I Want to Be Free
Too $hort

You think Oakland, California, is a city of punks

It only takes a second to pop the trunk

And just like that, you know it's real

You're in the right damn town to get killed

It's all about the game and nothin' else

You come out here, you better watch yourself

Cause you can wear what you want, even blue or red

But cross the wrong brothers and end up dead

You catch a body full of bullets and get blasted

Tryin' to be a gangsta but you just ain't lastin'

This little town is gettin' wild as hell

Check the penitentiaries and all the jails

If they could lock us all up, that would be just fine

Got my partners from Oakland doin' serious time

You can't argue with the truth, it's hard to be black

But it's a mind game and you gotta deal with that

I wake up everyday and I just can't wait

To make mo money 'cause back in the days

When I rapped, I did the same damn thing I do now

Grab the microphone and show you how

But I was broke, the only thing I had was game

I started makin' money and knew things would change

Bought a Benz, thought it might earn respect

But the OPD found it hard to accept

I got jacked by the [unverified]

Face down on the ground, keep my hands in sight

Put the handcuffs on backseat, I'm in it

Illegal search for about thirty minutes

Askin' me where's the dope

Where's my gun but I don't know

I said I'm rappin', they laugh like I told a joke

And to this day they think I'm sellin' coke

I want to be free, ohh yeah

(And that's the truth)

I want to be free, ohh yeah

I be in Oakland, California every day of my life

Bass so hard, you think I'm smokin' a pipe

And if I don't smoke it, I gots to grind

Searched all my stuff and all you find

Is a pocket full of money, count seven G's

Now you wanna think I'm sellin' keys

Cause I'm a black man, but I run my own business

So why the police wanna send me to prison

They see a brother makin' major cash

They knock a patch out his black ass

And that's the truth, you can't argue you at all

Tryin' to give you ten years for a phone call

Ain't even trippin' on the dank smoke

Cause all they wanna find is guns and coke

In court all the time, tryin' to fight it

We get rich, we get [unverified]

So what's the problem officer, this time?

Is havin' big money, bein' black a crime?

Or did you take me to jail to teach me a lesson

Charge me with somethin' or just ask questions

About the brothers I hang around?

What's really goin' on in the Oakland town?

Tell me who went broke, and who got rich

But Too $hort baby, just ain't no snitch

You say you're just doin' your job

But you're gettin on my nerves, just like Bob

Every time I hit a corner, I see you

Always tellin' brothers what to do

You lock me up 'cause I don't know how to act

But I'm down for mine, so I be talkin' back

And when I do, you treat me bad as hell

I'm sick of spendin' nights in jail

I want to be free, ohh yeah

(And that's the truth)

I want to be free, ohh yeah

Got out of jail about [?]

Walkin' down the street like a broke dope fiend

Had a pocket full of money tryin' to play the role

Benz got towed and I was hella cold

But I ain't trippin', I'm gettin' used to it now

Handcuffed, your boy took me straight downtown

For three warrants, had to catch me sooner or later

Cause the five-oh's always tryin' to jack a playa

For no reason, wasn't doin nothin' wrong

You think I'm lyin', singin' that same ol' song

Well I'm a black man, ridin' in a Benz

How in the hell did I make these ends?

