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Lupe Fiasco
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Hijabs, hoodies, afros, locks
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Teddy bear, liquor bottle shrines, rocks
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Tanks, prayer rugs, church pews, Mexican corn stands
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Blood, sweat, and tears, police batons
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Gas masks and bullets create graffiti on corners
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Murals that salute freedom or death for liberty
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Be it Inglewood or Egypt, Bedstuy or Baghdad
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Syria or Liberia, the west bank or the west side of Chicago
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Where food and liquor stores still occupy the block
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While police and community watchmen justify why they shot
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Emmit Till and Malice Green, Rekia Boyd and Trayvon Martin
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Better not wear that hoodie while shopping for a carton
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Or whatever they sellin' in your food desert
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Cause your soul is dessert and will be dissected and consumed
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On the Fox evening news while we sing the blues
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The new Jim Crow caged bird sings
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Cause he's tired of occupying his misery and of our marching
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He wanna fly to a higher consciousness
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But his school on academic probation
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They gave him medicine, diagnosed him with a felony and mental retardation
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So he refuses to cease the firin', nobody's hirin'
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In Illinois, 67 is the new age when you retirin'
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Class lines have blurred, those who used to have, have not
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Pensions bein' snatched
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Those who never have keep their hands stretched
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Social services being cut
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Sterilization clinics giving out pills to numb the womb
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Young girls referring to their vaginas as tombs
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Thinkin' protests are temporary and trendy
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Well rock a t-shirt and carry a poster
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And two weeks later it's back to normal
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But they say times are changin'
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The revolution is becoming second nature, causes are combining
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People carrying torches, hope burning from their hands
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Attaching explosive devices "˜cause they keep stealing their lands
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In the name of freedom
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Hijabs, hoodies, afros, locks
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Teddy bear, liquor bottle shrines, rocks
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Tanks, prayer rugs, church pews, Mexican corn stands
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Blood, sweat, and tears, police batons
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Gas masks and bullets create graffiti on corners
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