignty and all our peoples in the fixture so I’m building with the opposite and the like-minded and I check my hindsight so that I don’t get blindsided actually when you’re awake your sight improves dramatically and I’m too savvy to vibrate where people’s frequency is staticky witness how I handle purveyors of dark skin and soft target marksmen I call you out like an auction
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Free 03:01
FREE Verse 1 We hold these truths to be self evident but if a slave were to say that to its owner it’s irreverent it’s absurd the very word has been perverted I had to unlearn and re assert it I hope you get free to make your own independence declaration that’s not under the guise of standardized education free to get in touch with your innermost feelngs it could help you deal if you have the will to be revealing cause outside of yourself it’s very little you control if you turn your ego down it might could help you reach your goals free to think critically bout anything and everything like when you come of age you need a family and a wedding ring free to understand parameters of your diet cause it could cheer you up or it could make you wanna riot free to not always take yourself so serious I’m speaking to your inner child I really hope you’re hearing this free to realize your kids ain’t trynna be defiant you can’t tell them be a leader when you teaching them complance and let them spread their wings even when it looks doubtful cause they got their own thoughts and it really ain’t about you Verse 2 Free to not think so much but put a plan into action you wanna live your dreams you gotta WAKE UP from distractions freedom to renounce and destroy social privilege this is where it’s tricky tho admitting that you benefit free to put yourself in others shoes when on conflict that’ll let you know a lot of it is really nonsense free to know you’re worth a lot more than what you’re given your life ain’t gotta be reduced to just survival living the block and getting locked ain’t your birthright people who perpetuate it trust me they really know your worth Light freedom from thinking other races are the enemy be free to go explore and enjoy other ethnicities freedom not to live beyond your means for appearances freedom from these other peoples judgments if you’re fearing it you can still have nice things and be prictical and build some capital for the generations after you freedom to be here and be flawed freedom to appear to be odd free from being scared of your god freedom from the prisons of the media it’s just some people in a room controlling what they’re feeding ya free to not see sexuality as taboo but have freedom not to feel you need to use it as an avenue freedom from the interlocking systems of oppression free to call a failure what it is that’s a lesson

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released February 12, 2013

Produced by Motel Eola

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