[Time]
Grew up on Killah Priest bumping View From Masada
The same year Common dropped A Song for Assata
She saw destruction of the daylight but still kept shining
She wrote poetry in hell with a daughter inside her
When the police changed shifts they would do Nazi salutes
Amerikkka with 3 Ks that's how you spell it with truth
Racist judges and juries, prosecutors tried to mute her
She organized food strikes to solitary they would move her
Her grandma dreamed of her freedom you can't dеlay the stars
She said cause lovе is an acid that eats away the bars
The visitation window breaks from the saxophone scream
She was friends with the Brown Berets Yo Soy Joaquin
She said the song that i sing is part of an echo
Prison steals life and the state is a klepto
Only a fool lets someone tell em who their enemy is
If someone tells you who to hate than the enemies them
She said my roots run deep i have been nourished well
Solidarities a garden where fruits flourish and swell
She said love is my sword and truth is my compass
A caterpillar in a chrysalis is really what trust is
Bloodthirsty maggots came but she grew wings
She got asylum in Cuba, blessings is what truth brings
Assata said a lost ship could still be guided home
As long as you see a speck of light you are not alone
[Assata Shakur]
In order for us to effectively change this world we're going to have to change ourselves, we're going to have to change how we relate to each other as human beings and I think that part of that is creating a humanistic style of interchanging, really being concerned about other people who are struggling with us
[namebuddha]
Meditation, meditation
They tried to give her 33 years
Her crime Black liberation, self preservation
Tempt murder, murder
Assault aggravated
Wouldn't stand for the judges like fuck all this fake shit
If the jury all white what you thinkin my fate is
Mass incarceration as retaliation they placed her in the male population
Instead of sedated
Tallying days gettin paid slave wages
She escaped the plantation
Fled to Havana
Learn to heal from her trauma
Rebuild with her daughter
The day America falls she gon feel like it's karma
This a song for Assata
Meditation meditation
Assata still ducking fed investigations
Uplift the people like levitation
Or Ms Mill's Miseducation
Her public image they fabricated
They love to hate when
You more than contemplate retaliation
Every bar a gram
This knowledge laced with the key to break mental bracelets
Metal cages
God is raceless
The devil racist and classist
Ya church is tasteless
The state fascist
Cops ain't shit but walkin talkin badges
Like mother like son when push came to shove they both popped the ratchet
It's deeper than this rap shit
It's deeper than this rap shit
[Assata Shakur]
In order for us to effectively change this world we're going to have to change ourselves, we're going to have to change how we relate to each other as human beings and I think that part of that is creating a humanistic style of interchanging, really being concerned about other people who are struggling with us I think another part of that is creating a sense of community