Free Your Mind is off Awon’s 2014 album Matte Black Soul.
According to Awon, “This song outlines the harsh reality of using the n word. It takes a stereo typical point of view as well as using respectability politics to lay out the use of the n word.
[Prod. Rashard]
[Verse 1: Awon]
See I spit for these niggas
Scholars or pulling triggers
Drug dealers and doctors
Getting the major figures
I spit for old niggas
And new niggas
Tell you the stories of true niggas
Who were brought and sold as slaves
Cause they ain't know what to do with us
Even then we were shining but violent
Sold out people for guns
Along with all our diamonds
It's all too familiar
Niggas repeat the past
Glorifying drug dealers
Now I sons are living fast
Niggas want that now cash
Niggas don't think 'bout the future
Poverty what you used to
Day to day living suits you
Pimps, prostitutes, addicts, robbers, and hustlers
Known career paths amongst us
Ambitious as youngsters
I rather my niggas get educated
Become men
Or the independent women
Who don't need him
Now that's freedom
But I see the same niggas on the block
Serving they niggas mommas rocks
Murdering they niggas pops
To take another nigga spot
It never stops the truth I rhyme
I'm not an ignorant nigga
I'm just trying to free your mind
Fuck the word nigga
Even though I might still use it
It's so hard to lose it
When you programmed to abuse it
Free Your Mind was produced by Rashard.
Awon released Free Your Mind on Mon Dec 08 2014.