Anti War Freestyle by Saul Williams

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    Published on Jun 02, 2020
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    The artist’s task is to save the soul of humanity, as we can need a lil soul-saving. I have been turning to the artist that has saved mines over the years. Saul Williams is one of my favorite poets and someone who I turn to to make sense of all this mess.

    This freestyle, recorded over Nas’s incredible ‘Made You Look’ beat, is a phenomenal example of radical street poetry. Williams passionately denounces the war on Iraq, and examines the irony of Black Americans becoming soldiers in the US Army. To make this video I sampled visuals from IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey.

    Check the Lyrics:

    Now let’s get it all in perspective
    Shift the objective, you’ve been misdirected
    What’s the purpose of another song to step to
    If you stepping in the wrong direction
    Thug introspection
    Mindframe in the fast lane
    Through with cocaine
    Time’s up, time to maintain
    Before a n***a gets drafted
    Cos you the number one pick, corn bread, cotton-crafted
    Them people’s army shot another brown kid today
    And all you strapped little boys let ‘em get away
    So what you packin’ for
    You packin’ for the war?
    They gonna ship you out and put you and your mans on tour
    Yeah, your Hummer came in handy
    Son, your Air Force 1s are sandy
    You’d better peep the plan, B
    Before you call yourself a soldier
    Get caught up on the wrong side and your little party’s over
    Put your blunt down, no time to front now,
    Put your drink down, time to think now
    We on the brink now
    Where my peeps at, where the streets at?
    Same cats that stole you is using you to steal Iraq

    [Gunshot] Yo, I say let ‘em shoot
    My tongue is my gun aiming for the truth
    They got a silencer and aimin’ straight at the youth
    And all their talk of terrorism’s nothing but a spoof

    We was the first type of oil that they ever stole
    Nah, fuck the oil metaphor son, we was gold
    But let the truth be told, we was platinum
    Now they want a deal and asking us to back them

    War, don’t start none, won’t be none
    We fighting for freedom
    Yeah they say they is but son I don’t believe them
    Cos when there’s violence in the hood you never see them
    Unless they starting it
    They got their heart in it
    Now they got you thinking money is power
    You’re counting dead pres by the hour
    And the one that’s living, the Bible thumping Christian
    Like y’all n***az trying to cross out the mission
    Listen, power is vision
    You’re keeping it real in a neighbourhood that’s government sealed
    Yo, let the truth be revealed
    Before your freedom has failed and the innocent killed

    [Gunshot] Yo, I say let ‘em shoot
    My tongue is my gun aiming for the truth
    They got a silencer and aimin’ straight at the youth
    And all their talk of terrorism’s nothing but a spoof

    I’m hip to your games
    Hip to the science of war
    Propaganda make me fight but what am I fighting for?
    My way of life, means and rights, give or take less or more
    See through the eyes of the poor, plus I’m black to the core
    Ignorance is on tour, booking stadiums and more
    The days of Hitler painted pictures patriotic with gore
    You raise a flag on a land, snatch a bald eagle’s claw
    And send a symbol on your currency to finance your war
    I’m saying no
    Not in my name, not in my life
    Not by my hands, that ain’t my fight
    Not in my name
    You wage a war against terrorists and violence
    And try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence
    No. Not in my name, not in my life
    Not by my hands, that ain’t my fight
    Not in my name
    You built your empire with natives and slaves
    Like the truth on resurrect waging war from its grave

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