Here we go, I pull over to the right

Stop the engine, keep my hands in sight

I start cursin' 'cause it don't make sense

Why would I run and try to jump a fence

If I was plannin' a smooth getaway

I never woulda stopped in the first place

You'd be high speed chasin' me but this time you ain't

Cause all I got on me is a big fat bank

And I hope I don't get robbed by you know who

Make me donate some G's to the boys in blue

And if I sue, I won't get nothin' back

But I ain't mad, I'm just black

I want to be free, ohh yeah

I want to be free, ohh yeah

I want to be free, ohh yeah

I want to be free, ohh yeah


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MC Breed)   Chase The Cat   Choosin'   City Of Dope   Cocktails   Cocktales   Cocktales   Coke Dealers   Comin' Up $hort   Coming Up $hort   Coming up Short   Couldn't Be A Better Player   Cuss Words   Cusswords   Dead Or Alive   Domestic Violence   Domestic Violence (feat. E-40)   Don't Act Like That   Don't Even Stop   Don't Ever Give Up   Don't Ever Stop   Don't Fight The Feelin'   Don't Fight The Feeling   Don't Fight The Intro   Don't Fuck For Free   Don't Hate The Player   Don't Stop Rappin'   Don't Trust Her   Dope Fiend Beat   Double Header   Dum Ditty Dum   Every Time   Everytime   F.U.C.K.Y.O.U.   Female Funk   Female Players   Fire   Fire (feat. Eric Sermon)   Freaky Tales   Freaky Tales [Beat]   From Here To New York   Fuck My Car   Funk Session   Game   Gangstas & Strippers   Get In Where You Fit In   Get It   Get Low   Get Off The Stage   Get That Cheese   Gettin' It   Girl   Girl (Cocaine) That's Your Life   Givin up The Funk   Giving Up The Funk   Good Life   Gotta Get Some Lovin'   Hard On A Bitch   Hard On The Boulevard   Here We Go   Here We Go (J.D. Remix)   Here We Go (Lil' Jon Remix)   Here We Go [Jermaine Dupri Remix]   Hey, Let's Go   Hey, Let's Go - Devin the Dude   Hobo Hoeing   Hoes   Hoochie   Hotel   Hotel   How Does It Feel   I Ain't Nothin but a Dog   I Ain't Nothin' But A Dog   I Ain't Trippin   I Don't Stop Rappin   I Know You Love Her   I Know You Love Her (feat. Slink Capone)   I Like It   I Love   I Love Tequila   I Luv   I Luv (Featuring Trick Daddy, Scarface And Daz)   I Must Confess   I Need A Freak   I Wanna Pimp You Hoe   I Want To Be Free (That's The Truth)   I Want Your Girl   I'm A Playa   I'm A Player   I'm A Stop   I'm Pimpin'   I'm Wit It   Im Trippin   In The Oaktown   In The Studio   In The Trunk   Independence Day [Instrumental]   Intro: Shorty The Pimp   Invasion Of The Flat Booty Bitches   Invasion Of The Flat Booty Bitches (erick Sermon R...   It Ain't Over   It Don't Stop   It's a Cold Day   It's A Cold Day (The Funk Wit U Mix)   It's About That Money   It's About That Money (Bonus Track)   It's All Good   It's Alright   It's Time To Go   It's Your Life   Just Anotha Day   Just Another Day   Just Like Dope   Keep Bouncin' (Street)   Keep Fuckin' Me   Kobe Bryant   Late Night Creep   Late Nite Creep   Lead the Way   Leave It Alone   Life Is 2009   Life Is Too $hort   Life Is...Too Short   Life Is..Too Short   Life's Too Short   Little Girls   Lollypops   Longevity   Looking For a Baller   Looking For A Dollar   Mack Attack   Mack Attack [*]   Married To The Game   Money In The Ghetto   Money Maker   Money on the Floor   More Freaky Tales   Movin in Your Chucks   My Dick, My Sack   Nasty Rhymes   Nation Riders   Nation Riders Anthem   Never Talk Down   No Love From Oakland   Nobody Does It Better   Nothing Feels Better   Oakland   Oakland Style   Oakland, California   Old Fashioned Way   Old School   Only The Strong Survive   Partytime   Paula & Janet   Paula Janet   Paystyle   Pimp Life   Pimp Me   Pimp On   Pimp Sh*t   Pimp Shit   Pimp The Ho   Pimpandho.Com   Pimpin' Forever   Pimpology   Playa   Playboy $hort   Playboy Short   Playboy Short II   Player For Life   Players   Players Holiday   Porno Bitch   Pull Them Panties Down   Punk Bitch   Quit Hatin' Pt. 1   Rap Like Me   Real Niggaz   Recognize Game   Rhymes   Ride Wit Us   Sadity   Sample The Funk   Set Up   Shake It Baby   Shake That Monkey   She Know   She Loves Her   Shittin' On 'Em   Short But Funky   Short Dog's In The House   Short Rap   Short Short   Slink Capone: Nation Riders   So Watcha Sayin'   So You Want to Be a Gangster   Somethin to Ride To   Something To Ride To   Sophisticated   Step Daddy   Still Strugglin'   Strip Down   Survivin' The Game   T.W.D.Y. - Player's Holiday   Take My Bitch   Take Your   Take Your [DVD]   Take Your [DVD]   Tell The Feds   Thangs Change   That's How It Goes Down   That's Why   Thats Right   The Bitch Sucks Dick   The Dangerous Crew   The Ghetto   The Invasion of the Flat Booty Bitches   The Old Fashioned Way   These Are the Tales   This How We Eat   This Is How We Eat (feat. The Eastsiders, Big Tigg...   This My One   Top Down   Triple X   U Stank   Way Too Real   We Do This   What Happened To The Groupies   What She Gonna Do   What She Gonna Do?   What The Fuck   What's A Pimp?   Where They At?   Wild Wild West   Wild, Wild West   Yo Neck Yo Back   Yo Neck, Yo Back, My Dick, And My Sack   You Can't Fuck With Us   You Know What I Mean   You Might Get G'eed   You Nasty   Your Sister

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