Elevation (Free My Mind)

I gotta free my mind

I gotta free my mind

I gotta free my mind

I gotta free my mind

I gotta free my mind, free my mind, yeah

I gotta free my mind, free my mind, right

I gotta free my mind, free my mind, yeah

I gotta free my mind, free my mind

From sandbox, to auction blocks, to R&B

From hip-hop, how many rappers flip-flop to get props?

Sign the dotted line, but didn't read through the cross

(When your album sits on the desk, that's when you lost)

Followed your label's notion, no promotion, now you're Audi

And that's the type of move to make an artist act rowdy

MC's fallin' victim to financial seduction

Then watchin' creative weight extracted like liposuction

Your A&R like C&R got many styles to suit ya

But if it's forced to me, I've never been an ass smoocher

Since I don't brainwash minds with talkin' nines and how I shoot ya

You see no multi-million dollar contracts in my future

Others swallow the bait and get gassed like petroleum

But contracts break like Rock Steady on linoleum

No actin' in my format, no Grammy awards

Rap over break loops and samples, no R&B chords

On a mission from God to make the

Conscious source nod when I'm rhymin'

I take tracks of coal and then compress 'em to a diamond

I'm in the mindstate to escalate

When all rappers participate, it's fate for rap to elevate

I gotta free my mind, yo, as a matter of fact

I gotta free my mind, we're not goin' out like that

I gotta free my mind, we got the power to stay

Other rappers, they went slip, slidin' away

I gotta free my mind, yo, as a matter of fact

I gotta free my mind, we're not goin' out like that

I gotta free my mind, we got the power to stay

Other rappers, they went slip, slidin' away

You're goin' downtown to leave your mark on the biz

You reminisce, you and your A&R was first friends

You got talent and you ain't afraid to splurge

Hip-hop better thrills than Jordan alley-oopsed a pill, but still